The Soper-Reese Community Theatre will see the first dramatic production in years when The Solid Gold Cadillac comes down Main Street on March 7. Following the popular success of the Winter Music Fest / Vaudeville 2008, a variety show with a different palette of technical needs, Solid Gold will be testing the Soper-Reese's ability to host legitimate theater. It seems to us that the S-R is going to proove one of the best theaters within a day's travel, and capable of supporting any kind of stage show. You should attend, and come to your own conclusions.

The themes of Solid Gold Cadillac, corporate malfeasance and foolishness, subjugation of the needs of ordinary people to the greed of corporate executives, the virtues of kindliness, are very timely, although this play is more than fifty years old.

This Lakeport Community Players production is a comedy written in 1953 by Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman and directed by Mary Howe, starring Joan Holman as Mrs. Partridge, the retired actress who sets General Products Corporation on its ear, and Ken Blythe as Big Ed McKeever, General Products larger-than-life former chairman. "This is good funny theater -- you'll laugh" said the reviewer for the New York Journal-American at the time, but then, the Journal-American has been gone for nearly that long.