2015 SEASON NOW SHOWING Tues.-Sat., June 16-20, 7:30 p.m. Sun., June 21, 2:30 p.m. ABERDEEN COMMUNITY THEATRE Based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and the book by William Steig Book and Lyrics by Music by David Lindsay-Abaire Jeanine Tesori Originally produced on Broadway by DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions “I’m A Believer” by Neil Diamond YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR THEATRE. FROM THE ARTISTIC/ MANAGING DIRECTOR Welcome to “Shrek the Musical.” What a fun show this has been to work on with our ACT Board of Directors volunteers. We hope you enjoy their talents onstage and behind the scenes. Often, the audience Barb Evans, President doesn’t think about what happens back stage to help the actors look and do their best. Along Ann Rasmussen, Vice-president with the actors, I want to thank all the people who worked on costumes, props, set, sound, Linda Bartholomew, Secretary lights, orchestra and running crews for all their time and talent to get “Shrek the Musical” on Kathy Stuck, Treasurer stage for you here at the Capitol Theatre. I thank them and hope you do too! Speaking of volunteers, I will surely miss the ladies at Kathleen’s. They have served as ACT’s Members at Large box office for more than 20 years. Over that time, they have become dear friends and valued box Linda Batteen, Vicki Lust, Gregg Magera, office volunteers. They’re a special group of women and I wish them all the best in their new Warren Redmond, Curt Wischmeier adventures in life. Rory King, Legal Counsel I know you are aware that Storybook Land Theatre has started its season at the castle in Staff Storybook Land. Please see page 10 for performance dates and times. James L. Walker, Artistic/Managing Director ACT will be producing another collaborative production with NSU, “A Christmas Story,” Brian T. Schultz, Education/Technical Director to be performed in November. Auditions for “A Christmas Story” will be in early September. Come audition and be a part of this classic Christmas story we’ll be bringing live to the Capitol Heidi Hepola, Technical Assistant stage. Watch the ACT Marquee for audition dates and times. As a heads up, the box office opens Mary Keahey, Office Manager October 13th for ACT subscribers and NSU theater patrons and October 19th for the public. You Ronda Anderson, Administrative Assistant can still become a subscriber and get the best choice of seats. Call the ACT office at 605-225- 2ACT for subscription information. Remember, subscribers are always the first to know and are ACT is a proud able to get tickets before they’re available to the general public. Even better, subscribers always member of the get the best price and choice of tickets. Your subscription and contributing support is essential American Association to continuing community theater programming in the historic Capitol Theatre. See the back page of Community Theatre of the program for more information on how you can help. Next week, I will be heading to Grand Rapids, MI for the American Association of Community Improving Communities [email protected] Theatre board meeting and AACTFest 2015, the national community theater festival. The more I One Theatre at a Time www.aact.org travel, the more thankful I am to you, the patrons and the volunteers of ACT. It is only with your help that community theater is alive and well in Aberdeen. Once again word-of-mouth is the best advertising, so if you enjoyed this performance tell your Interested in acting or directing but don’t have a friends. Thanks for “getting in the ACT” by supporting your community theater. lot of time? Have a great I hope you have a great summer. script you’d love to see JAMES L. WALKER on stage? Contact ACT at (605) 225-2228 or [email protected] FROM THE DIRECTOR “Shrek” is really a fairy tale for today. Up to this time, fables support is provided with funds from the State of South Dakota followed a fairly simple formula- either children were separated from through the Department of Tourism and State Development and their families and sought a return or princesses were hidden away the National Endowment for the Arts Office of Arts • 800 Governors Drive • Pierre, SD 57501-2294 from those who would do them harm. Lots of interesting characters www.sdarts.org • 605-773-3131 • In State 800-423-6665 came to their aid and usually all were happily reunited by tale’s end. This tale has some of those elements, but it is really all about something DONALD H. HALL, new not found in these classic stories – diversity and acceptance. 1925-2008 According to Wikipedia, the name “Shrek” is derived from the Co-Founder of ACT Yiddish and German “Schreck” meaning “fear” or “fright.” Now these Honoree of ACT’s “freakish” fairy tale characters are quarantined in the most marginalized Donald H. Hall Scholarship, “freak’s” swamp, far away from the “beautiful” people of Duloc. Shrek’s assisting ACT volunteers journey to rescue and deliver the Princess Fiona to her groom-to-be attending NSU. For force both of them to discard previously held notions of who they think they are based on society’s more information or to contribute to this notions – and to embrace the unique individuals they really are. As Shrek sings to Fiona at the scholarship endowment play’s end “beautiful ain’t always pretty.” The beauty of Shrek’s message is everyone has value fund, contact ACT at and our individuality is to be celebrated – not a bad moral for children today – or adults either. (605) 225-2228. DANIEL YURGAITIS 2 | ABERDEEN COMMUNITY THEATRE 2015 CONTRIBUTING SUPPORT CONTRIBUTING 2015 Brenda Weishaar Merlin & Mary Worlie Larry & Margaret Wild PATRON – $75-$124 Mary Amacher Linda & Harvey L. Aman John & Patty Beyers Colleen Callum Joy Coleman H. Paul & Peggy Dennert Myles & Karen DeVine Maxine Dinger 2014 ACT & NSU’s “Irving Berlin’s White Al & Audrey Dutenhoffer Christmas” Eli Corbett as Bob Wallace, Kati Jeroll & Bonnie Erdmann Bachmayer as Betty Haynes, Brian T. Schultz as Rodney & Glenna Fouberg Phil Davis and Katie Wegleitner as Judy Haynes. 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