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!

Top 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	ThursdayMatinee Evening Show	Friday   Evening Show	SaturdayMatinee 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 Google   Yahoo   MapQuest   Satellite      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.
Pick your favorite Internet map: Google   Yahoo   MapQuest   Satellite Top 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:   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   -- 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

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