Performance dates: Wed.-Sat., Aug. 21-24.
Showtime: 7:00PM.
Tickets are $8 and on sale now at Peter & Annies, downtown Cumberland, or at the door
THE STORY:
Nick, (Ryan Mathison), is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he’s been offered a dream job. The job he’s been waiting formarketing executivewould take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them, but the news doesn’t sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, (Brian Keeler), Aida, (Chris Johansen), Nunzio, (Mike Clay), and Emma, (Eva Srubar), do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovelyand singleCaitlin O’Hare, (Dana Warwick), as baitwe won’t give the ending away here.
Directed by Diane Thorp and assisted by Shanna Fraiser.