Last November, a benefit held

for the Sharpsburg Library led to the creation of Sharpsburg on Stage,

a dinner theater company helping to bring the arts to Coweta County. Artistic

Director Tammy Barton and Production Manager Glo Tinsley received such

a great response to their dessert theater benefit "Next Victim, Please"

that they decided this was something the community needed.

"We sold out every performance."

Barton said.

"Man of the House,"

their first show for 2004 will feature a full dinner catered by Michelle

Legaspi's "Your Caterer to Go." The one-hour comedy by

Alan Blair concerns a slick, polished housebreaker who is mistaken for

the "man of the house" and finds himself in the middle of a

heated family squabble acting as marriage counselor and psychologist.

Tammy Barton has been involved

in Georgia theater productions for the past 16 years with Fayette Coweta

Family Theatre, Inc. and before that, eight years in California. She is

directing the current play for SOS. Their venue is in the A & O Bridges

Community Building, 105 Main Street in Sharpsburg. With an audience of

80 people, Barton says the experience is "very intimate."

The cast includes Mike Hubbard

as the Man of the House, Michael Peadon, Jr. as Ed, Alicia Tucker as Marjorie,

Alwyn Midoro as Clyde, Eileen Baldwin as Mama, Glo Tinsley as Olive and

Jay Reiger as the Policeman. Also part of the cast are Danielle Alexander

and Evan Stitt.

This is the company's

first production of the new year. Several more are planned including another

dessert theater community production. "Disorder in the Court"

will be performed in May. "It's Nightcourt meets the South"

Barton said.

Auditions are being held on

March 27 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for the next show. There are six male

and six female roles available ranging from 13 to adult.

Sharpsburg On Stage has already

sold out its Friday performances, March 5 and 12. Tickets are still available

for the 1 p.m. performances March 13, March 7 and 14 or the 7 p.m. performance

March 8. To secure your seats, call 770-251-7611 or visit the website

at www.fcft.net/dinnertheatre. Reserved tickets are $22, which includes

dinner. Doors open one half hour before the show.