Imagine a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business, everyone gathers for events and holidays are a mixture of fun and stress...
GLTG Presents “Fruitcakes”
Imagine a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business, everyone gathers for events and holidays are a mixture of fun and stress. Watch the drama play out in “Fruitcakes,” a Christmas comedy at Geauga Lyric Theater in December.
Two unmarried sisters who share a house, but can’t stand each other need to work together every Christmas to carry on the fruitcake baking tradition of supplying the townspeople with everyone’s favorite baked good. But their mother willed each only half of the recipe and neither sister is willing to share. Add to their shenanigans a fruitcake snitching runaway, a lost cat, a Christmas hog named Buster, a bustling Christmas tree lot, a chicken pox epidemic and so much more making it a recipe for holiday fun.
“Fruitcakes” will run weekends Dec. 2-18. Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 p.m. and Sunday shows are at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $8 for children, $13 for students and seniors and $15 for adults.
On Dec. 3, for only an additional $10 per ticket, attend Fruitcakes Festive Fundraiser at GLTG’s Art Center across the street at 106 Water St. Before the show, enjoy wine and appetizers and bid on a special raffle basket, mystery boxes for kids and adults and a holiday sing-along. After the show, come back for dessert and the winner of the raffle basket. Wear an ugly sweater and GLTG will post the selfies on its Facebook page.
Tickets for the show can be purchased online at www.geaugatheater.org or by calling the box office at 440-286-2255.
Fundraiser tickets can be purchased through the box office or the business office at 440-285-7701.
Geauga Lyric Theater is located at 101 Water St. in Chardon.
Geauga Hunger Task Force Benefit Planned
Dec. 3, 7 p.m.
Dec. 4, 3 p.m.
The Good Tidings Benefit Choir will perform at Notre Dame Chapel, 13000 Auburn Road in Munson Township.
Celebrating its 27th year, the popular program raises money through goodwill offerings for the Geauga Hunger Task Force, which consists of seven emergency food pantries throughout the county.
The Good Tidings choir will be performing Christmas selections, including a portion of GF Handel’s “Messiah.” Concertgoers will be invited to join in the Hallelujah chorus. Pilgrim Brass from Pilgrim Christian in Chardon and “Ebenezer” LDS men’s a cappella chorus from the LDS Church in Kirtland will also perform at both concerts.
Admission is free, but a goodwill offering will be collected. Reservations are not necessary.
Music of the Holiday Season
Dec. 13, 7 p.m.
Join for the renowned Cleveland chorus concert under the direction of David Gilson at Hamlet Atrium, 200 Hamlet Hills Drive, Chagrin Falls. Western Reserve Chorale will perform high quality choral music of the season and traditional favorites including “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” and “Wassail Song” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, selections by Dawson, Bach, Palestrina, Verdi and others. A Christmas carol sing-along will follow the program.
The public is welcome. Call Karen to reserve, 440-247-7715.
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Jack Kane, Wayne Howell and Lance King are all part of the nutty townspeople in “Fruitcakes” at Geauga Lyric Theater opening Dec. 2.
