‘Calendar Girls’ bare nearly all for charity

WOODBURY — Community Theater at Woodbury presents its final production for the 2017-18 season with the popular play “Calendar Girls” by Tim Firth, according to a release from organizers.

This true story of a group of dynamic women who bare all — or nearly all — for charity and become international celebrities as a result takes place in the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England.

Annie Clarke has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia.

Inspired in his speech to the local Women’s Institute, where he said that “the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire,” and “the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious,” her best friend, Chris Harper, decides to make a calendar with 12 local middle-aged women posing semi-nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes a huge success, making them famous and affecting their lives.

Refreshments purchased before the show and during intermission will be provided by Carole Peck’s Good News Café and benefit The Leukemia Society.

“Calendar Girls” contains some partial nudity, and is not suitable for children.

The Woman’s Club of Woodbury is one of the supporters for CTAW’s fourth season and will sell refreshments at each Sunday matinee.

To purchase tickets for “Calendar Girls” visit CTAW’s website at www.ctaw-ct.org or call Woodbury Parks and Rec at 203-263-3113. General admission: $20; denior and under 18: $16.

Performance are Friday and Saturday and May 18, 19 at 7:30 p,m., Sunday and 20 at 2 p.m. at the Historic Town Hall, 5 Mountain Road, Woodbury. Doors open at 7 p.m.; matinee at 1:30 p.m.

CTAW promotes theater arts within the community of Woodbury and the surrounding area.

Community Theaterr at Woodbury The cast of “Calendar Girls” a production of Community Theater at Woodbury.