The Chatham Community Players is excited to present the holiday play, “Beasley’s Christmas Party” by C. W. Munger as a part of their successful Play Reading Series. One Night ONLY on Sunday, December 14 at 7:00 PM (Doors Open at 6:30 PM) at the Chatham Playhouse, 23 North Passaic Avenue, in Chatham. Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can ($10 suggested donation). Tickets will also be available at the door and we supply the snacks – BYOB.
Beasley’s Christmas Party is based on a story by Booth Tarkington. A journalist new to a Midwestern state capitol circa 1900 notices there is something funny going on at the charming house next door. Turns out gubernatorial candidate David Beasley lives there with his young ward, an orphan who has a menagerie of imaginary friends. Beasley's nemesis Simeon Peck plans to ruin Beasley's chances at the statehouse, but everyone learns something at Beasley's Christmas Party -- including the pretty Miss Applethwaite, who Mr. Beasley spurned years before. This 75-minute holiday play is a heartwarming fable of imagination and celebration.
Producers - Leslie Williams Ellis and Gus Ibranyi
Patrons are encouraged to BYOB & Snacks.
Funding has been made possible in part by funds from Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.