Cochin Community Players Dinner Theatre
Patrons of Cochin Community Players’ dinner theatres will be interested to learn that its upcoming play, Michael and Susan Parker’s Money Matters, will be its fiftieth production!
The lively farce runs from April 14 to 16 and from April 21 to 23, with dinner theatre on Friday and Saturday and brunch theatre on Sunday. All meals will be catered by KC’s Kitchen, a popular local caterer.
Audience members from CCP’s last production will recognize returned cast members John Butler and Jennifer Hawley, who perform along with Rick Kostiuk, Amanda Gies, Melanie Roberts, Gregory Kwong and Amber Hawley. Tanya Montoya, who played the man-hungry housekeeper in the previous show, makes her Cochin directing debut with Money Matters.
The rollicking plot guarantees a laugh a minute. The late Mr. Hammond spent twenty years printing $20 bills in the basement of Monet Manor. After his death, his faithful retainer George and his daughter Annie continued the family business for Mr. Hammond’s widow, who recently passed away. Contrary to her promise to leave it to George and Annie, she has bequeathed the manor to a stranger, Bud Davis, who plans to turn it into a retirement home. Determined to thwart his plan, Annie invites an old friend to play the role of a ghost so as to convince Bud that the manor is haunted.
