Golden Ticket Productions is presenting “Stumblewood” as part of the intimate BC Supper Club’s Boggstown Cabaret Saturday and Sunday in Boggstown, 35 miles north of Columbus. In the show, cast members regularly veer off script and interact with the audience, presented as something of an added character as the community’s townsfolk.
Which means it’s perfect for Columbus’ Naomi Fleetwood-Pyle, the later-in-life actress who’s never met a crowd she didn’t love.
“This really breaks down that fourth wall (in theater),” Fleetwood-Pyle said. “And it’s just so fun.”
With plenty of puns and wordplay.
She plays the plume-hatted town librarian Alice Allgood, who is illiterate but can read how to punctuate excitement. In one scene, when her singing is criticized, she breaks into kinetic clogging — a humorous nod to Fleetwood-Pyle’s real-life passion that literally has taken her around the globe to lead workshops.
Zumwalt, the supper club’s co-owner, also recently has been presenting small theater shows at The Artist Colony Inn’s basement space in Nashville.
“Stumblewood” will be presented at least monthly through November — June 10-11, July 15-16, Aug. 12-13, Sept. 9-10, Oct. 8, and Nov. 4-5 and 11-12.
“We enjoyed a very good opener (in April),” said Zumwalt, who joins the cast as good guy Sheriff Willie White.
Besides Fleetwood Pyle, Columbus writer and actor Jason Bowser, known to local dinner theater attendees for his comedy, plays bad guy Black Bart. And Columbus actress Falicia Whited plays Dolly Diamond.
The supper club once was among now-Mill Race Center’s members’ favorite getaway destinations for sheer fun in the 1990s. Zumwalt said he wants to restore that sense of fun — and sees this production as a good one to do it.
“It’s very over the top,” he said. “And I believe that everybody needs some comedy in their life. With this, there are laughs all the way through. And, as audience member, you are a participant. But there is no fear that someone’s going to pull you up on stage — that is, unless somebody absolutely wants us to do so.”
About the show
What: The wild West comic musical dinner theater “Stumblewood”
When: Saturday evening and Sunday matinee
Where: BC Supper Club, 6895 W. Boggstown Road in Boggstown
Tickets: $50 includes show and all-you-can-eat buffet meal, with reservations via 317-224-9509
