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The Azle Arts Association's Popcorn Players perform a variety of productions like melo-dramas, comedies, musicals and dramas.
We hope that a wide selection of shows will appeal to a broad audience and that there will be something for everyone to come and enjoy.

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Check back here often as shows, dates or times could change

Leading Ladies
by Ken Ludwig
directed by Monica Goth

February 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 2010

In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes From Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of 1950's Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English relatives, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved kin abd get the cash. Trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces!!!
Romantic entanglement abound, especially when Leo falls head-over petticoat in love with the old lady's niece, Meg. Problem is, she is engaged to the local minister.
Meg knows that there's a wide world out there, but it's not until she meets "Maxine and Stephanie" that she finally gets a taste of it.

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The Enigma
by John Patrick
directed by Rita Davis

March 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 2010

This fast moving, hilarious comedy-fantasy deals with the predicament of a young man who imagines that there is a tiger living with him, a young girl who has a similar problem with a gorilla and their doubting friend - who ironically ends up up with a rather strange companion himself.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
stage direction by Lisha Gregson & Rozanne Gann for Larry Thompson
music direction Terry Randolph

May 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 2010

Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.

This is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where thay can stand out and fit in at the same time.


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Pecos Bill & Slue Foot Sue Meet the Dirty Dan Gang
by Timm Kelly
directed by Monica Goth

July 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 2010

Get on the wagon rollin' West with this rip-roarin' tall tale.
It's the saga of Pecos Bill, who was raised by coyotes, and Slue-Foot Sue, who likes to ride down the Rio Grande River on a catfish. They come to the dusty town of Prairie Dog to aid Granny, who is being threatened by Dirty Dan and his gang, bandits who quiver and shake whenever there's mention of soap and water.
They hatch a plan to do Granny out of an unexpected fortune in gold. All manner of wild complications follow, ending up with the gang forced to bathe and attend classes in the local schoolhouse.
The dialogue is loaded with laughs, the stage action uproarious and the townspeople of Prairie Dog are fun to play. But above all else is the legend of Pecos Bill and Slue-Foot Sue, two young people whom most folks just naturally think are a "mite peculiar."

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Always...Patsy Cline
by Ted Swindley
directed by Lisha Gregson

September 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 2010

One of the most recognized musicals in America comes to Azle this Fall!!!

"Always…Patsy Cline” is more than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963.  The show is based on a true story about Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in l961, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her death."

"The musical play, complete with down home country humor, true emotion and even some audience participation, includes many of Patsy' unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Waking After Midnight…27 songs in all.  The show’s title was inspired by Cline's letters to Seger, which were consistently signed "Love ALWAYS... Patsy Cline""   ---   www.alwayspatsycline.net

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Web of Murder
by Jonathan Troy
directed by Carol Braden

November 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 2010

A gripping and suspense-filled murder mystery in which the tension is deftly relieved, at the right moments, by the zany doings of some of its characters. Set in a brooding Victorian mansion high on a remote bluff above the Pacific Ocean,  the play centers on the rich and eccentric Minerva Osterman, who has called together her potential heirs for the advance reading of her will.
She knows that it will please some and disappoint others - unless thay take the sinister steps necessary to protect their interests.

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