Tony Award-Nominated PUMP BOYS & DINETTES Rocks the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza

Emery Entertainment is pleased to bring the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical PUMP BOYS & DINETTES to St. Louis audiences at The Playhouse @ Westport Plaza for a limited engagement February 14 - 19. Tickets may be purchased through MetroTix at www.metrotix.com or by calling 314/534-1111. Additionally, tickets will be available at The Playhouse @ Westport Plaza box office one hour prior to show time. All seats are $50.

PUMP BOYS & DINETTES opened on Broadway on February 4, 1982 at the Princess Theatre, garnering three Tony Award nominations, including one for Best Musical, and two Drama Desk Award nominations. Audiences and critics alike fell in love with the show's downhome, earthy celebration of friendship and the simple things in life.

Set in a gas station and diner, PUMP BOYS & DINETTES stars four gas station attendants (L.M., Jackson, Jim and Eddie) and two waitresses (Prudie and Rhetta Cupp), a musical group who love fishin', beer, and a slice of homemade pie. Equipped with guitar, piano, bass, cello, ukulele, banjo, and a few kitchen utensils, they are serving up a night of fun in this concert-style show about life's simple pleasures. The music is a quirky, highly imaginative blend of country, rock-a-billy, swing, rock and jazz. One selection, "The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine," even reached a top spot on the Hit Country Songs Charts.

The national tour is produced by Troupe America, Inc., directed by Curt Wollan, with choreography by Wendy Short Hays, musical direction from Dennis Curley, and set design by Erica Zaffarano. Tour direction is courtesy of Starvox Entertainment.

The Playhouse @ Westport Plaza is located at 635 Westport Plaza in Maryland Heights, Missouri and is a venue filling a niche for a variety of Broadway and Off-Broadway entertainment that would otherwise not find its way to the St. Louis area.

Programming at the venue is offered at affordable ticket pricing so that anyone can have dinner at one of the many restaurants in the area as well as see a great show. For additional information on upcoming events, please visit www.playhouseatwestport.com. Members of the media can obtain hi-res photos and more information at http://bit.ly/playhouseatwestport.