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GUYS AND DOLLS Announcing Our 94th Season! April 10 – 26, 2015 News of Note HE 25TH ANNUAL Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser | Book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows Directed by Tim Reid October 17 – November 2 • Members: : Reserving your tickets PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE online or through our reservation T October 17 - November 2, 2014 line has never been easier! Visit Music & Lyrics by William Finn | Book by Rachel Sheinkin All the hot gamblers are in Damon Runyon's

Reserve your seats today! www.thecommunityplayers.org Directed by Christopher Margadonna mythical New York City, and they're all depending Visit www.thecommunityplayers.org or call 401.726.6860 and leave Musical Direction by Joseph A. Carvalho on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation or call 401.726.6860 your name, membership code, and e 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee of "e Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap the date of the performance you follows six awkward adolescents through their want to attend. If you are reserving Game in New York". e only problem is, he needs for several members, please provide daunting and hilarious quest as they vie for the $1000 to get the place. row in Sarah Brown, who's all codes when possible. spelling championship of a lifetime. Six spellers short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Master- enter; one speller leaves! (At least the losers get a son, who accepts Nathan's $1000 bet that he can't • Did you know? Our student juice box.) While candidly disclosing hilarious and discount is now available to get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss students through college with a touching stories from their home life, the tweens Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her after a valid student ID! spell their way through a series of words hoping to 14-year-long engagement; Police Lieutenant never hear the soul-crushing "ding" of the bell that • Groups of 20 or more save $3.00 Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong per ticket for musicals and $2.00 per signals a spelling mistake. Along the way, they learn time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and 2014/2015 ORDER FORM ticket for non-musicals. that there is more to life than winning a trophy and you've got quite a musical! Guys and Dolls takes us each nds a new sense of belonging. is charming • The Community Players is now from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Rhode Island’s Oldest coming-of-age tale, with a fast paced score and Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York Community Theater on Twitter! You can follow us @TCPlayersRI audience participation opportunities ensuring new City, but eventually everyone ends up right where and unexpected comedy every night, is sure to be a they belong. Songs include: "Fugue for Tinhorns", • We will be selling Entertainment Books for $25 in the lobby during crowd favorite! "Luck Be a Lady", and "Sit Down, You're Rocking Spelling Bee. They make great gifts the Boat". and all proceeds go toward our …Spelling Bee features the talents of: Aubrie 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE scholarship fund. Bagdasarian, Michael Campbell, Nicole Cayer, DOUBT Music & Lyrics by William Finn • Book by Rachel Sheinkin Courtney Contente, Ryan Leverone, Frank O’Don- Directed by Christopher Margadonna • Musical Direction by Joseph A. Carvalho • The Community Players is an July 10 – 19, 2015 officially recognized 501(c)(3) nell, Lisa Ziniti Palmer, Joe Spirito, and Todd Written by John Patrick Shanley | Directed by Eric Barbato OCTOBER 17 - NOVEMBER 2, 2014 non-profit organization. As such, all Swavey. donations are tax-deductible to the *Recommended for ages 12 and up. Adult humor and some coarse language. is brilliant, powerful drama is set in 1964 in Sly Fox extent allowable by law. Many a Catholic school in the Bronx, where a charismatic The hysterical comedy by Larry Gelbart • Directed by Erika Koch companies also offer a matching SLY FOX priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's JANUARY 9 - 18, 2015 gift program enabling you to double your gift. Check with your January 9 – 18, 2015 strict customs, which have long been ercely guard- GUYS AND DOLLS employer and thanks in advance. by Larry Gelbart | Directed by Erika Koch ed by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser • Book by Joe Swerling & Abe Burrows • We are always looking for Sly Fox is Larry Gelbart's hilarious comedy Directed by Tim Reid discipline. But when Sister James, a hopeful volunteers to assist us in many about greed, lust, and the art of the con. Based on innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-in- APRIL 10 - 26, 2015 areas including tech, sets, and Ben Jonson's satirical farce Volpone, the story has painting, to name just a few. If you ducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too been moved from 17th century Venice to turn of the have an interest in volunteering, much personal attention to Donald Miller, the Doubt century San Francisco. Volpone is now called The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by John Patrick Shanley please email volunteer@ thecom- school's rst black student, Sister Aloysius sets o Foxwell J. Sly and he is the same scheming miser bent Directed by Eric Barbato munityplayers.org and let us know on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to on extracting fortunes from a trio of rich, greedy JULY 10 - 19, 2015 your area of interest. We’ll contact expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a you with more details. See you at opportunists. Sly, pretending to be on his death bed, shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister the theater! and aided and abetted by his conniving servant in *Productions are subject to change Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father grabbing the other men's gold, says he will name each Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community Season Sponsor: of the three as his sole heir. e extent that the trio with irrevocable consequences. will go to acquire Sly's fortune knows no bounds. p.2 • Milestones • The o cial newsletter of The Community Players • visit us online at thecommunityplayers.org Milestones • The o cial newsletter of The Community Players • visit us online at thecommunityplayers.org • p.3

The Community Players Victor “Vic” Turenne Players on stage but moved on to sets and found Show Info it a more rewarding theatrical focus. His rst set Win 6 Motif Theatre Awards! was for Showboat some thirty years ago, which Show times also marked e Community Players’ rst big On August 25, Motif Magazine Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday Matinees at 2 p.m. production in Jenks Auditorium. hosted its annual theatre awards gala at Fete in Providence, honoring Ticket prices “We had this big boat and we had to park it in professional, semi-pro, college, summer Musicals: the corner,” Victor said, recalling the large, two- 2014 Scholarship Recipient Cathy Fox and community theatre companies as Adults–$20.00 Students*–$15.00 story boat the show commanded, and the set well as dance, comedy, and original that got him hooked. Other favorite sets that’s works from throughout Southern Non-musicals: he’s designed or worked on include the ones for New England. Adults–$15.00 Students*–$12.00 Man of La Mancha and Jesus Christ Superstar. e Community Players had fourteen *through Grade 12 “We built that whole set with skids,” Victor said nominations in ten Community Reservations: eatre categories (including Best thecommunityplayers.org of Man of La Mancha. “ at was a nice looking or (401) 726-6860 set.” It was a sturdy set, too - one table made for Male & Female in a Musical, Plenty of free parking! the show wasn’t ever used on stage but still sits in Karen Gail Direction, Production, and Musical) e Community Players’ workshop as a prop Kessler and received six awards: table years later. e 2006 Jesus Christ Superstar Upcoming set was especially notable for the staging of the CATHY FOX Auditions crucixion, which placed the cross, and Jesus, Best Female Lead for Guys and Dolls: played by Dan Kirby, on the very edge of the ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Directed by Tim Reid | Dates TBA stage, practically hanging above the rst rows of Doubt: seats. Directed by Eric Barbato | Dates TBA

KAREN GAIL KESSLER All auditions are held at Jenks “It looked so realistic.” Best Supporting Female for Auditorium. Visit us online at Victor thecommunityplayers.org for FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Spotlight on Vic Turenne But while Victor is known for his building from left: Matthew McCarthy and Turenne more information or leave us a talents now, that wasn’t always the case. He got Pamela Jackson, 2014 Scholarship Chair message at (401) 727-0702 “ e Master Builder” VICTOR TURENNE and someone will contact you. married to his wife Doris sixty-three years ago and decided to build his own home several years Best Set Design for Victor “Vic” Turenne is a familiar face at e Congratulations to Matthew McCarthy, later. Vic went to his father, a carpenter, for ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Community Players. If he hasn’t designed a set our recipient of this year’s Larry Reedy Schol- assistance - who in turn asked his son what he for a particular show, he has almost certainly arship Award. Matthew is a 2014 graduate of The Community Players knew about building a house. been there every Saturday building it anyway. Cumberland High School and is presently LAUREA OSBORNE Board of Governors, is year, he received a much-deserved Motif attending Belmont University in Nashville, “I said ‘nothing’ and he said, ‘Good, I’ll help Best Costumes for 2014/15 Award for Best Set Design for Arsenic and Old TN. He is majoring in recording and sound you,’” Victor said. Now he designs and SWEET CHARITY Officers Lace, an elaborate two-story set with function- production and played an original song on the constructs just about anything a director can President: Pamela Jackson ing electricity. Vic’s been working with e guitar at our June banquet where he accepted Laurea come up with, as long as it ts the stage. GREG GEER Vice-President: Sue Staniunas Community Players for fty years, but it his award. Osborne Treasurer: Stephen Healy wasn’t a love of theater that brought this Best Direction for Recording Secretary: “I design it all in my head.” Victor motioned to now-retired biomedical engineer to the stage. Our scholarship initiative was established in Ed Mastriano his right hand man, Peter Babiec, who has been SWEET CHARITY It was his daughter, Linda, who told her dad 1985 with funds donated by Past-President Corresponding Secretary: a board member since the 1970s with his wife, Vincent Lupino she wanted to audition for e Community Larry Reedy and is awarded to a graduating Edwina. “He knows what I’m doing because I PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR Players. high school senior who is planning to further Advisory Board explain it all to him.” Peter started building sets his or her education in the performing arts. SWEET CHARITY Andrew G. Bobola after he retired from teaching in 1990. Stephanie Bowes “She was only 13 at the time,” Victor, a father Awards are based on talent and ability, Cherry Cartier of three and grandfather of two, remembered. academic status and nancial need. e schol- Greg Geer Gary Convertino “ at’s when Vic coerced me into it,” Peter said, e Community Players performed at the arship is open to students who reside or attend & Kimberly Harper though he had protested he “didn’t even know Charles “Rick” Koster Boathouse in Slater Park then, and as is often school in the Blackstone Valley or have at any Ed Mastriano Congratulations how to swing a hammer.” at didn’t deter Joseph Luca the case, if you stick around long enough, time worked in some capacity with e Com- Michael Maio Victor, and Peter now works alongside him on someone will nd something for you to do. munity Players. To date we have awarded to all the winners and Laurea Osborne just about every show. Marjorie Santos more than $33,000 to deserving students from nominees from “I just used to sit there and watch them the community. Emeritus “If you can hold a board, you can work.” rehearse,” he said, but eventually, people Edwina M. Babiec, Peter F. Babiec, throughout the region! Victor S. Turenne began asking for his assistance around the If you would like to make a donation, please theater. “You become part of it.” send checks payable to: e Community - Kimberly Rau Harper Players Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 2302, Victor started out with e Community Pawtucket, RI, 02861 MILESTONES PRODUCTION TEAM Editor: Vincent Lupino | Copy: Kimberly Rau Harper & Vincent Lupino | Photos: Kimberly Rau Harper & Erika Koch Layout: David Sorgman | Original Concept & Design: Rob Kenney/Rob Kenney Graphics/rkenney.weebly.com