| Buffalo Community Theater is celebrating 40 years of bringing live theater to our community! Enjoy lunch and a special performance of There Goes the Old Ballgame, the very first Buffalo Community Theater production, featuring several members of the original cast! Reconnect with friends, share your favorite BCT memories, and help us kick off our 40th anniversary season. Saturday, August 15 Sturges Park Bandshell | 505 2nd Ave S, Buffalo, MN 55313 Schedule:Lunch from 1:30pm (while it lasts)Performance to follow at 4:00pm You may also bring your own picnic lunch. Beer and wine are permitted. Fun activities will be available before the show begins. Menu:$10 | Brat or hot dog, chips & cookie with pop or water |
”Joey, the Hackie” comes into an empty theatre to pick up an expected taxi fare. Being a fan and a buff of old-time vaudeville, burlesque and musical comedy, Joey reminisces and even sings about the nostalgic ”good old days” in show business. When he accidentally is hit on the head by a falling sandbag, he awakens to find himself embroiled within the plot and performance of an old-style melodrama. The play-within-a-play takes place in the year 1883. A salty and feisty old lady who owns a baseball team in Fort Wayne, Indiana is about to lose her franchise to an ambitious and conniving baseball manager. This vile villain yearns for and pursues the spunky owner’s beautiful, young daughter who, in turn, has a boyfriend, the star pitcher of the ball club. The team’s vamp as well as the three cheerleader/batgirls all try to help Joey and the club owner to thwart the villainous manager. Simultaneously, the beautiful daughter and the young, hero-type pitcher are able to find love and each other before the finale.