Front row from the left Minerva
Hotchkiss (Shelby Bell) Ottillie (Hunter Stride) , Toby Mugg (Nate
Bigelow), Rocky Romance (Robert Harre), Verlinda Springblossom (Deidre
Stevens), Flora Fourflusher (Liz Murphy), and Bunco De Sneer (Toni
Bossaller). Back row from the left are Judge Abernathy (Kaitlyn Hertzel),
Slats (Becca Vossler), Becky (Alicia Bigelow) and Crazy Nanette
(Megan Waldron).
Exeter-Milligan’s All-School production of “The Ballad of
Gopher Gap” was certainly packed full of characters.
The audience was introduced almost immediately to Bunco De
Sneer (Toni Bossaller), the swindling owner of the lease on a mine that
produced everything from jewels to gold. His conniving sidekick, Flora
Fourflusher (Liz Murphy), runs the assay office in Gopher Gap where everything
is certified genuine.
Throw in a Crazy Nanette (Megan Waldron) who is
constantly on the lookout for her misplaced baby who has now grown up and
a genuine hick, Slats (Becca Vossler) and you have yourself a good old
fashioned melodrama sans some railroad tracks.
Toby Mugg (Nate Bigelow) shows up as the last victim of the
notorious Bunco and tries, despite enduring a beating, to warn the new
stagecoach full of innocents of their impending ruin.
The stagecoach dumps out Judge Abernathy (Kaitlyn Hertzel),
his heiress sister Ottillie (Hunter Stride) who is really just looking for a
husband since she already has a fortune. Looking for riches are poor
Becky (Alicia Bigelow) who is dressed in burlap bags while the poetry spouting
mountain man, Rocky Romance (Robert Harre)has his eye on the real mine owner,
the fair beauty, Verlinda Springblossom (Deidre Stevens). There to get to
the real scoop on the mine is newspaper reporter Minerva Hotchkiss (Shelby
Bell).
Despite Bunco’s attempts to swindle Miss Springblossom out
of her mine, all’s well that ends well and well, that’s how it ends with Miss
Springblossom and Rocky Romance tying the knot and saving the mine.
Under the direction of Jeretta Tauriella crew members for
the production were Megan Zwickl, Malinda Hall, Meghan Miller and Ashley
Miller.
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