Grove Players finishes their 75th season with Ron Hutchinson’s “Moonlight and Magnolias,” a comedy about the script rewrite for one of the most famous movies about the Civil War: “Gone with the Wind.”
Based on an actual event, the setting is Hollywood, 1939, and the filming of the movie has been shutdown after the first week. Legendary producer David O. Selznick (Rusty Steiger of Lemont), formidable director Victor Fleming (Mark Cunningham of LaGrange) and famed screenwriter Ben Hecht (Evan Voboril of Chicago) are locked in Selznick’s office to do a marathon re-write in just five days. Selznick’s secretary, Miss Poggenghul (Linda Lee Cunningham of LaGrange) is instructed to bring them only peanuts
and bananas to eat, and the fun begins. (ALLERGY ALERT: Peanuts will use in quantity on stage.) Produced by Downers Grove resident, Marilyn Ludwig; directed by Sean O'Neill.
The show runs April 29 through May 8, on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm at Lincoln Center, 935 Maple Avenue, Downers Grove. Tickets are $14 (adults), $11 (Seniors) and $8 (Students) and may be purchased by calling 630-415-3682, ordered online at www.groveplayers.org/boxoffice.htm, or at Consider It Done, 5133 Main Street, Downers Grove.