Please note this performance takes place at Weathervane Playhouse in Newark, Ohio.*
By Billy St. John
Join us for our 4th annual melodrama fundraiser! Purchase soft tomatoes to toss at the stage towards the actors as they portray eccentric and over the top characters. Here comes the bride! Actually, we should say brides — four of them supposedly, to marry a quartet of love-starved citizens. The husbands-to-be include two bachelors, lumberjack (and hero) Forrest Green and saloon owner Lucky Betts, and two widowers, grizzled prospector Grubby Shurtz and respectable banker C.D. Nichols. If only their brides were real! The unscrupulous and shifty lawyer, Big Harry Deal, has hired an actress, Starr Billings, to impersonate all four fiancés. Starr (and your actress who plays her!) has a quite a job, needing to portray schoolmarm Modesty Virtue for Forrest, saloon hostess Lola Palooza for Lucky, prospector Golda Miner for Grubby, and society matron Indigo Bloodline for C.D. Harry’s scheme is to lure the bridegrooms into a mine shaft on the night of the quadruple wedding and blow them up, leaving Starr a wealthy widow to all four. The plan goes astray when Forrest realizes he’s actually in love with Grubby’s tomboy daughter, Calico (our heroine). The hilarious climax with all four fiancés seen simultaneously (in a frenzy of costume changes!) will make you think twice before saying ’I do’ — at least ’til you know who to!
Season subscriptions on sale now. Single tickets on sale February 1st, 2026.
Performance Dates and Times:
- Friday, August 7th, 2026 at 7:30 PM
- Saturday, August 8th, 2026 at 2:00 PM
- Saturday, August 8th, 2026 at 7:30 PM
- Sunday, August 9th, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Family Content – Suitable for the whole family.
For handicap or accessible seating with no stairs, please contact the Box Office at 740-366-4616. Accessible seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis.
*Please note that fees will be applied to all single ticket orders paid with via credit card. Single ticket purchases made in person at the Box Office with cash or check will have these fees waived. Find details about ticketing fees here.
All ticket sales are final. There will be no refunds issued for any ticket sales regardless of circumstance. This includes main stage season tickets, main stage single tickets, gift certificates, and Weathervane Theatre Academy production ticket sales.
Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Denver, Colorado.
