From our February 22, 2001, edition.

CC actors to perform farce next month 

Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise

The Clarendon College Theatre Arts Company will present “I Take This Man,” a farce by Jack Sharkey, on Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, 2001, at 8:00 p.m. at the Clarendon College Harned Sisters Fine Arts Center. A Matinee will be performed at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 4. 

When lovely young Giddy Hollis spots the unconscious body of a man in tank-top and shorts lying in Copley Square just at the end of the Boston Marathon after all the other racers have crossed the finish line, she reasons that since “nice guys finish last,” this must be “Mister Right!”  So she has a helpful policeman (Jud) tote him home to her nearby apartment, pretending the man is her husband.  This comes as quite a shock to her roommate, a young nurse (Charlene) whose fiancée (Dexter) is coming over to dinner that night, especially since they have no way of getting clothing onto this comatose dreamboat. 

When Bret (the unconscious man) revives and cannot remember who he is, Giddy tells him he’s her husband—but the moment Charlene and her fiancée go out, Giddy abruptly regrets her subterfuge when Bret tries to act like a loving husband. This plot is so complicated and events happen so fast on stage that adequate description is impossible.

The cast includes the following: Giddy, Jody Blackwell; Jud, Aaron Shannon; Bret, Jason Myers; Charlene, Mari Carter; and Dexter, Josh Talley.

Bring the family—even the kids—to see this concoction of wild, warm and lightning-fast hilarity. General admission is $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for children.

CC Board Members, faculty, staff, and students with CC Identification get in free.