The Playhouse at McConnellstown’s summer season continues with Lawrence Roman’s Broadway comedy “Alone Together”

After 25 years of sacrifice for the kids, the last one is finally off to college in Seattle. Freedom! Your house will stay clean. You can do what you want, not worrying about anyone else’s schedule. If only things worked out that way!

George (Rick Lombard of Huntingdon) and Helene (Anita Burkhart of Huntingdon) see their youngest kid Keith (a role shared by Robert Frysinger and Scott Strait of Huntingdon) finally leave for college. Their Southern California home is now quiet and blissfully peaceful. Helene is looking foreword to getting back to her abandoned art career — George to spending more time with Helene alone, together.

Their retirement plans are quickly and loudly brought to an end when their oldest son Michael (Juniata College student from Danville Jordan Yeagley), now twenty-eight and a disenfranchised MIT post doc, comes home unannounced to “find himself”.

If one kid flying back to the nest isn’t bad enough, it quickly becomes worse when the middle son Elliot (Gregory Allan Garlock or Huntingdon) finds his way back to the nest from Dallas after his philandering non PC ways cause trouble with his new bride.

They even manage to pick up an extra kid when the scantily clad but vacantly adorable, Janie Johnson (Rhiannon McClintock of State College) moves in, which comes as quite a shock to George and Helene.

“When I was 20 years old, I saw this comedy at the Burt Reynolds Theatre in Jupiter Florida”, comments Artistic Director Daniel Weston, “and I did not ‘get’ a lot of the jokes. Now that my own son has flown the coop to go to graduate school at the University of Oregon, it’s amazing how much of the comedy rings true.”

Replacing the previously scheduled “The Last Night of Ballyhoo”, “Alone Together” is a heart-warming Broadway comedy with a wise and witty view of the true relationship between parents and their grown children. Jeanne Allen (Huntingdon) helped with coaching, and Sara Jean Brown (Huntingdon) is the production prompter. Barb Hughes (Huntingdon) will run Lights - designed by Keith Sutton (Huntingdon) and sound designed by Rick Brown (Huntingdon).

“Alone Together” will be presented the evenings of July 31, August 1, and 6, 7, 8 at 8:00 PM. There will also be a 2:30 PM matinee on Sunday August 1 and Sunday August 9. General admission is $10.00 . Student and Senior admission is $8.00. This play does contain some adult language and situations.

The Playhouse at McConnellstown is located at 11680 Raystown Road (State Route 26), on the south end of rural McConnellstown, five miles south of Huntingdon and thirty-five miles south of State College. Reservations 814-627-0311. On the web at www.littletheater.com.