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The Dixie Swim Club
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Germantown Community Theatre
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Germantown Community Theatre
March 3-March 13, 2011
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By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August at a beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to recharge those relationships. The Dixie Swim Club focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges that life flings at them. The Dixie Swim Club is the story of these five unforgettable women—a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever.
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Germantown Community Theatre
3037 Forest Hill Irene Rd.
Germantown, TN 38138
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$20.00: Adults $15.00: Seniors/Students $10.00: Kids 12 and under
Info Phone: (901)937-3023
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Dates:
March 3-March 13, 2011
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Show Times: Thursdays 7:30 pm, Fridays/Saturdays 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:30 pm.
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Event Name: The Dixie Swim Club
"The Faster We Swim, The Sooner We Win"
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posted by:
George Conroy - ArtsMemphis Rants & Raver
from Memphis, TN,
Mar 03, 2011
"The Dixie Swim Club" is a delightful comedy drama by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten has been described as "Steel Magnolias" meets "Same Time Next Year." But it also resonates with notes...
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"The Dixie Swim Club" is a delightful comedy drama by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten has been described as "Steel Magnolias" meets "Same Time Next Year." But it also resonates with notes of "Golden Girls" and even "On Golden Pond." Yet such comparisons sell the show short. "The Dixie Swim Club" grows into a unique experience that stands on its own.
The show spans about thirty years in the lives of five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team. Each year they gather together as they did in their competing days around the rallying cry of "the faster we swim, the sooner we win." With rules to leave spouses, kids and work at home, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to drink, swim and enjoy their longtime friendships.
Each character fits a different personality type. Sheree (Mandie Cool), the steadfast team captain, organizes the activities of each weekend. Dinah (Mary Buchignani), the career dynamo, drinks too much and cannot seem to find a man. The vain, sexpot Lexie (Tracie Hansom) believes the world revolves around her and her problems, until she has a problem too awful to share with the others. The epitome of bad luck, Vernadette (Tamara White), shows up each year with improbable injuries and even more outlandish events in her personal life, but she brings an acerbic wit and enthusiasm to each swim club gathering. And lastly, Jeri Neale (Robin Wilcoxr), who had entered convent life, has a series of life-changing experiences that provide interest and opportunities for humor among the team.
The dialogue runs from hilariously funny to heart-wrenching as the lives of the women unfold and the years pass. Director Leigh Ann Evans has assembled a uniquely tight knit ensemble, incredibly talented with a wide range of both comic and dramatic gifts and the power to move the audience’s emotions intensely. These fine women are excellent performers.
Each performer creates a memorable character with crisp performances. At first, Robin Wilcox’s Jeri Neale seems the weakest of the lot, but then she precipitates the cause of what moved me to tears in the second scene. Lexie could easily be a caricature reminding some of Samantha from "Sex and the City," Tracie Hansom portrays subtle changes and a richness of character. Tamara White and Mary Buchignani deliver much of the comedy and the show's best lines, yet the production shows a more serious side in later scenes that are as touching as they are funny because of the talents of all these fine actresses. Tamara Wright proves why she is the consummate professional, who uses her considerable acting talent to create a character that rises above her stereotype in complexity and nuance.
Throughout the evening you’ll laugh ‘til you cry. When the curtain falls you’ll leave the theatre wiping a tear from your eyes.
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Event Name: The Dixie Swim Club
"The Faster We Swim, The Sooner We Win"
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posted by:
George Conroy - ArtsMemphis Rants & Raver
from Memphis, TN,
Mar 03, 2011
"The Dixie Swim Club" is a delightful comedy drama by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten has been described as "Steel Magnolias" meets "Same Time Next Year." But it also resonates with notes...
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"The Dixie Swim Club" is a delightful comedy drama by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten has been described as "Steel Magnolias" meets "Same Time Next Year." But it also resonates with notes of "Golden Girls" and even "On Golden Pond." Yet such comparisons sell the show short. "The Dixie Swim Club" grows into a unique experience that stands on its own.
The show spans about thirty years in the lives of five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team. Each year they gather together as they did in their competing days around the rallying cry of "the faster we swim, the sooner we win." With rules to leave spouses, kids and work at home, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to drink, swim and enjoy their longtime friendships.
Each character fits a different personality type. Sheree (Mandie Cool), the steadfast team captain, organizes the activities of each weekend. Dinah (Mary Buchignani), the career dynamo, drinks too much and cannot seem to find a man. The vain, sexpot Lexie (Tracie Hansom) believes the world revolves around her and her problems, until she has a problem too awful to share with the others. The epitome of bad luck, Vernadette (Tamara White), shows up each year with improbable injuries and even more outlandish events in her personal life, but she brings an acerbic wit and enthusiasm to each swim club gathering. And lastly, Jeri Neale (Robin Wilcoxr), who had entered convent life, has a series of life-changing experiences that provide interest and opportunities for humor among the team.
The dialogue runs from hilariously funny to heart-wrenching as the lives of the women unfold and the years pass. Director Leigh Ann Evans has assembled a uniquely tight knit ensemble, incredibly talented with a wide range of both comic and dramatic gifts and the power to move the audience’s emotions intensely. These fine women are excellent performers.
Each performer creates a memorable character with crisp performances. At first, Robin Wilcox’s Jeri Neale seems the weakest of the lot, but then she precipitates the cause of what moved me to tears in the second scene. Lexie could easily be a caricature reminding some of Samantha from "Sex and the City," Tracie Hansom portrays subtle changes and a richness of character. Tamara White and Mary Buchignani deliver much of the comedy and the show's best lines, yet the production shows a more serious side in later scenes that are as touching as they are funny because of the talents of all these fine actresses. Tamara Wright proves why she is the consummate professional, who uses her considerable acting talent to create a character that rises above her stereotype in complexity and nuance.
Throughout the evening you’ll laugh ‘til you cry. When the curtain falls you’ll leave the theatre wiping a tear from your eyes.
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