February 26 - May 23, 2010

Spring is just the time for America's favorite pastime... everybody loves baseball, especially when it's done at the Heritage Square Music Hall.  "The PinchHitter" is all about a small-time wannabe gangster, his very ditzy girlfriend with a serious bubblegum habit and an inept accomplice who just wants to please.  With main characters like Crackerjack Dawkins, Swat Armstrong, Harry Bordello and Angora LaRue... well you've just got to have fun!!!  When Harry Bordello realizes how good Swat Armstrong is, he devises a plan to win a sizeable bet by making sure that Swat isn't in the big game.  The Bulldogs are counting on Swat... but when he disappears, help comes from a very unlikely place.  The fun's only beginning with the play.... the comedy/musical revue following the play is a real hit with our rendition of "Who's On First?" and an outstanding musical parody of the Beach Boy's '60's tunes with a baseball twist.

"The PinchHitter" was first written for the Music Hall stage in 1993 by Janice Estey.  Ms. Estey's credits include..."The Lion's Eye" in 1990, a high society comedy mystery... "Cops In Space" 1991, a spoof of the Buck Rodgers-Flash Gordon series of the 1950's... the "Circus Garbanzo" 1996... "Who Done In Belle Starr" 2003... and our favorite western comedy musical, "The Desperado" 1989.  She has also penned several of our popular children's productions.  

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