Fall Show: October 17 - November 1, 2025

DADDY’S Girl

playwright
Gary ray stapp

Director
don mackechnie

Producer
Cindy MacKechnie

Essex Gives Back Charity

Essex Community Players believes strongly in giving back to the  community. As part of this initiative, all donations received for the concessions and online giving will benefit AGE WELL. Another fun way to give to this charity will be our intermission raffles! Each night will be a different gift card to a local business that you can purchase as many raffles tickets to win that same evening! These business who gave are Salt and Bubbles, Phoenix Books, Purple Sage, and Brew House Coffee. The raffle for our Friday, October 31 production will be two tickets to see our Spring Production of The Rocky Horror Show.

Additionally, everyone who participates in the show raffles will be entered into a drawing for one of our grand prizes which include The Essex Resort (value $240) and one of two dinner-for-two (value $120) at Bramble Restaurant at the Essex Experience 

synopsis:

Bernard Muloovy, proprietor of Maudie’s Diner, gets served a full plate of comic chaos when his deceased wife decides to take up residence as a talking portrait on the diner wall. Enlisting the services of an angel, Michael, Maudie hopes to reunite Bernard with their long-lost daughter, Elizabeth. True to his mischievous nature, Michael/Michaela delivers two Elizabeths, and Bernard’s task is to decide which young woman is his real daughter. This play comes fully seasoned with characters like E.L. - a snobbish restaurant critic after Bernard's secret recipe, Lizzy - a girl with a split personality, a forgetful waitress, a PhD student with communication problems, a yin-yang geriatric duo, a motorcycle mama, and of course Darlynn. 

In this contest of laughter and tears, a heart of gold along with a twist... or two, make this a great night out for the whole family!

cast

Bernard - Adam Cunningham

Bob - josh palace

Walter - andrew rash

Maudie - Becky Laird

Betsy - Katie Pierson

Michael - David DiLego

Darlynn - Linda Iannuzzi

E.L. - Nathalie Stapleton

Alex - Rory Matthews*

Daisy - Lori Valburn

Violet - Ann Greenan Naumann

Lizzy - Jordan Barbour*

Big Earl Ella - Jane Healy

*New to Essex Community Players