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Theater adds three shows to 'Leading Ladies' play

Fountain Hills Theater is extending its production of Ken Ludwig’s gender-bending comedy, Leading Ladies until Sunday, April 2.

In this hilarious farce by the author of Lend Me a Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania.

When they hear an old lady in York, Penn., is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces. What‘s a boy to do? What ensues is a classic farce of romantic entanglements, naughty innuendos, mistaken identities and rip-roaring high jinx.

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Theater adds three shows to 'Leading Ladies' play

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Fountain Hills Theater is extending its production of Ken Ludwig’s gender-bending comedy, Leading Ladies until Sunday, April 2.

In this hilarious farce by the author of Lend Me a Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania.

When they hear an old lady in York, Penn., is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces. What‘s a boy to do? What ensues is a classic farce of romantic entanglements, naughty innuendos, mistaken identities and rip-roaring high jinx.

Leading Ladies is produced by Patty Torrilhon and directed by Petey Swartz. It stars Terry Gadaire, Donna Georgette, Alexia Lorch, Dan Marburger, Morgan Ottersbach, Karl Roger Perry, Darryl Poenisch and Roger Prenger.

Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. There will be no Thursday performance the final weekend.

Individual tickets are $30 for adults and $23 for youth 17 and under. Seniors receive a $5 discount on Thursday and Saturday performances. Group rates and student rush discounts, and veterans and active duty discounts are available.

Tickets are available through the Theater Box Office at 480-837-9661 ext. 3 or by visiting fhtaz.org. Box Office hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. All performances are at Fountain Hills Theater on its Mainstage at 11445 N. Saguaro Blvd.

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