It’s Time To Hang on to your hymnals AGAIN! The Church Basement Ladies are Coming Back To Capital City Productions!!!
The True “Steel Magnolias" of the Church Are Again Cookin’ Up Some New Good Ole Fashioned Musical Comedy Just For You!!
CCP’s “Church Basement Ladies 2 - A Second Helping!”
September 4th, 5th, & 6th, 2025 @ 6:30pm
September 6th, 2025 @ 12pm
Produced by Emily Whitener-Roberts
Starring The Original Cast!
Becca Rose Bessette
Maggie DeChant Eggen
Julie Gragert
Carrie Peter
David Goldman
The show picks up the story in 1969 with a changing world.
As Vietnam War protests swell and women everywhere demand equal pay for equal work, the ladies in the church basement kitchen face changes of their own.
From the matriarch to the mom-to-be, there women find strength in each other as they deal with the changes from below the House of God!
As always, you'll laugh until your side-dish hurts with their hilarious antics and
down-to-earth charm from within the church basement. This is most certainly true!
Like the original, the action all takes place in the basement of a Lutheran Church in Minnesota in the sixties.
Even if you’ve never spent any time in Minnesota, nor if you don’t know any Norwegian Lutherans. You certainly can recognized these church basement ladies. They could be cooking in any United Church basement in Jefferson City or the surrounding counties!
When all the Tupperware tumbles out of the cupboard, you know the frustration – it’s happened in every church basement; in fact, it’s probably happened in every household.
Original cast members are back from last year’s successful production. Carrie Peter again has the role of Mavis and will keep the audience laughing with her quirky stories about her husband’s accidents. She will also be the queen of physical comedy – climbing atop a kitchen chair, falling into the freezer. (Get your cameras ready! Its sure to be a YouTube video sensation!)
Becca Rose Bessette is delightful as the young woman who will tell her mother she’s moving back to the rural community as well as announcing that she is pregnant. Her presentation of the poignant song “Cardamom, cinnamon, ginger and cloves” is sure to make many eyes tear up.
Reprising their roles also this year are the extremely talented Maggie DeChant Eggen as Vivian and Julie Gragert as Karin.
Eggen’s deadpan humour is always brilliant and her comedic timing perfect. Just a look from her is hilarious.
Gragert will again contribute a beautiful singing voice and deliver a captivating performance that solidifies her place as a true church basement lady!
The Hilarious David Goldman will be taking on the role of the hapless Pastor Gunderson. No bunny suit this time! Instead it will be a full on Elvis routine that is sure to be a real crowd pleaser and bring the house down!, not to give away too much! “Thank you, thank you very much!”
The church basement ladies take “Waste not, want not” to the extreme: Their slogan is “Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without”. I’m sure many in the audience heard their mothers’ voices!
It’s another enjoyable nostalgia trip, taking us back to those good old days. Book your tickets now, if you want to have some laughs while taking a journey back in time. We guarantee that this show will sell out again!!
**Tickets On Sale Now!!**
**YOU NOW HAVE 2 TICKET OPTIONS AT THE SPACIOUS CAPITAL CITY PRODUCTIONS 70 FOOT MAINSTAGE!!**
**Option 1! - You have the choice to enjoy a Dinner Buffet **SHOW+DINNER** In The CCP Sweet Spotz! Banquet Room (located inside the theatre) by an Award Winning Caterer!
OR
**Option 2! - You may choose to enjoy the **SHOW-ONLY** ticket option and bring your own snacks!
**The choice is yours!**
**Coffee, Tea, and Lemonade are served but you are welcome, as always, to bring your own Broadway libations (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) to make your show come to life!!**
Evening Shows:
6:00pm - Show+Dinner Doors Open
6:30pm - Buffett Served
7:00pm - Show-Only Doors Open
7:30pm - Show Time
Matinee Shows:
11:30am - Show+Dinner Doors Open
12:00pm - Buffett Served
12:30pm - Show-Only Doors Open
1:00pm - Show Time
Advanced Online Tickets Now Available:
https://www.ccpjc.org
Or by calling or texting our CCP Box Office at:
(573) 681-9612
Or emailing:
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**NOW with all our performances, there ARE paper-tickets issued. Upon arrival at the theatre, your tickets will be scanned in before entering the Central Trust Bank Auditorium! Tables & Seats are now assigned by the patron at the time of purchase!
See you at Church!
Capital City Productions....."putting the community back into community theatre, one special Spotz! moment at a time."
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