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PowPAC, Poway's Community Theatre
Now Playing:   Nov 8th-Dec 8th 2024    
Fri, Sat 8:00pm; Sun Matinee 2:00pm; Sat Matinee Nov 16, 30 & Dec 7 at 2:00 pm. Please note there is no evenig show on Saturday, December7th.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner

A Comedy
by: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Directed by: Rhiannon McAfee
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“Sheridan Whiteside, critic, lecturer, wit, radio orator, intimate friend of the great and near great, last week found his celebrated wit no weapon with which to combat an injured hip. The Falstaffian Mr. Whiteside, trekking across the country on one of his annual lecture tours, met his Waterloo in the shape of a small piece of ice
on the doorstep of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Stanley, of Mesalia, Ohio. Result: Cancelled lectures and disappointment to thousands of adoring clubwomen in Omaha, Denver, and points West. Further result: The idol of the airwaves rests until further notice in home of surprised Mr. and Mrs. Stanley. Possibility: Christmas may be postponed this year.”

So runs the lead article in the Christmas 1939 issue of Time magazine. Whiteside turns the Stanley household upside down, forcing everyone in town to cater to his egotistical demands. Meanwhile, his beloved secretary has given her notice after falling in love with a local reporter, and Whiteside must engage every weapon in his considerable arsenal of guile and manipulation to keep her in his employ—including blackmail, deceit, and the intervention of the fading sexpot actress Lorraine Sheldon and the elegant British wit of playwright Beverly Carlton. A three-ring circus of machinations and celebrity appearances ensues.
 


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