The Buck Creek Players Presents The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Buck Creek Players will continue their 2010-2011 season "From Page to Stage" with Barbara Robinson's stage version of her bestselling children's book, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Opening Friday, December 3, and running for three weekends through Sunday, December 19, curtain times will be at 8:00 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with 2:30 p.m. matinees offered on Sundays. All performances will be held at the Buck Creek Playhouse on Indianapolis' southeast side at 11150 Southeastern Avenue. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for children, students, and senior citizens (ages 62 & older) and can be reserved by calling (317) 862-2270. Group discounts are available for parties of ten or more.

Just as It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, and A Christmas Story are staples of the holiday season, it just isn't Christmas without the Herdmans! Buck Creek Players (BCP), the award-winning all-volunteer community theater on the southeast-side of Indianapolis, will present the Yuletide blockbuster, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, weekends December 3-19, 2010.

This rollicking production, based on the book by Barbara Robinson, is the touching story of the unruly, uproarious Herdman family as they wreak havoc during rehearsals for a local church's holiday pageant. Despite their grimy faces and tattered clothes, the Herdmans - "the worst kids in the whole history of the world"- and an entire church congregation discover the true meaning of Christmas. The play opens as plans for the church's pageant run amuck when the director breaks her leg. Grace Bradley, who didn't expect to have anything to do with the Christmas pageant, steps in as director. The Herdmans show up at the auditions and demand all the leading roles. Chaos erupts, but Mrs. Bradley perseveres, and the church youth produce what everyone considers "the best Christmas pageant ever."

Making her directorial return to the Buck Creek Playhouse, Dotti Peek has been involved with BCP since its inception over 37 years ago as producer, director, set designer, technical director, publicist, and board president. Joining Peek on the production team are Judith Duncan (Producer), Joe Cox and Jack Peek II (Technical Directors), Lynn Sanders (Costumes), Jeff Rowand (Lighting Designer), Lee McCarty, Jr. (Sound Designer), Patrick Banks (Stage Manager), and Wendy & Hannah Haydock (Properties).

For more information or directions to The Playhouse, please visit the theatre's website at www.buckcreekplayers.com.

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