Delaware's Community Theater
2018-2019 Season
Animal Crackers, like The Cocoanuts before is an all-but-literal translation to film of a smash-hit Marx Brothers Broadway musical. The aristocratic Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) holds a weekend party at her Long Island Estate. Her guest of honor is famed (but likely fraudulent) African explorer Geoffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx). Also showing up are renegade musician Signor Emanuel Ravelli (Chico Marx), the mute, girl-chasing "Professor" (Harpo Marx) and Spaulding's faithful secretary Horatio Jamison (Zeppo Marx). The film, revolving around a stolen painting, finds Groucho lecturing on his most recent safari ("One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know"), Harpo and Chico unabashedly cheating at bridge, Groucho dictating a wildly non sequitur letter to the firm of Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger and McCormick, and Groucho and Chico drawing up plans to build a house.
Performed at the Asbury United Methodist Church
CAST
Hives - Brian White
Mrs. Rittenhouse - Cat Hodge
M. Doucet - Francine Butler
Arabella Rittenhouse - Antionette Miller
Mrs. Whitehead - Melody Long
Grace Carpenter - Sharon Patterson
Wally Winston - John Miller
John Parker - Tracy Moseley
Roscoe W. Chandler - Michael Wintering
Capt. Jeffrey T. Spalding - David Hejmanowski
Horatio Jameson - Eleanor Hodge
Emanual Rivelli - Mark Price
The Professor - Bud Kalbaugh
Mary Stewart - Julia Hodge
Cracker Girls - Ana Galuzny, Clare Galuzny, Isabel Hodge