The Red Light Saloon closed for the year after a successful one-day run Oct. 4 at the Townsend Town Hall.
Capacity crowds enjoyed “The Homesteader’s Fraulein,” written and directed by Kathleen Marsh and narrated by Marcia Wahoske, great-granddaughter of W.A. and Lucy Holt. Wahoske traveled from Baltimore for the show.
A record profit of $2,607 was raised for the Holt & Balcom Logging Camp Museum maintenance fund.
The musical comedy starred Lee Gerndt as Flapjack, an immigrant homesteader who moonlighted at the saloon. Unable to come up with the money to fetch his fiancee, Elvira, played by Bev Gerndt, from Germany, Flapjack decided to go home. Not wanting to lose her best employee, saloon keeper Cathouse Cate, played by Kathleen Marsh, and her husband Whiskey Jack, played by Jon Marsh, tried to keep Flapjack in Townsend by staging a benefit to raise money for Elvira’s passage.
Providing entertainment at the benefit were the Barroom Boys, consisting of Gary Baum, JJ Jenkins, Pat Lowery, Kris Vandervest; the Dance Hall Girls, Cindy Resler, Shirley Ashbeck, Sandy Jenkins; and the Pine Ridge Boys, Deacon Al Benson, Jerry Bodoh, Don Franzen and Scott Wycherley.
Adding a twist to the plot was Elvira’s cantankerous, scheming mother, played by Cindy Jonet.
Marylynn and Charles Townsend, played by Marilyn and Bruce Karow, and W.A. Holt, played by David Retzlaff, saved the day by donating the necessary funds.
Crew members were Bruce and Jean Beno, Janet Biese, Judi Fellows, Jean Fietzer, Dick Fischer, Ken Klein, Rusty Oehler, Barb Ouellette and Vicky Vandervest.
Assistant directors were Nancy Jo Garner and Cindy Resler.
Jeff Mayer of Sound and Light Solutions provided lights and sound, with Al Benson assisting.
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