Plymouth Playhouse
July 10 – August 24, 2025
Production Team & Crew
Written by Jim Stowell & Jessica Zuehlke
Music and Lyrics by Drew Jansen
Music Director Dennis Curley
Director Curt Wollan
Producer Rags to Rags Productions
Production Stage Manager Tyler O’Brien
Original Choreographer Wendy Hays
Production Choreographer Lexie Swenson
Scenic and Props Designer Erica Zaffarano
Costume Designer Trina Benedict
Lighting Designer Scott Herbst
Sound Designer Tyler O’Brien
Cast
Mrs. Elroy Engelson (Karin) Dorian Chalmers
The Widow Snustad (Vivian) Janet Paone
Mrs. Gilmer Gilmerson (Mavis) Greta Grosch
Pastor E. L. Gunderson Paul Somers
Signe Engleson TBA
UNDERSTUDIES: TBA
Inspired by the books of Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson, including the best-seller Growing Up Lutheran.
THE CREATIVES
Curt Wollan (Director) was in residence at the Plymouth Playhouse since 1979 and with his company Troupe America Inc. since 1988. He has helped create and has directed such memorable hits as The Lovely Liebowitz Sisters; How To Talk Minnesotan The Musical; Cowboy Christmas and all seven Church Basement Ladies musicals as well as Nunsense, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline; I Love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Ring of Fire, The Life and Music of Johnny Cash. With Troupe America, he has produced and directed over two hundred national tours including The Odd Couple with M.A.S.H. stars Jamie Farr and William Christopher, Same Time, Next Year with Adrian Zmed and Mackenzie Phillips, Moon Over Buffalo starring Gavin MacLeod, and The Sunshine Boys starring Dick Van Patten and Frank Gorshin. Curt has had the pleasure of also directing Dolly Parton in her family memoir musical, My People and A Christmas Carol where Dolly appears as the “Ghost of Christmas Past” in a hologram.
He is currently working on Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol which had a staged reading at St Paul’s Ordway Theatre and an initial production at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre.