Volume 14, Number 1                  June 16, 2007

Season 2007 - 2008 Opens at the Palace Theatre  ...

Camp Creamery Presents
Kids Kabaret

Some of the cast of Kids' Kabaret pose on the steps of the
Palace Theatre in Vinton on the opening day of Camp Creamery.

It's been a busy five days for 46 young performers between the ages of 7 and 13 from Vinton, Independence, Shellsburg, Brandon, Garrison, Rowley, Newhall, and Center Point!  They have filled the Palace Theatre this week with music and dance during Camp Creamery, a week long theatre camp conducted by three members of the Old Creamery Theatre Company of Amana.  Spending nearly five hours daily with our students have been long-time Creamery actor and Associate Artistic Director Sean McCall, Company Manager Deb Kennedy, and Director of Education Jackie Wynes.  On top of their regular duties with the Creamery, this week, Sean, Deb, and Jackie have taught nine song and dance numbers to the young company, assembled a set,  and the camp experience will culminate this weekend with two performances of their production, entitled Kids' Kabaret - Saturday morning, June 16 at 11:00 pm (please note the time as a local print ad has the time wrong) and Sunday evening, June 17, at 7:00 pm.  The production is sponsored by Betterton Chiropractic.  Ticket prices are $7.00 for adults and $5.00 for students and seniors.  Please note that these ticket prices are new for this season.

Appearing in Kids' Kabaret are Claire Andreesen, Matthew Andreesen, Madi Arend, Ericka Barloon, Rachel Barloon, Sydney Bartling, Baylee Bruce, Alli Canaday, Annaclaire Chin, Lillian Chin, Autumn Diesburg, Madison Diesburg, Monet Elwick, Abby Gloede, Wesley Haefner, Hanna Haisman, Katie Hancock, Will Hancock, Aspen  Hepker, Ethan Horak, Willow Huber, Hannah Kalous, Katelin Kremer, Sam Martin, Alex Marzen, Aunna Marzen, Alexandra Maynard, Chiara Ogle, Gabriel Ogle, Calla Priebe, Holly Priebe, Janna Priebe, Emily Reisch, Joshua Ridley, Emily Robinson, Alicia Rollins, Tanner Rollins, Madi Rummel, Elliott Ryan, Abby Scheel, Collin Schlotfeldt, Beth Stainbrook, Hope Staker, Nicholas Stout, Tia Whited, and Jay Wieland.  Sean, Deb, and Jackie will perform with the ensemble as well.

Camp Creamery is a new part of the Old Creamery Theatre program this year, and is being piloted in Vinton.  It will also be offered later this season in Amana and Eldora, and will be available next year as well.  It's made for some busy days for the Creamery staffers, who have added daytime in Vinton to their regular schedule.  Jackie, who has the dual role at the Creamery of Education Director and Development Director, is also busy writing grants and carrying out other fund raising activities.  Sean and Deb, meanwhile, are currently performing several times a week in their roles in the current Creamery productions of I Hate Hamlet on the theatre's main stage in Amana as well as Sunday Funnies on the Depot Stage, as well as rehearsing for future productions.  Sean, Deb, and Jackie created Kids' Kabaret.  Recorded music was prepared by the Creamery staff, and the set is by the Old Creamery Theatre.  Assisting with the production and registration for ACT I have been Conni Huber, Joan Cooling, and Steve Arnold.  Producing Director for the Old Creamery Theatre is David Kilpatrick.

ACT I was founded in 1980 by the Old Creamery Theatre, assisted by the Creamery's long-time Producing Director Tom Johnson, who retired last year after thirty-five years as company director.  All of ACT I's original performances were at the Old Creamery Theatre in Garrison, which closed in 1995.

Meanwhile, as the Vinton camp races to complete its production, our second children's theatre summer camp production is also currently in rehearsal at the Benton Community High School auditorium in Van Horne.  Director Mary Horst is working with 45 campers to produce the musical Flying Colors, which will be performed June 29, 30, and July 1.  Kid's Kabaret is the fifteenth production of our youth program, ACT I STAGE!, which originally began in March of 1999.  Our first summer STAGE! production was in July of 1999, with The Velveteen Rabbit.  Now known as Stage One, our Vinton summer camp was joined in 2004 by Second Stage, our Van Horne summer camp, which provides a theatrical experience for students in the southern half of Benton County.

Kids' Kabaret is the opening production of ACT I's twenty-eighth season, which has the theme Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much.  In addition to Kids' Kabaret and Flying Colors, the season includes special performances of the Old Creamery's production of Greater Tuna at the Palace Theatre in September, the dinner theatre production of Ledge, Ledger, Legend at the Vinton Country Club in November, Nunsense at the Palace Theatre in March, 2008 and On Golden Pond at the Palace in May, 2008.

Rehearsal Photographs

"There's No Business Like Show Business!"

Cast members complete their final dress rehearsal Friday afternoon, June 15!

Creamery Actor Sean McCall coaches a group of students in the lobby of the Palace Theatre on Monday.

Deb Kennedy, a regular performer with the Old Creamery Theatre, works with a group
of  younger campers in the Palace Theatre green room.

The Camp Creamery Boys rehearse a rousing pirate number at the Cooling Dance Center in Vinton.

For additional information about this production, go to the Kids' Kabaret show page of this website at www.act1.org/kabaret.htm.

For additional information about this Flying Colors, go to the Flying Colors show page of this website at www.act1.org/colors.htm.

The ACT I Ticket information line and Palace Theatre Box Office number is (319) 472-9957!
Call today for Reservations for Kids Kabaret!

Main Stage Series at the Palace  ...

Moon Over Buffalo
Ends 2006 - 2007 Season in May

ACT I's Season 2006 - 2007 came to and end with the hilarious and naughty adult farce Moon Over Buffalo at the Palace Theatre in May.  Moon Over Buffalo takes place in the early 1950s and is the story of two has-been actors hoping for a revival of their careers in film.  Director David Canaday and his cast, which included Rick Primmer, Diane Maxwell, Alexander Martinez-Vasquez, Rachel Kremer, Rick Maxwell, Suzy Westlund, Peter Olander, and Jill g. Lockard-Bopp, delighted six audiences with this fast-paced slapstick comedy.  Assistant Director was Tony Bopp.

Moon Over Buffalo was sponsored by Betterton Chiropractic.  

Performance Photographs

For additional information about this production, including more photographs, go to the Cemetery Club show page of this website at www.act1.org/buffalo.htm. 

It's been a very busy week, putting a show together in just five days!  Although this is not a full length production, we hope that our families and patrons will enjoy the hard work our young people have put into creating Kids' Kabaret along with Sean McCall, Deb Kennedy, and Jackie Wynes.  It's been a great week and very enjoyable to watch this show take shape so quickly.

My apologies for the fact that our website is not yet fully updated for the new season.  I normally spend June updating the site with the finished product going online July 1.  This year, updating the site early enough to be ready for two shows opening in June has been impossible, so I don't have show pages ready to go for the new season.  Hopefully I'll have those pages ready to go in short order and the site will very soon reflect our new season rather than last year!

If you would like to be part of Grease Paint for next year, please contact me at act1ofbc@aol.com!  I would very much appreciate having some addition hands to give our newsletter a new perspective!  I've already had one or two volunteers to help with this season's Grease Paint and we'd love to have more.  And there will be a second June issue of Grease Paint out at the end of the month in time for Flying Colors in Van Horne, opening June 29!

See you at the Palace for Kid's Kabaret!

Steve

That's Grease Paint for June 16, 2007!

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