Articles By: Patricia Rettig

What a way to make a living
/ February 24, 2013 4:07 pm

What a way to make a living

The ladies have taken over, and revenge has never been more hilarious. The high-energy hit comedy “9 to 5” with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, is now on stage at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, 9301 N. Michigan Rd., Indianapolis. Based on the famous 1980 film, “9 to 5 The Musical” welcomes the return of several favorite performers to [...]

Season opens with killer comedy
/ December 31, 2012 11:57 am

Season opens with killer comedy

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre opens its 2013 season with the famous killer comedy, “Arsenic & OldLace.” The classic comedy kicks off the theatre’s year-long 40th Anniversary celebration, and is on stage now through Feb. 3. Brewster sisters Martha and Abby are charming and innocent ladies who have taken it upon themselves to help lonely men. With a little arsenic, [...]

Carmel native returns home for her first trip to the basement
/ October 22, 2012 4:31 pm

Carmel native returns home for her first trip to the basement

Cathedral High School graduate Hillary Smith has enjoyed many roles at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. She’s flown with Peter Pan, sang about her hard knock life with Annie and followed the white rabbit down the hole to Wonderland. In the four years since she’s stepped onto its stage, she’s earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Florida State [...]

Yellow Brick Road leads to Beef & Boards for local ‘munchkins’
/ June 28, 2012 10:34 pm

Yellow Brick Road leads to Beef & Boards for local ‘munchkins’

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre’s current production of “The Wizard of Oz” offers four local young thespians a rare opportunity to make Munchkinland a reality. They were chosen from more than 100 central Indiana children who auditioned for the limited number of roles. “I have loved the movie and the music since I was little,” remarked Madison Moll, who will [...]

Local performers ‘relocate’ to Iowa for ‘The Music Man’
/ April 17, 2012 4:00 am

Local performers ‘relocate’ to Iowa for ‘The Music Man’

More actors in Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre’s production of “The Music Man”call Carmel “home” than any other town. But now – at least until May 25 – they are fictional residents of River City, Iowa. Vickie Cornelius Phipps, as Mrs. Paroo, is taking the Beef & Boards stage for the first time. This Carmel resident moved from California at [...]

From the director’s chair at ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’
/ February 20, 2012 1:12 am

From the director’s chair at ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’

Stark directed “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” which just opened at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre where he is not only a director, actor and the artistic director, but also an owner for more than 30 years. In that time, he’s seen an abundance of talent come and go, but his focus is on the task and talent in front of him.