The Miss Firecracker Contest

July 11-August 3 2025

Directed by Glenn Parker

Synopsis-

From the author of Crimes of the Heart The Miss Firecracker Contest is a comedy for which Henley is best known. Its heroine Carnelle is an irrepressible young woman who thinks that winning the local beauty contest will restore her soiled reputation and make her somebody in her small Mississippi community. The family and friends who help her along the way are a dysfunctional bunch who tackle life in their own peculiar ways. A former beauty queen cousin Elain comes to offer advice and to run away from her husband and children. Elain’s brother Delmount has come home from the mental institution to sell the family home and provide Carnelle another way out. Wandering into the chaos is Carnelle’s seamstress sweet and strange Popeye who falls in love with Delmount. The general conclusion these characters reach is that even if the real you is not the fulfillment of your hopes you will be more at peace if you learn to define and accept your own self.

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Run Time: 2 Hours with a 15 Minute intermission

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Tickets are $30.00 Reserved Seating

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Performances

Friday July 11 7:00pm

Saturday July 12 2:00pm

Saturday July 12 7:00pm

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Thursday July 17 7:00pm

Friday July 18 7:00pm

Saturday July 19 7:00pm

Sunday July 20 2:00pm

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Friday July 25 7:00pm

Saturday July 26 2:00pm

Saturday July 26 7:00pm

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Thursday July 31 7:00pm

Friday August 1 7:00pm

Saturday August 2 7:00pm

Sunday August 3 2:00pm