Take a trip down memory lane again with songs from the 1960s and ‘70s when Meridian Community College’s Fine Arts Division presents, “The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On.”

Set a three-night run Thursday through Saturday in the MCC Tommy E. Dulaney Multi-Purpose Center, this musical will be a dinner theater production. The meal will be served beginning at 6 p.m. while the show starts at 7.

“It’s the sequel to last year’s successful production of ‘The Marvelous Wonderettes,’” said Dr. Todd Brand, chairman of MCC fine arts division who is also the director and producer of the show. “We have the same characters, the same story … it’s just what happens to them after we last saw them.”

Adding to the uniqueness is the same cast. The Marvelous Wonderettes are Susie, played by Anna Edwards Brown; Missy, played by Amy Poole McMinn; Cindy Lou, played by Jamie Chaney, and Betty Jean, played by Morgan Davidson.

“For the continuity, it’s really neat to get the same actors,” Brand said.

As it was last summer, this year’s production is a fund-raiser for the Stephen Nabors Memorial Scholarship which is funded through the MCC Foundation. Nabors was nearly a decade-long theater instructor who worked with Lauderdale County high school youths in connection with MCC theater productions before his death in Fall 2016.

“The youth project was one Steve put his heart and soul into for the last nine years and we thought this production was a fitting tribute to start the scholarship,” Brand said.

Another connection: Nabors trained all the “Marvelous Wonderettes” actors in theater arts.

“They represent a cross-section of all nine years Steve was here,” Brand said.

Last year’s musical began at the 1958 prom where the audience met the four-girl singing group, The Wonderettes. The show followed their lives and loves from prom night to their 10-year reunion while the score highlighted more than 20 chart-topping hits of the era, including “Lollipop,” “Dream Lover,” “Stupid Cupid,” “Son of a Preacher Man,” “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” and “It’s My Party.”

For this year’s “Dream On” production, the Wonderettes’ story resumes when the women return to Springfield High to throw a retirement party for their favorite homeroom teacher, Ms. McPherson. As they sing their way through girl-group hits of the 1960s, one of the Wonderettes reveals she’ll also be saying goodbye to search for success and happiness on her own. Act Two finds them back together as the class of 1958 celebrates their 20-year reunion. The classic pop and rock hits of the 1970s, from “Listen to the Music,” “I Can See Clearly Now,” “I Will Survive,” “Do the Hustle” and more, provide the perfect soundtrack for these old friends to catch up on the places life has led them.

Also working with the production is Rachel Gibson, vocal director, MCC vocal instructor.

Valley is catering the meal with the menu items to include sweet tea chicken, garlic green beans, macaroni and cheese, roll, apple cobbler, tea, water.

Tickets for the dinner show are $25 each – as it was last year — and may be purchased by contacting the MCC Foundation, 601-484-8688.