10/7/2023 0 Comments Musical intermission crossword![]() While our trio each have their own issues, their biggest problem is their absolutely awful supervisor, Franklin Hart, played by the alarmingly charming Galloway Stevens. She’s happily married but is the company leper, on account of everyone thinking that she’s shtupping the boss. Parton introduces the audience to the main characters: Violet (Anne Sheridan Smith), a single mom who works hard and is continually passed over for promotions new hire Judy (Bryanna Cuthill), who’s going through a divorce and has never worked in an office before and Dolly – excuse me, Doralee (Makenzie Ruff), the buxom secretary who’s always wearing pink. The story opens (and closes) with some narration from Miss Dolly Parton herself, projected high above the stage, which sets the tone nicely. It’s never mentioned and it never matters. ![]() ![]() The setting is a corporate office where employees … work? I’m not sure what the company itself does. Outside of its title song, all of the music here is original, and the show itself is refreshingly modern. Yet none of this got in the way of me enjoying a perfectly fine night of theatre helmed by director Tommy Ranieri.Ī big part of me was dreading seeing yet another jukebox musical (which would have been my third in as many months), but thankfully, that’s not what 9 to Five: The Musical is. I’d never seen 9 to 5 before, be it movie or musical, and outside of “Jolene” and the show's titular song, I could not name you a single song by Dolly Parton. I had no idea what to expect when I arrived at the Timber Lake Playhouse on Saturday evening.
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