Press Release: Father of the Bride

This is the press release from my Spring 2011 show with Houghton College, Father of the Bride.  This was interesting show for me, because it was the first time I directed a show that I had been in.  I played Ben Banks In Cornwell's Dinner Theater's production almost exactly ten years earlier!

Houghton College Presents Father of the Bride

                This spring Houghton College cordially invites you to their production of Father of the Bride by Caroline Francke.  The peaceful life of the Banks family is turned upside-down when their daughter Kay (Patricia Powles) announces her engagement one morning over breakfast.  As Stanley Banks (Eric Mikols) struggles to accept that his only daughter is about to marry Buckley Dunstan (Chris Tortorello), a “goon with a pair of shoulders,” the mounting bills and ever-expanding guest list begin to take their toll on not just him,

but the happy couple as well.  Level-headed Mrs. Banks (Rachel Stowe) does her best to keep things afloat, but in the face of a frazzled secretary (Aubrey Thorlakson), an eccentric wedding planner (Hannah Lily) and two rowdy sons (Nate White & Nick Cannistaci) even she begins to crack.  Will the Banks Family be able to pull together in time to get Kay and Buckley down the aisle, or will the stress of the engagement be too much for the young couple?

                Find out Thursday, Friday or Saturday March 11-12 at 7:00pm (plus a 2:00pm matinee on Saturday) in the Tysinger Auditorium of Houghton Academy (9790 Thayer Street, Houghton, NY).  With questions or ticket requests please contact director Nic Gunning  at Nicolas.Gunning05@houghton.edu.  Tickets cost $5.00.