This evening a friend and I attended a wonderful play at Arena Dinner Theater. "Ripcord" by David Lindsay-Abaire is the opening play of this season, and it is a good one - lots of laughs, some intense moments and a lovely twisty ending. The two leading ladies, Becky Niccum, the grumpy one, and Lady Hazel Stream, the sweet one, were perfectly cast for their roles and did a marvelous job as the quarreling women sharing a room in a senior living facility. I know this doesn't sound like a funny situation but it was as they played it. One of my favorite scenes was in the airplane. In addition to the sheer joy of watching the play and the enjoyment of the dessert, was the enjoyment of ending up at a table with congenial people. It happened that one couple were the parents of one of the men in the show (and he did an excellent job) and by coincidence I had been in a couple of plays with him recently. It also came out that his father was also related to a director I have worked with. Between those pleasant discoveries and several stories about horses the pre-show and intermission were almost as much fun as the play. One other note, usually Arena is a dinner theater, but for this play they only served dessert. It was a very good peach cobbler which tied into the play. "Ripcord" runs through August 19 and I highly recommend it.
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