A Tuna Christmas - Cast of Characters

Cast of Characters

Performed by Williams:

  • Arles Struvie - A disc jockey at radio station OKKK.
  • Didi Snavely - Owner of Didi's Used Weapons ("If we can't kill it, it's immortal")
  • Petey Fisk - Employee of the Greater Tuna Humane Society
  • Jody Bumiller - Youngest child of Bertha Bumiller
  • Stanley Bumiller - Aspiring taxidermist, fresh from reform school; twin to Charlene
  • Charlene Bumiller - Daughter of Bertha Bumiller and sister to Stanley and Jody; infatuated with Joe Bob Lipsey. As seen with Bertha Bumiller (Sears) at the Kennedy Center
  • Vera Carp - Town snob and acting leader of the Smut-Snatchers of the New Order ("until the Rev. Spikes gets out of prison")
  • Dixie Deberry - Controller of the Tuna Electric Company
  • Helen Bedd - A waitress at the Tasty-Creme As seen with Inita Goodwin (Sears) at the Kennedy Center
  • Farley Burkhalter - A "little person" and a patron of the Tasty-Creme
  • Garland Poteet- A soda distributor and one of Inita's many boyfriends

Performed by Sears:

  • Thurston Wheelis - A disc jockey at radio station OKKK
  • Elmer Watkins - The victim of a tragic flameshooter incident, Elmer was left with no eyebrows.
  • Bertha Bumiller - Housewife and mother to Jody, Stanley, and Charlene; member of the Smut Snatchers of the New Order ("Censorship is as American as apple pie, so shut up!")
  • Leonard Childers - Entrepreneur and radio personality on OKKK
  • R.R. Snavely - UFOlogist and husband to Didi
  • Pearl Burras - Aunt to Bertha, former riveter in Houston during World War II (the Japanese "never sank one of ships!")
  • Sheriff Givens - Called "Rubber Sheets" due to his having wet the bed at church camp
  • Ike Thompson- a slow-witted highway worker
  • Inita Goodwin - A waitress at the Tasty-Creme
  • Phoebe Burkhalter- Presumably Farley's significant other, Phoebe is voiced by Sears but onstage is a wig behind a window manipulated by a stagehand
  • Joe Bob Lipsey - the "not-the-marrying-kind" director of the Tuna Little Theater's "troubled production" of A Christmas Carol

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