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EP Candlelight Theatre Lights 'George Washington Slept Here' POSTPONED

Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre's production of 'George Washington Slept Here' postponed until further notice.

Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre's production of 'George Washington Slept Here' postponed until further notice.
Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre's production of 'George Washington Slept Here' postponed until further notice. (Lorraine Swanson/Patch)

EVERGREEN PARK, IL — POSTPONED. Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre's production of Moss Hart and George Kaufman chestnut “George Washington Slept Here” has been POSTPONED until further notice.

Tickets are $12 for adults, and $10 for students and seniors, and can be purchased at the Evergreen Park Recreation Department, 3450 W. 97th St. Tickets will be sold at the door, if available.

“George Washington Slept Here” chronicles the trials and tribulations of Newton Fuller who craves—and gets—"a little place in the country to call his own.” Newton and his wife, Annabell, and their daughter, Madge, are hypnotized into taking over one of those windowless, waterless, almost roofless houses that dot the countryside. The ensuing troubles may be summed up by a search for water, a quarrel with a neighbor who owns not only the brook but the very road that leads from the highway to the house, the attempted elopement of the daughter with a summer theater actor, and the usual invasion of the weekend guests, including a prodigal uncle who is assumed to be rich but turns out to be just another bankrupt relative, according to Dramatist Play Services.

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Performances are 7:30 p.m. June 10 and June 11, and 3 p.m. June 12, in the Performance Hall of the Evergreen Park Senior Center, 9547 S. Homan Ave.

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