M*A*S*H Performing In Warsaw
By JENNIFER SHEPHERD
CSCT Leadership Team
WARSAW — The Center Street Community Theatre has been in full swing this fall working on their third show, M*A*S*H.
This is a wild, free-flowing comedy that’s features over 20 community members on stage at the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts. M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and joining it are two unpredictable madcaps, Hawkeye (Jay Rigdon) and Duke (Ian Crighton) two of the best chest surgeons in South Korea.
Add their antics to Trapper John (Eddie Hartman) and Walt Waldowski’s (Mike Stetzel) outrageous pranks and Colonel Black (Curt Clevenger) has his hands full. They decide to wage a campaign to get a young Korean named Ho Jon (Barb Heimbach) to the United States and entered in a good school. The thread of this effort helps tie together the pileup of comic adventures involving Frank Burns (Todd Lucas), Radar O’Reilly (Jason Dugger), Hot Lips Houlihan (Lori Widman), and Capt. Ugly (Eric Toheroh).
Others rounding out the cast include the nurses of M*A*S*H played by Emilie Judy, Madisson Heinl, Cindy Nash, and Sarah Mumford. There’s a hilarious encounter with the baby-talking Bonwit sisters (Rebecca Crim, Tammie Robinson, and Melissa Jordan) and the worst tap-dancing act the U.S.O. ever sent overseas. Luckily, Father Mulcahy (Dave Baumgartner) is there to keep everyone grounded.
Others in the cast include Chris Mahan, Justin Weaver, Brad Antonides, Rose Cox, Jennifer Shepherd, Janeen Kooi, Victoria Jennings, Paul Morales, and Julie Kuhn.
Director Gerald Cox says, “It’s all here, including a little romance mixed in with dramatic moments and a genuine love of life.” Come join us at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2-3 and Oct. 9-10.
Tickets are only $12 and can be purchased by calling Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts at (574) 267-8041 or order tickets online at wagonwheelcenter.org.