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Brown County announces its 2007 summer season

Tickets are on sale now

This summer marks the 59th summer season for the Brown County Playhouse. A Nashville tradition, the Brown County Playhouse has presented memorable theatrical events to scenic Brown County since 1949. This season offers diverse, captivating entertainment -- a country-western musical, a crowd-pleasing comedy, a timeless masterpiece drama, and a comedy from one of America's favorite playwrights.

Pull in and sit a spell at the Double Cupp Diner when the season kicks off on June 7 with "Pump Boys and Dinettes." Written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann, this country-western musical romp features fine-tuned filling station fellas -- the "pump boys" -- who sell high octane and are joined by the "dinettes" -- the table-waiting, toe-tapping Cupp sisters. The show, which offers an evening of singing and dancing that celebrates the joys of small-town life, runs until July 1.

Chaos reigns offstage and on in "Lend Me A Tenor" by Ken Ludwig, which starts its run on July 5. In this Tony Award-winning backstage farce, the Cleveland Grand Opera Company has imported the world-famous tenor Tito Morelli to launch its season with a performance of Verdi's Otello, only to discover their special attraction has passed out cold in his dressing room from taking too many tranquilizers. This comedy of mistaken identities and romantic intrigue runs through July 29.

Tennessee Williams' timeless masterpiece, "A Glass Menagerie," etches some of the most memorable characters in American drama -- Amanda, the faded remnant of Southern gentility desperately clinging to another time and place; her fragile, withdrawn daughter Laura, immersed in a world of old records and a collection of delicate glass figurines; and her poetic son Tom who, seeking adventure and meaning in his own life, attempts to arrange a "gentleman caller" for his sister. Williams' first great play, this strikingly modern drama runs from Aug. 3-19.

The season closes with Neil Simon's three-course feast of delectable comic theatre, "Plaza Suite." Ranging from raucously funny to poignantly bittersweet, Simon's popular comedy is set in one hotel room and presents three different stories in three acts. In the first act, a wedding anniversary turns sour when the wife's sweet advances fail to move her distracted husband; in the second, a successful producer searches for the fountain of youth by romancing his high school sweetheart; and in the final act, frustrated parents desperately try to coax a reluctant bride out of the bathroom so she can get married.

This autumn treat runs from Sept. 21-Oct. 20.

Tickets for Brown County Playhouse's 2007 are on sale now. Tickets are available through the IU Auditorium box office, 812-855-1103, or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

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