Lancaster County, Pennsylvania offers Amish tradition
and much more

By Marilyn Loeser

Not a horse-drawn buggy in sight, we checked into our hotel and set our evening’s course for…a dinner theater.

Yup, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania — best know for its Amish population — also is a destination for historic attractions, outlet shopping and excellent dinner theaters.

Act I – Dinner

Our first evening in Lancaster, we passed up traditional Amish fare of country ham,  noodles, chow chow, pork and sauerkraut, pepper cabbage and shoo fly pie for a buffet dinner of rosemary chicken, BBQ ribs, mashed potatoes, vegetables and ice cream.

Our weekend was beginning at the Rainbow Theater, America's only all-comedy dinner theatre.

With its friendly atmosphere and service along with good food and the knowledge this was, and always has been, a family production – literary and figuratively – we relaxed into this world of light-hearted fun.

You see proprietors David and Cynthia DiSavino were married in 1984, the same year the Rainbow got its start. The DiSavinos, and their daughter Katy, even act in some of the productions at the Rainbow from time to time.

Act II – The Show

After dinner, it was time for Goodbye Charlie by George Axelrod.

Charlie, a Hollywood playboy with a reputation for womanizing, meets an untimely death. As punishment for his bad behavior and his attitude toward the ladies, he’s sent back to earth as a beautiful woman.

This, of course, confuses the heck out of Charlie’s best friend and the situation gets even funnier when the best friend starts to fall in love with the reincarnated femme fatale.

The Rainbow Dinner Theatre, located on Route 30 in Paradise, is situated directly behind the Revere Tavern.

For more information call 1-800-292-4301or check the website at http://www.rainbowdinnertheatre.com.

Goodbye Charlie runs until April 28, followed by Tom, Dick, & Harry which runs from May 8 to August 4, 2007.

Tom, Dick, & Harry centers on Tom and his wife who want to adopt a baby. So how do his brothers Dick and Harry help out? By getting Tom mixed up with illegal immigrants, dead bodies and the Russian mafia. With the arrival of the adoption agency supervisor and police constable, Tom’s ingenuity is stretched to the limit. But things couldn’t get funnier or could they?

Act III – If you go

More than a dozen dinner theaters dot the Lancaster County landscape.

For a complete listing, show information and directions, check the website http://www.padutchcountry.com/things_to_do/theatres.asp.

Then, of course stay a day or two longer to take in all that Lancaster County has to offer.

A good bet for accommodations is the Best Western Eden Resort Inn & Suites. Set up to accommodate any size family group with suites with several bedrooms and configurations, the hotel also is pet friendly.
For more information check the website at www.edenresort.com or call 800-937-8376.

For more information on other accommodations, activities and attractions, check the website http://www.padutchcountry.com/index.asp.

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