This July as part of the “Escape the Ordinary” adult summer reading program the Friends of the David A. Howe Public Library will be sponsoring a Valley Theatre production of Jack Sharkey’s wacky, bank-heist comedy, Spinoff.
Tired
of his middle-management job at the bank Willy Nicholas (Eric Mikols) devises a
scheme to rob the bank and ride off into the sunset with his flighty girlfriend
Vicki (Kendra Mikols). In order for the
heist to work, however, Willy needs the help of his employee, Peter Colton (Nic
Gunning). He manages to switch their
brief cases, causing Peter to unwittingly carry the money out of the bank! Things seem to be going according to plan
until Peter’s daughter Laurel (Anna Schilke) and her boyfriend Carlos (Ben
Layman) discover the stolen money and hide it, assuming Peter was behind the
robbery. Just as everything begins to
get sorted out, a curve-ball in the form of Sheila Mahoney (Meg Specksgoor)
shows up. Instead of Rio, Willy and his
unwilling accomplices might just end up in jail!
These
special performances will be free of charge and will run in the Nancy Howe
Auditorium on July 25 at 7:00 p.m. & July 26 at 2:00 p.m.
I didn't do a typicall director's note this time around, but here's my production note from the program:
I didn't do a typicall director's note this time around, but here's my production note from the program:
We are very excited to be
back in the David A. Howe Public Library as part of the “Escape the Ordinary”
Adult Summer Reading Program. We want to
add a special thanks to the Friends of the DAHPL for sponsoring our show. We have had a great time working on Spinoff and have enjoyed the new
challenge of doing a farce comedy, a first for us. If you’d like to hear about future
productions, send us an email at thevalleytheatre@gmail.com. We hope you enjoy
the show.
