Published: April 17, 2008 01:16 pm            

Dieterich students to perform ‘Virgil and the City Slickers’

DIETERICH — Dieterich High School Drama Club will present “Virgil and the City Slickers” Saturday, April 19, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 20, at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for students.

In “Virgil and the City Slickers,” the Sludges are simple country people who enjoy the rural trappings of gardens and green space. Jennifer and Trish, two highbrow city slickers whose car broke down, are in desperate need a of a telephone (since their cell phones won’t receive a signal “in the boonies”). The city girls who prefer trendy shopping districts and running water, walk into the middle of several family predicaments including a lovers’ spat, a bad hair day, a miracle tomato-growing

tonic, a cow-impersonating husband and an oversized baby who disappears.

As the girls hang around waiting for a ride, the country bumpkins warm up to the “city folks” who try to help the “backward” family with their problems since Jennifer is studying to be a marriage therapist. But that’s easier said than done. And when Jennifer’s fiance finally shows up to take her home, things go from bad to worse and both country and city folk, as well as the audience, learn some valuable lessons by the time the final curtain falls.

Cast members are Kashia Hollinshead, Jonathan Zerrusen, Theron Poe, Tori Hall, Jessica Brown, Breannah Joergens, Sean Miller, Jon Hall, Brittany Bohnhoff, Sarah Bierman, Beth Warfel, Alicia Ames, Samantha Westendorf and Kristian Warfel.