Today a friend and I took a bus trip with a church group to Turkeyville, Michigan (yes, it is a real place). Turkeyville, north of Coldwater, is the site of Cornwell's Dinner Theater, a welcoming place with a bakery, gift shop, candy shop, restaurant, and, of course, the dinner theater. At the dinner theater the dinner is always turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, and all the fixings. It was a good dinner, but really couldn't compete with the food on the Amadeus, although the coconut cream pie was quite tasty.
The play was lots of fun. It was "Church Basement Ladies" by Jim Stowell, Jessica Zuehike, and Drew Jansen. The entire play took place in the basement kitchen of 'East Cornucopia Lutheran Church of the Prairie' somewhere in northern Minnesota. As it happens, I was raised Lutheran and this play brought back some memories. For instance, the kindly know it all boss of the kitchen, the fact/warning to the young woman that if you marry a Catholic you will have to sign your babies over to the pope. I don't remember how this was supposed to be done but I do remember the warning. I grew up in a small town, and until I went to college my only concept of a mixed marriage was a Catholic and a Lutheran. All of this Lutheranism was set to some lively musical numbers. My favorites were "The Pale Food Polka" and "This is Most Certainly True." Anyone who ever studied Luther's Small Catechism will remember that phrase. All in all a fun play that I recommend.
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