"M*A*S*H" Opens January 8 at ETC

Tickets are now on sale for Elgin Theatre Company’s production of M*A*S*H, adapted by Tim Kelly based on the novel by Richard Hooker.

The production, directed by Madeline Franklin, opens January 8 and runs three weekends.

This is a wild, free-flowing comedy. M*A*S*H stands for “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital,” and joining it are two unpredictable mad caps, Hawkeye and Duke. They can’t be dealt with casually, however, because they are also two of the best chest surgeons in South Korea. They decide to wage a campaign to get a young Korean to the United States and entered in a good school. The thread of this effort helps tie together the pileup of comic adventures that with pyramid right before the eyes of our astonished and hysterical audience! Hawkeye has a scene with a woman psychiatrist who believes he’s been trying to lobster-trap mermaids in a rice paddy! There’s a jolly encounter with the baby-talking Bonwit Sisters, the worst tap-dancing act the U.S.O. ever sent overseas. Sgt. Devine is selling dumb GIs fishing rights in the Bay of Phum. Radar O’Reilly, a soldier with incredible hearing, anticipates things before they happen. The proprietor of a painless dental clinic is cured of dark moods by the recreation of an old monster movie and a monster! It’s all here, including a little romance mixed in with dramatic moments and a genuine love of life. Oh, yes the Korean boy, Ho-Jon, does get his education in the United States!

The Cast

Capt. Benjamin Franklin Pierce (Hawkeye) - Scot Savage
Capt. Augustus Forrest Bedford (Duke) - Joseph Butterworth
General Hamilton Harrington Hammond - Michael McGinnis
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake - Rick Johnson
Pvt. Boone - Sam Martin
Major Margaret Houlihan - Debbi Dennison
Capt. Bridget McCarthy - Nancy Braus
Sgt. Devine - Stephen Pickering
Lt. Nancy Philips - Bonnie Conte
Lt. Louise Kimble - Kim Green
Capt. John “Ugly” Black - John Schultz
Ho-Jon - Eric Wang
Father Mulcahy - Jerry Weil
Trapper John - Mark Brewer
Frank Burns - Carl Zeitler
Walt Waldowski - Paul Safyan
Corporal “Radar” O’Reilly - Josh Klein
Lt. Janice Fury - Sheri Storer Warren
Pvt. Lopez - Chris Warren
Miss Randazzle/Nurse - Marina Dudanova
Bonwit Sisters/Nurses - Miri Mik, Jil Robinson, Hadley Hill
Lt. Connie Liebowitz - Miri Mik
Spearchucker Jones/MP - Pat McGrath
MASH MP/Ensemble - Thomas Conro, Marty Galiej
Korean Ensemble 1 - Rachael Bright
Korean Ensemble 2 - August Conte
Congresswoman Goldfarb/Mercy Lodge/Marilyn House
Major Ruth Haskell - Linda Collins

The production dates are:
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., January 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23
Sundays at 2 p.m., January 10, 17, 24

Tickets Available:
Please reserve your tickets by calling Jon Kramp at 847-741-0532 or by emailing tickets@inil.com. You may also order tickets at ETC’s website at www.elgin-theatre.org

Location:
H. Rider Center, Kimball St. Theatre on Park and Dundee Roads, Elgin IL

Parking and Directions:
www.elgin-theatre.org

For more information, please contact Richard Grieger, 847-338-0506

Donations will be accepted for the Wounded Warrior Project. For more information, please contact Madeline Franklin, Director, 847-431-1084.