Church Basement Ladies

Beef & Boards has cooked up a great recipe for laughter with the debut of Church Basement Ladies July 22. Inspired by the best-selling book "Growing Up Lutheran" by Janet Martin and Suzann Nelson, this nondenominational musical comedy is dedicated to those stalwart ladies who volunteer to work in the church basement kitchen. The show follows four women as they prepare food, keep the pastor on due course and solve the problems of a rural church in 1964. Script by Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehlke, music and lyrics by Drew Jansen. On stage through Aug. 29.