Starting Sept. 16, Ingersoll Dinner Theater presents an evening of wholesome musical comedy. The Singing Hatfields have gathered together at a tent revival just outside Hooker, Oklahoma in the mid-1950s to lift the spirits of those who have lost their crops to the drought. This homegrown hit by Iowa's own Meredith Willson pairs Harold Hill, a fast-talking salesman, with River City's darling, Marian the Librarian. Pat Gilbert, a United Press reporter whose beat is the 1946 Iowa State Fair, meets and falls in love with Margy Frake, an Iowa farm girl with spring fever. Margy's brother, Wayne, falls for band singer Emily Arden in the fair's midway.
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No one is precast. Based on the book by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Ingalls family leaves the big woods of Wisconsin and move to the Kansas prairie where Pa builds a new house and becomes a farmer. The family makes new friends, celebrates their first Christmas on the prairie with Mr. Edwards, and are confronted by Indians who live in Kansas. Starting Sept. 24 at The Des Moines Playhouse Back to the top. Send photo along with name, address, phone number, birthday and short biography by mail by Sept. 17 to Dept.