On Golden Pond -- April 4-7, 11-18
Run Dates
April 4-7, 11-18
Description
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory – but sill as tart-tonged, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have encircled and continue to enrich long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness – and slang – in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond awaits.
Crew
- DIRECTOR - Harold Truitt
- STAGE MANAGER - Mike Skiles
- LIGHTING & SOUND DESIGNER/OPERATOR - Jennifer Kingry
Cast
- NORMAN THAYER, JR. - John VanDeWoestyne
- ETHEL THAYER - Jackie Patterson
- CHARLIE MARTIN - Steve Trainor
- CHELSEA THAYER WAYNE - Ann Keeney-Grafft
- BILLY RAY, JR. - Joe Mroz
- BILL RAY - Gary Talsky
Blithe Spirit -- May 30 - June 2, 6-9
Info
Comedy by Noel Coward
Directed by Tom Morrow
Run dates: May 30-June 2 & June 6-9, 2019
Description
A smash comedy hit on London and Broadway stages, this much-revived Noel Coward classic offers up fussy novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted – literally – by the ghost of his late first wife. The clever and insistent Elvira has been called up by a flamboyant and eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, during a seance. In this clash of big personalities (both worldly and un-), Charles must navigate his way between two wives, creating many comical situations to a quite unexpected resolution.
Crew
- Director - Tom Morrow
- Stage Manager -- Stacy Herrick
- Light and Sound Designer -- Jennifer Kingry
- Crew -- Eugenia Giebel
- Set Builder -- Justin Raver
- Hair and Make-up -- Luke Vermiere
- Costumes -- Suzanne Rakestraw
Cast
- Charles -- Jim Driscoll
- Elvira -- Ann Keeney-Grafft
- Ruth -- Diane Greenwood
- Dr. Bradman -- Gary Talsky
- Mrs. Bradman -- Heidi Pedersen
- Madam Arcati -- Lona Friedman
- Edith -- Elizabeth Shaffer
Missing Link -- July 11-14, 18-21
Lindy Baxter misses Lincoln Sinclair; in fact, she's been missing Link since World War II when he vanished in the Pacific. A fall puts her into the hands and the arms of orthopedist Simon Fletcher. They set a wedding date despite her parents’ misgivings and the fact that the best man and his sister, the maid of honor, are respectively in love with the bride and the groom. On the wedding's eve, Link shows up with an enormous diamond ring and a box of money as his gift for the bride who he thinks is marrying him.
Crew
- Director - Joe DePauw
- Stage Manager - Eugenia Giebel
- Light & Sound Designer/Operator - Jennifer Kingry
- Costumer - Suzanne Rakestraw
- Set Design - Mollie Schmelzer
- Set Builder - TBA
Cast
- Rose Baxter - Jackie Skiles
- Belinda "Lindy" Baxter - Amanda Wilson
- Fiona Broderick - Dana Skiles
- Miss Beasley - Michaela Giebel-Moore
- Judy Mitchell - Jessica Moore
- Augusta Sinclair - Barb Nurmi
- Ed Baxter - Archie Williams
- Simon Fletcher - Don Faust
- Lincoln Sinclair - Jim Strauss
- Jake Broderick - Matthew McConville
- Rance Bickford - Kevin Keck
The 39 Steps -- August 15-18, 22-25
In The 39 Steps, an Englishman with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps mixes a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, then adds a dash of Monty Python to create an intriguing, thrilling, riotous and unmissable comedy. In The 39 Steps, an Englishman with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps mixes a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, then adds a dash of Monty Python to create an intriguing, thrilling, riotous and unmissable comedy.
Crew
- Director - Jennifer Kingry
- Stage Manager - Harvey Green
- Light Designer and Operator - Jennifer Kingry
- Sound Designer and Operator - Nick Dunk
- Costumer - Ann Keeney-Grafft
- Hair Stylist - Luke Vermeire
- Set Design - Jennifer Kingry
- Set Builder - Jim Skiles
Cast
- Richard Hannay - Jonathan Grafft
- Annabella Schmidt/Margaret/Pamela Edwards -- Jessica White
- Clown #1 -- Michael Kelly
- Clown #2 - Kevin Babbitt
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Oct 3-6, 10-13
Rebellious rogue Randle P. McMurphy contrives reassignment from a prison farm to an airy mental institution to serve out a short penal sentence. This, he learns, may have been an error when he meets his match in the passive-aggressive disciplinarian despot Nurse Ratched, who oversees the psychiatric ward with a tight rein and hard line. While McMurphy tries to liberate the hospital inmates with basketball games, TV, partying, and even women, the uncompromising Ratched squeezes her iron fist, and their battle of wills influences the ward’s patients to start thinking for themselves.
Crew
- Director - Dana Skiles
- Stage Manager - Jonathan Grafft
- Light Designer - Jennifer Kingry
- Set Design and Builder - Mike Skiles
Cast
- Randall McMurphy - Victor Angelo
- Nurse Ratched -- Lisa Ingram
- Chief Bromden -- Matthew McConville
- Aide Warren -- Eric Friedman
- Aide Williams -- Archie Williams
- Nurse Flinn -- Olivia Egert
- Dale Harding -- David Beeson
- Billy Bibbitt -- Joshua Malone
- Scanlon -- Jim Skiles
- Cheswick -- Bruce Carmen
- Martini -- Jordan Smith
- Ruckly -- Steve Mroz
- Dr. Spivey -- Gary Talsky
- Aide Turkle -- Greg Kerr
- Candy Starr -- Victoria House
- Sandra -- Jessica Moore
A Doublewide, Texas Christmas November -- 7-10, 14-17
It’s Christmas-time in the newest—and tiniest—town in Texas. And it’s beginning to look a lot like trouble in Doublewide. Not only are the trailer park residents dealing with the stress of the holiday season, but they’ve just discovered that Doublewide is being doubled-crossed by the County. With their official incorporation papers in jeopardy, this band of eccentric Texans throw themselves into taking on the “Big Guys.” Determined to bolster their legitimacy, they first set their sights on the County-wide “Battle of the Mangers” competition. They conspire to win this smackdown with their “Nativity at The Alamo” entry…by any means possible.
Crew
- Director - John VanDeWoestyne
- Stage Manager & Costumer - Suzanne DeReu
- Light Designer/Booth Operator - Jennifer Kingry
- Sound Designer - Larry Lord
- Crew - Jeff Blackwell
- Set Builder - Mike Skiles, Jim Skiles
- Set Painting - Harvey Green
- Specialty Painting - Heidi Hamer, Sondra Karben, Dana Skiles
Cast
- Big Ethel Satterwhite - Eugenia Giebel
- Georgia Dean Rudd - Jackie Skiles
- Lark Barken - Storm Baca
- Norwayne "Baby" Crumpler - Nathan Johnson
- Haywood Sloggett - Mike Skiles
- Patsy Price - Lorrie Lord
- Joveeta Crumpler - Suzanne Rakestraw
- Caprice Crumpler - Diane Greenwood
- Nash Sloggett - Tom Akers