“Church Basement Ladies” serves up heaping helpings of humor at Beef & Boards

Audience favorite opens April 17

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre has the recipe for fun this spring with Church Basement Ladies, the relatable and rib-tickling show about the stalwart women of a rural Minnesota church. The timer is set for this original production that got the Church Basement Ladies series cookin’, and it’ll be ready to enjoy starting Thursday, April 17.

Hilarity takes over when the four Church Basement Ladies do their best to organize food, stave off potential disasters, share and debate recipes, keep the pastor on due course, and try to solve the problems of their changing rural Minnesota church in 1964. Together they tackle both food and food for thought while managing a record-breaking Christmas dinner, the funeral of a dear friend, a Hawaiian Easter fundraiser, and a hot July wedding.

Returning to reprise their roles from the original production at Beef & Boards are Licia Watson as the matriarch Vivian Snustad, and Karen Pappas as the unforgettable Mavis Gilmerson. Joining them in the church basement kitchen are Carrie Neal (A Christmas Story, White Christmas, Beauty and the Beast) as Karin Engelson, and Anya Burke as Karin’s daughter, Signe. John Vessels (Beauty and the Beast, The Addams Family, Smoke on the Mountain) joins these ladies in the role of Pastor E.L. Gunderson.

Based on the Scandinavian Lutheran humor writings of Janet Martin and Suzann Nelson, authors of Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?, the women of Church Basement Ladies are familiar and down-to-earth characters who can be found in any denomination.

Church Basement Ladies is rated G and is on stage for 37 performances through May 18 in the intimate space of Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. Tickets range from $57 to $85 and include Chef Larry Stoops’ dinner buffet and select beverages. Children under age 3 are not admitted.

To see the complete performance schedule and to purchase tickets online, visit BeefAndBoards.com. Tickets are also available by calling the Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Box Office at (317) 872-9664.

Discounts are available to groups of 20 or more. Call the Group Sales department at (317) 872-0503, or email groups@beefandboards.com for details.

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, Indiana’s only year-round professional dinner theatre, has been serving up exceptional entertainment since 1973.