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ACT is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). State government funding to the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance. |
The Man Who Came to Dinner
PERFORMANCES
Corporate Sponsor: Altoona First Savings Bank Altoona Community Theatre recently held auditions for the 1930s comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner. The show is being directed by Tom Liszka, a frequent performer with the community troupe who is currently cast as toilet tycoon Caldwell B. Cladwell in ACT’s 2006-2007 season opener “Urinetown … The Musical!” His previous directing credits for ACT include “The Glass Menagerie” and “The Miser." “The Man Who Came to Dinner” is a chestnut of a comedy by George S. Kauffman and Moss Hart, who also wrote “You Can’t Take It With You” and “George Washington Slept Here.” The story revolves around the household of an ordinary family in a small Ohio town whose lives are totally disrupted when a pompous celebrity lecturer dines at the home during a speaking tour. When he slips on their front doorstep, injuring his hip, he’s confined to their care for a tumultuous six weeks, creating havoc and hilarity. |