Cast Is Set…Rehearsals Start Soon!
Last Roundup of the Guacamole Queens

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sept. 14–16 at 7:00PM
Sunday, Sept. 17 at 2:00PM

Auditions were held at the Lyric Theater for Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens on Monday June 19 and Tuesday June 20, and director Mary Bishop announces the results below!

Performances will be September 14–17.

Directed by Mary Bishop (who, among many other things, brought you the world premiere of Doublewide, Texas!), this is a gut-busting Jones Hope Wooten farce. A stand-alone play in its own right, Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens is the third and final comedy in the Verdeen Cousins Texas Trilogy that begins with The Red Velvet Cake War and continues with Rev’s Exes. It’s been said, “You’ll laugh so hard you might even consider attending your next high school reunion!”

Mary says in announcing her cast:

I am pleased to announce the cast of The Last Round-up of the Guacamole Queens. It never gets easier to cast…we had so many good people audition, and so few parts to cast. I wish I had parts for everyone. What it came down to was casting the person who best fit my mental image of the character. As other directors know…this is the hardest part of being a director! We have two people new to our stage in the cast, and I am pleased with that.

Cee Cee Windham – Rebekah Wilson
Jimmie Wyvette Verdeen – Karen Mckaig
Peaches Verdeen Belrose – Linda Jones Henson
Gaynelle Verdeen – Dana Owen O’Quin
LaMerle Verdeen Minshew – Lisa Paladino-Johnson
Aubrey Verdeen – Clark Middleton
Dixie Davenport – Ann Barron Lemley
Ennis Crowder Puckett – Mary Crosley
Della Crowder – Stephanie Jean Hankins
Grover Lout – Bill Cassaday
Dewey Davenport – Jamie Taylor
Raynerd Chisum – Dan Reynolds
Tanzie Lockhart – Toinette Madison

The Story

In this deliciously funny Southern-fried comedy, the Verdeen cousins of Sweetgum, Texas—Gaynelle, Peaches, and Jimmie Wyvette—are up against the clock as they frantically attempt to produce the ultimate high school reunion before the old building is demolished. But they’ve got a bushel of obstacles to overcome before they can pull off this miracle: Gaynelle is reeling from the humiliating demise of her loathed ex-husband; Peaches’ romantic life has tanked because the older her dates get, the more horrified they are by her job as a mortuarial cosmetologist; and Jimmie Wyvette is trying to live down her on-camera catfight with a local televangelist.

To top it all off, the cousins have got to impress a governor’s aide with their party-planning capabilities, so that they can nab the plum job of throwing the governor’s birthday bash—and keep their business afloat. Their scramble to prepare the perfect event is interrupted by the exploits of their beloved Uncle Aubrey, who is in danger of getting throttled by the two octogenarian sisters he’s simultaneously romancing, and by threats from their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle, who is determined to be crowned the final and forever Guacamole Queen of Sweetgum High. And that’s before one of Peaches’ former classmates arrives with a malevolent hand puppet and a score to settle, Jimmie Wyvette hog-ties the sherrif with police tape, the high school gym is blown away, and the desperate battle for Guacamole Queen heats up into an outrageous fight to the finish.

Chaos is side-splittingly achieved!