Bedford County Players to Put on Comedy 'Opal's Husband'

The Bedford County Players will be performing John Patrick's comedy, "Opal's Husband," at the Church of the Brethren July 23, 24, 30 and 31.

Friday shows will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday's matinee begins at 3 p.m., followed by an evening performance at 7:30 p.m.

For reservations please call (814) 623-7555. Tickets are $15.

The Church of the Brethren is located on Donahue Road in Bedford.

"Opal's Husband" is being directed by Thalia Fleetwood. Cast includes Lori Wagner, Jamie Putt, Scott Shoup, Luann Lancaster and Robin Wilson. Tech and Stage crew include Derron Peterson, Ike Simms, Deb Bishop, Kris Peterson, Nadine Glass, Patti Bonn, Bobbie Lenart, Dave Webb and Matt Wagner.

"Opal's Husband" is a full-length comedy by John Patrick. Part of this author's ever popular "Opal" series about the lovable and irrepressible Opal Kronkie – a colourful, naive middle-aged woman with a bit of a hoarding problem. This is the third "Opal" play the Bedford County Players have performed. First, "Opal's Million Dollar Duck," and second, "Opal's Baby." The comedy continues with the third in this series with "Opal's Husband."

Synopsis

"Opal's Husband" revolves around Opal Kronkie, the zany and lovable heroine who lives in a tumbled-down home at the edge of the city dump, and is a collector of trash, treasures and people. Bent as usual on a good deed, Opal tries to round up a husband for her friend Rosie and answers a lonely hearts ad placed by "Mister Handsome" – who, when he shows up, proves to be a ninety-five-year-old escapee from a nursing home. As expected, complications ensue, and when Rosie rejects her would-be suitor, Opal reluctantly agrees to marry him in order to keep the old man from the clutches of his scheming daughter. It seems that he really is quite rich, and his desire is to spend his last days (and his fortune) with a nubile maiden on a South Pacific island while his daughter wants him to expire quickly, and quietly, in the old folk's home. Thereafter the plots and counter-plots multiply hilariously as the daughter and her husband try to discredit the marriage (and convince Opal that she is cuckoo), while the old man devises his own plan to catch them in their dirty work. Happily he succeeds, and off he goes to his fond reward, leaving Opal with both an annulment and another delightful lesson in life to pass on to her myriad admirers.