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LOVE LETTERS
In its first production of 2006, Endless Mountains Theatre Company teamed up with Endless Mountains Council of the Arts. A.R. Gurney's Love Letters was presented as a
special "dessert theater" experience!
Love Letters is a play in which emotional complexity complements theatrical simplicity. Two performers, a minimal set . . . and a story rich in character development and love. It's a heartwarming and heart-wrenching story of a lifelong attachment -- told entirely through correspondence.
EMTC revived the play on Mother's Day weekend, 2006, as a dinner-theatre production.
Presented February 10, 2006 at the Rosemont Inn (Montrose, PA), February 11, 2006 at the EMCA Center (Tunkhannock, PA), and May 13-14 at P.J. O'Hare's (Susquehanna, PA).
Directed by Dianna Wayman.
Cast:
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III: Dean Hutchins
Melissa Gardner: June Wootton
I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
Our locally-produced version of the smash
comedy-musical revue that has run for over a decade in New York!
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, written by Joe DiPietro and
Jimmy Roberts, is a much-beloved sendup of romance -- from dating to
in-laws -- in which a small, talented cast tackles over 60 roles. If you do the math, you'll find that this means each of our four cast members played an average of 15 parts!
EMTC's production took place at the Basil
Leaf Restaurant (Montrose, PA) on April 21-22, 2006,and at Blue Ridge High School (New Milford, PA) on April 29-30, 2006.
Directed by Bonnie Love.
Cast:
Tori Arnau, Bob DeLuca, Tim Hutchins, Jessica Williams
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L. to R. Bob DeLuca, Jessica Williams, Tim Hutchins, Tori Arnau.
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THE SOUND OF MUSIC
This summer, the Endless Mountains came alive with The Sound of Music. Yes, this was the big one, folks -- the world's most famous musical, a heartwarming story of love, courage, and spirit that's bursting with song. It's a show that theatre-lovers the world over can never get enough of, with songs by Broadway's most celebrated classic team — Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. (Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.)
The Sound of Music ran June 23-25, 2006 at Blue Ridge High School (New Milford, PA).
Directed by Tim Hutchins.
Cast:
Maria Rainer: Jennifer Geary
The Mother Abbess: Malinda VanGorden
Sister Berthe: Jaelynne Goff
Sister Margaretta: Cathy Holleran
Sister Sophia: Bethany Page
Captain Georg von Trapp: Dean Hutchins
Franz: Ricky Hutchins
Frau Schmidt: June Wootton
Liesl: Melina Smart
Friedrich: Tim Stonier
Louisa: Tiffany Jhingoor
Kurt: Mike Romano
Brigitta: Rachel St. Pierre
Marta: Vikki Hartt
Gretl: AlexAndria Creamer
Rolf Gruber: Josh Hartman
Elsa Schraeder: Christina Stango
Ursula: Maria Fancher
Max Detweiler: Bob DeLuca
Herr Zeller: David Schmidt
Baroness Elberfeld: Sarah Raub
A New Postulant: Tegan Aherne
Admiral von Schreiber: James Treible
Nuns and Party Guests: Nicole Keklak, Victoria Pritchyk, Nick Sirianni, Candy Geary, Jordan VanCott
The Bishop: A Cameo Appearance by Colin Dixon
| RIGHT: Postulant Maria [Jennifer Geary, far left] bids farewell to the Sisters [l. to r. Cathy Holleran, Bethany Page, Nicole Keklak, Victoria Pritchyk].
BELOW: The cast. [Back row, L. to R. Nicole Keklak, Bethany Page, June Wootton, Rachel St. Pierre, Vikki Hartt, Melina Smart, Dean Hutchins, Jennifer Geary, Tiffany Jhingoor, Tim Stonier, Michael Romano, Bob DeLuca, Christina Stango, Victoria Pritchyk, Cathy Holleran. Front row: Alex Creamer.]
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PERIL ON THE HIGH SEAS
A century ago, "melodramas" were serious stories of heroes, heroines, villains, adventure, danger, rescue, and love.
In contemporary theatre circles, melodramas are alive and well . . . but with a twist. Nowadays, it's all played for laughs, and a melodrama like Billy St. John's Peril on the High Seas is nothing short of an over-the-top send-up of the corny heroes-meet-villains premise. Peril on the High Seas took place on a 1920's ocean liner, complete with ditzy flappers, pesky tourists, Hollywood celebrities, British nobility, and that smarmy entertainment director.
Peril on the High Seas ran August 11-13, 2006 at Mountain View High School (Kingsley, PA).
Directed by Dianna Wayman.
Cast:
Announcer (voice): Bob DeLuca
Andrew (voice): David Schmidt
Mitzi: Sarah Raub
Ritzy: Maria Fancher
Ditzy: Caity Goff
Hedda Hooper: June Wootton
Mary Pickaxe: Tegan Aherne
Wanda Ketchum: Suzanne St. Pierre
Sgt. Willy Ketchum: David Schmidt
Merry Ann Sweet: Cassandra Bednarchik
Bea Goode: Jaelynne Goff
Aracnia Webb: Tori Arnau
Captain Barney Kuhl: Joe Kulyeshie
Skeet Suiter: Jonathan Caws-Elwitt
Cary De Mille: Tim Stonier
Snively Swine/Sir Reginald Rottentot: Colin Dixon
LUST, LUGERS, AND LARCENY
EMTC closed their 2006 season with a hard-boiled detective yarn authored by local playwright David Schmidt!
It is the 1940's, the era of hard-boiled detectives and gangsters. Private Detective Nick Holliday and his girl Friday, Dora Chase, are hired by a grieving widow, Kathleen Neuman, to find her husband's murderer. A routine case quickly becomes anything but for Nick and Dora when they run afoul of gangsters and learn the existence of a criminal mastermind calling himself The Sicilian. As the play progresses, Nick battles hired thugs and encounters an array of odd characters.
"I have been a fan of the hard-boiled detective for as long as I can remember," explains Schmidt, a theatre veteran who has been active with EMTC as a performer since 2002. He notes that his interest in the genre extends from the big names (Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett) to the lesser-known authors of stories in the pulp magazines of the 1930's and 1940's.
Read an interview with the playwright!
Lust, Lugers, and Larceny was performed September 22-23 at Montrose Area High School (Montrose PA).
Directed by David Schmidt.
Cast:
Nick Holiday: Mark Wayman
Dora Chase: Dianna Wayman
Kathleen Neuman: Tori Arnau
Alysan Asher: Liz Baessler
Linda Shields: June J. Wootton
Gwendolyn Leigh: Bonnie Love
Ricco: James Treible
Rocco: David Schmidt
Tony Delucci: Bob DeLuca
Eduardo Cardoni: David Schmidt
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Thug Ricco [James Treible] menaces hero Nick Holliday [Mark Wayman] and suspect Gwendolyn Leigh [Bonnie Love].
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