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‘Guacamole Queens’ takes WBHS stage this weekend
by Gregory R. Norfleet · News · April 27, 2017
It’s one thing to compete for homecoming queen, but how about all the homecoming queens from the past 50 years competing against each other?
That’s pretty much the starting premise in this weekend’s West Branch High School comedy, “The Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens.”
In it, explains senior Nick Madsen, who plays Sheriff Grover Lout, three cousins organized the event to mark the closing of the small-town school in an attempt to also kick-start their own party-planning business.
“Everybody,” Madsen said, “wants to be the queen of all queens.”
Madsen’s character spends a lot of his time trying to make a single arrest, but he can’t say who without giving something away.
Then there’s senior Claire Kaufman, who plays an 80-year-old Della Crowder, one corner of a love triangle where both women have their sights on a 90-year-old man.
“It is 100 percent full of comedy,” Madsen said. “With just a little pinch of romance.”
Kaufman called that “a pretty good description.”
“And just a sprinkle of revenge,” Madsen added.
“Not really,” Kaufmann disagreed.
One character to pay particular attention to: Dewey Davenport, played by Jace Gongora, an Elvis-like character sporting a big pompadour.
Tickets cost $6 each. Shows run 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Students attending in groups of 10 or more get in at half price.
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