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Calendar Girls Home Area Artists » Art Fairs & Festivals » Breaking News » Community Theater & Film » Local Art Stops » Public Art » Uncategorized subscribe: Posts | Comments search the site SWFL Art & Theater News May 8-15, 2015 share this Stage Kiss Calendar Girls 0 comments Posted | 0 comments Calendar Girls comes to Lab Theater in October. This emotionally charged story by playwright Tim Firth revolves around a women’s group whose pedestrian focus on the ancient arts of jam-making, flower-pressing and crafts is suddenly disrupted when one of its members loses her husband to lymphoma. To raise money for the local cancer ward, the ladies have photos of themselves taken for a calendar. Charming and cheeky, this play depicts slightly-prudish women doing whatever it takes to help a friend in need. “The play induces a few tears along with joy and laughter,” proclaims The British Theatre Guide. “It has heart, lots of genuine emotion and true sentimentality,” adds the National Business Review. Performances are scheduled for October 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16 and 17. On this page you will find all the announcements, releases, news and reviews for this production. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Spotlight on ‘Calendar Girls” Patricia Clopton (10-12-15) On stage at Lab Theater through October 17 is Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls. Among the cast of characters in this poignant comedy is a retired schoolteacher by the name of Jessie, who resents the stereotyping of older women as doddering nonsexual beings. Patricia Clopton plays Jessie in this production. She has been seen in over 40 area theater productions, as well as TV and film … “mostly with her clothes on.” Of her real-life calendar appearance, Patricia syas she plans to use the shoot for her obit … 20 years from now. You can enjoy Patricia and the rest of the Calendar Girls cast at Lab Theater through October 17. Please see above for remaining play dates, times and ticket information. _____________________________________________ Spotlight on ‘Calendar Girls” Ben Lamoureux (10-11-15) In Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls, a group of “women of a certain age” decide to pose semi-nude for a calendar in order to raise money for a new couch for the local hospital’s waiting room after one of their group loses her husband to cancer. In addition to moxie, what these ladies need most of all is, well, a good photographer. That task falls to a bashful bloke by the name of Liam, played by Ben Lamoureux. The part calls for Lamoureux to hover amusingly between delight and embarassment, but there’s no better scene in this comedy than when former schoolteacher Jessie chastizes Liam as he photographs her nude for not recognizing “your former teacher.” Calendar Girls represents Ben’s Lab Theater debut. A Spring 2015 Musical Theatre graduate from Florida School of Arts, Ben has recently been seen as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, the Bishop/Feuilly in Les Miserables, and Mr. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. Calendar Girls is on stage at Lab Theater in downtown Fort Myers through October 17. Please see above for remaining plays dates, times and ticket information. _________________________________________ Spotlight on ‘Calendar Girls” Jim Yarnes (10-10-15) On stage now at Lab Theater is Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls. It’s a poignant comedy about a group of women in northern Englands’ Yorkshire Dales Women’s Institute who decide to pose semi-nude for a calendar in order to raise funds for a more comfortable couch for the local hospital’s waiting room after one of their members loses her husband to leukemia. Jim Yarnes plays the part of the stricken husband, John. It’s too bad that John dies off early in the play. (Admittedly, if he didn’t, there’d be no play.) While neither a hero nor a saint, John is one of those effervescent personalities who raise everyone’s energy and aura the moment he walks into a room. And when he dies, it’s as though someone turned off a light. Yarnes plays this part to perfection. The scenes in which he appears in a wheelchair, fighting for each breath, are moving but not maudlin. And although his is a bit part, he sets everything in motion by what he does once he realizes he is not going to beat the odds and triumph over the disease. (If you want to know what he does, you’ll just have buy a ticket and see for yourself.) Yarnes is enjoying his 35th year on stage. He started with Gulf Coast Opera Company, went on to perform at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theater, Cultural Park Theater and Theatre Conspiracy. His favorite shows include Pirates of Penzance, Music Man, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof, Evita, Phantom, Barefoot in the Park, Swell Party and A Position of Relative Importance. Jim has also been a staged reading actor at Lab Theater. Calendar Girls is on stage through October 17. Please see above for play dates, times and ticket information. ___________________________________________ Spotlight on ‘Calendar Girls” Lois Kuehne (10-09-15) On stage now through October 17 at Lab Theater is Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls. Based on a true account, the play focuses on members of the Women’s Institute in northern England who band together to pose for a tasteful, semi-nude calendar to raise money for a new couch for the hospital waiting room after one of their number loses her husband to leukemia. One of the characters in the play is a woman by the name of Celia who is played by Lab Theater’s own Lois Kuehne. Celia is something of a WI anomaly. Unlike the more middle- class hobbies typically pursued by Women’s Institute members, such as jam making, cake baking, knitting and crocheting, Celia is into golf and tennis. More at home in a high-end department store than a church hall, she often feels like she has drifted in from another world. In fact, Celia must often face down her society golf-wife friends, who love to titter and tipple. But it is her rebelliousness that sets her apart from the vapid materialism of her peer group and makes her a welcome addition to the WI. And within the WI, she ranks as the group’s sex symbol by virtue of having been photographed in her youth topless on a Harley-Davidson. Lab Theater’s own Lois Kuehne plays this part. A graduate of the School of Communication at Ohio University, Lois has worked on both sides of the stage lights. For Lab Theater, she has directed The Graduate, In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. She won the Broadway World award for Best Costumes for Amadeus and Best Set Design for On Golden Pond. Among her favorite plays are Singin’ in the Rain, Harvey, Clue, the Musical, Steel Magnolias, My Fair Lady and The Lower Room. Before moving to Southwest Florida, Lois ran a successful community theater company on the east coast. Lois’ involvement in theater has enriched her life through wonderful and moving moments both on and off stage, but she considers the extraordinary people who have wandered in for minutes, months or years to be the greatest gifts she has derived from her theater experience. You can see Lois and the rest of this terrific ensemble cast at Lab Theater. Please see above for remaining play dates, times and ticket information. ____________________________________________ Spotlight on ‘Calendar Girls” Robin Murray (10-08-15) Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls is on stage now through October 17 at the Laboratory Theater of Florida. It’s a comedy based on a real-life case in which eleven members of the Women’s Institute in northern England banded together to make a tasteful, semi-nude calendar to raise money for the local hospital after one of their members lost her husband to leukemia. Of course, not everyone in the group was on board with posing nude for a calendar. And the character who is least enthusiastic about the project is a woman named Ruth. We all know a Ruth. She’s the peacekeeper in the group. Not a spineless rag doll but, adaptable and malleable, she is eager to please and desperate to be valued and appreciated. In Calendar Girls, Ruth is the one with the largest and most dramatic character arc. Before the audience’s supportive eyes, Ruth grows from the false self-confidence of the emotionally damaged to the genuine self- confidence of a woman who is happy in her own skin. Robin Murray plays the part for Laboratory Theater. She confesses to having special insight into her character’s persona, foibles and character flaws. “Ruth and I are peacekeepers. We try to keep everyone happy, even in difficult situations,” Robin shared in a recent e-interview. But she acknowledges that the role of peacekeeper often comes at an emotional price. In Calendar Girls, it requires Ruth to repress her own feelings and reactions while keeping a smile on her face even while she is in pain of her own. Murray says that was more true for herself when she was in her 20s and 30s. However, like Ruth, “the ‘filter’ fell out in my 40s. I honestly believe [Ruth] found peace once she realized problems are things that are meant to be dealt with and you don’t have to lose your softness being brave or standing up for yourself. [That said,] I still find myself looking at life through rose colored glasses, even when ugliness is all around. I don’t think it is necessarily being naive, but being negative never helps.” Perhaps Robin’s positive, can-do attitude is a function of being a Leo.
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