By BECKY CAPPERT
Road Scholar Coordinator, Group Sales, Weddings and Marketplace Coordinator, Amish Acres, LLC

NAPPANEE — Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit. This two time Tony and Drama Desk Award winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters, played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4, an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance.

“The 39 Steps” will open Amish Acres 2016 season in the Locke Township Meeting House.

This Tony-Award winning farce tells the story of a man with a boring life who meets a woman with a thick accent that claims to be a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death defying finale! This hilarious farce will be directed by new RBT Artistic Director, Amber Burgess.

Amber has previously directed “Sisters of Swing,” “9 to 5,” “Little Women,” “Shrek” and “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” in addition to being seen as the title role in “Mary Poppins” during the 2015 holiday season. “The 39 Steps” will feature the return of RBT alumni and audience favorites, Rory Dunn and Don Hart, who will be joined by newcomers Kali McMillian and Steven E. Sitzman.

“The 39 Steps” opens at 8 p.m. March 18, and runs on the weekends through April 10, excluding Easter, with 2 p.m. matinees and 8 p.m. evening performances. Act quickly, as with only 1,000 available seats, tickets are selling fast.

Once again, the opening of The Round Barn Theatre season will coincide with the opening of Amish Acres Historic Farm & Heritage Resort on Friday, March 18. Famous family style Threshers Dinner will be served in the century old barn restaurant along with tours of the historic house and farm and quaint shops. Amish Acres is open at 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, and will serve the Threshers Dinner buffet style at 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Easter Sunday, March 27.

The 2016 Round Barn Theatre season tickets remain on sale and include six incredible musicals and one play surrounding the 30th Anniversary of Plain and Fancy, and Indiana’s Bi-Centennial celebration. The 2016 season includes “Forever Plaid”, “All Shook Up”, “Crazy for You”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “The Miracle Worker”, and for the holiday season, “A Christmas Story”. All seven of these dynamic and entertaining productions can be purchased for $129.95.

Season subscriptions can also be combined with Threshers Dinner or the popular Friday night theme dinner. The unique theme dinner menu is designed to reflect and compliment each of the seven shows. Theatre and theme dinner schedules and menus can be found at our website or by calling the box office at (800) 800-4942, ext. 2.