Possum Point Players Cook Up a Musical with SPITFIRE GRILL

It may be only a rundown little grill in a sleepy town with no foreseeable future, but things seem to be heating up in Possum Point Players' production of "The Spitfire Grill." The humorous and touching musical is presented June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11; Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m., Sunday matinees, 2:00 p.m.

Tickets are $23 for adults; $22 for seniors and students. Tickets may be purchased at www.possumpointplayers.org and 302-856-4560. Originally produced as a movie, James Valcq and Fred Alley collaborated in the musical version of "The Spitfire Grill." The show is suitable for all audiences.

The tiny town of Goliad has seen industries closing and many of its young people pulling up stakes and packing out. Hannah, played by Denise Baker, is finding no buyers for her tired little Spitfire Grill. The unexpected deposit of Percy, a fresh mouthed young parolee played by Abby Chesney, turns more than coffee cups upside down as she gives Hannah heartburn and the town plenty to talk about.

Don Megee portrays Joe, the sheriff who is Percy's parole officer and the responsible party for the parolee ending up at the Grill. Joe is a Goliad native who has grown so weary in the little town, that he really can't see the beautiful forest for the trees.

When an injury lays Hannah up, the Grill and townspeople's gastronomic wellbeing are threatened by Percy's cooking. Sarah Rose as Shelby, bypasses her husband's disapproval and stirs up even more in the kitchen. That husband, Caleb, portrayed by Dan Foskey, is the second most likely to succeed in town and he has no hopes of ever filling the shoes of the missing first most likely to succeed.

Percy strikes upon a contest to sell the Grill: send $100 and have the best essay and all four burners, tables and chairs and contents of the larder are yours. Entries pour in, much to the chagrin of Effie, the postmistress and gossip-monger-in-charge. She is forced to deliver the Spitfire's mail by wheelbarrow. Cheryl Graves plays Effie, someone who has been suspicious of the brazenly tattooed and mouthy parolee since she set foot in Goliad.

And what about the Visitor who appears mysteriously from time to time at the edge of the woods. Steven Dow plays the silent and forlorn looking young man who seems laden with untold secrets.

"Say what you want, say what you will...," but there's lots more than bacon and apple brown betty cooking at "The Spitfire Grill." This musical is both light-hearted and thought-provoking for all who see it.

'The Spitfire Grill' is being produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Possum Point Players is supported, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

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