A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

   by Stephen Sondheim
October 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 2001
    The Palace Theatre, Vinton
    Director:  Larry Adams-Bowers
    Music Directors:  Judy Mitschelen, Sara Arnold
    Choreography:  Charlie Vogl, Larry Adams-Bowers
    Technical Director:  Allen Lueckenotto
    Wardrobe Mistress:  Lisa Finch
    Property Design:   Jaime Tucker
    Set, Poster Design:   Erica Grindle
      

SPONSORED BY CEDAR RIVER INK

 "Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight!"

Performance Photographs

"Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight!"

"Oh, Thespis . . ."

                                          Photo by Mary Horst

"Yes, but how often do we find ourselves in this position?"

"Yes, it IS a fair price by the pound."

"Take me!"

"Everybody ought to have a maid!"

"Everybody ought to have a working girl. . ."

"I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm perfectly calm, I'm utterly under control."

"Silence!  I am about to say the sooth!"

"A fine, big boy."

"Go to the hills."

"Half a league."

"Of course I know that this is.  This is writing."

"Lycus, do we really need all these eunuchs?"

"Now will you all please strike . . . vocational attitudes?"

"First time around."

"Make haste!  Make haste!  I have no time to waste! There are shrines I should be sacking..."

"Bring me my bride!"

                                          Photo by Mary Horst

Miles Gloriosis

"Present the Bride."

"Intermission!"

"Slave-in-chief? I wonder how many slaves-in-chief have a master in the tub,
a house full of courtesans, and a virgin on the roof!"

"Hysterium, on the best of intuition, I believe my husband is fouling the nest."

"I have entertained over two hundred officers."
"Two hundred? By yourself?"

"Come out here! Come on out!"

"What if he tries to kiss me?"

"Helen and her thousand ships
Will have to die of shame.
You're so lovely. . ."

I'm lovely

"I'm so lovely.
Literally lovely--
That the world will never seem the same. . ."

"Strew the soil,
Strum the lyre,
Spread the oil,
Build the pyre!"

"Wait. A farewell kiss."

                                                                           Photo by Mary Horst

Finale

Backstage

The Cast

Pseudolus                Alan Nebola
Philia                       Sara Arnold
Hero                        John Blix
Senex                      Greg Walston
Domina                   Halane Cummings
Hysterium                Rick Murphy
Marcus Lycus          Brian Larkin
Erronius                   Ron Baldwin
Miles Gloriosus        Larry Adams-Bowers
Proteans                  Brian Seemann, Natalie Stout, Paul Blicks

Courtesans:
Tintinabula               Elise Dickerson
Panacea                   Bethany Martin
Geminae                  Beverly Adams-Bowers, Sarah Seemann
Vibrata                    Jennifer Wilder
Gymnasia                Sherry Stout

Musicians:
Piano                       Judy Mitschelen
Flute                        Judy Trygstad
Clarinet                    Barb Glime
Percussion               David Arnold       

Special guests from around the nation filled the auditorium of the Palace Theatre for the October 14 performance of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.  The entire house had been bought out the American Legion Women's Auxiliary for a presentation of the production to delegates from their national convention being held in the Amanas.  The occasion was for the installation of Sherry McLaughlin of nearby Mt. Auburn as the national president of that organization.  Sherry contacted ACT I two years earlier to book a performance of one of our shows on that specific date.

Rehearsal Photographs

                                                              Photo by Mary Horst

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