The Greenwood Little Theatre production of “The Fox on the Fairway” by Samuel French has begun dress rehearsals and will debut Thursday.
The show will run through April 26 and consists of six cast members, who have been practicing since March for this performance.
“The Fox on the Fairway” has a similar feel to the film “Caddyshack,” with love, competition and jealousy all wrapped into one story. It follows the characters as their lives unravel during a golf tournament.
“The play is hysterical,” said Erin Jacobs, director. “At the end of the day, it’s a comedy.”
The audience will witness an engagement, a bet and a love triangle, “all layered over each other until the situations become comical,” said Paul Brown, assistant director.
“It’s the humor that you always find in those situations that Samuel French draws on,” he said.
With half the cast being new to the theater, the integration had to be quick, Jacobs said.
New to Greenwood Little Theatre in this production are; Alfred Brown, Sherrie Smith and Laura Kay Prosser. Jacobs is also a first time director.
“We have a cast of experienced and unexperienced actors, which is always a challenge in community theater, but it also keeps things interesting,” Brown said.
Jacobs sets the story up this way: “With two rival country club owners battling for the championship trophy, it’s an all-out war in love and golf, but who will be left standing with the Fox on the Fairway?”
“You’ll have to come and see,” Brown said.
