Final production of the season for BTCA will end April
The Bay Tree Council for the Performing Arts in Red Bay, Ala. is presenting it’s final production of the 2014-2015 season, “Father of the Bride” by Caroline Francke.
It will be presented Thursday April 23 – Saturday April 25 at 7 p.m. and Sunday April 26 at 2 p.m. Tickets will go on sale April 13 at Community Spirit Bank’s Weatherford Centre in Red Bay between the hours 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on weekdays. Tickets are $8 each and you may purchase them at the Weatherford Centre during those hours or call 256-356-9829 to reserve yours. You may call Beth Hammock at 256-356-9286 for information about group tickets.
The play starts with Mr. Banks learning that one of the young men he has seen occasionally about the house is about to become his son-in-law. Daughter Kay announces the engagement out of nowhere. Mrs. Banks and her sons are happy, but Mr. Banks is in a dither. The groom-to-be, Buckley Dunstan, appears on the scene and Mr. Banks realizes that the engagement is serious. Buckley and Kay don’t want a “big” wedding—just a simple affair with a few friends. We soon learn, however, that the “few” friends idea is out. The guest list grows larger each day, a caterer is called in, florists, furniture movers and dressmakers take over, and the Banks household is soon caught in turmoil—not to mention growing debt. When Kay, in a fit of temper, calls off the wedding, everyone’s patience snaps. But all is set right, and the wedding (despite more last-minute crises) comes off beautifully. In the end, the father of the bride is a happy, proud man, glad that the wedding is over, but knowing too that it was worth all the money and aggravation to start his daughter off so handsomely on the road to married life.
