Melodrama 2006

Lovely Lavender Lacey and her poor afflicted Auntie – blinded in a mysterious and tragic accident through an unfortunate indiscretion committed in her youth – work hard with their housemaid, Mattie, to keep their peaceful Lacey Lodge Boarding House up and running in the tiny town of Fern Meadows, Virginia, population 105. Things might go better for them if they knew what the promised Lacey Legacy was, and where it was hidden by their ancestor, Old Nehemiah, who once fought side by side with General Washington.

But, one day, when the very posh, yet menacing, Sir Ichabod Montgomery Vice arrives – late of London – with his bumbling valet, Dorritt, and the glamorous, but vile, Violet “Feathers” McCoy, things begin to heat up! Rumors abound, and gross indiscretions perpetrated by nosy neighbors like Wilhelmina Smith and her drama queen daughter, Serendipity, sweep into the picture causing no end to the ensuing chaos.

Poor Spindleshanks, who lives in the small basement room of the lodge and waits patiently in the hopes his unrequited love for Lavender might be returned, is suspicious of Sir Vice and his undue interest in the Lacey Legacy. He and Sheriff Farley . . . or Parson Farley . . . or Doc Farley . . . or, whoever he is today . . . join forces along with the most unlikely of heroes, to discover the secrets behind Vice and Violet and the dusty clues left by Old Nehemiah that may eventually work all things together for good as our Mr. Maestro Piano Man tinkles the ivories with the heroes triumphant theme song in the end.

Preserving 19^th Century American Melodrama in all the glory of it’s heroes, sentimentality, and nostalgia!

May the simplicity of this historic theatre art form inspire and comfort modern audiences with goodness and laughter and the continuing hope that absolutes exist in a world where

GOOD will always CONQUER EVIL!