2009 - 2010 Season
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Drama: Almost Maine by John Cariani
Directed
by Andrew Zahrt
April 23-May1, 2010 Grand Haven Community
Center
Cast members are:
Chad Hoop, Eirann Betka, Josh Buxton, Erin Mickelson, Andrew Kitchka,
and Becca Kerkstra.
Synopsis:
On a
cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite
what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the
northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents
find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often
hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises
heal, and the hearts mend in this delightful midwinter night's dream.
Family
Theatre 2010 Summer Show:
July 15, 16 at 7 PM;
3 PM and 7 PM
performance July 17, 2010.
Grand Haven Community Center
It's a
beautiful summer day in Paw Paw, Michigan, and all the neighborhood kids
are on their way to Edwina Spoonapple's house. Edwina, creator and star
of the Dear Edwina show, anxiously awaits her cast and crew, as they
introduce themselves to us in "Paw Paw Michigan." Finally the kids
arrive at Edwina's ready to start the weekly episode of The Dear Edwina
Show, where folk from around the world send letters to Edwina Spoonapple
in hopes of receiving her invaluable advice.
Follow
the adventures of advice- giver extraordinaire, Edwina Spoonapple as
she directs the kids in the neighborhood in production number after
hilarious production number in her “Advice-A-Palooza” extravaganza.
Written in the style of Schoolhouse Rock Live! and You’re A Good Man
Charlie Brown, Dear Edwina Junior is the perfect girl power musical for a
new generation.
Audition dates TBA -- Click
here for character information.
Musical: Oliver! Music, Lyrics and Book by Lionel Bart
Licensed by Arrangement with Oliver Productions, Ltd.
and Oliver Promotions, Ltd.
Produced in Cooperation with Tams Witmark, Inc.
Directed by: Mike Vogas
February 25-27, 2010 Lakeshore Middle School
Nothing works on the stage like a well-crafted tale, and OLIVER! is just such a show. Based on the Dickens novel, it will engage your audience with its pathos and drama, while delighting everyone with its outstanding musical numbers. Food, Glorious Food, I'd Do Anything, Where is Love?, Consider Yourself, As Long As He Needs Me, Who Will Buy and Reviewing the Situation are musical theatre classics. Dickens' characters are brought to life-perhaps larger than life-with all their facets glowing in this production.
Holiday:
A Christmas Carol
Adapted by John Mortimer from the story by
Charles Dickens.
Directed by:
December 4-6, 10-12, 2009
Grand Haven Community Center
Dramatized
with flair and wit in a version first performed by the Royal Shakespeare
Company, this adaptation of the ageless story captures Dickens' ironic
point of view while it creates a panoramic view of Victorian London. All
of the much loved characters are in place. Cast and staging
requirements are extremely flexible; there is ample opportunity for
creative doubling.
Comedy: Leading Ladies, by Ken Ludwig
Directed by: Shari Miranda
October 16-24, 2009 Grand Haven Community Center
Cast of Leading Ladies:
Meg - Sarah Fields
Audrey - Eirann Betka
Florence - Carolyn Bean
Leo - Van Merrill
Jack - David Riegler
Duncan - Bruce Baker
Doc - Fred Finke
Butch Kameron Klein
A hilarious comedy about two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, who 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 its not until she meets Maxine and Stephanie that she finally gets a taste of it.