Headin' for the Hills

Fitzpatrick Auditorium, Kernersville Elementary School, 512 West Mountain Street, Kernersville.

Dates:

Preview show: by invitation only
Opening Night: Friday, February 25, 2011 (8:00 p.m.)
Additional Shows: Saturday, February 26, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, February 27, at 2:00 p.m.; Friday, March 4, and Saturday, March 5 at 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, March 6 at 2:00 p.m.

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Our cast:

Cornelia Heister ... Brittany Blalock Dorthea Heister ... Lydia Fink Cyrus Goolus ... Lee Huggins Hank Goolus ... Zac Hiatt Aunt Sukey ... Kim McDonald Bette Belle Goolus ... Hosanna Gurley Skeets Goolus ... Brinley Lowe "Happy Goolus" ... Tori Seals Slim Hawkenshaw ... Joshua Miles Horseface Dilly ... Kenny Gaylord Jake Slasser ... Ken Colditz Widow Squiggins ... Lee Ann Chrisco Speck Squiggins ... Ian Buff Squiggins/1st Boy ... Blaise Gourley Squiggins/1st Girl ... Katarina Pegram Squiggins/2nd Boy ... Hampton Helsabeck Squiggins/2nd Girl ... Samantha Halstead Emmy Jean ... Esperanza Peral Zeke ... Caleb Doyon Zeke's Maw ... Vi Doyon Miss Oggie ... Trish Forbes Miss Winslow ... Hannah Gummere Extra Children ... Haley Miller, Kate Halstead

About the show:

Cornelia Wellington Heister and her sister, Dorthea, are wealthy orphans whose only living relatives are a hillbilly family who run a general store in Lone Mule, Tennessee. Their father’s will insists that the girls spend their summers in Lone Mule with their Uncle Cyrus Goolus or forfeit their share of the fortune. Cornelia in particular hates the arrangement, and Uncle Cyrus is a miser who sees a chance to make himself some money. He decides to make life miserable for the girls so they’ll run away -- and he will inherit the entire fortune himself. In an avalanche of fun and laughter, he shows the girls the absolute worst of hillbilly living. They don’t discourage easily, however, and Cornelia even finds herself the object of adoration of Slim Hawkenshaw and begins to realize that perhaps mountaineers are human beings after all. Luckily, Cornelia finds out about her Uncle’s scam and decides two can play at that game! She and Dot pretend to go all out for the hillbilly life and even show Uncle Cyrus a thing or two

About our director:

Dan Seaman has directed numerous plays in the Triad since 1974. He was Director of Theatre at the Weaver Education Center, Greensboro, having started there in 1978 and retiring in 2004. He is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Greensboro College.