The Ladies of the Camellias
Tickets on sale now through the Town Hall Theater Box Office
802-382-9222, 68 So. Pleasant St.. Middlebury,
Monday-Saturday, noon to 5:00pm
$13 – 8:00pm Thursday, February 6, 2020
$20 – 8:00pm Friday-Saturday, February 7-8
$20 – 2:00pm Sunday matineee, February 9
Director: Kevin Commins
Stage Manager: Tom Noble
Producer: Maria Lourdes Stockman
CAST:
Sarah Bernhardt: Carol Reed
Eleonora Duse: Bettina Matthias
Girl: Tanya Kurtz Lehman
Benoit: Gary Gillen
Alexandre Dumas, Fils: Richard Reed
M. Worms: Lonny Edwards
M. Ando: James Peacock
Ivan: Christopher Ross
Coquelin: James Cass
This hilarious farce imagines a meeting in Paris, 1897 between the most famous and temperamental divas of the age, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. The two actresses are scheduled to perform back-to-back productions of the play The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas at Bernhardt’s theater. Their leading men, Dumas, and the theater manager wait nervously, expecting huge fireworks between the two grand dames when they finally leave their dressing rooms and meet on stage for the first time. Into this tense situation comes Ivan, a young Russian anarchist who takes the two divas hostage and threatens to blow up everyone in the theater unless his comrades are released from prison.
A full synopsis, character breakdown and historical background information from the playwright can be found HERE.
AUDITIONS FOR
Tuck Everlasting The Musical
Book by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle
Music by Chris Miller
Lyrics by Nathan Tysen
Based on the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Auditions January 15-16, 2020
Seeking adult actors and children/teens age 11 and up
Tuck Everlasting is a musical based on the 1975 American children’s novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Adapted for the stage by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, it features a soaring score from Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen.
Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck Family does she get more than she could have imagined. When Winnie learns of the magic behind the Tucks’ unending youth, she must fight to protect their secret from those who would do anything for a chance at eternal life. As her adventure unfolds, Winnie faces an extraordinary choice: Return to her life or continue on with the Tucks on their infinite journey.
Auditions Wednesday, January 15 and Thursday, January 16, 2020
6:30-9:00pm at Mary Hogan Elementary School
201 Mary Hogan Drive, Middlebury
Registration begins at 6:00pm.
Director: Kristen Ginsburg
Music Director: Jennifer Allred
Choreographer: Kendra Gratton
Stage Manager: Dora Greven
Co-Producers: Kate Tilton & Mary Longey
For ALL details, click HERE.
Questions? Please email info@middleburycommunityplayers.org.
Tuck Everlasting is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company.
Thank you for attending
our fall 2019 shows!
HONK! JR.
MCP Foundations presented the classic story of the Ugly Duckling in the new musical HONK! JR., a heartwarming tale of being different and the lessons we can all learn.
Performances were at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury
For show info and a list of the cast and production team, click HERE.
MCP Foundations is the “educational wing” of the Players, created to introduce young people and their families to theater as part of the Players’ ongoing mission of supporting and promoting theater in Addison County.
HONK! JR. was presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) [REVISED]
The Cast:
Tucker Atwood
Emma Page
Fergus Ryan
Director: Dr. Gary Gillen
Stage Manager: Chris Frappier
Producer: Kevin Commins
Performances were at the Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse
1197 Exchange St., Middlebury
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is one of the world’s most frequently produced plays and has been translated into several dozen languages. Featured are all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays, meant to be performed in 97 minutes, by three actors. Fast paced, witty, and physical, it’s full of laughter for Shakespeare lovers and haters alike.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s classic farce, two of its original writer/performers thoroughly revised the show to create The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [REVISED] and bring it up to date for 21st-century audiences, incorporating some of the funniest material from the numerous amateur and professional productions that have been performed throughout the world.
