The 27th annual Choctaw Firemen's Fair

The 27th annual Choctaw Firemen's Fair, a three-day event at the Choctaw Volunteer Fire Department, 2854 Choctaw Road, has it all, said Craig Rink, Choctaw fire chief and fair organizer.

“It's a lot of food and fun,” Rink said, “and hopefully beautiful weather. It's basically going to be a big gathering of happy people.”

The fair kicks off at 6 p.m. today and opens at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Food includes seafood gumbo, fried catfish, hot dogs and hamburgers. For the first time in 20 years, the fair will have bumper cars along with nine other rides.

“A lot of kids in the community are excited,” Rink said.

The fair is one of the Fire Department's largest fundraisers, said Willie Andras, assistant chief.

“Without this, we don't function,” Andras said.

While admission is free, all proceeds from food, beverages and tickets for rides go to the Fire Departmen.The fair includes four to five live auctions of donated items, including an aluminum barbecue pit and cypress rocking chairs.

Choctaw resident Rose Hebert, 75, likes the music and dancing best.

“It's beautiful,” Hebert said. “They play all kinds of music, and everybody's there.”

Tête Dur is scheduled to perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, and Gary T. is scheduled to perform his brand of swamp pop from 4 to 8 p.m. The variety band The Groove is set to close out Saturday's lineup by performing from 8 p.m. until midnigh.

Marcia Milgrom Dodge, whose critically acclaimed production of "Ragtime" transferred from the Kennedy Center to Broadway last fall and is nominated for six Helen Hayes Awards, will direct and choreograph the Reprise Theatre Company production of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."

Josh Grisetti will star as Finch. Grisetti won the 2009 Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Lortel, Drama League, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for starring in the hit off-Broadway revival of "Enter Laughing" last year, and John O'Hurley, who recently played King Arthur in "Spamalot" in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, as J. B, Biggley.

Simon Helberg, a regular on CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" plays Bud Frump and Reprise veteran Vicki Lewis, star of NBC's "Newsradio" and "Three Sisters" plays Smitty. "How to Succeed" will preview on Tuesday, May 11 and open on Wednesday, May 12, and continue through Sunday, May 23 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

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