Once again, The Seasons’ Players at Bunker Hills Golf Course presented a heartwarming story about family. “Let’s Scrap Christmas” made me laugh and cry.
Written by Patti J. Hynes-McCarthy and directed by her husband Thomas G. McCarthy, the show had all the makings of a holiday favorite. There was the saucy but caring Grandma (played by the always-hilarious Suz Adamson). Her pink-loving perfectionist daughter Carol (played by Laura Lynne Tapper), and her counterpart, the can’t-do-anything-right-been-married-three-times-and-getting-another-divorce daughter Vicki (played by Jacleen Olson).
Each of the four granddaughters is facing her own set of troubles. Hope (Emily Carroll), married with two children, seems to have it all together, but is turning to a therapist to save her marriage. Sister Faith (Jane Samsal) is suppposed to get married in a grand ceremony next summer, but isn’t sure she can go through with it. Carmen (Jenni Aldridge), nearly 30, still lives in her mother’s basement and bursts into tears whenever she’s happy or sad - and it’s mostly sad in this production because she misses her recently deceased grandmother. Darby (Lisa Bol) is raising her daughter (Meg, played by Rebekah Olson) alone and has just learned she has breast cancer. It’s only Meg who can see and hear the Grandmother who dropped out of heaven to check up on her family.
Grandma Loretta loves each of her granddaughters, professing by turns that each “is my favorite.”
Rounding out the cast are Greg Eiden who plays Carol’s husband Mike, a man who has just discovered the hundreds of sports channels available on Dish; and Timm Holmly who plays Terrance, Grandma Loretta’s odd neighbor.
It is Terrance who arrives on a snowy night during the girl’s annual scrapbooking weekend, to share something special with them all.
Once again, Hynes-McCarthy has fashioned a set of characters you can’t help but love through their good and bad. I left inspired, just as I have after each production that I’ve seen at the Seasons over the last 14 years.
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