PORT TOWNSEND — The three women are best friends, sorority sisters and college students in the late 1960s. And do they have tales to tell.
Their stories will tumble forth in a single performance of “Vanities,” a Key City Public Theatre presentation at the Alchemy Bistro, 842 Washington St., this Sunday night.
“This play, in a nutshell, is about the evolving friendship of very, very popular girls as they grow and experience life,” said Angela Amos, who stars in “Vanities” with two of her own close friends.
Amos and fellow actresses Colleen Dobbin and Amy Sousa will give a staged reading at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $45 per person including the three-course meal from a menu Alchemy chef David Kithcart has cooked up to reflect the evening’s entertainment.
“Vanities,” set in the 1960s and ’70s, opened in New York City in 1976 and became one of the longest-running comedies in off-Broadway history.
Guest playwright
It has come to the North Olympic Peninsula in part because its author, Jack Heifner, was a guest artist during Key City Public Theatre’s Playwrights’ Festival last March.
In the play, directed here by Patricia Earnest, the three women start out as high school cheerleaders circa 1963.
They go off to college and then become independent women with separate lives. Their differences, along with the changes they have lived through, reshape their friendship.
Amos, for her part, hopes the Alchemy event will attract a new audience.
“I feel passionately about bringing theater to people in different settings,” she said, adding that Sunday’s dinner just might appeal to someone “who may not have ever set foot in the theater.”
For reservations and details about “Vanities” and other Key City offerings — including Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” opening Dec. 6 at Port Townsend’s Key City Playhouse — phone 360-385-KCPT (5278) or visit www.KeyCityPublicTheatre.org.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
