The Third Five Years
During the next five years, ACT I began increased its season to four productions a year, and expanded the theatre experience for young performers. Dinner theatre productions were added, and two small scale musicals were mounted. ACT I continued to add new venues, and performed for the first and only time beyond the Vinton / Garrison area. Newcomers to ACT I during this period included Steve Arnold, Frank Benline, Kevin Bookmeier, Ray and Barb Bookmeier, Josh Brewer, Kyle Brewer, Dave and Stacey Bruemmer, Joan and Casey Cooling, Jessica Coulter, Le Cox, Bunny Feller, Adam Frederick, Kim, Megan, and Melissa Hanneman, Ida Higgins, Maggie Karr, Dan LaGrange, Peggy Moen, Burns Mossman, Nich Radcliffe, Matt Salger, Dakoda Sellers, Darran Sellers, Kolton Sellers, Kordereau Sellers, Beckie Stravers, Lee Tjelmeland, Patti Upmeyer, John Westergard, Kate Westergard, Rhonda Westergard, Megan Williams, Stacy Williams, and Ed Yedlik.
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Daddy's
Dyin,' Who's Got the Will?
by Del Shores
April 18 - 21, 1991
Old Creamery Theatre Main Stage
Director: Eric Upmeyer
Cheating
Cheaters
by John Patrick
October 17 - 20, 1991
Old Creamery Theatre Brenton Stage, Garrison
Director: Jillian g.
Lockard-Bopp
Dancers
by Michael Grady
April 30 - May 3, 1992
Old Creamery Theatre Main Stage, Garrison
Director: Nancy Beckman
The
Odd Couple
(female version)
by Neil
Simon
June 24 - 27, 1993
Tilford Middle School Auditorium, Vinton
Director: Steve Arnold
The
Night of
January 16th
by Ann Rand
November 10 - 14, 1993
Old Creamery Theatre Main Stage, Garrison
Director: Faith Anne
Brown
Technical Director: Mary Dee Phillips
Bridge
to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson and
Stephanie Tolan
Music by Steve Liebman
based on the novel by Katherine Paterson
This show was a high risk choice - a children's musical with serious themes and a tragic ending, a difficult musical score and three very demanding youth roles. Recruiting boys proved a challenge but once the cast was assembled everyone working the show knew we were dealing with something very special. The show mixed an earthy realism with mystical fantasy as the story unfolded of Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke, two misfit children who create the imaginary Kingdom of Terabithia in a corner of the Virginia countryside. Audiences were enchanted and ACT I's youth program was successfully launched.
Twigs
by George Furth
September 16 - 25, 1994
Old Creamery Theatre Brenton Stage, Garrison
Director: Steve Arnold
Technical Director: Mary Dee Phillips
The Best
Christmas
Pageant Ever
by Barbara Robinson
November 11 - 20, 1994
Old Creamery Theatre Main Stage, Garrison
Director and Musical
Director: Steve Arnold
Technical Director: Mary Dee Phillips
Few shows have contained such emotional highs and lows as this one. Little did we know when the show was scheduled that by participating in the story of those budding young criminals, the Herdmans, most of our young cast would have their first experience as victims of a crime. No one involved with the show will ever forget the night the cast (including 30 children) arrived at the Creamery for a midweek brush between the two weekends of the run to discover the theatre had been broken into and ransacked, leaving ACT I with several hundred dollars worth of missing equipment. Adults in the group spent time calming the young performers who were filled with a sense of violation and fear that the thieves would return to harm them. But the community quickly rallied around the show and the second week played to three packed houses. And it gave the director great pleasure to be able to announce from the stage just before curtain Saturday night that "The thieves have been caught!"
Said the Spider to the Spy
by Fred Carmichal
March 10 - 19, 1995
Tara Hills Country Club - Dinner Theatre, Van Horne
with additional performances at Tilford Middle School, Vinton
Director: Ed Yedlik
Technical Director: Mary Dee Phillips
The Miracle Worker
by
William Gibson
May 5 - 14, 1995
The Old Creamery Theatre Main Stage, Garrison
Director: Steve Arnold
Technical Director: Mary Dee Phillips
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