Encore! The Play That Goes Wrong By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields

July 18 - August 10, 2025

Encore!

It’s Opening Night at the Cornley Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor and the stakes have never been higher. But none of the on-stage drama is in the script! The theater is filled with accident-prone actors, a corpse that can’t play dead to save his life, and a knocked-out knock out of a leading lady. When all goes wrong, can this theater company make it to Opening Night and bring down the house (in a good way)? This fantastic, farcical, fiasco of a show and Off-Broadway and West End comedic hit is back and the age-old adage is true: “the show must go wrong!” oops sorry, we mean “the show must go on!”

Run Time: 2 hours (including 1 intermission)

Content Advisory: Fun for all ages!

Billy Chace*

Robert/Thomas Colleymoore

Montez Jenkins Copeland*

John/Charles Haversham

Cary Davenport*

Dennis/Perkins

Jeremy Dubin*

Chris/Inspector Carter

Jared Earland

Crew Dude

Candice Handy*

Annie

Matthew Lewis Johnson*

Max/Cecil Haversham

Sylvester Little Jr.*

Trevor

Kelly Mengelkoch*

Sandra/Florence Colleymoore

Directed by Brian Isaac Phillips+

Scenic Designer: Samantha Reno
Costume Designer: Rainy Edwards
Lighting Designer: Alice Trent
Lighting Coordinator: Robert Carlton Stimmel
Sound Designer: Chris Guthrie
Fight Choreographer: Gina Cerimele-Mechley
Properties Manager: Kara Eble Trusty
Production Stage Manager: Cole Sweasy*
Assistant Stage Manager: Danitza Piper

*Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

+Member of SDC- The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers

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Encore! The Play That Goes Wrong By: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields