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Market House 'The Outsiders' Opens Thursday

Market House 'The Outsiders' Opens Thursday
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
Apr. 26, 2016 | PADUCAH, KY
By West Kentucky Star Staff Apr. 26, 2016 | 01:39 PM | PADUCAH, KY

Ponyboy, Darry, Johnny and the rest of the Greasers are ready for a rumble at the Market House starting this week.

"The Outsiders" will be performed in the Market House's Studio Theatre on May 5-8. Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:00 pm, and Sunday's performance is at 2:30 pm.

Set in a small Oklahoma town in the mid-1960s, Ponyboy Curtis (Bradley Duncan, Les Misérables) is stifling under the negative social label he and his friends have as “greasers.” Their wealthier counterparts from the other side of the tracks — the Socials taunt them for being low class punks. Ponyboy and his two brothers —Darry (Micheal Hassel, Mary Poppins) and Sodapop, (Jake Hunter, MHT debut) find themselves repeatedly encountering the Socs in negative and sometimes violent ways. 

The story arcs as Pony, and two of his friends, Dallas (Andrew Shannon, How I Became A Pirate) and Johnny Boy (Isaac Galliher, To Kill A Mockingbird), become involved in the conflict between the two groups following an evening at the drive-in when the boys end up walking home two Soc girls— Cherry (Clare McGregor, Mary Poppins) and her friend Marcia (Julie Revell, MHT debut). Another Greaser, Two-Bit Mathews (Palmer Stroup, MHT debut), joins Pony and Johnny, but along the way, the girls’ boyfriends, Bob (Eli Dossett, Velveteen Rabbit) and Randy (Erik Hylko, MHT debut) appear and a fight between the boys develops. Cherry stops the fight before it escalates, and the girls leave with Bob and Randy. Later, Pony and his friends run into the Socs again at a park, where they have a fatal encounter. Terrified, the two boys go on the run, where their lives change in even more tragic and significant ways. 

Author S.E. Hinton wrote the book when she was a teenager herself, and changed young adult fiction with her real depiction of social boundaries and conflict in teen life. 

Rounding out the cast are Jalin Burnette (The Grapes of Wrath), as Soda’s girlfriend, Sandy; Paul, played by Jacob Weitlauf (How I Became A Pirate); and Jerry, played by Brian Johnson (Dangerous Obsession). In their debut at MHT, Mrs. O’Brien is played by Amber Taylor, Bryan Howell plays the doctor, and Abby Butler plays the nurse. Gang members include newcomers Noah Hollar, Cameron Ezell and Collin Ezell. Travis Trimble (How I Became A Pirate) and Patrick McHaney (A Christmas Story) complete the cast. The play is directed by April Cochran.

Tickets are $12 for Adults and $6 for Students. 

For more information or to buy tickets online, visit the link below.







On the Net:

MHT Website - Outsiders page
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