Humorist Jean Shepherds memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas.

Ralphie pleads his case before his mother his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Higbees Department Store. The consistent response: "Youll shoot your eye out!" "." 

All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here including the familys temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas the school bully; the boys experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; ;

Ralphies father winning a lamp shaped like a womans leg in a net stocking; Ralphies fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.

Audition Dates: 

Sun. Aug. 24th, 2025 at 5:00pm and Mon. Aug. 25th, 2025 at 7:00pm at Community Building Complex of Boone County

Performance Dates:

Nov 7th-8th & 14th-15th ,2025 at 7:00pm and Nov. 9th & 16th, 2025, at 2:00pm

Its a Wonderful Life A Live Radio Play Adapted by Joe Landry

This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast.

With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.

Audition Dates:

Sun Oct. 26th 2025 at 5:00pm & Mon Oct. 27th at 6:00pm  at the Boone County Museum of History

Performance Dates:

Saturday December 6th, 2025 at 7:00pm and Sunday December 7th, 2025 at 2:00pm 

And Then There Were None

Written by Agatha Christie

Presented through special arrangement with
Concord Theatricals

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past theyre unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate, For each has been marked for murder.

As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland the bloodbath begins; one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme about Ten Little Soldier Boys.

Audition Dates: 

Sun. Nov. 30th 2025 at 6:00pm & Mon. Dec 1st 2025 at 6:00pm at Community Building Complex of Boone County

Performance Dates:

Feb 13th-14th & 20th-21st ,2026 at 7:00pm and Feb. 15th & 22nd, 2026, at 2:00pm

Steel Magnolias By Robert Harling

The action is set in Truvys beauty salon in Chinquapin Louisiana where all the ladies who are anybody come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married) the outspoken wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the towns rich curmudgeon Ouiser (Im not crazy Ive just been in a bad mood for forty years);

an eccentric millionaire Miss Clairee who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader MLynn whose daughter Shelby (the prettiest girl in town) is about to marry a good ole boy. Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions the play moves toward tragedy when in the second act the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life.

The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play and its characters the special quality to make them truly touching funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.MSP has been granted access to lots of her sketches. 

Audition Dates: 

Sun. March 8th 2025 6:00 p.m. & Mon. March 9th 2026 6:00 p.m. at Community Building Complex of Boone County

Performance Dates:

May 8th-9th & 15th-16th ,2026 at 7:00pm and May. 10th & 17th, 2026, at 2:00pm

Divorce Southern Style

Written by Jennifer Jarrett 

An established favorite with stock theatres this fast-paced wildly funny farce centers on the zany schemes of a middle-aged divorcee who decides that the time is ripe to get back together with her ex-husband. Divorced for fifteen years and running low on cash Eleanor Bander decides reconciliation with her ex-husband (whose second wife died the year before) is her best hope. To lure him within striking range she tells him that their daughter is about to be married hinting that it is a forced situation when the truth is that the daughter is merely engaged again (for the fifth time) to her long-standing fiance. The ex-husband Walter not only arrives but brings along his current flame a former classmate who was Eleanors competition from high-school days. As the plot thickens which it does with growing hilarity Eleanors friends and neighbors become involved in the action culminating in a surprise birthday party where the truth at last comes out. But Walter is pre-pared to forgive and forget and falls easily into Eleanors trap. So easily in fact that Eleanor is the one who now has second thoughts deciding that it is better after all to stay single and broke than to resume the bickering that drove her away from Walter in the first place.

Audition Dates: 

 Mon April date coming soon & Tues April Date coming soon 6:00 pm at the Boone County Museum of History

Performance Dates:

Saturday June 13th,2026 at 7:00pm and Sunday June 14,2025, at 2:00pm

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