With the Old Creamery gone, ACT I began the 1997 - 1998 Season as an orphan community theatre, and our orphan season began appropriately with a production of Oliver! And, like Oliver Twist, ACT I would eventually go from the street to a Palace. The former Palace movie theatre, by then reduced to a local gym, was selected as our ultimate new home and targeted for purchase, and by the end of the run of Oliver! over $100,000 had been raised for that project. During the 1997 - 1998 season we also began producing an annual variety show, a standing production that would continue over four seasons. The season ended with a pair of classic Broadway favorites; the all male Sleuth performed at the Ray House Museum, followed by the all female Steel Magnolias. Debuts during the 1997 - 1998 Season included Jay Appleby, Lori Ferguson, Dave Raines, the Sheahan family, Charlie Vogl, and Mike Williams.
Click either the title or the graphic to visit the show page for each production!
Oliver!
Music, Book,
and Lyrics by Lionel Bart
September 19 - 28, 1997
Tilford Middle School Auditorium,
Vinton
Director: Steve Arnold
Music Director: Mike Williams
Choreographer: Joan Cooling
Technical Director: Jay Appleby
ACT I Variety Show
Be
Our Guest!
Sleuth
by Anthony Schaffer
April 16 - 26, 1998
Ray House Museum, Vinton
Director: Larry
Adams-Bowers
This experimental venue allowed a maximum audience of 16 to follow the actors from room to room through both main floors of the mansion, one of the historical properties owned by the Benton County Historical Society.
Steel
Magnolias
by Robert
Harling
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