The Northeast High School Fine Arts Department will be staging a production of “The Dastardly Doctor Devereaux” the Musical on May 13th and 14th at 7:00 PM, and May 14th at 3:00 PM, in the North East High School Theatre. Admission is $5.00 per person.
Featuring Seniors: Lauren Cobb as Nurse Hatchett, Kyle Pearce as Dr. Devereaux, and Ray Brown as Dr. Phil Good. Other leads are Elena Reil as Lotta Cash, Jamie McNair as Wendy March, Hannah Stout as Trixie St. James, Amber Toupe as Nurse Ivy Dripp, Cody Craighead as Ward Helper. The rest of the cast includes: Meagan Roach, Aaliyah Cottle, Austin McKain, Josiah Huff, Fantasia Maxwell, Nnaji Singleoton, RaMarcus Norris, Corey Reeves, Taylor Rasnick, Ebony Moss, Morgan Cline, Meshia Ware, Leandra Carlyle, Emily Chester, Elizabeth Day, Brandi Davis, Jennifer Prescott, Brenna Smith, Domingo Alverez, Jonathan Bunton, Donald Theodore, Jonathan Wherrit, Jered Elkins, and Matthew Leighton. The Stage Manager is Abbey Brass.
Lotta Cash, a wealthy widow, must be on the lookout. The evil Dogsbreath Devereaux, M.D. plans to marry Lotta so he can inherit her fortune and her late husband’s clinic. Helping him is the nasty nurse, Hilda Hatchet, whom he promises to wed after he gets rid of Lotta. Wild? Well, talk about medical mania when the insanely jealous Hilda catches Dogsbreath flirting with our heroine, Wendy March. We can only hope that Dr. Phil Good, our hero, can save Wendy and the unsuspecting Lotta from certain death. With an abundance of zany patients, wild tunes (“How Do You Bandage a Broken Heart?,” “Emergency,” “Do the Bop,” etc.) and a hilarious plot, this musical melodrama will certainly have the audience in stitches all the way! As they say, Nurses! Foiled again!
Billy St. John is a resident and native of Clarksville, Tenn. After 10 years of teaching high-school English, speech, and drama, he spent 15 years as a little theatre director at Fort Campbell, Ky. St. John has more than 30 plays in print, many of which have been produced in Australia, South Africa, Canada and the United States. He has also participated in the development of several screenplays and has enjoyed occasional work as an extra or bit player in such films as “Coal Miner’s Daughter”, “The Outing”, and “Roots: The Gift”. He is a member of TCF, the Screen Actors Guild, and The Drama League.
Debbie Wilson is a resident of Clarksville, TN and native of Ballardsville, KY. Debbie is the Choral Teacher at Northeast High in Clarksville, TN and Choral Directing at Port Royal-Grant United Methodist Church. She has notched several summer gigs on cruise lines, worked varied recording projects, and is musical director for theatres.
Billy St. John and Ms. Wilson will be attending the Sunday Matinee!
“THE DASTARDLY DOCTOR DEVEREAUX” the Musical
Book and Lyrics by Billy St. John
Music by Debbie Wilson
Directed by Bradley Hutson
Music Directors: Andrew Knowles, Debbie Wilson
Map
3701 Trenton Rd
Clarksville, TN 37040
