Andy Price as Tony Wendice

Katie Whalen as Margot Wendice

(evening performances)

Taylor Raucher as Margot Wendice

(matinee performances)

David Martin as Max Halliday

Brad Shepard as Inspector Hubbard

Jeff Erb as Captain Lesgate

Ben Bump as the offstage voices

Director: Stuart W. Gamble
Stage Manager: Karolina Kopczynski
Set Construction: David Carlson
Costumes:

Karolina Kopczynski & Stuart W. Gamble

DIAL M FOR MURDER

February 28, March 1 & 2, 2025
March 7, 8 & 9, 2025

Thornton W. Burgess School
85 Wilbraham Road Hampden, MA

2024-2025 season

CAST

Pulitzer Prize-winning, Driving Miss Daisy, is set in Atlanta and spans twenty-five years, from 1948 to 1973. When Daisy Wertham,

a stubborn, elderly Southern widow, crashes her new car into the neighbor’s garage, her son, Boolie, forces her to take on a chauffeur. He employs Hoke Coleburn, much to her chagrin. At first, Daisy refuses to rely on a black man to get her from one place to the next and Hoke spends two weeks sitting in the kitchen doing nothing. Gradually, however, Daisy’s prejudices are broken down and, against all odds, he becomes her best friend. Daisy teaches Hoke to read and write, while Hoke encourages Daisy to let go of her insecurities. Alfred Uhro’s delicate drama explores the experience of aging while the world around you moves forwards at great pace.

Tony and Margot Wendice have had a fractious marriage for many years, resulting in Margo’s affair with Max Halliday, an American crime writer. However, when the affair ended and Tony retired from his professional tennis career, the couple reunited and rekindled their love...or have they? In this well-known suspense thriller, Tony pursues the perfect crime. He married Margot for her money and now, after finding out about her affair, he plans to murder her for exactly the same reason. Although he initially thinks about killing her himself, Tony decides to hire an old university acquaintance and cunning criminal, Captain Lesgate, to do the dirty work for him. Despite Tony’s meticulous planning, the attempted murder goes awry and Lesgate is killed, while Margot survives. With a little quick-thinking and a lot of deceit, Tony manipulates Scotland Yard into believing that his wife was being blackmailed by Lesgate and killed him to protect her reputation. However, thanks to the determination of Max Halliday to prove his ex-lover’s innocence and the experience of Inspector Hubbard, Tony soon becomes wrapped up in his own web of lies and his guilt is exposed.

DRIVING MISS DAISY

October 18-20 & October 25-27, 2024

Thornton W. Burgess School
85 Wilbraham Road Hampden, MA

CAST

Miss Daisy - Anna Giza
Hoke - Floyd Patterson II
Boolie - Joe Lessard

Director - Mark Giza

Stage Manager - Gail Weber