Thank you

The curtains are closed ...and this show is over

Four Old Broads, directed by Fran Horwich, played to sell-out audiences every night of its five night run.

Thank you to our audience for supporting the play, the cast & crew, and our worthy charities Macmillan and Chai Cancer Care.

Also thank you to playwright Leslie Kimbell for her words of support and enthusiasm for our production of her work.

We'll be back with another production in 2020

Four Old Broads cast photo

Synopsis:

Retired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton desperately needs a vacation – and NOT another trip up to see that “precious little German village" for the umpteenth time.

A sassy Seniors Caribbean Cruise with her best friend, Eaddy Mae Clayton, may be just the ticket.

Just as well, as things have become a bit odd at Magnolia Place Assisted Living since Nurse Pat Jones began working there. Why are the residents behaving oddly, and newest resident, Imogene Fletcher, suddenly losing her memory?

Can Beatrice, Eaddy Mae and their friends, Maude Jenkins (obsessed with her own funeral) and retired Elvis impersonator Sam Smith, find out what's going on?

A mystery unfolds as the gals try to figure out why so many residents have been moved to “the dark side”.

If they can solve the mystery, they might make it to the cruise ship after all.

BEATRICE SHELTON - a former burlesque star with an attitude - Senior Citizen : Katherine Thomas-Wilson (read-in by Fran Horwich)
EADDY MAE CLAYTON - a former nurse and "religious" lady - Senior Citizen : Barbara Cousins
IMOGENE FLETCHER - the newest resident at Magnolia Place - Senior Citizen : Gill Cooper
PAT JONES - a rude and pushy nurse : Suzy Gellman
MAUDE JENKINS - a funeral and soap opera obsessed frump - Senior Citizen : Deborah Loofe
SAM SMITH - retired Elvis impersonator and Casanova - Senior Citizen : Robert Levy
RUBY SUE BENNETT - a quiet, romance novel loving nurse : Lindsey Landes
Ethel Bumpus - care home resident : Juliette Lewis
Beulah Tucker - care home resident : Bev Marks
Bernie Williams - care home resident : Russel Weisberg
with the TV Voices of Fran Horwich (Alexia) & Phil Geller (Carlton)

Scenes from Four Old Broads

Reviews:

"Four Old Broads is laugh-out-loud hysterical with a whole lot of heart." - Del Shores

"If The Golden Girls was rebooted today, it would look much like Four Old Broads, a clever geriatric comedy." - Carolina Curtain Call

"Laugh out loud. Good twist at the end that I didn't see coming."

Author:
Leslie Kimbell gained her salty sense of humor from twenty two years traveling the world as a Burlesque Headliner. Four Old Broads  is inspired by memories of her Nannie DeVries and Aunt Sissie, who were always hysterical, sassy old broads.

Awards:
Four Old Broads simultaneously won two festivals in 2017 at Centre Stage Greenville in Greenville, South Carolina and Theatre Victoria in Victoria, Texas. BROADS also received an AEA Workshop at The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City 2017.