2006-2007 Season
2006-2007 Season
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Our Novice Production
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Sep 28 & 29, 2006 7pm The
Munster Theatre Company
of Munster High School is pleased to
present its first production of the season, the Neil Simon comedy,
California Suite 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 seniors
Mike Konopasek and Danielle Troumouliaris. The
Novice production features the talents of twelve Freshman and Sophomore actors
(or Juniors or Seniors who have never been on stage before in a major
role).
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The Neil Simon comedy follows the format of his successful play, Plaza Suite, where the action is set in a hotel room involving four different stories. It's a humorous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadelphia, Visitor from London and Visitors from Chicago. |
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In the “Visitor from New York” scene, a magazine writer, Hannah Warren (Alisa Bochnowski) is visited by her ex-husband, William (Kyle Pucalik) before going home. The question with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? |
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The “Visitor from Philadelphia” concerns a wife, Millie (Stephanie Sepiol) who arrives at the hotel suite before her husband, Marvin (Hunter Muckel), can get rid of the drunken girl, Candi (Kayle Goldsmith) who unknown to him stayed in his room overnight after a party. Tony Campana also appears as the deadpan butler. |
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“Visitor from London” concerns a British film star, Diana (Hannah Korowski) on her way to the Academy Award ceremonies. She returns without an Oscar and with a husband, Mort (Adam Goodwin), whose eccentricities will be no comfort tonight. |
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The “Visitors from Chicago” two couples; Stu and Gert Franklyn (Doug Johnson and Ali Blanchard) and Mort and Beth Hollander (Paul Bainbridge and Jelena Grozdanich) are winding up a vacation they should not have shared. Forced to do things the other couple want to do they end up miserable and hating each other. |
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California Suite will run Thursday and Friday, September 28 & 29 at 7pm in the Munster Auditorium. Tickets are $5 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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WWTC
presents a Fall Production |
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The Production and Directing Staff include: Larry A Brechner, Producer/Director; Dr. Timothy Bartlett Music/Orchestra Director; and Carol Lynn Brechner, Assistant Director. The Munster Theatre Company production of Once Upon A Mattress will feature an ensemble of cast nearly thirty veterans and newcomers in its version. |
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If you thought you knew the story of "The Princess and The Pea," you may be in for a walloping surprise! Queen Aggravain (Danielle Tromouliaris) has set impossible standards to prevent any princess from qualifying as a bride for her son Prince Dauntless the Drab (Mike Konopasek). |
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No one in the kingdom can marry until Prince Dauntless finds a bride so everyone in the kingdom is anxious for a princess to succeed. Especially Lady Larken (Molly White) whose love for Sir Harry (Clarke Remmers) has provided a rather compelling reason that she quickly reach the bridal altar because she is pregnant. |
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After twelve Princesses failed these impossible tests, Sir Harry returns with an ambitious 13th candidate, Princess Winnifred the Wobegon of the Swamps (Katie Taylor) actually swims the moat to reach the castle. |
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A visiting Minstrel (Jenny Eskander) retells the actual story of The Princess and the Pea, but actually becomes involved in the plight of Lady Larken, who after a fight with Sir Harry contemplates leaving the Kingdom. |
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The court comedy is sustained by the shenanigans of the Minstrel (Jenny Eskander), the Wizard (Pat Pohrte) and the Jester (Doug Johnson) adds to the manipulations to avoid the queen’s wrath.
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King Seximus (Joel Schneider) cannot speak because of a magical curse, but communicates through hilarious pantomimes that are especially showcased in the song, “Man to Man,” where he has to explain the facts of life to his son Dauntless. |
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Once Upon a Mattress opened in November of 1959 on Broadway starring Carol Burnett as Winnifred and ran for over 240 performances. It also featured the Broadway debut of composer Mary Rodgers, daughter of Richard Rodgers. |
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A 1996 Broadway revival cast Sarah Jessica Parker as Winnifred and Jane Krakowski as Lady Larken. It has been adapted for television three times, first in 1964 and later in a modified version in 1972 with Burnett reprising her role as Winnifred. The third in 2005 was a made for television version produced by Carol Burnett for ABC/Disney who also starred as the Queen Aggravain and featured Tracey Ullman as Winnifred. |
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Once Upon A Mattress will run Thursday, November 9; Friday, November 10; Saturday, November 11 at 7pm, and Sunday, November 12 at 2pm in Munster Auditorium. Adult tickets are $7 (senior and student tickets $5) and our new special “SHOWPAK” with one ticket for each performance is only $25. Tickets 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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Produced by Larry A Brechner, this full-length, student-directed production will feature the solo directing debut of Munster High School Joel Schneider, and Mallory McShane serving as Assistant Director. |
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Stella Devine (Alyssa Larimer) is the aging star of the popular Ritz Theatre. She and her fellow company of actors are preparing for the epic play "Civil War Darlin's," directed by Colin (Justin Newman) and written by the theater's acclaimed playwright in residence, Micole (Tieg Alexander), who has written starring roles for Stella for 20 years. |
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Ginger (Danielle
Troumouliaris), a "sweet Southern belle" from
Georgia, visits a rehearsal pretending to be a struggling waitress who is
trying to raise money to get back home. Ginger cons her way into the part
written for the famous star. |
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Meanwhile, Billy (Adam Bobeck), disguised as a visiting foreigner Cortez, is actually an unscrupulous tabloid newspaper reporter looking for a scoop, with his girlfriend Loeta (Stephanie Sepiol). They hope to catch Stella throwing a tyrannical fit so they can sensationalize her in a national tabloid.But instead they uncover Ginger's evil ploy and set out to expose her diabolical scheme to oust Stella. |
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Throw in set of twins played by the same person, Brad and Chad (Jordan Huckaby); Trevor (Russell Gonzalez), a bad actor (with a bad toupee) who thinks he really is fighting the Civil War; Dash Tippet (Mike Konopasek) the handsome, self-absorbed leading man; Lori (Hannah Kurkowski) the a dim-witted beauty of the stage; Linda (Alyssa Spungen) her overbearing stage mother, plus a host of extras and you have a fun, delightful backstage comedy that's different than anything you've ever seen before! |
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The show
will run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday February 8, 9, and 10 2007 at 7pm
in the Munster Auditorium. All Tickets are xx at the door and are available
at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or by calling: (219)
836-3200 x245 or visit our web site at www.munaud.org
Tickets are
available at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or by
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Wilbur
Wright Theatre Company
February 22, 23, & 24, 2007 at 7pm |
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MAME |
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May 3-6, 2007 7pm
Adult tickets
are $7
The Munster Theatre Company (the Performing Arts Department of Munster High School) is pleased to present MAME. 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, Mallory McShane, Student Director/Choreographer, and Jelena Grozdanich as Co-Choreographer. |
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MAME is based the real-life adventures around eccentric Mame Dennis (Alyssa Larimer), whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10 year-old son, Patrick (Michael Wadas) is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo - "Life is a banquet." |
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With the depression wiping out her fortune and Patrick’s bank trustee, Babcock (Pat Pohrte) forcibly sending him away to boarding school, Mame has to find a job for the first time in her life, |
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Her best friend Vera Charles (Danielle Troumouliaris), a grande dame of theater, offers a job in her new operetta that goes disastrously. |
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Mame eventually meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside the third (Kenn O’Drobinak), a southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood. With Young Patrick at boarding school, Mame and Beau travel the world on an endless honeymoon, which tragically ends when Beau falls off an Alp.
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Mame returns home where publisher friend Lindsay (Doug Johnson) has hired a secretary, Agnes Gooch (Stephanie Sepiol) to help Mame write her memoirs. Reunited with Vera, they dress-up the nerdy Gooch and launch her into the world of men. |
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She also finds older Patrick (Michael Konopasek) has become a priggish snob, engaged to an empty-headed debutante, Gloria (Olivia Yates) the daughter of Claude (Clark Remmers) and Doris (Kathryn Wadas) Upson. Mame brings Patrick to his senses in time, and introduces him to the woman, Pegeen (Jenny Eskander) who will eventually become his wife. As the story ends, Mame prepares to take Patrick's young son, Michael to India. |
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The Munster Theatre Company production of MAME will feature a cast of over sixty veterans and newcomers including: Alyssa Larimer as Mame, Danielle Troumouliaris as Vera, Mike Konopasek as Older Patrick, Michael Wadas as Young Patrick, Pat Pohrte as Babcock, David Blumberg as Ito, Kim Wiers as Nora, Stephanie Sepiol as Agnes Gooch Kenn O’Drobinak as Beau, plus will feature Kathryn Wadas, Clarke Remmers, Sarah Meggers, Olivia Yates, Doug Johnson, Mark Knight, Paul Bainbridge, Madolyn Hedin, Jenny Eskander, and Adam Goodwin. MAME is adapted from the play Auntie Mame by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, which was based on the novel about his eccentric aunt by Patrick Dennis. The Jerry Herman score is packed full of classic Broadway hits including: “Mame”, “We Need a Little Christmas”, “My Best Girl”, “If He Walked into My Life”, “It’s Today and many others. MAME opened on Broadway in 1966 starring Angela Langbury as Mame and Beatrice Arthur as Vera, running for over 1500 performances. The 1974 motion picture version starred Lucille Ball as Mame and featured Robert Preston as Beau with Arthur reprising her Broadway role as Vera. MAME will run Thursday, May 3; Friday, May 4; Saturday, May 5 at 7pm, and Sunday, May 6 at 2pm in Munster Auditorium. Tickets are $7 (senior and student tickets are $5) plus our new special “SHOWPAK” with one ticket for each performance is only $25. Tickets are available at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or in advance by calling: (219) 836-3200 x245, by email at auditorium@iname.com.
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For ticket information
Box Office Manager
Anne Kinser
(219) 836-3200 x245
Email:
Box Office
AOL IM - MunTickets
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