2018-2019,
​Our 57th Season

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All Shook UP
Book: Joe DiPietro

Director Tom Yenchick

Performances:
September 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23*, 28, 29, 30*
*Matinees on the 23 and 30 at 2pm
All other performances at 8 pm

​Inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley. It’s 1955, and into a square little town in a square little state rides a guitar-playing young man who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”

Cast List

Principals
Maria Leonetti.................Natalie
Nathaniel Swofford.................Chad
Carey Rumpf.................Jim
Nicole Napolitano.................Sylvia
Abby Gould.................Lorraine
Jordan Catagnus.................Dennis
Melisse Weber.................Miss Sandra
Kim Edmonds.................Mayor Matilda Hyde
Zach Anderson.................Dean Hyde
Joe Beregi.................Sheriff Earl

Ensemble
Rosie Alleva
Mercedes Kathryn Duran......Henrietta
Ryan Edmonds...........Prisoner #47
​Tracy Flynn
Rachel Givler
​Tom Groves
Richard Ledig
Cory McAdam
Kelly Murray................Prisoner #3
David Richman
Edwin Soto
Olga Skvortsova
Adam Van Aken
​Janine Weiss

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Play On!
​Book: Rick Abbot
​Director Marnie Herzfeld

Perfect for any performing group, this is the hilarious story of a theatre group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance, in which anything that can go wrong, does. When the author decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax and a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.
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Performances:
November 2, 3, 9-11, and 16-18
*Matinees on the 11 and 18 at 2pm
All other performances at 8 pm

Cast List
Aggie Manville–Abbie Cichowski
Geraldine 'Gerry' Dunbar–Julie May
Henry Benish ("Lord Dudley")–Randy Knox
Polly Benish ("Lady Margaret")–Bev Smith
Marla "Smitty" Smith ("Doris the maid")–Lauren Kirchner
Saul Watson ("Doctor Rex Forbes")–Jeff Sherman
Billy Carewe ("Stephen Sellers")–McGair Valois
Violet Imbry ("Diana Lassiter")–Caitlin Monahan
Louise Peary–Trish Cacek
Phyllis Montague–Nancy Kadwill

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​Dracula
Book: Steven Dietz
​Director Suki Saurus
Lucy Westenra has succumbed to a mysterious affliction, Johnathan Harker has gone missing after a business trip to Carpathian Mountains, and Doctor Van Helsing is called upon to help make sense of it all. In this staged adaptation of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA; the story shifts between England and Transylvania as we uncover the story of two women, the men who love them, and the creature who wants to tear it all apart

Congratulations to the cast!
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Mina Murray...............Safiyyah Jones
Lucy Westenra...............Sandra Lawler
Jonathan Harker...............Jay Reilly
Dr. John Seward...............David Scott Howell
Renfield...............Joe Rittenhouse
Abraham Van Helsing...............Bryan Cassidy
Dracula (older)...............Loren Bittner
Dracula (young)...............Matt Lake
Ensemble
Maid/Crew...............Sophie Lynne
Waiter/Butler/Crew...............Tom Aberant
Asylum Attendant/Crew
Kristin Dormuth
James Reese
Jeff Sherman
Vixen/Voices
Kimmie Fetters
Robyn Alezanders
Lauren Kirchner
Alexis Leigh Ross

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​Murder on the Nile
Book: Agatha Christie
​Kay Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth, and a new husband, she embarks on a honeymoon voyage down the Nile. Fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings are shattered by a shocking and brutal murder. Under scrutiny is a multitude of memorable passengers, all with a reason to kill. The tension and claustrophobia builds, as a shocking and audacious conspiracy is laid bare.
​Director Melanie Magolan
​Performances:
March 1, 2, 8-10, and 15-17
*Matinees on the 10 and 17 at 2pm
All other performances at 8 pm

Cast
Canon Pennefather - Marc Schule
Simon Mostyn - Ryan Kirchner
Kay Ridgeway-Mostyn - Netanya Brittain...
Smith - Greg Kwoka
Jacqueline De Severac - Kendra O'Donnell
Miss ffouliot-ffolkes - Rhana Cassidy
Christina - Amy Peart
Dr. Bessner - Thomas Groves
Louise - Tori Courtney
Steward - JT Grosch

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Ken Ludwig's Leading Ladies

Book: Ken Ludwig

In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady's vivacious niece, Meg, who's engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there's a wide world out there, but it's not until she meets "Maxine and Stephanie" that she finally gets a taste of it.

​Performances:
April 19, 20, 26-28*, May 3-5*
*Matinees on the 28 and 5 at 2pm
All other performances at 8 pm

​Meg Snider.........Christine Furey
Audrey.........Caitlin Monahan
Florence.........Rosie Alleva
Leo Clark.........Dave Cura
Jack Gable.........Jordan Gilmore
Butch.........David Martin
Duncan Wooley.........Michael Tarringer
Doc.........Loren Bittner

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Book: Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart
Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim

Director Mercedes Kathryn Duran

June Performances:
​7, 8, 14, 15, 21-23, 28-30
*Matinees on the 23 and 30 at 2pm
All other performances at 8 pm

​Broadway's greatest farce is light, fast-paced, witty, irreverent and one of the funniest musicals ever written. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from time-tested, 2000-year-old comedies of Roman playwright, Plautus, with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville.

​A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a nonstop laughfest in which Pseudolus, a crafty slave, struggles to win the hand of a beautiful, but slow-witted, courtesan named Philia for his young master, Hero, in exchange for freedom. The plot twists and turns with cases of mistaken identity, slamming doors and a showgirl or two.

Pseudolus...Peter Phillips
Senex...Tom Pitt
Domina...Barbara Hannevig
​Domina understudy...Kim Edmonds
Hero...Jordan Catagnus
Hysterium...Rob Frankel
Erronius...Bob Goretski
Miles Gloriosus...Edwin Soto
Lycus...Sean Murray
Philia...Kendra O'Donnell
Soldier ensemble:
Ryan Edmonds
David Moyer
Courtesans:
Sarah Holderith
Robin Rosenberg
Clementine Harvey
Chrissy Kopaczewski
Sophie Lynne
Paula Larsen
Courtesan understudy: Safiyyah Green
Citizen Ensemble:
David Moyer
Ryan Edmonds
Maid Ensemble:
​Kim Edmonds
​Safiyyah Green