Opening Night for Getting Sara Married

An overzealous aunt determined will stop at nothing to see her niece married off, in the TCAN Players’ production of Sam Bobrick’s romantic comedy Getting Sara Married, which opens at The Center for Arts in Natick tonight, March 6.

The play is directed by Framingham’s Rosann Santorelli, with a cast that includes Faye Harrington as meddling Aunt Martha.

In the production, New Yorker Sara Hastings thinks she has it all – a successful career, a beautiful apartment, and a reputation as one of the city’s best lawyers - and a life too busy for romance. Her Aunt Martha has other plans for her. Enlisting the help of a sketchy delivery man,she schemes to select, abduct, and deliver to Sara a groom she thinks is right for her. The journey to the altar has never been quite so entertaining.

Tonight’s opening night audience is invited to a reception immediately following the performance.

Getting Sara Married runs for 7 shows through March 15. Performances are at 8 p.m. on March 6-7 and 12-14; with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. on March 8 and15. Tickets are $20/$18 for members ($12 students/seniors)and available at www.natickarts.org.

Santorelli is a TCAN Players veteran, stage managing the Players production of Forever Plaid and directing Dancing at Lughnasa in 2006. She is a founder and board co-chair of NatickImprov and Penguin Apocalypse, NatickImprov’s performance troupe. She is a native of St. Augustine, Florida, and holds a degree in theater, communications, and English from Flagler College. By day she is a planning manager at TJX.

Harrington is a pillar of the TCAN Players board with a long list of directorial and stage credits to her name, most recently directing the 2013 production of The Mousetrap. Some of her favorite roles, include Myra (Deathtrap), Annelle (Steel Magnolias), and Mother Superior (Sister Act). A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she now works as a real estate agent, and is a certified scuba diver.

The production is sponsored by MutualOne Bank.

The Center for Arts in Natick is located at 14 Summer Street, Natick, in a restored 1875 firehouse. The theatre is wheelchair accessible.

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PHOTO: A plot hatched by her overzealous aunt startles Sara (Natalie Hebert) when Brendan Cates (Colin Gillis) is delivered to her apartment by Noogie Malloy (Nathaniel Scott), in the TCAN Players’ production of Getting Sara Married.

Photo credit: Scott Bump