Wednesday, October 21, 2015
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Event Type
Performance: Theater or Dance
Contact
Theater and Dance Box Office
618-650-2774
Sponsor
Theater and Dance
Link
https://ems.siue.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=92632
"It's a comic volcano of a play, populated by offbeat, but vital, larger-than-life characters......" (The Hollywood Reporter). The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the 4th of July. Carnelle Scott (known as "Miss Hot Tamale") is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest - hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory, but the unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children, complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain's eccentric brother, Delmount, to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. Yet somehow Carnelle perseveres!
TICKETS: SIUE Students free with a valid I.D.; Adults $12, Seniors $10, non-SIUE Students $10, SIUE Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Retirees $10
BOX OFFCE: Dunham Hall; 1st floor, Rm 1042B