Church Basement Ladies: ‘Second Helping’ at South Park; Little Lake Staging ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ (Thurs., 6/29/17)

1) The Church Basement Ladies Sequel: A Second Helping is the follow-up to the successful first play in the series. The musical comedies were based on the book Growing Up Lutheran, by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson which takes a comical look at their 1950s, Midwestern, Lutheran upbringing. The books follow several multi-generational female characters who work in the Church basement preparing food for various events held at the church. The women have fun discussing their problems and  commenting on issues of the day. A Second Helping by Jim Stowell, Jessica Zuehlke, and Drew Jansen, is set in 1965 as people are protesting the Vietnam War and women are demanding equal pay. If you’re a fan of the series Mountain Playhouse is staging another of the sequels, The Last Potluck Supper, this month as well. 7:30 p.m. Performances through July 15. South Park Theatre, Corner of Brownsville Road and Corrigan Drive, South Park. 

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2) One Man, Two Guvnors, by Richard Bean, is an English adaptation of Servant of Two Masters, a 1743 Commedia dell’arte style comedy play by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni. The lead character Francis finds himself unexpectedly working for two bosses. Francis is a charming man, but not the smoothest. He works hard to keep each boss from discovering he is working for the other. Set in the 1960’s, the plot mines comedy from love triangles, mistaken identities, and the farcical situation of working for two bosses. James Corden played Francis when the play debuted at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre in London in 2011. 8 p.m. Continues through July 15. Little Lake Theatre Company, 500 Lakeside Dr., Cannonsburg. 

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