Ed Fletcher's
   
Early Bird Dinner Theatre
200 South McMullen-Booth Road
Clearwater, Florida
33759

$29.90 + tax   Per Person

Phone for Reservations:
(727) -  446-5898
(Leave name, number)
Welcome!

    This live professional theatre and buffet dinner in Florida is easily reached from Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Tampa, and Sarasota.

    It is the best dinner show value in the Tampa Bay area. You will find great dinner music, great food, great theatre, friendly atmosphere, and excellent service!

Entertaining Clearwater since 1989, we moved to
the Italian American Club from Ft. Harrison Street in 2006

      On this web site you will find a synopsis of the current play, information about the show schedule plus upcoming performances, our buffet menu,  links to your favorite Internet map Google   Yahoo   MapQuest, (All Internet maps will open in a new window.) and some pictures of the exit to our location.  Finally, you can revisit a few cast photographs of previous performances and read past reviews or sign up for our announcements email mailing list. Newsletter

    Tickets:   Phone 446-5898 to make reservations or to check on seating for a particular date. Leave your name and phone number, and we will return your call as soon as possible. Performances are on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings of each week, plus noon matinees on Thursday and Saturday.

      So, get a table of your friends together, it's BYO so you can bring your favorite wine, and enjoy the entire package of dinner, dinner music, and show!

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Showing April 24th...
...through  June 15th, 2008

An Ed Fletcher Production

Rich is Better
Written by Jack Sharkey
Directed by Robin New

 


 
Cast: Rich is Better
April 24 - June15, 2008

 
      Nona is unaware that her husband Gino owns the company for which she does telephone sales - he posed as a laborer during their courtship, fearful of being married for his money, and has yet to explain.
      When Gino's secretary Pam shows up with papers he forgot to sign, he introduces her as a co-worker seeking advice on a romantic problem.
      Generous Nona insists Pam bring her lover to dinner. Pam cons her chiropodist into coming on what he thinks is a house call.
      By the time the disastrous dinner party occurs, Nona's misguided gossip has caused a strike. She wonders why Gino won't join the picket lines and Gino inadvertently gives Nona the impression that Pam is his big romance.
Time
Labor day weekend, September 1959
Place
The Gognare apartment in Denver, Colorado
Act One
Saturday Afternoon
Act Two
Scene 1 - Just after 7pm that night
Scene 2 - About 2 hours later
Program

Cast: Rich is Better
Barbara Anthony
as Nona Gognare
Bill Henricks
as Gino Gognare
Mary Jordan
as Pamela Herlie
Laurent Ciccarello
as Chester Caldiccio
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Schedule  
Rich is Better Playing now through June 15. See above.

---- June 16 - September 7, 2008
This is our annual summer break. The 2008-2009 season begins in September.
Have a good summer!

Social Security September 11- November 2, 2008
The domestic tranquility of a married couple who are art dealers is shattered upon the arrival of the wife's goody goody nerd of a sister, the sister's uptight CPA husband, and her Archetypal Jewish Mother. They are there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother hits it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is the art dealer's best client!
Over the River and
Through The Woods
November 6 - December 28, 2008
Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream job. The job he's been waiting for -- marketing executive -- would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn't sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around that includes bringing to dinner the lovely--and single--Caitlin O'Hare as bait....
     Performances are Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings of each week, plus matinees on Thursday and Saturday.
Mon
 
Tue
 
Wed
 
Thursday
Matinee
Evening Show
Friday
 
Evening Show
Saturday
Matinee
Evening Show
Sunday
 
Evening Show
Seating at 11am for Matinees - - Seating at 4pm for Evening Shows
Seating

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  Catering by Banquet Masters
Buffet Menu
 
Full Salad Bar
Lettuce & Tomato Salad
Three Bean Salad
Red Blis Potato Salad
Sweet & Sour Cole Slaw
Pasta Salad
Carrot Salad
Jell-O
Entrees

Italian Meatballs

Beef Stroganoff

Cornbread stuffed chicken breast

Broiled white fish


Sides
Oven Roasted Potatoes
Buttered noodles
Mix vegetables
Buttered Noodles
Assorted Rolls and Butter
Dessert DuJour
Tiramisu
Coffee and Ice Tea
Menu Subject to Change
When you make your reservations, you may ask about other beverages you can bring.

Dinner music performed by
Mark Atcher
    

 
Music, Dinner
and Show

$29.90 Plus Tax

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Performances presented at the:
 
Italian-American Club
200 South McMullen-Booth Road
Clearwater, Florida 33759
        The new location is on McMullen-Booth Road, between Drew Street and Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard (Hwy 60)
        We are still in Clearwater, and our phone number is the same (727) 446-5898.

MAPS

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     Click on one of the links above to see the map in a new window.

     Starting at the corner of McMullen-Booth Road and Drew Street in Clearwater, Florida
    Go South, following the signs towards the exit to Highway 60, Clearwater/Tampa exit.
     Half-way down the exit ramp, look for the entrance to the Italian-American Club,  on the right.
     Here are some pictures of what you will see on your way to the theatre.

 

 

 

 
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The Italian-American Club Building...
Call (727) 446-5898 to make reservations for the
Early Bird Dinner Theatre
     Kudos to the Italian-American Club website for their Early Bird Dinner Theatre web page

   

Previous Presentations

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Set: Pajama Tops   July 12th - September 2nd 2007

 
An Early Bird Special Presentation:
 

World Premier


Never Kiss A Naughty Nanny
Pictured with playwright Michael Parker (L)
November 3 - December 23, 2007

Cast: Never Kiss A Naughty Nanny  
Never Kiss a Naughty Nanny Review Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - December 4, 2007

 
Cast: Run For Your Wife
February 28 - April 20, 2008

 

Cast: Who's In Bed with the Butler
September 7 - October 29, 2006

 
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Cast: Deathtrap
April 27 - June 18, 2006

 

Cast: A Bedfull of Foreigners
January 6 - February 27, 2005

 
Reservations:
(727) 446‑5898

 
www.EarlyBirdDinnerTheatre.com
Executive Producer
Ed Fletcher
Artistic Director
Robin New

Director of Marketing
Susan Lyons
Director of Public Relations & Theatre Liaison
Eddy Lyons

 


 

Cast: Out of Order
January 3 - February 24, 2008

 

Cast: Angel Street
September 6 - October 28, 2007

 

Cast: Steel Magnolias
February 22 - April 14, 2007

 

Cast: The Lone Star Love Potion
April 19 - June 3, 2007

 

Cast: Pajama Tops
July 12 - September 2, 2007

 
Reviews
Run For Your Wife Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - March 17, 2008
Out of Order Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - January 19, 2008
Never Kiss a Naughty Nanny Review Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - December 4, 2007
Never Kiss a Naughty Nanny Review Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - October 30, 2007
Angel Street Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - September 5, 2007
Pajama Tops Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - July 2, 2007
Who's In Bed with the Butler Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - September 21, 2006 
Death Trap Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - May 4, 2006
Whose Wives Are They Anyway? Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - Mar 16, 2006
Crimes of the Heart Tampa Bay Newspapers (Online) - January 13, 2006
     Did you find a links to a reviews of any production at the Early Bird Dinner Theatre? Please send the address to the Webmaster.

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     For all other questions/comments about the Theatre, please call Mr. Ed Fletcher at (727) 446-5898. The answering machine is available 24 hours a day.  However, Mr. Fletcher returns calls only at reasonable hours. When you call, please leave your name, phone number, and a brief summary of your question or statement.
Inquire about upcoming performances - Arrangements for tour buses
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You may also write to us:
Early Bird Dinner Theatre
C/O Italian-American Club
201 South McMullen Booth Road
Clearwater, FL 33759
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Website Opened ... July 31st 2004
Updated on .. May 4th 2008

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