Katie Belle Jarriel Dinner Theatre

December 4, 2017blog, November 2017by pcajournalism

By: Hannah Rice, PCA sophomore

Pinewood Christian Academy recently hosted its annual Katie Belle Jarriel Dinner Theatre for patrons and friends. Dinner was served at 7:00 p.m. Over the next hour, the guests enjoyed dining on spaghetti and cake slices. Afterward, the theatergoers watched the PCA One Act team’s first performance of Bradley Hayward’s “Lip Service” directed by Mrs. Jenna Watkins, Mrs. Brooke Smith, and Mrs. Sarah McCall. The outstanding cast made the audience double over in laughter as they performed this laugh out loud comedy. “Lip Service” is about Charlie, played by Aaron Lyons, who plans to propose to his girlfriend Laura, played by Elizabeth McCooey. His plans are quickly derailed as he handles a staff of quirky individuals who all bring a problem of their own to the table.0

(l to r): Jesse Rogers, Aaron Lyons, Milligan Williams, Elizabeth McCooey

Charlie desperately tries all night to set a romantic mood in order to propose to Laura. His plans of a perfect evening begin to slip away when they are seated by a strangely robotic hostess (Anabelle Brannen) who is soon followed by an excessively paranoid waitress (Cadence Lynn) who comes to their table convinced someone is watching them. Despite Charlie’s concerns, the couple decide to stay, telling themselves that it is impossible for everyone at the restaurant to be crazy; however, they could not have been more wrong. In the midst of the maitre’d (Jesse Rogers) losing the ring, a very angry waitress (Sydney Strickland) unknowingly stealing Charlie’s ring, a bus girl (Gracie Hodges) literally singing and dancing to the beat of her own drum, an airheaded waitress (Marley Kennedy) bringing Laura’s parts of hamburger in four different courses, an old waitress (Milligan Williams) lamenting about shattering her foot with a glass, and the chef (Joshua Murray) having to give Laura the Heimlich after she choked on an earring he placed in her dessert, Charlie starts to lose hope. Things turn around when Laura decides to ask Charlie herself. Even if the proposal is different from the way Charlie originally planned, it all works out in the young couple’s favor.