This entertaining production is put on by the Full Circle Theatre Company – a theatre group founded two years ago to offer young actors an opportunity to perform alongside professional actors, and this cast includes great talent of all ages. 

Darlene Cleary earns a laugh every time she waddles up onto the stage with her bouquet of dog leashes pulling her every which way as each dog has its own nose to follow. Sonya Bender’s beautiful voice sings of leaving her Dear Max dog that she has grown up with in order to go off to college. Megan Maher is the adorable, soon to be in trouble, dog who talks herself into believing that the bagel on the piano is hers. Melanie Glancy is Socks the cat – living it up with the Clinton family (Bill, Hillary, Chelsea …… Monica??!) until Buddy disrupts his blissful life. And in one of the shows most original and touching numbers, new homeowners Lizette Kent and Walt Stewart stumble upon the grave of a pet left behind in the backyard and discuss whether they should build over it or provide Perpetual Care to this beloved pet of someone they never knew.

And then there are some of the more exotic, or “peculiar,” pets. Christine Garver is the cute little girl who enthusiastically tries to save Franklin the turtle from the fateful flush of no return. And Director Ann Boutelle becomes a dancing, hot-blooded, Latino iguana desperately pining for his owners to get him an iguanette.