Trial of Scrooge Program
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Oregon City High School Theatre Arts Department Audience Upcoming Events: Information No food or drink allowed in Lost in Yonkers theater - we want to keep our theater looking beautiful. By Neil Simon February 28 and Please do not talk during the performance - we want March 1, 2 & 3, 2018 everyone in the audience to hear every word spoken on It's 1942 and Jake and Arty's father has to take a stage. job on the road to save up enough money so they can afford their own home, so he leaves Please turn off all cellular them at his mother's home in Yonkers, New York. Can two teenage boys survive a summer phones before the living with their crabby & cantankerous performance begins and grandmother, gangster uncle and crazy but again after intermission. lovable Aunt Bella? A heart-warming comedy, with a dash of drama, by the master of laughs Please do not take flash Neil Simon. Directed by Karlyn Love and photographs during the presented in our Black Box Theatre. performance - it is distracting (and sometimes dangerous) for the actors on stage. Sarah, Plain No video tripods or power cords - it is unsafe to block any and Tall aisle. Also please do not use By Patricia MacLachlan camera lights or LCD screens when taping. May 16, 17, 18 &19, 2018 Please remove noisy children Sarah Wheaton is a single woman living in from the theater - we want Maine with her brother and his new wife and everyone in the audience to be feels she needs to make a change. Jacob Witting able to enjoy the show. is a farmer in Kansas who has lost his wife and needs help working his farm and raising his two Please keep the aisles clear young children, Anna & Caleb. Sarah answers during the performance for his ad in the newspaper for a wife and a mother actor entrances and exits. and they agree to a month long trial. Anna & Caleb wait and wonder.... will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay? Based on the Please notify the house beloved young adult novel by Patricia manager or an usher MacLachlan, this family friendly story will immediately if you have a warm the hearts of all ages. Directed by Karlyn problem. Love and presented in our Main Stage Theatre. Letter from the Director Production Crew A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is one of our most enduring stories during the holiday season. We produced our own production of it several years ago and had a wonderful time in the process. This summer, in my usual desperate Stage Manager ................................................................................... Adam Marl attempt to select plays to produce here at Oregon City High School, I luckily Assistant Stage Manager.............................................................. Alanis Graham stumbled across The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge by Mark Brown. It is somewhat of a challenge, after 29 years as the Drama Director, to pick Stage Crew...................................................................................Anthony Evans a play that we haven’t done, that is entertaining, school appropriate, challenging, full Hannah Gallandt of lots of parts, and is worthy of all of our time and energy in rehearsal and performance. The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge fit the bill right away! Costume Crew........................................................................................Kat Blair Mark Brown, our writer, has affectionately taken Dickens’ original story Zoe Kunkel and explored some unanswered questions. He said the following about his Light Board Operator......................................................................Adam Brown inspiration for the play: Sound Board Operator ....................................................................... Cody Shier “Several months after the tragic events of 9/11, I found myself longing for the days immediately following 9/11. Not the tragedy and horror, but the kindness and Spotlight Operator..........................................................................Alexis Arends generosity shown by mostly everyone in the world. It was a truly wonderful time. Video Operator ....................................................................... Alissa Damewood Eventually, though, that kindness and generosity disappeared and we were back to our old ways. I imagined that’s how Scrooge must have felt around April. Here he Scenery Construction......................................... Mark Schwahn, Joel Anderson, made a vow to keep Christmas in his heart all year long, but those who chastised & Painting Adam Brown &Technical Theater Class him for not having the Christmas Spirit were just as guilty. When you think about it, Scrooge’s nephew only comes around every December 24th to wish his uncle Merry Costume Construction...........................................................................Gina Piva Christmas. Where is he the other 364 days of the year? The solicitors collect money Poster & Tee Shirt Design ...............................Technical Theater Class students for the poor but never show up any other time of the year. I feel those characters are self-righteous and hypocrites for not showing up any other time of the year. Why Program Design ........................................................................... Mark Schwahn can’t Scrooge’s nephew stop by some random Friday just because he wants to see his uncle? Why don’t the solicitors come by to collect money in summer? The poor House Manager..............................................................................Joel Anderson and destitute need help all year long, not just at Christmas. So, with that in mind, I Assistant House Manager ...................................................... Brooks Rounsavell wrote this play. I hope you like it.” Ushers ...................................................................Jeni Bronson, Grace Fleming, We hope you like it, too! Talulabel Gilpin, Jenna Greenwood, Thank you and enjoy the show! Ellie Lundgreen, Sage Tafoya, Karlyn Love Darya Wasserman, Carlyn Yoshimura 503-785-8980 [email protected] Check out the Drama Department’s website: www.ochs.ochspioneers.org/drama www.facebook.com/OCHSDramaDepartment Who’s Who In The Cast Design Team Director .................................................... Karlyn Love Spencer Tiedtke (Courtroom Spectator) This is Spencer’s first show at OCHS Assistant Director................................. Alanis Graham and his first show ever. He is a junior in his second year of the Drama class sequence and enjoys writing, drawing, playing video games and attending his Scenic Designer.................................... Mark Schwahn church. Costume Designer.........................................Gina Piva Lighting Designer ................................ Mark Schwahn Austin Pearson (Courtroom Spectator) Austin’s previous roles at OCHS were Sound Designer........................................ Karlyn Love J.D. in Send from The Bully Plays, Crew Elf in Miracle on 34th Street, Reuben in The Giver and Ensemble in Little Women. He has appeared as Grinch in Seussical Production Photographer................ Karmin Tomlinson at Gardiner Middle School, and with Oregon City Children’s Theatre as a Lost Boy in Peter Pan, Normal Duckling in The Ugly Duckling and Lollypop Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz. Austin was on Running Crew for Word Play 5: Fright Night. He is on the OCHS Cross Country and Track & Field teams. Austin is a senior in his fourth year of the Drama class sequence and belongs to the Boys Acknowledgements Scouts of America. • Our returning Alumn volunteer Alanis Graham for assisting Lily Mumma (Slide Ensemble) This is Lily’s first show at OCHS but she the director during rehearsals. played Creepy Old Woman/Humpty Dumpty in Hansel and Gretel in the • Alumni Joel Anderson and Adam Brown for mentoring in Creepy Woods at Ogden middle school. She is a freshman in her first year of the Drama class sequence and is in our Technical Theater class. In her free time our Technical Theater class. Lily enjoys painting with watercolors. • Alumn volunteer Kylee Brevick for helping with auditions. • Karmin Tomlinson for managing our Facebook page. • Jesuit High School for the loan of costumes. Nicole Nixon (Slide Ensemble) Nicole’s previous roles at OCHS were Jessica/ Skunk in Miss Chudderley’s Fairy Tales with a Twist!, Natalie in Send and GSA • Clackamas Community College for the loan of costumes. Teen in Mindless, Drooling Teenage Zombie Bullies from The Bully Plays, Crew • Bob’s Red Mill for their generous donation of $1,000. Elf in Miracle on 34th Street, Inger in The Giver and Hannah in Little Women. She was the videographer for Word Play 5: Fright Night, is a senior who is in • Oregon City Optimists Club for their donation of $500 and her fourth year of the Drama class sequence and is in our Technical Theater their generous members’ additional personal donations of class. Nicole enjoys making YouTube videos, soccer, crafting, and babysitting. $320. Mitchell Pace (Slide Ensemble) This is Mitchell’s first show at OCHS, but he has appeared at Oregon City Children’s Theatre as Munchkin in Scooby Doo & the Mystery of Oz, German Reporter in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Wolf Taryn McGhee for his donation of $1,000 in in The Chronicles of Narnia, Monkey in Jungle Book and Crazy Cabbie/Gypsy Mime in Madeline and with Abernathy Performing Arts as Mad Hatter in Alice memory of his brother Jordan Wade McGhee. in Wonderland. He is a freshman in his first year of the Drama class sequence, volunteers with Summer School for Special Students and enjoys being