Let Your Inhibitions Go with Avon Players’ Musical Comedy ‘The Full Monty’

Desperate circumstances lead to hilariously desperate measures in this stage adaptation of the popular movie    A group of down-on-their-luck workers tests whether fortune really does favor the bold as Avon Players presents The Full Monty running September 15-30. Based on the hit film of the same name, The Full Monty follows the misfortunes of six unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo, New York. With no job, money, or prospects, these men are fed up with the state of their lives. When they … [Read more...]

In Avon Players’ ‘A Man of No Importance,’ Music Reverberates through the ‘Streets of Dublin’

Musical celebrates the poetry in the lives and loves of 1960s working-class Irish Avon Players closes its season with a love letter to community theatre, the sweet and stirring musical A Man of No Importance, based on the Albert Finney movie of the same name. A Man of No Importance runs Friday, May 22 through Saturday, June 6. In 1964 Dublin, bus conductor Alfie Byrne is a working-class man with the soul of an artist.  When he’s not regaling his passengers with poetry, he’s leading his … [Read more...]