Dinner Theater @ Center Square Golf Club"The Irish Wake Of Patty O'Toole"

Opening on Friday, March 7th at the Center Square Golf Club in Worcester, PA is The Irish Wake Of Patty O’Toole just in time for St. Patrick’s Day!  This entertaining original comedy by local playwrights Judith Sapperstein and Gary Murway is presented by the Methacton Community Theater along with Center Square in their continuing efforts to bring the dining plus live performance experience to the Montgomery County area!  Cocktails and appetizers begin at 6:30 PM followed by a full course dinner buffet at 7:00 PM.  Show time is 8:00 PM.  This dinner and a show event will continue on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons through March 16th. 

The delightful and mischievous Patty O'Toole has passed away and his friends have gathered to say their last good-byes.  The funeral director brings everyone to order and the eulogies begin.  Things start rather normally until suddenly the ghost of Patty O'Toole appears to participate in his own wake.  As stories of the departed Patty begin to unfold, it soon becomes apparent that not all were cherished memories resulting in a knock-down, drag out fight between Burnadette and Maureen, Father Shawnasee on the verge of a nervous breakdown and Aidan Donnelly in hot water with his wife over a sweatshirt.   Add in tales of Leprechauns, the Banshee, a clock that runs backwards, a flatulent dog at Michael’s Pub and the curious way how all the children in the village look just like Patty!  Lots of fun! Lots of laughs and a real display of what it is to be Irish!   

The impish Patty O’Toole is played by Evan McElhiney of West Chester.   He is joined on his trip down memory lane by life friends Ryan Fitzgerald (Patrick McGurk of Schwenksville), Liam Harrigan (Cliff Reese of Trappe), Connor O’Boyle (Daniel Rueckle of Audubon), Mike Murphy (Brian McKay of Philadelphia) and Aiden Donnelly (Tab Baker of Norristown) as he wreaks havoc at his own funeral and continues to work his boyish charms on the ladies, Burnadette McDevitt (Audrey Reese of Trappe) an Maureen McClearly Donnelly (Alexis Leigh Ross of Collegeville) to the very end!  Rounding out the cast (and striving to dignity and decorum in check) are the funeral director (E. Scott Cass of Perkiomenville), Officer Shamus O’Rourke (Keith Truman of King of Prussia) and Father Shawnasee (David Kriebel of Lansdale).

MCT has been active in the community for over thirty-six years performing throughout the Worcester, Lower Providence and Collegeville/Trappe area.  Beginning in the fall of 2008, MCT began offering dinner theater to showcase local playwrights of our area and continues to be the only local community theater to offer a dinner theater venue.  Under the direction of Geoff Randall of Schwenksville with wife Nancy producing, The Irish Wake Of Patty O’Toole marks the sixth dinner theater production by MCT. 

The Irish Wake Of Patty O’Toole has been made available through special permission of J & G Unlimited, LLC of Doylestown.  The dinner show package will be offered on Friday and Saturday evenings, March 7, 8, 14 and 15, 2014 with cocktails beginning at 6:30 PM.  There are two matinee performances on Sunday afternoons, March 9 and 16, 2014 beginning at 1:30 PM.  Cocktails, dinner and the show will be held in the Center Square Golf Club banquet room located at 2620 Skippack Pike (Route 73), Worcester, between Berks and Whitehall Roads.  Cost is $45.00 per person and includes appetizers, dinner, beverages (water, coffee, tea, etc.), dessert, tax, gratuity and the show.  A cash bar will also be available.  Reservations are required.  Advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended. 

Make plans to come out with family and friends to enjoy an afternoon or evening of dining and laughter!  Reservations, ticket purchasing and further information, including the buffet menu, can be obtained by calling the theater at (610) 489-6449 or visiting MCT’s show information page on the web at http://www.methactoncommunitytheater.org/subpages/IrishWake.html.  The Center Square Golf Club banquet room seats round tables of 8, 10 or 12.  When ordering tickets as part of a larger group, please let us know the number and name(s) in your party so that your entire party can be seated together.  We look forward to seeing you at The Irish Wake Of Patty O’Toole and paying our respects!