'Leading Ladies' Play Opens Saturday

Editor's Note: The following is a River Valley Theater Company press release.

River Valley Theatre Company is a co-sponsor with the Dakota Fine Arts Consortium's performance of Ken Ludwig's "Leading Ladies" starring Shakopee resident and School Board Member, Scott Swanson on March 9-10.

This farcical play begins with two young English actors who are so broke that they are performing at Moose Lodges in Amish country. When they hear about an elderly lady about to die leaving her fortune to her long-lost English nephews, the actors decide to pass themselves off as her relatives to get the cash. The catch? The lost nephews are actually nieces. Romantic entanglements ensue, cross-dressing disguises are devised and hilarious comic moments abound.

Performances are Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 10 at 3 p.m. at the Shakopee West Junior High School, 200 W. 10th Avenue. Tickets are $5 at door.

Following the Shakopee performances, DFAC is entering the show in the Minnesota Association of Community Theatre MACT Fest competition. RVTC and DFAC have partnered before to build support for community theatre.