GOODBYE TO 2015!!

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At the end of every season, the Hazel Day Longden Theatre is put to bed. This year, “closing the barn” took place on Saturday, September 25. Board members and friends worked to make sure everything was cleaned and put away.

Fiona Good and Melissa Green worked on the flower beds while Ric McFadden and Jim Green painted the fences around the air conditioners.

Dustin Bond and Caroline Good worked in the shop helping to sort through a season’s worth of work and deciding what to keep.

Ric and Jim made short work of a difficult job.

Kathryn Dory worked on the box office and lobby.

TJ Tincher and Linda Gjesvold worked on painting the display letters from the front and east side of the barn. They will be stored for the winter and put back up in the spring.

Meghan Armitage helped sort and stuff the envelopes for the mailing that announced the annual meeting and the Upstage Award nominees.

Brad Sandy, Drew Brattain, Jim Rambo, Kathryn Dory, and Lita Sandy made a great team working to get the letters in the envelopes.

Shelly McFadden, Cecily Girton, and Bethany Bax joined them to finish up the job.

PCPH Board President Michael McClaine was given the most prestigious job.

The board will continue to meet in the off season to make sure that the 2016 is the best it can be.  Housekeeping and maintenance details will continue to be worked on.

No electronic equipment is kept on the premises for the off-season. No trespassing is permitted on the private property.  Camera surveillance and regular inspections by board members and local law enforcement officials help keep the facility safe.

Thanks to everyone for their great support for the 2015 season. Watch the mail in November for your Fund Drive Letter, and please make plans to join us for our 2016 season.











HAMMY FINDS ITS WAY HOME!!!

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Director Shelly McFadden & Chet Clodfelter

Upstage Award winner Chet Clodfelter was unable to attend the Annual Meeting on October 11.


Director of 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Shelly McFadden, delivered the award to him earlier this week.

Congratulations to Chet!

ANNUAL MEETING HIJINKS!!!

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Upstage Award Nominee Vickie Parker arrives.

The annual meeting of Putnam County Playhouse was held on Sunday, October 11, at 3 p.m.  Board members and friends attended to hear reports from committee chairpersons.


President Michael McClaine, Board Member Jim Green

The meeting was conducted by PCPH President Michael McClaine. Other board members present included Linda Gjesvold, Drew Brattain, Jim Green, Jim Rambo, Sandi Rossok, Jack Randall Earles, Kathryn Dory, Dustin Bond, Meghan Armitage, Beth Bax, and TJ Tincher.


Board Member, Sandi Rossok

Also present were three of the four nominees for the Upstage Award. In addition to Vickie (nominated for The Game’s Afoot), Eleanor Howard (nominated for Into the Woods), and Allison Creekmore (nominated for The Bad Seed).


Nominee Eleanor Howard with husband Brian.

Several cast members from The Bad Seed were there to support Allison’s nomination.


L-R: Nominee Allison Creekmore, Sonora Irwin, Jim Green, Denee & Kevin Irwin

Board member Beth Bax and actor Clarence Long from The Bad Seed were also in attendance.


Clarence Long and Beth Bax

At the end of the meeting, PCPH Treasurer Mark Hammer announced the winner of the Upstage Award. 


Upstage Award Winner, Chet Clodfelter

It was given to Chet Clodfelter for his role in 7 Brides for 7 Brothers.


Secretary Kathyn Dory displays the award.

The October meeting of the board was held immediately after the Annual Meeting.


Friendly chatter before the annual meeting.

Thanks to all who attended and participated!


Refreshments were served after the meeting.

Officers were elected during the regular meeting and plans for 2016 were discussed.


L-R: Jack Randall Earles, Drew Brattain, Jim Rambo

The board will meet next in December.


PCPH friend Mollie Beaumont & Board Member TJ Tincher












The Envelope Please…….

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The nominees for the 2015 Upstage Awards have been selected. The presentation of the award will be at the Annual Meeting of Putnam County Playhouse on Sunday, October 11, at 3 p.m.

The meeting will be held at the Rehearsal Center of the Hazel Day Longden Theatre in Greencastle. It is a free event, and the public is invited. Light refreshments will be served.

The Upstage Award is given annually to that performer in a small role who makes the most of that opportunity. 

And now, the nominees:

From 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Chet Clodfelter in the role of Mr. Sanders.

Chet Clodfelter:  7 Brides for 7 Brothers.

From The Bad Seed, Allison Creekmore in the role of Mrs. Daigle.


Allison Creekmore, The Bad Seed.

From Into the Woods, Eleanor Howard in the role of Granny.


Eleanor Howard, Into the Woods.

From The Game’s Afoot, Vickie Parker in the role of Martha Gillette.


Vickie Parker in The Game’s Afoot.

Congratulations to all of the nominees.  We hope we see all of you at the annual meeting!





A Talk With Vickie & Jack!

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Jack Randall Earles & Vickie Parker backstage at The Game’s Afoot.

If the history of Putnam County Playhouse could be written in the lives of two people, it might be in Vickie Knoy Parker and Jack Randall Earles. Each of them has a history with PCPH going back more than 30 years. We sat down recently to talk with them during a break in rehearsals for the current PCPH production The Game’s Afoot in which they appear onstage as acting partners for the first time in their careers.
PCPH: When did you both start your PCPH careers?

VKP: My first experience with PCPH was when I played Snow White in Jim Poor’s production in 1967. It was in DePauw’s Speech Hall with a tiny backstage area, a green room, and bats!

Newspaper photo from Vickie’s first show. (1967)
JRE: In the summer of 1979, I was working part time with my cousin Lita [Barnett] Sandy at her dance studio in downtown Greencastle. One of the other teachers had seen an audition notice for a PCPH revue called An Evening With Cole Porter. She asked me to audition with her, and I was cast as a dancer in the show.

VKP: Soon after that I switched my college major from elementary education to high school Speech, Theatre, and English.

JRE: One of the cast members in my first show was Ann Cooper. Later in the year she came to the dance studio to take some jazz dance lessons. She then asked to me to choreograph the 1980 revue Rodgers & Hart: A Celebration. I was very excited to do it. The music was great. Mark Fields, a DePauw student was the director of the show. I was also a dancer in the show.

Jack in Rodgers & Hart: A Celebration (1980)
PCPH: You’ve told us about your first shows, tell us about your first directors.

VKP: Well Jim Poor definitely gave me my love for theater. I also learned a lot from Steve Sommers, and the late Jeff Mont and the late Dr. Jim Elrod. I first worked as the assistant director to Jeff for Hello, Dolly!  That show starred my mother as Dolly Levi. Jeff taught me about the sparkle and magic of theatre, and all of my cast members know how important “sparkle” is to me.

JRE: Evelyn Robbins was my first director at PCPH. After Mark, I started working with Vickie and Jim Poor. I tell you working with them was an invaluable theatre education. I learned from them how to treat a cast with respect, how to plan a rehearsal schedule, how to block a scene, and how to make all of the elements work. They didn’t sit down and teach me – I watched and learned by following their examples. And Vickie taught me a very important lesson: During the show, a director’s place is anyplace except BACKSTAGE.

PCPH: What was the first show you directed at PCPH?

VKP: My first directing assignment was My Fair Lady [1972] in McAnally auditorium at Greencastle High School – which is now Parker Auditorium, how serendipitous is that? It was a large cast with a full orchestra, and I just jumped in with both feet!

My Fair Lady (1972) with Jim Poor as Alfred Doolittle

JRE: The first show I directed was The Pajama Game in 1984. Ann Cooper was the musical director and it was so much fun. I also did the choreography. By then I had done a couple of shows with Vickie, so I thought I knew everything! HA!

Jack (right) directing The Pajama Game. (1984)

PCPH: When did you two first meet?

JRE: Lita introduced me to Vickie, it may have been at the talent show at the Putnam County Fair. I know Lita and I visited you at your house one day when the two of you had some things to talk over, probably about a show you were doing. You had just come back from Florida and you were just so full of energy and theatre that I was hoping we would get to talk again.

VKP: I remember you became fast friends with both my mother and me. You went with us once to see the Houston Ballet at IU when they did “Swan Lake.” That was a fun evening.

PCPH: What was the first show you worked on together?

BOTH: Oklahoma!(Laughing)

VKP: In 1981, that was the first year we were out here on the property that we had been given by Mrs. Hazel Longden. We were on the outdoor stage for those first two years.

JRE: Lita was the choreographer, and you asked me to be your assistant director. I was so excited. I couldn’t wait to get started.

VKP: You played Slim.

JRE: I role I certainly couldn’t play now!

VKP: It’s been more than 30 years, but I still see you on that outdoor stage dancing, holding the ladder for my mother during the auction scene, and stealing scenes whenever you could.

JRE: I remember those performance nights, too. It was so great to work with Adeline, too. I had met her during my first show down in the basement at McAnally and she was telling me about how great PCPH was – I didn’t need much convincing.

VKP: That show is really my first real memory of getting to know you.

JRE: Vickie made us rehearse that auction scene so many times. There was one actor who just couldn’t come in on time with his bid. She didn’t want to call him out in front of everybody, so we all had to do it over and over. I can still see Adeline’s face when Vickie would yell: “Jack, get the ladder, let’s run the auction scene.” What was really great was that Act Two began just as the sun was going down behind the big barn. I could stand holding that ladder and watch Adeline as Aint Eller conducting the auction while the sun set.

Oklahoma! (1981) L-R: Greg Swearingen, Jack,Greg Pierce, Brad Sandy

VKP: Since then, you’ve performed in so many of my shows and done so many characters, but my heart always goes back to Slim.

PCPH: What is your favorite show you’ve done together?

VKP: We’ve worked on so many shows together.

JRE: I’ve enjoyed them all in one way or another.

VKP: We’ve always worked in tangent, as equals. I can’t count the number of times after everyone left the theatre, we laughed until we cried, or we were pulling our hair out, and really crying! You were my assistant for The Sound of Music in 1982, also on the outdoor stage. You became my voice of reason during rehearsals and the threatening weather. I think that’s when we began reading each other’s minds.

Vickie (center) directing Little Shop of Horrors  (1994)with Stephen Moell and Greg Stephan.

JRE: That was so great. You made me feel like my input was important to you from the first day. That gave me so much confidence. It really translated to my non-theatre life as well.

PCPH: Why do you think you work so well together?

VKP: We work well together because we have so much respect for each other. We usually come at things from two different directions, but always meet and at the crossroads and then go on the same road together. Of course we don’t always agree.

Vickie directing Kiss Me Kate ((2009)
JRE: We’re both a bit hard-headed, but we know that what’s best for the show is always the best solution. After our first couple of shows, we had kind of a shorthand going. We just had to look at each other during a rehearsal to know when something wasn’t working or when it was “right “. Mostly we just made it fun. It can’t be fun for the cast if the creative team is in turmoil.  I couldn’t wait to get to rehearsal, and I think our casts felt the same way.

PCPH: Do you have any special memory of working together?

VKP: How much time do you have? [laughs]

JRE: For me it’s been the special events, the fundraisers and the Grand Opening of the Barn.

Jack and Vickie dancing during a 1980’s fundraiser.

VKP: And all of the events during the 50th Season Celebration in 2011. Showboat (1990), Fiddler on the Roof (1991), and Camelot (1993) come to mind. All of them were such solid shows with outstanding casts.

Vickie, Jack, Peggy McClaine at the Mayor’s Proclamation in 2011.

JRE: And Annie (1984), Kiss Me Kate (1983, 2009), 42nd Street (1996), and now The Game’s Afoot. We finally get to act together on stage playing characters.

VKP: After all those years of working together offstage – I think our long standing friendship shows in our characters.

JRE: I think one of my fondest memories of working with you was when we spoke at the Remembrance of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 at Roban Park. Vickie and I read the sequence of events. It was a very difficult thing to do. When we were rehearsing it at the Playhouse, I would always break down when we got to the part about the hijacked airplane and the heroic actions of the passengers. Finally Vickie said: “This is NOT about us – you have to get through this for them.” And she was right….as usual.

Vickie & Jack at the 0/11 Remembrance. Photo by Eric Bernsee
PCPH: Do you prefer acting or directing?

VKP: Over the years, directing has been my first love because I think I direct better than I can act.  The most fun is directing AFTER auditions and before opening night! The least fun is auditions – then sitting through the show seeing things I could have done even better! However acting with you, is right up there and equal to my most fun!

JRE: I love both acting and directing –I certainly agree that the best part comes AFTER auditions and casting. Right now I’m leaning toward directing just because of my age. The old instrument doesn’t respond as quickly as it used to. But I will do both until they won’t let me do them anymore. Well, that’s not true. I will know when it’s time to stop. Adeline always said: “Don’t stay onstage until they wish you were gone – leave while they still like you.”

PCPH: What’s your favorite scene in The Game’s Afoot?

VKP: I know you enjoy saying I’m very, very OLD, but my favorite moment is when you realize you’ve said it to my face. I have to work hard to stay in character when I see the look on your face! In fact I love that whole scene. Lots of great interaction between us.

JRE:  I like that moment, too.  There’s also a scene when we say “I love you” to each other as mother and son. It seems like all of these years of working and spending time together is wrapped up in those two sentences. And we say it in front of a couple of hundred people every night!

[An insider tells us that during that scene there is an embrace, and both performers preferred the ‘face downstage’ side. Director Dustin Bond compromised and let them both have the moment, with a change in the position during the dialog.]

Vickie & Jack backstage The Sound of Music (1982)

Thanks, Vickie & Jack, for sharing your memories with us.


Vickie & Jack backstage The Game’s Afoot (2015)


IT’S A MYSTERY!!!!

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The Cast & Staff of “The Game’s Afoot.”
The Game’s Afoot ended its run on Sept. 19!


The 54thseason of Putnam County Playhouse will close with a production of Ken Ludwig’s mystery-comedy The Game’s Afoot. 

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As the play begins, we see actor William Gillette (Jack Randall Earles) and his cast onstage in a performance of his play Sherlock Holmes. A mysterious event at their curtain call sets up the rest of The Game’s Afoot to take place in Gillette’s home during a holiday celebration. He takes his role as Holmes to heart and tries to solve a real-life murder himself.

L-R: Tim Good, Vickie Parker, Jack Randall Earles, Caroline Good

Earles most recently directed The Bad Seed and has appeared in many roles at PCPH.  Last season, he played Banjo in The Man Who Came to Dinner and directed Guys & Dolls. 


L-R: Vickie Parker & Jack Randall Earles

Among his fellow actors are a married team Madge (Caroline Good) and Felix (Tim Good) and a younger duo Simon (TJ Tincher) and Aggie (Anna Harris). Added to the mix are Gillette’s feisty mother Martha (Vickie Parker), a nosy gossip columnist Daria (Karen Temple), and the local police inspector Harriet Goring (Madison King) who takes it upon herself to join Gillette’s investigation.

L-R: TJ Tincher and Anna Harris

Parker is making her return to the PCPH stage after an absence of several seasons. She has directed many productions here including Annie, 42nd Street,  Showboat, and Kiss Me Kate (twice). She is a former president of the PCPH board of directors and retired from Greencastle High School where Parker Auditorium is named in her honor.


L-R: Tim Good & Karen Temple

Tim and Caroline Good are making their third appearance together on the PCPH stage.  They also appeared in Angel Street and Blithe Spirit. Caroline has appeared in many leading roles here including Marion in The Music Man and Aldonza in Man of La Mancha.


Temple won an Upstage Award for her work in I Remember Mama and has also appeared in leading roles in such shows as Annie, Pippin, and Steel Magnolias. King also appeared in Steel Magnolias last season in the role of Annelle.

L-R: Tim Good, Caroline Good, Madison King

Director for The Game’s Afoot is Dustin Bond.  He appeared earlier this season as Adam in 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. This is his first directing assignment at PCPH.

Assistant director is Jim Green. The set is by Linda Gjesvold. Bond also designed the lights and sound for the production.

Jessica Masner is production stage manager. Brandon & Cameron Wunderlich are on the stage crew. Running the light board is Melissa Green. Hillary Johnson is running the sound board. Costumes are by Shelly McFadden.

The 2016 Season is Afoot!!

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With one production left in our 2015 season, PCPH is happy to announce its upcoming 2016 season of shows!!! Don’t miss The Game’s Afoot opening September 10!

June will bring the  musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women. With a book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland, the show opened on Broadway on January 23, 2005.  That production was nominated for a Tony (Best Actress in a Musical, Sutton Foster) and three Drama Desk Awards.  



Based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters — brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and kind-hearted Beth — and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts while the family patriarch is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio.

In July we will present the Ernest Thompson play On Golden Pond. The story of Norman and Ethel Thayer and their summer time spent at their cabin on the title body of water. A visit from their grandson, and their daughter’s impending remarriage set the stage for understanding of their own relationship. Made into an Academy-Award-winning film, we are happy to bring it once more to our stage.

Political unrest and disagreement is not new.  In August, you can see how our founding fathers created the document that started us on our way to Independence. The musical 1776 will debut on our stage. The result is inevitable – but how did it happen? Watch and listen as our country’s forefathers set forth the principles we still live by. 

The musical opened on Broadway in 1969. It has a book by Peter Stone and music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. That original production won three Tony Awards – including Best Musical. 

Full of lively songs and comedy, 1776 will give you a new appreciation for The Declaration of Independence, and those stubborn delightful people who made it happen.

The 2016 season will close with a production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple – The Female Version.  All of the fun of Oscar and Felix are revived in Olive and Florence. Can these two survive together? Or will their opposite views of life and housecleaning force them to take more drastic measures?  

When you come to see our final production of this season, the mystery-comedy The Game’s Afoot, be sure to fill out an address form to be on the mailing list for our 2016 season brochure.

Thanks for your continued support!  See you at the barn!!!










Get to Know “The Game’s Afoot” Playwright: Ken Ludwig

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Closing our season will be the mystery-comedy The Game’s Afoot or: Holmes for the Holidays.

It will be produced September 10-12 and September 16-19. Tickets go on sale Monday, September 7, at 5 p.m.

The show is being sponsored by Shuee’s Furniture and Mattress.

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The play was written by popular award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig.

Ludwig is an internationally-acclaimed playwright whose work has been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages. He has had 6 shows on Broadway and 6 in the West End. He has won two Laurence Olivier Awards, England’s highest theatre honor. He has also received three Tony Award nominations and won two Helen Hayes Awards, the Edgar Award, the SETC Distinguished Career Award, and the Edwin Forrest Award for Services to the Theatre. 

His plays have been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Bristol Old Vic. His best known plays and musicals include Lend Me A Tenor, Crazy For You, Moon Over Buffalo, Leading Ladies, Twentieth Century, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Game’s Afoot, The Fox on the Fairway, Midsummer/Jersey, The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island and The Beaux’ Stratagem.

His plays have starred Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Lynn Redgrave, Mickey Rooney, Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, Tony Shalhoub, Anne Heche, Joan Collins, and Kristin Bell.

Ken’s new book How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare was published in June 2013 by Random House, and his work has been published by the Yale Review. He has degrees from Harvard, where he studied music with Leonard Bernstein, Haverford College and Cambridge University.

For more information, please visit www.kenludwig.com.



LET’S GO INTO THE WOODS!

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The Baker (Ric McFadden), his Wife (Kayla Myer) and Cinderella (Meghan Armitage).

INTO THE WOODS ENDED ITS RUN ON AUGUST 15!!


The third production of the 54th season of Putnam County Playhouse is the musical Into the Woods.  The Tony-Award winning show has music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.


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Stage director and musical director is Lee Reberger. Pit conductor and pianist is Marilyn Burdsall Rush. She will be joined in the pit by Lynne Tweedie-Wurster on keyboard, Drew Brattain on bass guitar, and Michael McClaine playing percussion.

This is Lee’s first directorial assignment at PCPH. For the last eight years, he has been president and principal director at Community Theatre of Clay County. 

Linda Gjesvold is scenic designer. Shelly McFadden served as costume designer. Light design is by Bryan Schroder, and sound design is by Craig Armitage. Choreography is by Sarah Bond. Production stage manager is Jessica Masner.

Linda is designing sets for all four productions this season. Shelly directed and costumed the first show of the season Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

The musical is a combination of several fairy tales and what happens after “happily ever after.”

The musical originally opened on Broadway in November, 1987, and ran for 765 performances. It was nominated for ten Tony Awards and won three: Best Score (Sondheim), Best Book (Lapine), and Best Actress in a Musical (Joanna Gleason in the role of the Baker’s Wife). 

The original cast was reunited to tape the show for PBS in 1989. 

An Into the Woods revival opened on Broadway in April, 2002, and ran for 279 performances. The cast was included Vanessa Williams as The Witch. It won Tony Awards as Best Revival of a Musical and Best Lighting Design.

A London production opened in 1990, and revival was presented there in 1998. The actress playing the Baker’s Wife in both productions (Imelda Staunton, then Sophie Thompson) won the Oliver Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

The latest professional productions include an Off-Broadway version opening in January, 2015, and a production at the St. Louis MUNY that closed on July 28, 2015.

The Wife (Kayla Myer) and The Baker (Ric McFadden)

The PCPH cast is headed by Ric McFadden in the role of The Baker, and Kayla Myer playing his Wife. The Witch is played by Shelly McFadden. Other leading roles include Jack played by Cameron Callan, Jack’s Mother played by Kathi Elliott, Cinderella played by Meghan Armitage, and Andrew Ranck as the Narrator.

Jack’s Mother (Kathi Elliott) and Jack (Cameron Callan)

Other roles are Little Red Riding Hood, Samantha Flannelly; Cinderella’s stepmother, Mira Hoffman; Cinderella’s stepsisters, Hannah Brattain and Sarah Arnold; and her real parents, Jim Rambo and Robin Schneider.
Brad Sandy is The Wolf, Dale Grove is the Mysterious Man, and Eleanor Howard is Granny and the voice of the Giant. Michaela Semak is Snow White, and Chloe Hayes is Sleeping Beauty. Abe Anglin plays the Prince’s steward.

Cinderella (Meghan Armitage) and Little Red (Samantha Flannelly).


Elijah Brattain is the prince in search of Cinderella, and Jake Glidden is the prince in search of Rapunzel, played by Sarah Bond.

Elise Merrell is running the sound board, and Alex Briones is running the light board. Spotlight operators are Brandon and Cameron Wunderlich. Working on the stage crew are Rachel Lubinski and Aaron Swartz.

Jack (Cameron Callan) and The Baker (Ric McFadden).

Our 2016 season lineup will be announced during the Curtain Speech at Into the Woods!


The 54th season concludes in September with a production Ken Ludwig’s mystery-comedy The Game’s Afoot: Or Holmes for the Holidays.

CHILDREN’S THEATRE WORKSHOP THIS WEEK!

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THE CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP HAS CONCLUDED!
The Children’s Theatre Workshop is happening this week at Putnam County Playhouse.  More than 30 participants are working on two original comedy plays about famous fairy tale characters.  Director of the program is Caroline Good.  Additional teachers for the workshop are Gigi Fenlon and T.J. Tincher. Assistant directors are Bethany Bax and Eleanor Howard, who are also working on costumes for the productions.




                   
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Two stories containing familiar fairy tale characters will be presented. One is titled “The Second Act” by Susanna Howard, who is also co-directing the play with Tincher. It explores what happens to the characters after “happily ever after.” The cast for this part of the program includes Marleah Muncie, Bella Green, Rebecca Hebb, Dunkin York, Harris Weltz, Chloe Gardner, Isaac Hertenstein, Noah Barnes, and Allie Purdue.  

Also appearing are Mary Norris, Sydney Campbell, Bryce Hall, Ashley Stockall, Jenna Wehrman, Alice Howard, and Ashlyn Hall. The cast portrays such characters as the Mad Hatter, Snow White, and the Evil Queen.



The other production is “Into the Forest” directed by Good and Fenlon. It is a mash-up of what happens when fairy tale characters from many stories meet each other in the woods.  This cast includes Savannah McCoy, Hadley McCoy, Maddie McCoy, Jocelyn Gardner, Paxton O’Brien, Avery Capps, and Evie Green. 

Additional characters are played by Kyle Brentlinger, Karma Evens, Olivia Stierwalt, Maggie O’Dell Cooper, Clare Langdoe, Quinn Asbell, Orion Browser, Maisy Isaacs-Bailey, Kaitlin Welker, Sydney Shrewsbury, Ashlyn Hall, and Ian Berger. Characters in this portion of the evening include Belle, The Beast, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Prince Charming.



Both plays take place on the set of the upcoming PCPH production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods which opens August 6.

Interns working with the group are Abe Anglin, Chloe McGinity, Dylan Bodnarick, Libby Brush, Samantha Flannelly, and Bowie Foote.  Lauren Good is running the light board, and Cecily Girton is working the sound board.



The mission of the Children’s Theatre Workshop is to bring to young people the love of theatre, providing them a venue to explore their creativity, and allowing them to collaborate and express themselves on stage.