HB APA Theatre "Don't Tell Mother!" Dinner Theater Comedy Fundraiser

Don’t Tell Mother a farce by Monk Ferris, directed by Stephanie Bull, is a dinner theater presentation in the APA Studio Theatre at Huntington Beach High School, four performances Sept 12-15, 2019. This is an annual fundraising event supporting the APA Theatre Department. Dinner will be served, opportunity drawings will be available and pre-show music will be performed by APA’s own MMET Department. This show is funny… It’s a big evening for the nervous, plain librarian Cinnamon Schmidt. She has invited her fiancé Hobart over for dinner so their mothers can meet. Her friend Dee Dee arrives to see if Cinnamon needs any help, only to find out that Cinnamon has witnessed a bank robbery! Dee Dee is shocked, but Cinnamon doesn’t want her mother to find out. What Cinnamon doesn’t know is that her mother has been winning money at the racetrack and signing Cinnamon’s name on the receipts. Joe, a federal agent, arrives to inquire about the unpaid taxes on the gambling cash, only to get word of the bank robbery. Joe thinks Dee Dee is Cinnamon, which begins an evening of mistaken identities and confusion. Soon, the bank robber’s lewd lady friend turns up to warn Cinnamon that the robber is coming to kill her. When the robber arrives, things really kick into high gear—including an out-of-control vacuum cleaner and more fast-paced dialogue in this wildly funny farce!