Crown City Theatre Company Presents I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY

I'm Just Wild About Harry is a musical based on BranDon Thomas's hilarious English farce "Charlie's Aunt" first performed in 1892. Lamb and Reilly have placed this new adaptation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin circa 1910 and added some very fun songs from the early 1900's.

Some of these magnificent songs include:
Margie; K-K-Katy; Aba Daba Honeymoon; Oh, You Beautiful Doll; You Made Me Love You; and many, many more!!!

When: Previews are Friday, June 3rd, Saturday, June 4th and Thursday, June 9th at 8pm. With our grand Press Opening Friday, June 10th and will continue playing on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm through July 17th (With Possible Extension!)

Tickets: $30 general admission, $17.50 for senior citizen and students, Children 11 and under are only $15. For Tickets go to www.crowncitytheatre.com or www.brownpapertickets.com

Who: Director: Joanne McGee (Ovation Award winning actress and director of CCTC's acclaimed production of "Twelfth Night")
Stage Manager: Zad Potter and Keiko Moreno
Set Design: Keiko Moreno
Costume Design: Caitlin O'Hare and Tanya Apuya
Lighting Design: Zad Potter
Produced by: Crown City Theatre Company
Artistic Directors: Gary Lamb and William A. Reilly

Cast: Dave Berges, Carol Jones, Sarah French, Mikhail Roberts, Louis Silvers, Melanie Taylor, Matthew Thompson, Doug Thornton and Beth Whitney

Where: Crown City Theater (located on the campus of St. Matthew's Church - not affiliated)
11031 Camarillo St. North Hollywood, CA 91602
www.crowncitytheatre.com
818.605.5685

Plot: Harry Whitman and Jack Chesney, undergraduates at Milwaukee University, need a chaperone so that they can entertain Katy Spettigue and Margie Verdun, the niece and ward of Mr. Spettigue, a crotchety old miser. When Harry receives word from his aunt, Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez, a rich widow from Brazil whom he has never met, is coming to visit him; they invite Katy and Margie to lunch in order to meet her. But when the aunt's visit is delayed, they persuade their friend Benjamin Babberley (known as "Babbs") to impersonate her.
Harry and Jack intend to propose marriage to their sweethearts, but to do so they need Babbs out of the way, so they invite Jack's father as well. But to their exasperation Babbs is less interested in helping out than he is with flirting with their girls. Then the real aunt (not the dotty dowager imagined by Babbs but an attractive woman of middle age) arrives with her adopted 'niece' Miss Ida Delahay, an orphan. It emerges that Ida's father, who had died a little while before had been befriended by a kind man with whom Ida had had a short romance. Donna Lucia recollects a romance she had 20 years ago with Frank Chesney, Jack's father, who has just been wooing the fake Donna Lucia and does not recognize the real one.

Mr. Spettigue enters: he is introduced to the fake Donna Lucia, the "millionairess", and falls for her. Now Babbs is given the difficult task of getting a letter of consent from Spettigue for the boys' to marry his niece and ward. Harry is so overwhelmed by the deception he has played on everyone by having Babbs masquerade as his aunt that he confesses to the enraged Spettigue, who demands the letter back. The real Donna Lucia reveals herself and takes the letter, stating that it "is addressed to and has been delivered to Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez".
Before Spettigue can storm off threatening to dispute the letter, Donna reveals that she has a rich friend who might be interested in Mr. Spettigue. Katy forgives Harry. It ends up that Donna Lucia and Frank Chesney are now engaged, as well as Jack and Margie, Harry and Katy, and even Ida and Babbs.

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