If they can solve the mystery, they may finally get to go on the cruise. Hilarity ensues as Imogene goes undercover and Maude gets entered into the Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Pageant to throw the powers that be off their trail. Maybe the new young nurse’s aide Ruby Sue (Cindi Reyes) can help them figure it all out. A mystery unfolds with lots of laughs as the gals try to find out why so many of the residents have gone to “The Dark Side” and what really happened to Dr. Sam (Tom Le Donne), a retired Elvis impersonator, is the resident Casanova. The newest resident, Imogene (Susie Richter) suddenly has memory loss, Maude (Diana Hirsch) when not binge-watching “Search For Love”, her favorite soap opera, is obsessed with planning her own funeral. Unfortunately, things have not been pleasant since nurse Pat (Kathy Chase) began working there. ![]() The story takes place at the Magnolia Place Retirement Center where Beatrice (Laura Meyer) desperately wants to go on the Sassy Seniors Cruise through the Caribbean with her bestie Eaddy (Leslie Evans). The production is being managed by Laura Meyer. Sharon Kienitz will do her magic as the costume designer and Kathy Chase is doing hair and make-up. Alayna Lauritsen will design the sound and Declan Rice will design the lights. The set is designed by Jim Snyder and dressed by Joy Davidson. Director Robert W Komendera assisted by Joe Blanchard has cast seven of this area’s finest actors and an award-winning crew to bring this side-splitting geriatric comedy to life. The Footlight Players will present a fresh new comedy, FOUR OLD BROADS written by Leslie Kimbell, October 7, 8, 9 and the following weekend October 13, 14, 15, 16. Playhouse in the Park” continues in Franklin Park today, but the puddingstone ruins mostly go unused.7:30-9pm, ”Four Old Broads” thru Oct 16, $17, 1705 Franklin St, Michigan City, 874-4035. In 1966, Boston activist Elma Lewis revived the ruins as a concert venue with the popular Playhouse in the Park, hosting musical acts like the Billy Taylor Trio and Duke Ellington. A path around the top of them still offers the original “Overlook” view down onto the Playstead sports area.Ī fire in the 1940s wiped out most of the building. Today, one can make out the original stone steps, an archway, water fountains, benches and other architectural features. It was built from wood and puddingstone, a conglomerate rock abundant throughout the park and local to Boston. ![]() (Olmstead was an early leader of the conservation movement, advocating to preserve Niagara Falls and the Adirondacks in New York.) The building maintained a rustic feel, low to the ground and hidden by plantings. The building that now lies in ruins originally served as field house for Franklin Park’s athletic fields, housing changing rooms and a viewing area for sporting events below. Like many structures in Olmsted parks, it was designed to defer to the landscape that surrounded it. ![]() However the historic park is often overlooked among Olmsted’s work, overshadowed by his crowning achievement, Central Park in Manhattan. Sitting lonely and overgrown in Boston’s historic Franklin Park, these puddingstone ruins were once one of the only buildings ever designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture, whose egalitarian ideals set the standard for public parks as a place equally accessible to anyone and protected from private interests.įormed in the 19th century, Franklin Park is the largest and the crown jewel of the “Emerald Necklace”-a string of parks designed by Olmstead around greater Boston.
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