Springfield Contemporary Theatre presents the wacky musical "The Robber Bridegroom" April 21-May 7 at Center Stage at Wilhoit Plaza, corner of Pershing and Robberson downtown. The show, by Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman, is based on a Eudora Welty novella. "Many years ago," says director L.J. Summers, "when I was teaching in an Arkansas college, I was teaching a course in 'Southern Women Writers.' And (Welty's) novella was on the curriculum. So I taught it, loved it. Then in later years I found out there was a musical adaptation and fell in love with the piece. It's taken me several years to find the group I could get together with to produce it." The show had two short Broadway runs, in 1975 with Kevin Kline and, after some re-writes, in 1976 starring Barry Bostwick. It's set in 18th century Rodney, Mississippi, which actor Seth Dylan Hunt calls "a ghost town" with a lot of folklore, back history--and tall tales--behind it. As L.J. Summers says, one of the major lines that is heard
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