Fruitcakes - The Front Porch Players

FRUITCAKES

McCord’s Ferry could very well be Jonesboro, Georgia–a small, close-knit town where everyone basically knows everyone, and everyone eventually winds up at Mack’s Whirligig and Christmas Tree Emporium at some point during every day leading up to Christmas. Into this small place on December 20, 1990, comes a boy whose heart has been cracked by a father who deserted him and his mother, and then 6 months later just “waltzed back in as if nothing had changed.” He’s angry, he’s hurt, and he’s run away as far as he could get in one day on a bike. It seems inevitable that he’ll end up at Mack’s barn, and he does, and thus begins a relationship that will have you looking for a tissue but also lifted by the end of the play and tickled by the antics of many of the denizens of this little town. Add into this a Christmas pageant that threatens never to happen because there’s a rash of chicken pox going through the children in town.

Cast:

MACK MORGAN—Michael Hubbard
JAMIE-William Shiflett
US: Steven Jackson
BEEBO DANTZLER—Keith Larson
BETTY JANE DANTZLER—Tracy Larson
LITTLE BEEBO DANTZLER—Steven Jackson
US: Alex Markovitch
SALLY DANTZLER—Ashlyn Farmer
MATTIE SUE—Deena Seckinger AND Carrie Green
MISS ALICE—Mary Anne Brannon
US: Nancy Bloom
MISS SARA—Diane Morris
US: Vickie Poole
SKEETER—Wesley Hudson
US: TBA
MEREDITH/MARY in pageant rehearsal—Tavonna Cook
MARY BETH/ANGEL in pageant rehearsal—Jacquelyn Johnson
AMY/ANGEL in pageant rehearsal—Traeh Holley
FRANCES/NARRATOR in pageant rehearsal—Bethany Green
SAMMY/JOSEPH in pageant rehearsal—Jimmy Larson
LITTLE SKEETER/INNKEEPER in pageant rehearsal—Noah Johnson
JOHNNY/TALKING SHEEP in pageant rehearsal—Owen Green
LAURA/TALKING SHEEP in pageant rehearsal–TBA
LITTLE BILLY/WISE MAN OR SHEPHERD—Eli Karr
LITTLE LARRY/WISE MAN OR SHEPHERD–TBA
ADDITIONAL SHEEP: Cace and Annaleigh Holley
OTHER KIDS (SHEEP, WISE MEN, SHEPHERDS)