CAST to present “On Golden Pond”

The Clearfield Arts Studio Theatre, Inc. (CAST) will have performances of On Golden Pond April 25-27 and May 2-4 at 7:30 p.m.

On Golden Pond is a classic American comedic drama that is every bit as touching, warm and witty today as when it debuted off Broadway in 1978.

The story was made even more popular with the release of the movie, starring Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda, in 1981.

Retired couple Ethel and Norman Thayer are spending their 48th summer at their vacation home on Golden Pond, in the woods of Maine. Their delightful summer routine--fishing, picking strawberries, enjoying old mementoes, listening to the loons call — is given a bitterly comedic edge by Norman’s unreliable memory and cantankerously morbid statements.

When their daughter Chelsea visits for

Norman’s 80th birthday, bringing her boyfriend Bill and Bill’s teenage son, Billy Jr., the whole family must come to grips with Norman and Chelsea’s mutual bitterness, while Norman blossoms with his chance to mentor young Billy.

The turbulent relationship between father and daughter, the generation gap between young and old, and the difficulties of a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage, all combine in a play that effortlessly illustrates the hilarious, heartbreaking, human moments of which life is made.

This production is by Robert Roxby.

Tickets can be purchased online at ClearfieldArts.org or at the CAST office Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 and Thursdays 4:30-5:30.

Tickets can also be purchased at the door 30 minutes before each performance.

CAST is a nonprofit arts center located at 112 E Locust Street in downtown Clearfield.