This year the Annual Meeting of the Putnam County Playhouse, Inc., will be on Sunday, October 3, at 2 p.m.
The meeting will be in the Hazel Day Longden Theatre.Social distancing and masks will be followed. Because of protocols, refreshments will not be served this year.
This letter to you from our outgoing President Michael McClaine explains the details!
The prestigious HAMMY/UPSTAGE Award will also be presented at the meeting. Our nominees from our three productions this season are:
Jack Randall Earles as Louis XI in Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Ashlee Anne Vitz as Alma in Pillow Talk.
Jack Randall Earles as Wilbur C. Henderson in You Can’t Take It With You.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this unusual season a success. We are all looking forward to our 2022 season, and we hope you are, too!
As the 2021 60th Anniversary Season of Putnam County Playhouse comes to an end, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our supporters for all they have done for us.
To our audiences – THANK YOU for attending our productions!
To those who contributed to our 2021 Fund Drive – THANK YOU!
To all of those who worked on our shows & workshops, THANK YOU!
Sandi Rossok as Gay Wellington & Jack Randall Earles as Boris Kolenkhov
The final show of the 60th season at Putnam County Playhouse is now open! You can call the box office at 765-653-5880 after 5 p.m daily [except Sunday]. All performances begin at 8 p.m. and all tickets are $10. The Pulitzer-prize winning comedy You Can’t Take It With You will be presented September 7-11 and September 14-18. Limited seating is available.
The leading role of Martin Vanderhof, an iconoclastic grandfather bent on tilting windmills, is acted by Ric McFadden. The place is New York City and the time in 1938 or so. Vanderhof and his family including daughter Penny (Shelly McFadden), son-in-law Paul (Michael McClaine) and grand daughters Essie (Hannah Lafever) and Alice (Anna Harris) all live in worlds of their own making. His other son-in-law Ed (Bart Jones) plays the xylophone and sells candy on the side.
Ric McFadden as Martin Vanderhof
Also involved in the house are the servants Rheba (Morgan Asher) and Donald (Noah D. Pettit). Mr. De Pinna (Jim Rambo) helps Paul with creating fireworks and Boris Kolenkhov (Jack Randall Earles) visits regularly to help Essie with her dancing.
R-L Michael McClaine as Paul, Bart Jones as Ed, Jim Rambo as Mr. De Pinna
When daughter Alice falls in love with Anthony Kirby, Jr. (Cameron Wunderlich), the delicate imbalance of the household is thrown into a whirl. An invitation to dinner offered to the senior Kirbys (Holly Pritchett & Dustin Bond) begins a night of chaos that even the Vanderhof-Sycamores are unable to set right.
L-R: Holly Pritchett & Dustin Bond as Mr. and Mrs. Kirby
Can love survive? Will Tony and Alice finally get together?
Anna Harris as Alice Sycamore & Cameron Wunderlich as Tony Kirby, Jr.
Sometimes even a Mrs. Fix-It like Penny is unable to come up with a solution. And what about the visiting Russian Grand Duchess (Karen Temple), the G-Men (Ethan Lawler), and Gay Wellington (Sandi Rossok), an actress who enjoys her whiskey?
Shelly McFadden as Penny Sycamore
Directed by Dustin Bond who also did the lighting design. Linda Gjesvold did the set design. Ruby Sullivan is the light board operator.
Standing L-R: Bart Jones, Hannah Lafever, Morgan Asher, Shelly McFadden, Cameron Wunderlich, Anna Harris. Seated L-R: Ric McFadden, Michael McClaine.
Did we mention the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina, a cousin to the Czar of all the Russias?
