Actorsingers Newsletter

OVATION Oct/Nov 2014 Issue Editor: Kerry Schneider

Young Frankenstein Friday, November 7– 8:00 pm Friday,Saturday, Saturday, November 8– 8:00 pm Sunday, November 9 - 2:00 pm matinee

Tickets: Buy online at www.actorsingers.org Or call (603) 320 -1870 Reserved seats at the Keefe Auditorium Elm St. Middle School, 117 Elm St., Nashua $20 Adults / $18 Seniors and Students Group Rates available Directors: Paul Metzger, Judy Hayward and Donna Metzger Stage Manager: Steve Harper Producers: Brian Mehlman and Daryl O’Bryant Tech Director: Dennis Schneider The Cast: Dr. Frederick Frankenstein – Marc Murai Frau Blucher – Rachel Cerullo The Monster – Stuart Harmon Inspector Kemp – Glen Grimard Igor – Eric Skoglund The Hermit – Don Smith-Weiss Inga – Mia Berardi Dr. Victor Frankenstein – Elliot Owens Elizabeth – Sarah Souter Ziggy – Ben Levine The Ensemble: Mad Scientists, Gravediggers, Villagers, Elizabeth’s Entourage, Horses and whatever!: Dan Allen Ashley Gove Laura Millar Caleb Alexander Caity Glover Samantha Morin Heather Armhold Heidi Guidmore Kathleen Palmer John Bachelder Nathan Hahn Joe Paoni Cheri Birch Logan Higgins Stephanie Pappaconstantinou Tony Breen Diana Hill Alice Pascucci Christie Conticchio Eric Hill Ben Pascucci Sarah DeLisle Andrew Holland Sheree Owens Patrice Doherty Martha Holland Jen Sassak Ashley Eason Lizzie Krahenbuhl Julie Shea Bob Frasca Jacob Lavoie Ashley Sullivan Kathy LeClair Katie Tocci

The 2014/2015 Season is Dedicated to JoAnn Duhamel

Help needed for Tech Week Move In (This Weekend!) for Young Frankenstein!

Please volunteer to help backstage for this production. Ushers (contact Jen Morton at jenn_shell@yahoo.com), Running Crew (contact Producers Daryl O’Bryant at ReinventingDaryl@gmail.com or Brian Mehlman at bdmehlman@aol.com) Community theater can’t function without the community!...and as members, you are the community! Move in begins this weekend!!! Actorsingers welcomes new House Managing Team, Howie Levine, Charlie Pipilas and Jennifer Morton.

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A Year With Frog and Toad – March 6, 7, and 8

Director - Carol Gorelick, Musical Director – Julia Killey, Choreographer – Katie Tocci

A hit on Broadway, A Year with Frog and Toad was nominated for 3 TONY Awards – including Best Musical. Based on Arnold Lobel's well-loved books and featuring a hummable score by Robert and Willie Reale, this whimsical show follows two great friends -- the cheerful, popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad -- through four, fun-filled seasons. It is the story of friendship that endures and adventure weathering all seasons.

Auditions: Sunday, December 14, 1:30-4 pm. Doors open at 1 pm for paperwork and to teach the dance. You must be an Actorsingers Family member in order to audition. Family membership is $15 and can be paid right at the audition. Membership is good until June 30, 2015. A read through of the show will take place on Sunday, December 28 from 1-4 pm Rehearsals will begin on Sunday, January 4, on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 6-8 pm, and Sundays from 1-4. The age group for auditions is grades 3-8. Questions? Contact Co Producers – Michelle Morrison and Jenn Morton jenn_shell@yahoo.com

Information on our Jr. show, A Year With Frog and Toad, is on our Website www.actorsingers.org

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Although we haven’t even performed Young Frankenstein yet, The Directors for our Spring show, Crazy For You have been chosen: Director, Martha Holland, with Assistance from Dana Siegel, Music Director, Judy Hayward and we welcome newcomer – Jan McTeague as Choreographer.

Check our Website soon www.Actorsingers.org for Auditions

The Nashua Stroll

Come and join the participants of the Actorsingers Stroll Chorus, Directed by Carol Yetto, an experienced Music teacher and Choral Director. No audition required. Rehearsals at Actorsingers Hall, Tuesday evenings, 7-9:30, Oct 28, Nov 10, 17 and 24. The actual Stroll is on Saturday, November 29. It is a wonderful event in downtown Nashua heralding the holiday season. Be part of the fun and come and sing. Pam Bruckman, Glen Grimard and Sarah Desaulniers are the coordinators of this years’ Holiday Stroll.

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Mark January 23, 2015 on your calendars - Semi Annual Meeting.

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The NHCTA show – Dolls and Guys – Best Production!

Congratulations to all involved in The Actorsingers production of "Dolls and Guys" at the NHCTA festival competition in September. The show was selected as Best Production and will go on to the Regional competition! Lindsay Vago, Ben Levine and Dan Merriman received Outstanding Achievement in Acting awards while Diana Hill was awarded Best Stage Manager, Eric Hill was awarded Outstanding Lighting achievement and Don Smith-Weiss and Chuck Emmons received awards for Outstanding achievement in Set Design. Kudos also to actors Cheryl Stocks, Caryl Sullivan and Director Chuck Emmons. A special Thank you to Ben Levine who stepped in at the last minute, learned his lines and went on to win an award! The preview performance given at Actorsingers Hall was certainly an evening of Improv as the electricity was out and the cast performed admirably in the soft glow of candles and flashlights. The show must go on! Well done! ******************************************************************************************

Save $$$$$ - There is still time to become a Subscriber and see both Shows -

Young Frankenstein and Crazy for You – only $30! Call (603) 888-2837 for details

Call for Actorsingers Directors for Summer Teen Show 2015: Actorsingers is already gearing up for 2015 and we are putting out the call for Directing teams (Director, Music Director, Choreographer) who are interested in working on the Teen Actorsingers show in the summer. Interested teams should email secretary@actorsingers.org by December 31st with their proposed show title and members of their team and be prepared to make a presentation to the Board of Directors at the January board meeting on Tuesday, January 6th. The Teen show is scheduled for July 17-19, 2015 at Janice B. Streeter Theatre in Nashua.

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The New Hampshire Theatre Awards – Saturday, January 31, 2015 at The Stockbridge Theatre in Derry, NH. This event brings hundreds of fellow thespians and technical wizards together to celebrate achievements in theater in NH. More info about a group rate and details of the evening will be put on our website as soon as they are known. Our shows, The Music Man, Legally Blonde (teens) and Young Frankenstein are in the running for awards.

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Dues for this fiscal year are overdue!! (July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015) Only Life Members and those who paid after June 30, 2014 are considered current members. The following, in addition to Life Members and the casts of Legally Blonde and Young Frankenstein, are current members. If your name is not on this list, you owe membership dues. Amy Agostino Family Gretchen Gray Family Daryl O’Bryant Benson Family Judy Hayward Mike & Rhonda O’Keefe Jonatha Bianchi Hebert Family Petrain Family Breen Family Henderson/Carey Family Steve Pierpont Craig Brennan Elizabeth Ierardi Pipilas Family Leo Choquette Jamieson Family Jessica Plummer Conti Family Johnson Family Ryder Family Bill & Lorraine Cote Anita Kelly Paul & Roz Sandler Suellen Davidson Kuchta Family Schofield Family Dereck DeBlois Janine Leffler Stocks Family Evelynn Decker Levine Family Caryl Sullivan Demanche Family Manning Family Pam Thornhill Sarah DeSaulniers Patrick McCarty Tokac Family Dan Desmarais Dan Merriman Towle Family Duby Family Paul Metzger Vago Family Ellars Family Miller Family Val Verge Jon & Cindy Fisher Cam Morin Lauren Walczak Frasca Family Murai Family Deb Walz Kate Gaudet Family David Nelson Wenrich Family Michelle Golden Neth Family Gorelick Family Nguyen Family

Questions? Contact Membership Chair, Kerry, at ActingKer@aol.com Please send in your membership dues today! We want you to be a part of The Actorsingers Family! Mail checks (made out to The Actorsingers!) - $10 (Individual) or $15 (Family – all at one address) to: The Actorsingers, c/o Kerry Schneider, 32 Clearview Dr., Nashua, NH 03062. Be a proud member of the oldest (and we think finest!) Community Theater group in Southern New Hampshire

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Condolences

To The Lovering Family on the death of Kathy’s Mother

To Larry Doiron on the death of his beloved wife, Dawn

To Allison and Lou Duhamel on the death of JoAnn and also on the death of Lou’s sister

And, for those who remember our Actorsingers chorus, Don Page passed away in June

For those who didn’t know her, JoAnn Duhamel worked tirelessly on many Actorsingers shows. Her assistance with costumes went above and beyond. She helped backstage over the years when her daughter, Allison, was in a show or her husband, Lou, was working behind the scenes. Even when she became ill, she was there sewing and stitching. Les Miserables, in the fall of 2013, was the last show she wove her costume magic before she became too ill to continue. JoAnn passed away last month. She will be greatly missed.

The Actorsingers dedicate this season to her.

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In and About Town – So much news since the last newsletter!…Mea Culpa for not including Eric Skoglund, who starred as the MC in Majestic’s Cabaret, in the last Ovation. Amy Agostino is in Acting Out Theater Company’s Sweeney Todd in Lawrence, MA. A hearty pat on the back to Don Higgins who stepped in at the last minute to help Not Your Mom’s Musical Theatre’s Something Wonderful I Missed in September, while Jessica Plummer sang in the musicals of 1984 back in July. Kerry Schneider and Stuart Harmon contributed to all the laughter in the Palace Theatre’s recent The Full Monty. Kerry will be working with Eric Skoglund in Norman, Is That You? for Stage One’s Dinner theater. This will be the last Stage One production at the Chateau restaurant in Manchester. Dan Merriman was featured in Manchester Community Player’s The Sound of Music, but it was Marc and Sarah Murai’s young daughter, Cassie, who stole the show as Gretel. Good luck to Sarah DeLisle in her new home and Jessica Plummer in hers. Shawna Ciampa was in the show Two Boys Lost in Cambridge. Karina Belano Carney did a staged reading of In Search of Our Father: Sylvester Stallone at Central Square Theater in Cambridge. Joe Vago has a lot on his plate with a new job and as the new Director of the 13th Annual New Hampshire Theatre Awards show. Stagecoach’s Kiss Me Kate in December will boast many Actorsingers: Max McGrath, Sarah Murai, Matt Kaiser, Peter Boettcher, Chris O’Dwyer, Lauren Friedman, Bill Mauser, Dan Desmarais, Katie Weiss, Amy Agostino, Heidi Guidmore, Jen Sassak and Cam Morin. The show is Directed by Joel and Laura Iwaskiewicz and Judy Hayward. And speaking of Joel and Laura - Congratulations on your wedding! Steve Gonzalez is not only in the film Lyrical Truth of Clara Connors, but also wrote some of the music. Congratulations to Donna and Paul Metzger on the marriage of daughter Mallory. Dana Siegel performed in Love Letters at the Backstage Bistro of North Shore Music Theater as a fundraiser for Voices of Hope (Cancer awareness) back in August. Marilyn Valentine was in Nashua Theater Guild’s Post Mortem. Debra Buckley was in New London Barn’s Over the Pub this past summer and just finished her run of Into the Woods for Northern Stage…and good luck in your new job. Life Member Beth Fenske directed a read/sing through of The Hot Mikado for Concord Community Players that featured Martha and Jed Holland, Cheri Birch, Barbara Lawler, Laura and Joel Iwaskiewicz and Michael Coppola. Beth is also the Choreographer for Concord’s 9 to 5, directed by Michael Coppola, featuring Barbara Lawler and Lauren Walczak. Michael also did God of Carnage for M & M productions and just landed a TV commercial! Peacock Players Spring Awakening was choreographed by Val Psoinos Nelson back in August. Becky Rush was Sister Amnesia in Nunsense, the Mega-Musical for Majestic theater. Ed Siegal, may you sell a million jars of your new business venture, Tuscan Salsa. Anita Kelly welcomed her 9th grandchild in June. Good luck to Diana Hill who not only ran in a race to support Lymphoma and Leukemia research, but is also going back to school to get her administrative license. Congratulations to new member, Laura Millar, who won 2nd place at the Milford Pumpkin festival with her incredible operatic voice. Congratulations to Danielle O’Keefe on the birth of Amelia Nicole October 16. A speedy recovery to John McAllister, recovering from some strange infection. Early congratulations to Jonatha Bianchi and Patrick McCarty who are getting married in December. Ex-member Zach Bencal was in a concert version of The Music Man in New York featuring Broadway star, Laura Osnes. Ex-member Garrett Hawe will be one of the lost boys in the live TV production of Peter Pan this December. Darius Harper, a Jr. and Teen Ex-Actorsinger member is in the National tour of Kinky Boots. Happy Halloween and early Thanksgiving greetings to all! Until next time … news? call Kerry (603) 888-2837 or E-mail ActingKer@aol.com

The Ovation c/o The Actorsingers P.O. Box 91 Nashua, NH 03061

ACTORSINGERS Important Dates

November 7, 8, and 9 – Young Frankenstein – Keefe Auditorium

Choose your seats and buy Online at www.actorsingers.org

Or call for Tickets: (603) 320-1870

November 29 – Nashua Stroll (Rehearsals Oct 28, Nov 10, 17 and 24)

December 14 – Auditions Jr. Show – A Year with Frog and Toad January 23 – Semi Annual Meeting January 31 – New Hampshire Theatre Awards

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