2004-2005 Season
2004-2005 Season
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Our Novice Comedy Production
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Sep 30 & Oct 1, 2004 7pm The
Munster Theatre Company
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Munster High School is pleased to present its first production of the
season, the Woody Allen comedy Play
It Again, Sam Produced by Larry A
Brechner and Assistant Produced Carol
Lynn Brechner, this full-length, student directed production will
feature the solo
directing debut of Munster High School senior Erica Ranade, with associate director Jenna
Candiano, and
assistant director
Kim Dooly. The
Novice production features the talents of twelve Freshman and Sophomore actors
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Play It Again, Sam follows the romantic trials and life of a San Francisco movie buff and film critic, Allan Felix (Eric LaMagdeleine). He is neurotic, shy, fanatical about films, and obsessed over the 1942 film, Casablanca. He tries to model his behavior after the personality of its tough guy actor Humphrey Bogart (Justin Basile). Allan's wife Nancy Felix (Julianne Watterson) deserts him at the start of the play because she tells him, "...you're one of life's great watchers...I'm not like that, I'm a doer..." His married friends, Dick Christie (Bennis Pavisian) and Linda (Amanda Kilbarda) agree to help him find another woman. They parade a variety of different women for Allan while Bogart seen only be him advises Allan in his quest for love. Play It Again, Sam will run Thursday and Friday, September 30 & October 1 at 7pm in the Munster Auditorium. Tickets are $4 at the door are available at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or by calling: (219) 836-3200 x245 or my email MunAud Box Office. |
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A Fall Musical presentation
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Tickets are
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The Munster Theatre Company (the Performing Arts
Department of Munster High School) is pleased to present it fall musical, WORKING.
The Production and Directing Staff include: Larry A Brechner,
Producer/Director; Dr. Timothy Bartlett Music/Orchestra Director; Carol
Lynn Brechner, Assistant Director,
William Woods, accompanist, and Jen Dubish, Student Director The focus of
this unique, extraordinary musical, because it celebrates the
hopes, dreams, joys and concerns of the average working American. That the
everyday lives of “common” men and women should be so compelling and
moving will surprise and inspire anyone who has ever punched a time clock
or worked for a living. WORKING is presented through a series
of twenty-eight vignettes, presented both as songs and monologs, that
takes the audience of a unique journey through a typical workday. Based
on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American
workers, WORKING paints a vivid portrait of the men and
women the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the parking
lot attendant, the waitress, the millworker, the mason, the trucker, the
fireman, the housewife, just to name a few. It’s a highly original look
at the American landscape that’s simply impossible to forget. The original production was adapted for the stage by
Broadway and film composer/lyrist, Stephen Schwartz, who is best
known for Godspell, Pippin, Children of Eden, Prince of Egypt,
Pocahontas and most recently for his current Broadway hit, Wicked.
Schwartz brings the songwriting talents of notable pop artists
including James Taylor, Mikki Grant, Craig Carnelia, Susan Birkenhead,
and Mary Rodgers blended together with his own talents into
a moving score. Originally produced on Broadway and Off-Broadway in 1978,
PBS American Playhouse did a television version in 1982 featuring Barry
Bostwick, Rita Moreno, James Taylor, and other notable stars of the
stage, screen and television. The
Munster Theatre Company production of WORKING will
feature an ensemble of cast over thirty veterans and newcomers in its
version. The Fall Musical will run Thursday, November 11; Friday, November 12; Saturday, November 13 at 7pm, and Sunday, November 14 at 2pm in Munster Auditorium. Tickets are $6 in advance or $7 at the door (senior and student tickets $5) and are available at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or in advance by calling: (219) 836-3200 x245, by email at MunAud Box Office or auditorium@iname.com. |
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Our
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February 10-12 2005 at 7pm Neil Simon's Rumors tells the tale of the 10th wedding anniversary of the Deputy Mayor of New York City, Charley Brock (Joel Barnes), and his wife, Myra (Byrn Carter). However, the happy occasion soon sours -- the deputy mayor is found still breathing but with a bullet wound in his ear, and his wife is missing. Ken Gorman (Eric LaMagdeleine), Charley‘s friend and lawyer and his wife Chris (Erica Ranade) find Charley in this state at arrival of the party. They know they must cover this up or it may be bad press considering the fact re-elections are coming up soon. Soon more guests arrive including Lenny and Clare Ganz (Pat Thomas and Paige Popravak), Ernie and Cookie Cusack (Scott Vandersteen and Genevieve Grdina), Glenn and Cassie Cooper (Jordan Barnes and Jennifer Dubish), and soon nobody can separate the different stories of what is fact or fiction. The cover-up unravels in a storm of slamming doors and hilarity.
Tickets are
available at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or by
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May 5-7, 2005 7pm
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The Munster Theatre Company
(the Performing Arts Department of Munster High School) is pleased to
present the Lerner and Loewe timeless musical, Brigadoon.
The Production and
Directing Staff include: Larry A Brechner, Producer/Director; Dr.
Timothy Bartlett, Music/Orchestra Director; Carol Lynn Brechner,
Assistant Director; William Woods, Accompanist, Saba Ahmed,
Student Director; and Kimberly Dooley, Student Choreographer. |
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"Once in the Highlands, the Highlands of Scotland, two weary hunters lost their way." It is this desolate situation which Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, two young New Yorkers, are contemplating when the curtain rises on a misty glen in Scotland.Set in the present, two weary hunters from New York, Tommy Albright (Scott Vandersteen) and Jeff Douglas (Scott Goodwin) have lost their way in the Highlands of Scotland. As morning mist clears, a village is revealed in the glen. |
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For Jeff the encounter is enlivened by his reluctant entanglement with the bawdy milkmaid, Meg Brockie (Lyndsay Langbehn) who steals him away to a shed overloking the glen. Tommy is puzzled by several things that are out of place, and along with Jeff is taken by Fiona to the village schoolmaster Mr. Lundie (Martin Blumberg) who reveals to them the awakening miracle of Brigadoon; a village which comes into being for only one day in each century. |
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The blissful wedding occasion is interrupted when Harry Beaton (Jordan Barnes), Jeannie's rejected suitor, threatens to leave the village, ending the miracle for all the villagers. Harry is stopped and with close of the day at hand, Tommy is still unable to commit himself without doubt or regret to Fiona and to Brigadoon. Tommy leaves with Jeff for America. Restless and unhappy in New York with fiancée Jane Ashton (Alyssa Larimer), Tommy finally yields to the haunting memory of Fiona and, guided by the faith and strength of his love, finds his way back to Brigadoon. |
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The
Brigadoon will
run Thursday
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May 5-7;at 7pm, and Sunday, May
8 at 2pm in Munster Auditorium.
Tickets are $7 in advance or $8 at the door (Student & Senior
tickets are $5) and are available at the Auditorium Box Office on
performance nights or in advance by calling: |
For ticket information
Box Office Manager
Deb Kelley
(219) 836-3200 x245
Email:
Box Office
AOL IM - MunTickets
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This season we are now
accepting the WYIN-TV PBS 56 MemberCard |
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