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› What: “Greater Tuna.”› When: 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays Feb. 10-11, 17-18 and 24-25.› Where: Signal Crest United Methodist Church, 1005 Ridgeway Ave., Signal Mountain.› Admission: $15, which includes coffee, dessert and musical entertainment before curtain.› Phone: 423-886-1959.Preshow entertainment› Feb. 10: Jeff and Marcy Paulson› Feb. 11: Paul Hendricks and Friends› Feb. 17: Spatial Effects with Tom Brown› Feb. 18: Jeff and Marcy Paulson› Feb. 24: Sharon Dunn› Feb. 25: To be announced
Bertha Bumiller (Dennis Parker), left, rules the roost at home. Her son, Stanley (Mark Oglesby), is fresh out of reform school.Take two veteran actors of local community theater, give them each 10 characters to portray, and you’ve got the set-up for one very funny show.
Mark Oglesby and Dennis Parker are the two actors taking on 20 characters in Signal Mountain Playhouse’s production of “Greater Tuna,” which opens Friday, Feb. 10, for six performances over three weekends at Signal Crest United Methodist Church.
“Greater Tuna” is the first in a quartet of comedic plays about Tuna, Texas, the “third-smallest town” in the state. All four are affectionate looks at small-town Southern idiosyncrasies but with a satiric edge to the humor.
In Tuna, the Lions Club is considered too liberal, the Smut-Snatchers of the New Order are calling for a ban on library books they believe are questionable, Patsy Cline still lives and a judge has died.