produced by Lunkamud in association with Tarragon Theatre

Desperate to escape the stall-cleaning, hay-baling drudgery of 1950s life on Rural Route 2, Peggy Ann Douglas dreams of becoming a movie star. Can she sing, twirl and pivot her way into the hearts of the pageant judges to set her on her path? A 2010 SummerWorks hit.

The multi-talented Melody Johnson is well-known to Tarragon audiences — both as an actor and a writer — appearing in In the Next Room or the vibrator play this past season, winning a 2003 Dora Award for her performance in Little Mercy’s First Murder and premiering her musical Mimi, co-written with Rick Roberts and Allen Cole, in 2009.

Johnson's one-woman play displays all the old-fashioned virtues that a pageant contestant ideally should: talent, inner beauty and especially charm. Forget the in-your-face crassness of Honey Boo Boo; here's a winning show" The Globe and Mail