The Jacksonville University Department of Theatre Arts is giving audiences that opportunity in an interactive production that Snidely Whiplash would hate. It's outdoors in the cool evening air, the good guys are heartily cheered, that bad guys are lustily booed, popcorn will be available to throw at the villains and the straight-shootin' sheriff rescues the damsel in distress. But the ending really isn't the important part anyway. The real fun is in getting to the end. It's a journey that includes characters such as Sheriff Rex King, a sweet schoolmarm named Sweet Miss Fleur, the Widder Brown who owns the boarding house and two evil villains, Dolly Divine and Hedley Farquarh.
Admission is free and so is the popcorn to throw at the villains.
In a somewhat unusual twist, three JU faculty members will be a direct part of the production.