Past Productions 2000

YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN

EMTC's first full-length musical was the classic, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, an endearing show by Clark Gessner that is based on the Charles M. Schulz characters everyone knows and loves. The play's vignettes explore the touching, funny, familiar conflicts and predicaments of the "Peanuts" gang.

Produced June 30-July 1, 2000 at Blue Ridge High School.
Directed by Andrea Lang.

Cast: CHARLIE BROWN: Michael Riecke LUCY: Stephanie DeVincentis LINUS: Brian Winnie SCHROEDER: Joseph Bednarchik PATTY: Ashley Biefeldt SNOOPY: Ryan Latz

Clockwise from top center: Ryan Latz as Snoopy, Ashley Biefeldt as Patty, Stephanie DeVincentis as Lucy, Joseph Bednarchik as Schroeder, Brian Winnie as Linus, Michael Riecke as Charlie Brown.

EMTC AND FRIENDS

EMTC returned to Salt Spring State Park on Sept. 2, 2000, once again taking part in the annual Salt Springs Festival of Art and Music.  As in 1999, EMTC's show-stopping contribution to this "Arts in the Park" event incorporated performing artists from the Philadelphia area, along with EMTC's stable of local talent.  (And when we say "stable", we mean it -- in the best "summer stock" tradition, theater at Salt Spring is as likely as not to be staged in a barn!)  Added to the musical revue was a "sneak preview" of a scene from EMTC's upcoming production of Steel Magnolias.

EMTC and Friends directed by Andrea Lang; Steel Magnolias directed by Margaret Jones.

Cast (STEEL MAGNOLIAS  PREVIEW):
TRUVY: Loreda Everett
ANNELLE: Kitrina Phillips
CLAIREE: Lynette Daniels
SHELBY: Ashley Biefeldt
M'LYNN: Alison Latz
OUISER: Lori Sampson

Songs:
"I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT"
"ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE"
"SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE"
"A BOY LIKE THAT"
"TAKE ME TO THE WORLD"
"NOT WHILE I'M AROUND"
"COULD I LEAVE YOU"
"NO ONE IS ALONE"
"CAN'T SAY NO"
"BALI H'AI"
"WHEN THE CHILDREN ARE ASLEEP"
"IF I LOVED YOU"
"I HATE MEN"
"WUNDERBAR"
"LES MISERABLES (SELECTIONS)"
"IT'S ALL THE SAME"
"ALL I ASK OF YOU"
"A BIT OF EARTH"
"LILLY'S EYES"

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

This play by Robert Harling takes place in a beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Outspoken, wisecracking hairdresser Truvy spends her time dispensing shampoos and advice to her regular
customers -- an assortment of witty and intelligent women.  As the action of the play moves from comedy to tragedy, the ladies draw on one another's strengths and love to see themselves through.

Presented Sept. 15-17, 2000 at the Montrose Theater.
Directed by Margaret Jones.

Cast:
TRUVY: Karen Plevinsky
ANNELLE: Kitrina Phillips
CLAIREE: Lynette Daniels
SHELBY: Ashley Biefeldt
M'LYNN: Alison Latz
OUISER: Lori Sampson