“The only real sellouts were for the last two nights.”Īttendance for 2019’s production was 1180 tickets sold, up a small margin from 2018’s show.įunds raised from the ticket sales do stay in the community through various arts scholarships and community hall upkeep, as well as paying the local caterer for the dinner theatre performances.

“Tickets were about 80 per cent sold,” said Castor Little Theatre member and sometimes actor, Don Sisson, who played the investment adviser Barney Effward. When that adviser fakes a medical condition and ends up in their retirement home for his protection, the seniors seek revenge on the scam artist with often hilarious results. The 2019 play, Jack of Diamonds, was a farce used under licence from Samuel French Inc and focused on a group of seniors in a retirement home who had been scammed out of a significant sum of money by an unscrupulous investment adviser. Hughes, is the 37th annual production put on by Castor Little Theatre and community support was again great for this year’s performance. This year’s play Jack of Diamonds, written by Marcia Kash and Douglas E. The lights have gone dark for the last time on the 2019 Castor Little Theatre season.

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