'Sorry Wrong Number' readers theater set for Friday

Press release

Following the popular reading theater productions of “The Glass Menagerie” and “Love Letters,” Havre’s Pam Veis and Fort Peck Summer Theatre Artistic Director Andy Meyer, joined by Montana Actors’ Theatre veteran Mary Kaercher as well as Nick Dirkes and Jay Michael Roberts, the group will recreate “Sorry Wrong Number,” Lucille Fletcher’s classic mystery radio play, which originally aired in May of 1943.

Orson Welles called “Sorry Wrong Number” the “greatest single radio script ever written.”

The Academy Award-nominated film version of the play starred Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster.

Veis is an audience favorite at Fort Peck, who most recently starred in “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Steel Magnolias” and “Always … Patsy Cline,” as well as directed “Man of LaMancha” and serving as director for Montana Actors’ Theatre’s production of “12 Angry Women” this year.

Kaercher has been performing in Havre for more than 10 years, with some of her notable roles including Corie in “Barefoot in the Park,” Sandy in “Grease,” Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” and Queen Anne in “Richard III. ”

Meyers’ recent credits away from Fort Peck Summer Theatre include “Chicago” in Spokane, Washington, and “A Christmas Story” at Arizona Broadway Theatre.

Dirkes is the Director of Planning at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow and has been a cast member in six of the last eight Fort Peck Summer Theatre seasons.

Roberts recently completed his third season at Fort Peck Summer Theatre where he was both an actor and scenic designer, and is currently the designer for Glasgow’s Pioneer Museum street scene exhibit.

Performances of “Sorry Wrong Number” are at The Little Theatre in Montana State University-Northern’s Cowan Hall Friday at 7:30 p.m. with tickets costing $10 for adults and $5 for seniors, students and people with valid military IDs.

That is followed Saturday with a performance in the The Cottonwood Inn at 54250 U.S. Highway 2 in Glasgow at 7:30 p.m. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. with tickets, including appetizers and desserts, costing $25. A cash bar will be available

That is followed Sunday with a 6 p.m. performance at Soma-Dis Deli at 501 2nd Ave. in Glasgow. Tickets are $15 for the show only. The Soma-Dis Deli and bar will be open for purchases.