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Music & Lyrics: David Nehls
Book: Betsy Kelso
Directed by FUZZ Roark
Musical Direction by Michael Tan

October 12 through November 4, 2007
Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm
T'S EVERYTHING A MUSICAL SHOULD BE - - -

A new show about agoraphobia, adultery, 80's nostalgia, spray cheese, road kills, hysterical pregnancy, a broken electric chair, kleptomania, strippers, flan and disco - - -

"Desperate Housewives meets South Park!" -- New York Sun

There's a new tenant in Armadillo Acres and she's wreaking havoc all over North Florida's most exclusive manufactured housing community.  The Divas of the double-wides have survived everything from no-good husbands to kid-napping to bad-perms!  But when Pippi - a stripper on the run - comes between agoraphobic homebody Jeannie and her toll-collector husband a storm begins to brew!  And this storm shakes the trailer park right down to it's foundation!
CAST

Featuring: Karina Ferry, Deb Hicks, Maribeth Vogel Eckenrode, Kendra Keiser,
Kristen Zwobot, R. Brett Rohrer, and Doug Krantz

Tickets: $18 for adults, $15 for Students (under 18 yrs, or with college ID),
Seniors (60 years and over) and Baltimore Theatre Alliance members (Membership Card required)
Group Rates available - call 410-752-1225 or Fuzz@spotlighters.org
 
Photos by Amy Jones

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"Just feel that late summer sun, burning up the sky!"
The girls, Lin (L, Kendra Keiser), Betty (Ctr, Maribeth Eckenrode) and Pickles (R, Kristen Zwobot) take a break from the hectic life of the trailer park!

"Jeannie, you promised you'd come outta that trailer so we could celebrate our 20th anniversary, someplace classy, - - like the Ice Capades!" Toll Collector Norbert temps his agoraphobic wife, Jeannie to come out of the trailer, with tickets to the Ice Capades!
Jeannie (L, Karina Ferry) and Norbert (R, R. Brett Rohrer).

"Do you know what it's like to just stand up here and get dollar bill after dollar bill thrown at you?"
Pippi (R, Deb Hicks) asks toll collector, Nobert (L, R. Brett Rohrer)

"You tell me where's my Pippi, Tina! Or -- I'll tell this whole mall that you faked your alien abduction!"
Duke (L, Doug Krantz), Pippi's ex-boyfriend high on permanent marker, threatens Tina (R, Kristen Zwobot) at Stand By Your Flan in the mall.

"Our topic today, on The Great American TV Show: Strippers on the run, that sleep with married men from the same trailer park! The Married Man: Norbert Garstecki. The Stripper: Pippi."
Betty, the host - a mix of Jerry Springer, Dr. Phil and Sally Jesse Raphael (ctr, Maribeth Eckenrode) introduces her guests, Pippi (L, Deb Hicks) and Norbert Garstecki (R, R. Brett Rohrer)

"My marriage is in the hands of the Ty-D-Bowl Man and my love's been flushed down the pipes, once again!"
Jeannie Garstecki (R, Karina Ferry) sings about her marriage in her dream sequence, with her back-up singers - the trailer park girls -- Lin (L, Kendra Keiser), Betty (ctr, Maribeth Eckenrode) and Pickles (R, Kristen Zwobot).

"There is a dark and dangerous storm approaching!" and the Storm Girls are here to warn us! "Sisters stick together when a girl gets screwed!"
The Storm Girls: Betty (R, Maribeth Eckenrode), Pickles (ctr, Kristen Zwobot) and Lin (R, Kendra Keiser)

"It's just a little road kill bottom of my bootheel! -- Bambi's done! Bambi's done!"
Duke (ctr, Doug Krantz) is on a trail of his stripper on the run -- and nothing had better get in his way! Duke's headlights Kristen Zwobot (L) and Kendra Keiser (R), and Bambi, Maribeth Eckenrode (Front Ctr)

Backstage at the Litter Box Show Palace, Pippi (L, Deb Hicks) and Amber-Pickles (2nd L, Kristen Zwobot) and Amber-Betty (2nd R, Maribeth Eckenrode) and Amber-Lin (L, Kendra Keiser) count their tips from a busy evening of dancing and entertaining!

The cast of The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Back Row (L to R)
R. Brett Rohrer (Norbert Garstecki), Karina Ferry (Jeannie Garstecki), Deb Hicks (Pippi), Doug Krantz (Duke)
Front Row (L to R)
Kristen Zwobot (Pickles), Maribeth Eckenrode (Betty) and Kendra Keiser (Lin)

Tickets are $18 (Discounts for Seniors, Students and BTA Members) Click HERE to order tickets online.