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Date(s) - April 17, 2026 - April 18, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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“5 Women Wearing the Same Dress” by Alan Ball
Directed by Rick Gooding
During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom. Each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below.
There is Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride’s younger sister, whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye.
As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in the wickedly funny, irreverent, and touching celebration of the women’s spirit.
Show will be at the Orpheum on Main St in Marshalltown in the Bea Niblock Theater April 17, 18 & 19 and April 25 & 26.
Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00.
Box office open 30 minutes before show time.
Tickets available at the door, $15.00