TCP Milestones 2017_out.pdf 1 10/5/17 1:28 PM Vol. 47, No.1 2017 - 2018 SEASON downs of marriage. Each story features partners of News of Note Leapin' Lizards! varied ages, from a young couple experiencing cold • Members: : Reserving your tickets It's our 97th Season! feet before the wedding, to a long-married couple who have fought for over thirty years, trying to save online or through our reservation line NNIE their son's marriage by admitting their own failings. has never been easier! Visit NOVEMBER 10-19, 2017 www.thecommunityplayers.net A Music by Charles Strouse | Lyrics by Martin Charnin Lovers and other Strangers is co-directed by Tony order tickets online, print your e-tickets Book by omas Meehan Annicone, Dan Fisher and Christopher Margadon- at home and avoid the line on na, and will be presented January 12-14 and performance nights. Or call 19-21. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm, with 401.726.6860 and leave your name, We open our 2017-2018 season with the Tony membership code and the date of the Award© winning musical, ANNIE! Based on the Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm. performance you want to attend. If you timeless comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie", this are reserving for several members, delightful musical celebrates its 40th anniversary FOREVER PLAID please provide all codes when possible. this year. With a perfect combination of street- APRIL 13-22, 2018 C Written and originally choreographed by Stuart Ross • Groups of 20 or more save $3.00 per smarts and optimism, Annie rises from next-to- Musical arrangements by James Raitt M ticket for musicals and $2.00 per ticket nothing in the 1930's New York City. She is deter- for non-musicals. mined to nd her parents, who left her at the Y Closing the season is the "heavenly" musical orphanage years ago in the clutches of the evil Miss Forever Plaid. A quartet of four school pals discov- CM • The Community Players is now on Hannigan. With the help of the other orphans, er their mutual love of music, especially the close Twitter! You can follow us @TCPlayersRI Annie manages to foil Hannigan's greedy plans and MY harmony of their idols: e Four Freshmen, e nd a new family with billionaire Oliver "Daddy" Hi-Lo's and e Crew Cuts, and soon start rehears- CY • Follow us on Facebook Warbucks, his secretary Grace Farrell and her @TheCommunityPlayers. ing their music together. Naming themselves CMY lovable dog, Sandy. With songs like Tomorrow, It's "Forever Plaid", they are on their way to their rst • TCP Cares about our Community: a Hard Knock Life, Maybe and NYC you'll be sure to K gig when they are broadsided by a school bus and Proceeds from our fundraising activities leave the theatre with a song in your heart. A perfect killed (don't worry - it's a comedy!) e play begins during ANNIE will benet the Children's outing for the whole family, ANNIE is directed by Shelter of Blackstone Valley. with the wondrous Plaids returning from the Brian Mulvey, with musical direction by Ron afterlife for one nal chance at musical glory. Take Procopio, and choreography by Leslie Racine • We are always looking for volunteers a trip back to the 1950s and rediscover the fun and to help us in many areas, including Vazquez. e cast stars Olivia Dufresne as Annie music of the "guy groups" of that time, with musical tech, set construction, painting, and features Sophie Appel, Eric Barbato, Samantha favorites like ree Coins in the Fountain, Sixteen costuming, to name just a few. You can Bardon, Laura Benjamin, Samantha Boragine, Tons, Catch a Falling Star and more. Directed by volunteer for a whole season, for a Lynda DiStefano, Paul Gagne, Lee Hakeem, Kevin Andrew g. Bobola, Forever Plaid runs April 13-15 particular show, or just an occasional Killavey, David Lichtenstein, Jim Lyons, Ed Mastri- Saturday during the build. If you want and 20-22. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and ano, Lia McAlpine, Steve Morris, Tanya Puniskis, Sundays at 2:00 pm. to "get in the act", please email us at Jillian Reeve, Marley Shaw, Emma Sheldon, Cassi- [email protected] with your area of interest, and we'll be in touch! dy Snyder, Kimberly Spera, Lee Spooner, Megan Spooner, Kevin ibault, Michael urber, Lauren PURCHASE ETICKETS • Contact us at [email protected] Trad, Emily Van Pelt, Heather Vieira and Eve-Ma- TO PRINT AT HOME ANYTIME AT rie Webster. Join us opening night for a chance to WWW.THECOMMUNITYPLAYERS.NET go home with a special prize! Performances are Box oce phone lines for reservations are November 10-12 and 17-19. Fridays and Satur- open one month before the opening of each show. days at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2:00 pm.* Call (401) 726-6860. WITH AN ADDITIONAL 2:00 PM MATINEE ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH. Thanks to our Season Sponsor LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS DON’T FORGET JANUARY 12-21, 2018 OUR EVENING PERFORMANCES WILL BEGIN AT A comedy by Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor 7:30 PM. January brings Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor's PLEASE BE SURE TO ALERT ALL IN YOUR PARTY! hilarious comedy Lovers and Other Strangers. A YOU DON'T WANT TO hit on Broadway and later on lm, Lovers is a series MISS A MOMENT OF THE SHOW! of comic vignettes, each dealing with the ups and TCP Milestones 2017_in.pdf 1 10/10/17 8:56 AM p.2 • Milestones • The ocial newsletter of The Community Players • visit us online at thecommunityplayers.org Milestones • The ocial newsletter of The Community Players • visit us online at thecommunityplayers.org • p.3 Spotlight on Past Scholarship ry commission honoring the legacy of John, attend many productions and share memories CONGRATS TO DAN FISHER Show Info Winner Peter Boyer Robert and Ted Kennedy. His work e Dream with the many friends he made during his years Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers was with the us. With his snow-white hair and WINNER OF THE 2017 MOTIF AWARD Show Times narrated by actors including Robert De Niro, beard we know that he is probably playing “Best Actor, Community Theatre” Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris and Alec Baldwin, Santa to all the baby angels in heaven. for his role as Howie in last season's drama, Sunday Matinees at 2 p.m. the premiere of which was attended by many Note: There will be an members of the Kennedy family and was the BOB MITCHELL Rabbit Hole. additional 2:00 pm matinee of ANNIE on Saturday, Nov. 18th! Meet Our 2017 Larry Reedy focus of the TV special An American Salute: e Bob made his debut on our stage at the urging This is Dan's second consecutive win - Pops at 125. of Past-President Claire Beauregard when the last year for "Best Lighting Design" for Deathtrap. Ticket prices Scholarship Winner! Players were looking for a leading man to play Musicals: Peter's major work, Ellis Island: e Dream of Mack Sennett in the classic Keystone comedy Adults–$23.00 | Students*–$18.00 America for actors and orchestra, has become Mack and Mabel. Needless to say, he was bitten Non-Musicals: one of the most-performed American orchestral by the “theatre bug”. Perhaps his nest role was Adults–$23.00 | Students*–$18.00 *through college, with ID works of the last 15 years, with over 170 perfor- “Don Quixote” in Man of La Mancha. Bob also Robert Di Niro with Peter Boyer mances by 75 orchestras since its 2002 premiere. directed such notable productions as Funny Online E-Ticket Sales at e Boston Pops (available 24/7): In 2006 his recording of Ellis Island was nomi- Girl, Jesus Christ Superstar and e Diary of thecommunityplayers.net In this issue we take a look back at our 1987 nated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Anne Frank. In addition he was minister of Park scholarship winner, Peter Boyer. A graduate of Reservations: Contemporary Composition. e work was Place Congregational Church during his time Smitheld High School, Peter began compos- thecommunityplayers.net lmed live in concert with the Pacic Symphony in Pawtucket. Bob was a true friend of the or (401) 726-6860 ing music at the age of 15, beginning with a and a cast of stage and screen actors and will be Community Players and his love of his fellow requiem mass written in memory of his grand- (Phone lines open one month prior featured on a PBS Great Performances broadcast man was something we all shall miss. Rest in to the opening of each show.) mother. After graduating from RIC he earned during their 2017-2018 season. peace Reverend Bob. Plenty of free parking! his Masters of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from e Hartt School of the Peter is the son of Sandy Cerel, who has been a RONN MARSHALL Performances C University of Hartford. Over the years Peter frequent actor and director on our stage. Clear- Ronn was a member for over 60 years and was M has earned a reputation as one of the nation's ly, talent runs in the family! He lives in Altade- one of the “giants” that helped build the Com- Jenks Auditorium leading composers whose works have received Y na, a Los Angeles suburb, and is currently work- munity Players into one of Rhode Island’s nest 350 Division Street more than 400 public performances by over ing on a commissioned piece for the Cincinnati community theatres.