Cumberland County Playhouse’s 45th season opens Jan. 24 with On Golden Pond

Cumberland County Playhouse’s 45th season opens Jan. 24 with Academy Award and Tony Award-winning On Golden Pond, starring prominent film and TV actor Steve Ayers as crotchety “old poop” Norman Thayer, the great Henry Fonda’s final role.

Ayers has appeared with Tom Cruise, Carroll O’Connor, Andy Griffith and many other stars on feature films, plus TV series including Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, and Dawson’s Creek. He’s starred at CCP as McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the Modern Major General in Pirates of Penzance.

Sponsored by Dr. Stanley Bise, MD, On Golden Pond tells of Norman and Ethel’s 48th summer together on the lake where she spend girlhood summers at a camp like Cumberland County’s Camp Nakanawa. It’s in O’Brien Adventure Theater ‘til April 26.

Ayers is joined by Playhouse leading ladies Carol Irvin and Weslie Webster as wife Ethel and daughter Chelsea, with supporting roles by Playhouse favorites Jason Ross and Daniel Black and Playhouse youth Isaiah Banegas of Crossville and Daniel Perlong of Cookeville.

Tickets can be purchased from the Playhouse Box Office at 931-484-5000.

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