Southern Fried Nuptials Brings Frye Family Back to the HCAC
The Hardeman County Arts Council (HCAC) brings the Frye family back to the stage in September with its production of Southern Fried Nuptials by Osborne & Eppler. Fortunately for the audience, the comedy continues and just gets more comical. One thing for sure is Patriarch Dewey Frye is still dead. Harlene Frye and Atticus Van Leer are getting married, and Sammy Jo Frye is moving. Let the hijinks begin.
Synopsis: Harlene Frye is going to marry her childhood sweetheart this weekend . . . assuming the typical Frye family hijinks don’t derail the wedding! Harlene and Attie’s future together is threatened when the bride-to-be’s awful ex-flame shows up with information she doesn’t want her fiancé finding out. And Harlene’s not the only Frye keeping secrets: Sammy Jo refuses to tell her family she’s moving even though all her bags are already packed. As if that isn’t enough, Dewey can’t figure out why people keep on asking him to give his sister away and busybody Ozella Meeks has somehow ended up as the wedding coordinator. Will the Fryes be able to get Harlene down the aisle in one piece? A bighearted comedy about family—Southern-style. Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.
Practically all of the characters from Southern Fried Funeral are back and include Martha Ann Fox, Dewey Frye Jr., Dorothy Faye Frye, Fairy June Cooper, Harlene Fry, Beecham Lefette, Sammy Jo Frye–Lefette, Ozella Meeks, and Atticus Van Leer. Two new characters are Vester Pickens played by Ron Pirtle, who appeared as Dub Frye in Southern Fried Funeral, and Carter Canfield played by Steve Trainum, who is making his acting stage debut.
Tickets are $15 each and on sale now online on the HCAC website, and in person at the HCAC box office {1580 West Market Street, Bolivar} starting Tuesday, September 3, 2024. The box office hours are Tuesday and Thursday, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets, if available, will also be on sale one hour before each performance at the box office. You may call (731) 658-2787 for more information and to purchase tickets.
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