MADISON — “Screwball Comedy” by Norm Foster will be staged at Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road.

Performance times are 8 p.m. Sept. 12, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 21; 4 p.m. Sept. 15 and 2 p.m. Sept. 18.

“Screwball Comedy,” set in 1938, finds Bosco Godfrey, editor-in-chief of the big city newspaper The Chronicle, roundly criticizes star reporter Jeff Kinkaid for filing stories that are far below his usual Standards. The reason: he wastes his time with late night carousing and incessant womanizing.

Enter Mary Hayes, recently fired from her job as a department store perfumier and now bent on realizing her dream of becoming a journalist. It seems the owner of the paper, Delores Diddle wants The Chronicle to cover the upcoming wedding of her dunderhead son. Bosco proposes a contest, he will send both Mary and Jeff to cover the nuptials and – if Mary writes the better story— she gets Jeff’s job. If Jeff prevails, he gets to keep his job.

When they arrive at the Diddle estate, Delores informs them that she wants the reporters to conduct interviews with the engaged couple and then expose her son’s fiancée as a gold digger who is plotting to get her hands on the family fortune. The hijinks begin, and subterfuges are uncovered as competitors become lovers.

Starring Heather Bisson, Ethan Richards, Jen Day and Jakob Sutton.

Tickets cost $27-$29 for adults, $45-$50 for cabaret seating and $22 for children.

For tickets or more information call 207-474-7176 or visit lakewoodtheater.org.

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