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Dearly Departed 
by David Bottrell and Jesse Jones 
Directed by Mark Richardson
April 24-27, 2014

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In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpins’ other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.” Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.
Cast
Ray-Bud - Jerry Self 
Raynelle - Carol Murphree 
Bud - Jim Lichtenthaler 
Marguerite - Anne Vinson 
Royce - Nathan Strickland 
Lucille - Lisa Massey 
Suzanne - Emily Patterson 
Junior - Dustin Edmonson 
Reverend Hooker - Rhett Jackson 
Delightful - Dora Wallace 
Nadine - Mary-Elizabeth Moore 
Veda - Marge Lichtenthaler 
Norval - Jim Lichtenthaler 
Clyde - Randy Mink 
Juanita - Chloe Brown 
The Kids - Nate Moore, Jean Marie Moore, Calleigh Stacy 

Crew
Mark Richardson - Director
Mary Dyer - Stage Manager
Todd Hardin - Set Design/Construction 
Scotty Kennedy - 
Set Design/Construction 
Jim
Lichtenthaler - Set Design/Construction
Marge Lichtenthaler - Set Design/Construction
Judy Malone - Set Design/Construction 
Mark Richardson - Lighting and Sound 
JC Weeks - 
Lighting and Sound 
Judy Malone - Hair and Makeup
Rita Jeffreys - Hair and Makeup
Georgia Jeffreys - Hair and Makeup
Beth Hammock - Ticket Coordinator 
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