A Tuna Christmas
by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
A Tuna Christmas is the hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna. It’s Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Seven actors play more than 20 characters, and multiple costume quick-changes help to put the riotous fun in holiday dysfunction into this audience favorite.
Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey’s production of “A Christmas Carol” is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun.
Licensing: Samuel French, Inc.
Director: Bob Merzoian
Run Dates:
January 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 & 28 (Friday & Saturday evenings @ 7pm)
January 15 & 22 (Sunday matinees @ 2pm)
(8 performances)
Sunday Brunch: January 22 @ 12:30pm – $15.00 per person
Brunch Reservations are required by Wednesday, January 18.
Cast:
- Pearl Burris, Arles Struvey – Ralph Bourne
- Thurston Wheelis, Leonard Childers, Ike Thompson – Dick Jameson
- Bertha Bumiller, Phoebe Burkhalter – Pam Bourne
- Petey Fisk, Vera Carp, Joe Bob Lipsey, Farley Burkhalter – Bob Merzoian
- Didi Snavely , Jody Bumiller – Sharon Hall
- R.R. Snavely, Sheriff Givens, Elmer Watkins, Dixie Deberry – Vince Black
- Helen Bedd , Garland Poteet – Janie Dignam
- Stanley Bumiller , Charlene Bumiller – Charles Hickinbotham
- Inita Goodwin – John Olmos
Production:
- Producer(s) – Sharon Hall & Janie Dignam
- Lighting & Sound – Mike Proctor
- Stage Manager – Kacie Bellisch
- Christmas Tree Elves – Aiden Albers & Benjamin Satko
