Season 2002 - 2003:
A Cast of Outcasts
ACT I's current season features a series of plays with the common theme of "Outcasts;" timeless stories of individuals who go it alone after being cut off from society or from others that had been important in their lives. Our season consists of three components: the Main Stage Series, featuring three fully staged plays at the Palace Theatre; Children's Theatre, produced during the summer at the Palace by our youth program, ACT I STAGE!, and the Events Series, consisting of two small scale productions featuring music and readings, both performed this year at the Ray House Museum.
Don't be an outcast; join us for Season 2002 - 2003, and our Casts of Outcasts!
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CHILDREN'S THEATRE:
Produced by ACT I STAGE!, this triple bill featuring three very different children's theatre plays in a single production opens our 2002 - 2003 season. The performances will be the culmination of our ACT I STAGE! summer theatre camp, directed by Marcy Horst.
July 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 2002
Featuring . . .
Ogre Here, Ogre There
Mary Horst, Director
The Truly Remarkable
Puss-in-Boots
Marcy Horst, Director
Once Upon a Vine
Jaimie Walker and Theresa Werner, Co-directors
Gerald Horst, Technical
Director
Allen Lueckenotto, Stage Manager
Mary Horst, Set Design
Sponsored by
Lori Smith and Expressions!
MAIN STAGE SERIES:
William Shakespeare's quintessential battle of the sexes, The Taming of the Shrew, is the cornerstone of this delightful 1948 musical by Cole Porter, which enjoyed a recent hit revival on Broadway. Just as Shakespeare's Kate and Petrucchio battle it out in a war of wits during one of literature's most bizarre courtships, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, a divorced couple bringing Shakespeare's characters to life in a musical version of Shrew, bicker constantly backstage in a war of words that rivals the efforts of their onstage roles! Set in a theatre in 1940's Baltimore, Kiss Me, Kate follows the progress of this most unromantic romance, as well as the progress of the show for which Fred serves as writer, director, and leading actor. Will Fred and Lilli's romance be any more successful than the doomed show they are producing? Or will they forever remain outcasts from each other?
Cole Porter's exuberant score for this song and dance extravaganza includes such hit numbers as "Another Openin', Another Show," "I Hate Men," "Too Darn Hot," "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," and the title song, "Kiss Me, Kate." Sam and Bella Spewack, who wrote the book, based their story on an actual production of The Taming of the Shrew from the 1930's starring the Lunts.
The Palace Theatre
September 5, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 2002
Steve Arnold, Director
Rob Glass, Music Director
Sue Freet, Assistant Director / Stage Manager
Kevin Bookmeier, Technical Design
Heather Happel, Choreographer
Lisa Finch, Costumer
Ron Baldwin, Producer
Sponsored by
Clingman Pharmacy, Jon and Julie Clingman
EVENTS SERIES:
Join ACT I for spine-chilling amusements and develish good fun as the Ray House turns Haunted House on October 12th and 13th. It's sure to be a monster mash of ghastly proportions, complete with grim tales, spooky songs, freaky footwork, and lots of surprises! Special appearances from aliens to ogres are sure to give you goosebumps and tickle your funny bone.
Young and old, meek and bold will all delight in the boo-tiful melodies, eerie effects, and startling stories, with a bit if fiendish fare thrown in. Bone appetite'!
Kids in costume can sign our “ghost” book and receive a Spooktacular Souvenir!
The Ray House Museum
October 12 & 13, 2002
Mary Horst, Director
EVENTS SERIES:
Join us for what is becoming a favorite part of our season, our winter classical vocal recital! Our third annual Intermezzo program will help get us in just the right mood for our Christmas holidays!
The Ray House Museum
December 14 & 15, 2002
Marcy and Gerald Horst, Directors
MAIN STAGE SERIES:
Adapted by Steven C.
Anderson
Music by Dana P. Rowe
Lyrics by John Dempsey
Who could be more of an outcast than a fire breathing dragon? But this kindly beast has no taste for violence and bloodshed; he only wants to live his life in peace and quiet. So what will he do when famed dragon slayer Saint George shows up, looking for a fresh battle? Find out in this stage version of Kenneth Graham's delightful children's story, a decidedly different look at the legend of Saint George and the Dragon!
This lively adaptation takes the form of an operetta, in the style of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Palace Theatre
February 21, 22, 23, 28, March 1, 2, 2003
Riverside Park Bandshell
August 15, 2003
Gerald and Marcy Horst, Directors
Sponsor: Cedar River Ink
MAIN STAGE SERIES:
ACT I has staged only one other play by Neil Simon; our 1993 production of The Odd Couple, female version. This time, we leave Simon's broader comedy behind as we present perhaps his finest play ever, Lost in Yonkers. Set in the apartment above Kurnitz's Kandy Store in Yonkers, New York in 1942, this warm and nostalgic coming of age story follows a year in the life of two Jewish boys living with their German immigrant grandmother.
Fifteen year old Jay Kurnitz and his thirteen year old brother Artie have had it rough. Their mother has died recently after a long illness. And their father, Eddie, has an almost insurmountable load of medical bills to pay. With World War II raging, Eddie is able to land a very lucrative job buying and selling scrap iron, but there's a catch -- he'll have to be on the road for a full year. Where can he find for his boys to live while he's away?
For Jay and Artie, the worst prospect imaginable would be living with their terrifying Grandma Kurnitz. But Eddie has no place else to turn, and so Jay and Artie soon find themselves "lost in Yonkers," outcasts within a whole family of outcasts, trying to survive within their father's classically dysfunctional family.
Lost in Yonkers won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991.
The Palace Theatre
May 9, 10, 11, 16, 18, 2003
Steve Arnold, Director
Ed Cardwell, Technical Director / Stage Manager
Sponsor: Farmers Savings Bank and Trust
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