ALEXANDRIA – The Lagniappe Players Drama Camp will end its 2010 season with a USO-type show performing Friday, July 2, at the Southern Forest Heritage Museum for its 4th of July celebration.
The museum is located in Forest Hill. It is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
The Lagniappe USO show is to include stories and monologues from real World War II veterans, songs from the 1940s and comedy sketches from that era, all performed by members of the Lagniappe Drama Camp.
The USO show is to be previewed at Alexandria Mall July 1, and tentatively also is to be performed at the VA Medical Center in Pineville.
The event at Southern Forest Heritage Museum closes out five weeks of summer day camps, one each for 3- to 5-year-olds, 6- to 11-year-olds, and 12- to 14-year-olds.
Teens between the ages of 15 and 18 were offered two weeks of camp: June 21-25 and June 28-July 2.
Some of the camps next year will be stay-over rather than the day camps of this year, said Ross Schexnayder, owner with his wife Karen Burns of Lagniappe Theatre Co. The professionally-trained duo are members of Calvary Baptist Alexandria.
On the boards this summer: See How They Run on July 15-18, which involves Russian spies, overzealous church ladies, mistaken identity and “loads of laughs,” Burns said.
The Cotton Patch Gospel is set for Aug. 19-22. It’s the Gospel of Matthew set in Gainesville, Ga., and features “great Southern Gospel music and beautiful storytelling,” Schexnayder said.
Both productions are to take place at Pineville High School. For more information, seewww.lagniappetheatre.com.