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May 22, 2009
RIPON, Wis. –When is 13 the luckiest number? When it marks the 13th season of the Ripon Summer Players and the production of the comedy classic, The Curious Savage. This wonderful and warm-hearted family comedy will be presented on June 4-6 at 7:30 p.m. in Ripon College’s Benstead Theatre, along with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, June 7. Tickets are $7 for adults and $6 for students and seniors.
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick, The Curious Savage is one of the most produced comedies of the American theatre. The story follows Edith P. Savage, a rich widow who has been committed to an institution because she wants to share her husband’s enormous wealth. Her spoiled stepchildren want the funds, but Edith leads them on a merry chase with the help of her fellow patients.
Appearing in this Ripon Summer Players production are a mix of audience favorites and newcomers to the RSP stage. The cast includes Karin Suesser, Tylor S. Loest, Amy Dorman, Josh DeWar, Helga Rikkers, Brian Reed, Jim Tronoff, Jack Christ, Michelle Fuerch, Robin Woods, Linda DeCramer, Robert Amsden, Vida Vande Slunt, Kelly Stage, and Vicky Weber. The crew for The Curious Savage includes Kenneth Hill, Adrienne Fails, Susan McDaniel Hill and Brian Reilly. The Ripon Summer Players is a program of Ripon Noon Kiwanis and the Ripon College Theatre Department.
For more information, call (920) 748-8791.
About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has consistently been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 368 College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s, a “Best Liberal-Arts College” by Washington Monthly, one of America's Best Colleges by Forbes, and is listed among the 160 best schools in the nation by Colleges of Distinction. For more information about Ripon College, visit www.ripon.edu.
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