Wedding Belles, the Grey Wellington Theatre Guild’s (GWTG) spring comedy opens at the Harriston Town Hall Theatre, April 13.
A period comedy written by Alan Bailey and Ronnie Claire Edwards, Wedding Belles was first staged in 2008.
Set in the summer of 1942 and the townsfolk of Eufala Springs, Texas are doing their best for the war effort, especially the women of the local garden club, who are preparing for their annual gala.
However the focus changes when a young bride is found stranded at the bus depot waiting for the arrival of her soldier fiancé and the ladies decide to give her a wedding to remember. Their lives and relationships are thrown into turmoil as they rush to prepare for the nuptials in extremely short order.
The resulting chaos is “extremely funny,” said director Patrick C. Smith, who has assembled an all-female cast that includes Carolyn Wollis, Marion Parker and Roslyn Fortier of Mount Forest and Loretta Stevens of Listowel as the horticultural society members turned wedding planners.
Alex Noecker of Moorefield, plays the bride in distress. Wollis (A Bad Year for Tomatoes), Fortier (The Rented Christmas) and Noecker (Annie) have all appeared on stage in previous GWTG productions, while Stevens and Parker are new to the guild.
Behind the scenes, the production crew includes producer Dan Bieman of Harriston and stage manager Helen Craigie of Mount Forest.
Wedding Belles runs April 13, 14, 19, 20 and 21 at 7:30pm, with a matinee on April 15 at 2pm.
For tickets call the box office at 519-338-2778 or e-mail ticketsgwtg@wightman.ca. Tickets are also available at Harriston Home Hardware and Shoppers Drug Mart, Mount Forest.
