Minooka set to stir up laughter

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MINOOKA — Minooka Community High School proudly presents the comedy “You Could Die Laughing” by Billy St. John.

MCHS students will perform the play at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, and at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, in the MCHS – Central Campus Performing Arts Center.

Tickets cost $6 per adult and $5 per student/senior citizen. Tickets will be available at the door prior to each performance.  MCHS students are admitted free with a valid MCHS student ID card.

The cast for “You Could Die Laughing” includes: Justin Miner as Mr. Thorn; Paige Mass as Mrs. Thorn; Carla Kundert as Susan; DJ Valera as Allen; Warren Dailey as Corky; Christine Duris as Zowie; Priya Bond as Lucinda; Stephanie Engel as Helena; John Bond as Dexter/Stanley; Richard Isemongor as Antonio; Jake Breunig as Sammy; Jessica Paramo as Paulette; Tyler Cipriani as Joey; Emily Kratz as Cora; and Rebecca Deluga as Colleen.

The director is Mrs. Patricia Grawey-Beeler and the student director is Kevin Head.

“You Could Die Laughing” begins with television mogul Jacque St. Yves inviting 11 has-been comics to his island lodge off the Canadian coast to audition for the central role in his new TV series
It’s an opportunity to die for ... and that is someone’s intention.

Shortly after arriving, the comics find they are stranded with the pilot of St. Yves’s private jet, the attractive flight attendant and the couple employed as housekeeper and handyman.

That night, the housekeeper disappears during a violent thunderstorm and her husband drops dead after ingesting candy that any of them could have sampled.

Laughs and chills abound until the startling truth emerges and the tension mounts.

For more information, call the high school at 815-467-2140.

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