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'The Sugar Bean Sisters' on Stage

We’re not saying it’s aliens, but there might be some extraterrestrial beings lurking around The Playhouse at McConnellstown this September when “The Sugar Bean Sisters” takes the stage.

“The Sugar Bean Sisters” opens Sept. 13 and continues its run Sept. 14, 19, 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinee showings are Sept. 15 and 22 at 2 p.m.

For reservations, call (814) 627-0311.

Written by Nathan Sanders, this oddball southern gothic comedy is filled with romance, murder and alien abduction. The Nettles sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood – Willie Mae by going to Salt Lake and finding a good Mormon husband and Faye by hopping on the spaceship when the “space people” return for another visit.

We meet Faye and Willie Mae as they return home to their ramshackle swamp dwelling in Sugar Bean, Fla. They had a disastrous daytrip to Disney World where Willie lost her prized Eva Gabor wig on Space Mountain. That isn’t even the worst of it. Having witnessed the landing of an alien space craft some 25 years ago in her daddy's sugarcane field, Faye prepares for the return of her celestial visitors on this night, the very anniversary of that fateful day.

A disturbance in the sugarcane field lures the sisters outside to investigate, and Faye recalls how their infamous daddy claimed to have witnessed dead folk walking through Sugar Bean on a similar night many years before. A strange bird-like woman suddenly appears out of the darkness of Buster Swamp, setting in motion a chain of extraordinary events. Lies begin to unravel, and the truth is revealed as the Sugar Bean Sisters hatch a diabolical plot to ensure the space people's return.

 

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