The Blessing of Plays at Marco Players Theater

Well, here we are, safe and sound after all the warnings and advisories of last Sunday’s scare regarding the tornado warnings from the Collier County Government to our cell phones, our land lines, and TV announcements. I’ll tell you, I was impressed! One way or the other, they were going to advise us of the coming possibility of a major storm or worse, and to take cover! I’m sure there are some communities who aren’t able to receive these reports, or worse yet, have no reports at all! For complainers, count your blessings that we have a government that cares about us enough to keep reminding us and updating us. You never can tell what could have happened, so please, COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS! Yes, it’s true that people seem to find so much to complain about, but folks, be thankful that we are here and safe and our families are safe. We aren’t as lucky as other states where they can run to their basements to take cover, but here, except for a very few who DO have a basement, like a friend of mine on Marco Island who almost has a basement fortress to protect the whole family and a few friends; we have no underground rooms to run to. So, look up and say thanks for the blessings we have, as we made it out of a dangerous storm unscathed. 

* Speaking of blessings, we went to the Marco Players on Sunday afternoon, a pleasant car load of us, and we rode with Sandra and Brian Simmons. I thought the play we saw last month was the best, but this one was equally great! Last month the play was called “Hallelujah Girls,” so I thought it would only be ladies attending, but there were quite a few fellas there also and they all laughed as hard as we did! Well, the same thing happened in this play – “Silver Alert.” The packed house laughed and really enjoyed the play, and again, the guys were laughing as much as the ladies! The main female star had gotten sick and could not perform, so they had a stand-in (if that is what they call the person filling in) and she couldn’t have done a better job! Oh, my goodness, everyone laughed and enjoyed it so much, that when we left, we were all in happy moods! It’s like the audience became friends because of the play. I must buy season tickets for the rest of the plays! You’ll be so happy if you tried it! I guarantee it! The play was about a son who got a bee in his bonnet to take his mother’s car keys away to “save her,” yet she’d never had a ticket, never had an accident, and was vibrant and active in the community. The rest was so hilarious, a person could never begin to outline it, so you’ll just have to go and see it for yourself! I don’t know how Beverly Dahlstrom finds these gems, but they are outstanding! Keep ‘em coming, Beverly!! “Silver Alert” continues until January 23, so you still have time to see it. Don’t miss it, believe me. The next play is “The Bona Dea Challenge,” (which is a World Premier) about seven American Women (six of them winners of a Nationwide Cooking Contest) who gather for the cooking contest taught by a world-renown master chef, and it goes on from there. This play starts on February 9 and goes till February 27, 2022. I have a friend who cooks and bakes like a chef, goes to Tony Ridgeway’s cooking classes, teaches her grandkids about cooking, her children are all great cooks, and they all live in “Old Lely”. I mean sister’s and grandchildren! The whole family lives in this community. You don’t find families like this very often, and she has lived here since 1973! Her name is Nancy, and I feel privileged to call her friend. They used to own the pharmacy downtown on 5th Ave, where they served hamburgers and hot dogs at their fountain. I think it was next to Ingrams Hardware. No, those stores are gone, along with most of the others. Her grandkids come to her house (right on the same street) and they play cooking or baking! That’s something else you don’t see. (Do you like some of these little historical tidbits I include every so often?) Nancy is younger than me…oh, wait a minute! Everyone seems to be younger than me anymore! I’m going to ask her to go with me to see this next play. I know she’ll love it. We are going to Tony Ridgeway’s next week for lunch. As I said, she goes to some of his cooking and baking classes at his restaurant – Ridgeways Bar and Grill in old Naples and she also goes to cooking classes with Chef Asif at 21 Spices in East Naples. Speaking of old-fashioned values, this lady has ‘em. No TV while the kids are there. They spend time WITH the kids! 

The next play titled “America’s Sexiest Couple” starts on March 16 and goes through April 3rd, and the last play of this season is “Love and Money´ starting on April 20 and ends May 6, 2022. I plan on seeing every one of those plays! See you there?