Schedule - Our 2011-2012 Season
Murder at the Howard Johnson's
A Comedy by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick
All is fair in love? Even murder? That's the question posed by this light and funny suspense comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn. In the first act, Mitchell, a dentist who sees himself as the dashing, heroic type and Arlene, a middle aged "Femme Fatale", plan to murder her husband Paul, a blundering used car salesman. In the second act, having discovered that Mitchell has been unfaithful, Arlene allies herself with Paul to do away with Mitchell. In act three, all bets are off as the two men join forces against Arlene. Who's "Dead or Alive" by the end?
Performances: Sept. 23, 24, 30, & Oct 1, 2011
Matinee performance on the 24th at 3:00 PM
Riverside Community Center
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Inspecting Carol
A comedy by Daniel Sullivan and The Seattle Repertory Theatre
"A Christmas Carol" meets "The Government Inspector" meets "Noises Off" in this hilarious hit from Seattle. A man who asks to audition at a community theatre is mistaken for an informer for the National Endowment for the Arts. Everyone caters to the bewildered actor, and he is given a role in their annual holiday production: "A Christmas Carol". Everything that can go wronG....DOES! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity in this Dickens' of a laugh....
Performances: Dec 2,3,9 & 10, 2011
Riverside Community Center
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Kiss or Make Up
A Comedy by Jack Sharkey
Architect Morgiana Kendrick has found true love at last in the person of Hanley Swope, a city planner. The problem is that, to forestall endless queries as to why she's not married, she has created an imaginary husband and daughter. Now the IRS is investigating why her husband has not paid taxes. Morgy cons Casey, a neighbor, into posing as her daughter for the IRS's visit, but Casey's fiance shows up to announce their engagement, and she tries to palm off the agent agent as her brother, just as the fiance's Bostonian mother shows up to meet her son's intended. A comedy of mistaken identities, federal foolishness, and desperate romance!
Performances: April 20,21,27,& 28, 2012
Matinee performance on the 21st at 3:00 PM
Riverside Community Center
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The History of FBP and the Christmas show.
FBP started at the Platte County Fair in 1988 with a simple old west Melodrama. Since 1988, we've been honored by the Main Street Parkville Association in 2001, become the recipient of Parkville's Community Service Award in 1997, 2000, and 2001, received the U.S. Arts Council Co-op Community Service Award in 1998, honored by Parkville's Main Street Association in 2001, and by the City of Platte City in 2004. In the last twenty-one years, FBP has traveled back to the Platte County Fair annually; St Joseph's Trails West; Carolyn's Country Cousins Pumpkin Patch; Parkville Days; Leavenworth's River Fest; Platte City's Zed Martin Days, 4th of July and Christmas Lightings; Smithville's Lake Festival; Partville's Christmas on the River and 4th of July; and back to our home base at Lake Waukomis.
FBP's summer tour blends Old West Melodrama, Vaudeville, and Audience Interaction to draw in and entertain audiences.
2004 saw the introduction of Dinner Theater and added a Spring and Fall show to the schedule. Our first production of "A Christmas Carol" was in 1990 in Platte City; the production had a cast of 17 and a total production staff of 22. "A Christmas Carol" performed at the first Christmas on the River in 1992 aboard the Missouri River Queen showboat. The current run of Christmas shows started in 1994 in the Tyler Chapel at Park University with "A Christmas Carol". In 2002 the Christmas show moved to Union Hall in Riverside, and this will be our 7th year in the Riverside Community. In the last sixteen years, 246 different actors have been involved playing over 730 roles; over 12,070 patrons have enjoyed our annual Christmas shows. 2006 saw the change to "It's A Wonderful Life" and in 2007 we completed the holiday rotation by adding "Miracle on 34th Street". Now, after returning to "A Christmas Carol" last year, we come back to FBP's live version of America's Christmas Film: "It's A Wonderful Life"
FBP, People who take having fun, SERIOUSLY
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"It's A Wonderful Life"
"Delval Divas"
Dinner Theatre in September,
December, and April
Buffet Style Dinner & Show $20.00 per person
Show Only $2.50 per person
"Just Desserts" Matinee at 2:30pm on April 2nd $5.00 for show, dessert bar & beverage.
Matinee only $2.50 per person.
Tax Included in ticket price
Reservations required for dinner and
"Just Desserts"
48 hours prior to the performance
FBP accepts Visa, Mastercard, and Discover
Dinner served at 6:30 and the show
begins at 7:30 for evening shows
The Golden Ox
provides the buffet for all performances
The Riverside Community Center is located on High Drive at Vivion Road adjacent to the Riverside City Hall. For directions, call the Center at 816-741-4172, for reservations call us at (816) 260-1618 or visit Google Maps:
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