ACT's new "Arsenic": Richard Huggins anticipates the taste of elderberry wine prepared by Jane Baird (left) and Linda Benson in ACT's "Arsenic and Old Lace." Photo, Tony Batres.
Anchorage Community Theatre will have a pay what you can preview of their new production of "Arsenic and Old Lace" at 7 p.m. tonight. The show opens for real tomorrow with stagings at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday through Oct. 23. Productions take place at 1133 E. 70th off the Old Seward Highway. Tickets, $15 for adults, are available through actalaska.com or by calling 868-4913.
Boris Karloff in Anchorage: In the basket, taking a sled dog ride in 1957, the year he appeared in Anchorage Community Theatre's "Arsenic and Old Lace." The musher has been identified as Dick Beaulieu and location is near his house on Orca Street, south of Debarr.
Local newsman Bill McAlister is cast in the villainous role of Jonathon, the role played by Boris Karloff in the movie version and reprised by him with ACT in 1957.