Volume 13, Number 3 November, 2006
Events Series Opens This Weekend ...
Family Album
Runs November 18 & 19
Vinton's downtown Christmas open house this weekend will feature the opening
production of this season's Events Series, the variety show Family Album.
The production is directed by Doug Martens. Sixteen acts, mostly musical
in nature, will be featured in the 90 minute production. The "family
album" theme presents the acts as though a family member is recalling the
talented members of her family.
Conni Huber hosts the program. The performers include Sheila Monson, Amber Ling, Jane Martin, Kia Monson, Allie Canaday, Katie Hancock, Sydney Monson, Willow Huber, Gina Lahue, Wired for Sound (Jan Hollingsworth, Marcia Litterer, Carla Lown, Betty Murphy), Suzanne Westlund, Brittney Werner, Rachel Kramer, Gene Spicer, Emma Clingman, Jill g. Lockard-Bopp, Tony Bopp, Eva Garloff, and Stephanie Lash. Accompanists are Judy Mitschelen, Julie Canaday, Mark Hancock, and Nikki Luchauer.
Kate Martin is the light board operator, and Perry Martens is the sound board operator. Set construction is by Ed Cardwell and Doug Martens. Penny Wirth is the House Manager.
Curtain times for Family Album are 7:00 pm on Saturday, November 18 and 2:00 pm on Sunday, November 19. All tickets are $2.00.
The production is sponsored by Clingman Pharmacy.
For additional information about this production, go to the Family Album show page of this website at www.act1.org/album.htm.
The ACT I Ticket information line and Palace Theatre Box Office number is (319) 472-9957! Call today for Reservations for Family Album!
110 in the Shade:
Main Stage Series Opener delights Eight Audiences
Our opening production of this season's Main Stage Series, 110 in the Shade, ended a successful eight performance run at Vinton's Palace Theatre in September. The play, directed by Jill g. Lockhard-Bopp with musical direction by David Canaday and Judy Trygstad, was written by N. Richard Nash, with music by Tom Jones and lyrics by Harvey Schmidt. A cast of 32 delivered a superbly well performed rendition of the musical and its charming and lilting score.
The production was sponsored by Farmers Savings Bank and Trust.
performance Photographs
For additional information about this production, including more photographs, go to the 110 in the Shade show page of this website at www.act1.org/110.htm.
On Our Stage
5 - 10 - 15 - 20 - 25 Years Ago
Five years
ago this month at the Palace Theatre, on November 10, 11, 17, and 18, ACT I
presented the original production Words and Music by Skeet Powers,
written by local musician Skeet Powers. The production was directed by Pat Lyons
Skeet Powers
Cast members were Lee Bendull, Ray Bookmeier, Lois Ewins, Bunny Feller, Lori Ferguson, Mike Ferguson, Stan Geiken, Al Harms, Gerald Horst, Marcy Horst, Pat Lyons, Hane Powers, Skeet Powers, Colleen Stufflebeam, Kathy Tranel, Bill Tucker, Don Weideman, Dan Wiley, Alan Woodhouse, and Janet Woodhouse.
The production included music, prose, and skits written by Skeet, who also wrote the musical Lovingly Yours, performed in 1986.
For additional information about this production, go to the Words and Music by Skeet Powers show page of this website at www.act1.org/skeet.htm.
25
Twenty-five years ago next month, on December 4, 5, and 6, 1981, ACT I presented the comedy Dead Eye Dick by Tom Taggert at the Old Creamery Theatre in Garrison. The production was directed by Old Creamery actor Steve Shaffer, with musical direction by Judy Mitschelen. The technical director was Barry Myers.
Dead Eye Dick
The cast included Elaine Olsen as the narrator. Judy Mitschelen was featured as Piano Annie. Calamity Jane was played by Lois Banse, and Dave Nolte was the Sherrif. Marsh Berry was featured as Blackman Redburn and Anna Bess Rice was La Paloma. Also in the cast were Richard Paulus, Dan Campbell, Theresa Juhl, Steve Corlett, Mark Mashurin, Marcia Walton, Dottie Anthony, Sally Ludden, Anne Olsen, Joe Paulus, Nancy Geiken, Barb Geissinger, and Beth Geather.
Deb Fowler was the assistant director.
For additional information about this production, including more photographs, and a complete list of cast and crew, go to the Dead Eye Dick show page of this website at www.act1.org/dick.htm.
Auditions Announced for The Cemetery Club
Auditions for The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchal will be held Sunday, January 21 at 1:00 and Monday, January 22 at 6:30 pm at the ACT I Studio above Clingman Pharmacy. The cast of five calls for four women, three of a mature age, and a mature man. Director of the production is Sue Freet, assisted by Suzy Westlund. Performance dates are March 16 - 25, 2007. The production is sponsored by the Vinton Eagle.
ACT I TRIVIA QUIZ
You Saw it On Stage in Vinton
ACT I Variety Shows are
noted for unusual acts that you probably never thought you'd see until they
happened on our stage. While it looks like this year's program may be tame
by comparison, we're not altogether certain there won't be any surprises.
Name the ACT I variety shows which included the following:
1. A photography show
2. A lecture on the involvement by Iowans in the Civil War
3. A pink remote control Barbie car scooting across the stage
4. A performance by a laser light
5. A magic trick performed by a puppet
6. A duet in which a roving finger and the word "follow" from an otherwise mute performer brought down the house.
Submit answers to: act1ofBC@aol.com or mail to:
ACT
I of Benton County Trivia
Quiz
Box 222, Vinton, Iowa 52349
REMEMBER:
You do NOT need to have all the answers in order to submit an entry!
The Music Man / 110 in the Shade
A traveling con man visits
a small town and takes up with a young local spinster. Sound
familiar? That's the basis for the plot of both this year's musical 110
in the Shade and last year's The Music Man.
Our last quiz is a single essay question. How many other similarities can you think of between these two shows?
Thank you to Sue Freet and Brian Larkin for responding!
Sue thought of several similarities:
Both plays feature a single parent and that the heroine has a younger brother with issues of acceptance who admires her.
Both feature an independent woman (for the time) who wants love but only confesses it privately.
The swindler brings something to town that is needed (not tangible) and is later arrested.
The Heroine urges the swindler to get out of town before he is arrested, and buys in to him after initial resistance.
Everyone in town buys into the swindler except for two people.
Brian added several points - Sheila Monson and Tony Bopp played the leads in both ACT I productions.
Both productions involved Jill Bopp, Linda Merritt, Gina Lahue, Sherry Stout, Brian Larkin, and David Canaday.
Both plots center around disinterested family members.
Both plays ran on Broadway and have been featured on film.
A few editorial additions:
Both plays have unlikely settings for a musical: small towns in out of the way parts of the country.
Both plays feature a train in the opening scene.
Both plays feature a single large scale musical number in which the swindler persuades nearly the entire populace of the need for his promise.
Both plays include scenes taking place on the Fourth of July.
The entire second act of 110 in the Shade takes place at night, in a single evening. Nearly the entire second act of The Music Man also takes place at night during a single evening.
That's Grease Paint for November, 2006!
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