Angelic play just in time for the holidays

J. Ranae Ragee

Put your best black and white striped uniform on, and I don’t mean your tux, and make a break for the Ingersoll Dinner Theatre’s production of My Three Angels, a comedy about three convicts set in the early 1900s.

“If you like to laugh,” producer Charles Carnes said, “don’t miss My Three Angels.”

The show is a tale of a chivalrous trio of convicts in a French Guiana penal colony who have been assigned to work in the home of an amiably impractical shopkeeper. They soon find that their host and his daughter are about to be victimized by a pair of unpunished scoundrels; they then proceed to see that justice is done. “This is definitely a good show for the holidays,” Carnes said. “It is just an uplifting show.”

Angels was a smash hit for 43 weeks in New York and in many other cities where it subsequently toured. The play was written by Sam and Bella Spewack and is based on an original French comedy, which was a great success in Paris where it was performed for over two years. “The show is a truly funny show,” Carnes said. “It is basically a Robin Hood in prison stripes.”

The production will run Nov. 3 through Nov. 19th, with matinees falling on Nov. 15 and 19. Tickets are $25 on Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, with the ticket price of $29.50 on Saturdays. Ticket price includes dinner. Show-only tickets are available for $17.50. Desserts and alcoholic beverages will be available. Those interested in reservations should call 274-4686.

The doors open for dinner at 6 p.m. and dinner is served until 7:30 p.m., followed by the show at 8 p.m. For matinee showing, doors will open at noon, and the meal is served until 1 p.m., with the show following at 1:30 p.m.