Produced by: Dayle Pearsons Music : Betty Lautner and Dara VanRemoortel Narrator: Anne Marilyn Lucas Technical: Craig VanRemoortel & Andrew Barnett
Featured Singers
Bobby Kerrigan Jim Wrynn Karin Anderson Nick Economou Thom Smoker & Andrew Hankinson Nora Falk Greg Mancusi Ungaro Janet Pohli John Archer Larry Lowe Mary McClory Emma Rose Campbell Dayle Persons Jennifer Hurley David Scannell Ron Amon Nate Ramsayer Tom Edmonds
Through The Big Times and Back - Part 1: Welcome to The Big Times by Zach Winston
Artwork by Randy Tang
New York City, 1977. Ed Koch is campaigning for mayor, Annie debuts on Broadway, a widespread blackout takes the city by storm, and an aging pro-wrestling promotion struggles to maintain relevance in a rapidly changing cultural landscape. Join us for a virtual staged reading of local playwright, Zach Winston's Prologue: Welcome to The Big Times, an open-ended serial for the stage about television, crime, the media, and professional wrestling. Emily & Zach will be joined by local Boston & North Shore actors to bring this script to life, followed by a brief Q&A.
Zach Winston is a Boston-based actor/producer/director, and now, playwright. He is a founding member of Vagabond Theatre Group (IRNE nominations, Best New Play- Burning the Barn, Burning Up the Dictionary; Elliott Norton nomination, Best New Play- Breaking the Shakespeare Code), and has performed with various theatre companies including Zeitgeist Stage (Eight by Tenn, A Bright New Boise, Tigers Be Still), Vagabond Theatre Group (August & Autumn, True Believers), Boston Public Works (Hard & Fast: A Love Story), and Take Your Pick Productions (Lost Girls). After spending seven years working directly with playwrights while producing new works with Vagabond Theatre Group, Zach is excited to finally set pen-to-paper again.
Emily Grove is a theatre educator, director, and actor living in Boston. Emily has taught youth theatre at the American Repertory Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, Company One, Arlington Children’s Theatre, and more. She is the resident theatre teaching artist at the Fayerweather Street School in Cambridge. Directing credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest, Machinal, Romeo and Juliet, and Mr. Marmalade. Acting credits include: The Smell of the Kill (Nicky), The Tempest (Miranda), and Cabaret (Fraulein Kost). Emily has served on the Board of Directors at MLT for just over two years and is a graduate of Salem State University, holding her BFA in Theatre: Performance.
Monday, August 24 7:00 pm- 8:00 pm
Broadway Anywhere - Part 2
A Musical Theatre Sing-a-long
With Lianne Goodwin and Thom Smoker
Musical Theatre SIng-a-Long: Thom & Lianne bring you an evening of those classic musical theater songs we all secretly (or proudly) love to sing along to. Grab your favorite beverage, sit in your favorite chair or stand in the shower, and join Thom and Lianne as we all sing along to the broadway classics and hits.
Thom Smoker and Lianne Goodwin. What do you need to know? They are both music educators, both singers, both music directors, both performers, both love musical theater, both love being involved with the community, and both love to do all of those things together.
August 31 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Scenic Design
MLT Facade Art Project
With Jeremy Barnett
Designing large productions in small space. In this seminar we will discuss how a company such as MLT can use its converted space, a firehouse, to its best advantage. We will explore using space and scale in an intimate environment, and how we use these advantages to create a unique design experience
Jeremy Barnett is an award-winning scenic designer and installation artist with over 200 theatrical design credits. While Jeremy has worked in venues including the New York Philharmonic and the Lyric Opera of Chicago and has done event does event design for Bruce Springsteen and Harley Davidson, he has a focused his career on staging productions in non-traditional venues. Some of Jeremy’s favorite venues in his home base of Detroit include an abandoned bank, a converted pie warehouse, a pickle-canning plant, and a former coffin factory. Jeremy’s family connections to Marblehead Little Theatre and his work in creating thrilling theatrical events in intimate spaces makes him especially appreciative of the extraordinary work that MLT has done in the converted firehouse.
Jeremy’s experience in non-traditional design has led to side career in public art. Jeremy has created outdoor sculptures and installations for the Tengenenge Gallery Zimbabwe, the ComPeung Gallery in Thailand, the Cuevas De Rodeo artist community in Spain, and numerous galleries in the United States.
He is a co-founding member of the Shoe Beer Collective, an American-Canadian collaboration dedicated to erasing the boundaries between the different genres of art and performance. Jeremy’s work in installation is based on the idea that simple materials and bold colors can be combined to create dynamic and inspiring spaces that are accessible to all audiences. Just like his work in the theatre, Jeremy prefers creating art in public spaces that make art available to everyone.
Jeremy studied interior design at Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy and photography at the Pittsburgh Film Maker’s Institute before receiving his BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University and his MFA in Scenic Design at Boston University. Jeremy served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine from 2003 to 2005.
Jeremy teaches scenic design at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. His students have produced work for the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hal Prince Productions, Disney Theme Parks in Orlando and a number of Broadway design firms.
In this forum/seminar we will explore the process of selecting fixtures and colors based on scenic drawings and renderings. We will examine how math and art intersect on paper and translate onstage. Finally we will discuss how a design becomes realized in technical rehearsals.
Tyson Miller graduated from Ohio Northern University with a BFA in International Theatre Production in 2015. He has designed with the Virginia Musical Theatre, Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Wellesley College, and Westfield State University. He has worked in a variety of design areas including professional and academic theatre, nightclubs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, national music tours with Jim Brickman, and museums including the Edward Kennedy Institute for the US Senate.
Produced by Greg Mancusi-Ungaro Directed by John Fogle
January 10-26, 2020 at Marblehead Little Theatre
In Paul Rudnick’s hilarious and madcap I Hate Hamlet, television star Andrew Rally is about to start rehearsals to play Hamlet—and he is terrified. Unsure of himself, worried about his career, Andrew doesn’t know what to do.
That's when the ghost of legendary actor John Barrymore appears! Barrymore explains that all actors who take on the role are visited and mentored by their predecessors, and that he cannot leave Andrew until he takes the stage as Hamlet.
Andrew’s girlfriend wants him to be a romantic hero of the stage, his friend wants him to accept a lucrative new TV gig, and Barrymore wants him to accept his own great theatrical mantle.
As Andrew grows under Barrymore’s larger-than-life wing, he is forced to confront the ultimate question: who he wants to be, or not to be.
The Cast
Andrew Rally - Phil Weinstein Felicia Dantine - Debbe Lewis Deirdre McDavey - Tina Barry Lillian Troy - Susan Brother John Barrymore - Eric Rodenhiser Gary Peter Lefkowitz - Kevin Walker
At Marblehead Little Theatre February 7 & 8 at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $25 online here and at the Arnould Gallery in Marblehead
Marblehead resident and BBC broadcaster
Rhod Sharp has once again gathered his favorite Celtic musicians together to
perform a romantic evening of Scottish music, stories and songs. The show, Love Scotland 3, will be performed
at Marblehead Little Theatre on Friday and Saturday, February 7 and 8, 2020.
“This is the time of year that people of Scottish descent the world over celebrate the rich musical and spoken tradition of a land of breathtaking beauty beginning with the birthday of Robert Burns, the great Scottish music collector and poet”, Sharp said. “Can you think of a better way to escape the season of snowy days and long nights by the fire than with an early Valentine’s night out enjoying the rich and romantic songbook of Scotland?”
Joining Sharp on stage with be
piper, singer and fiddler Elias Alexander, opera singer Julianne Gearhart and
pianist and tap dancer Neil Pearlman. This year they will bring their musical vision to the
evergreen Scots ballad of shipwreck and tragedy, Sir Patrick Spens, which some
might remember in the 1970 version by
Fairport Convention. Favourite songs and
poems of Robert Burns will also be featured including the group’s own musical
version of Burns’ poem Tam O’Shanter, a rollicking tale of pub society, horse
riding under the influence and a dance of witches.
And,
in a year when the UK government challenged Scotland’s right to determine its
own future, Sharp says the cast will explore old and new takes on the freedom
to live and love.
Check out reptiles up close and personal during a one hour educational show presented by Rainforest Reptiles Live.
Presented March 9 at 3:30 p.m. at the Marblehead Little Theatre, the interactive show will contain detailed information about each of the animals (or in this case reptiles) including their habitats, defense mechanisms, and natural diets.
The show is for kids ages 3 and up. The cost for children ages 3-12 is $15 and ages 13 and older $18 but if kids of any age (including adults) want the front row or floor the cost is $20 per person.
Rainforest Reptile Shows is a family business established in 1993, founded by Joan Gallagher and Michael Ralbovsky to educate and entertain people of all ages.
The event is a fundraiser sponsored by Salem State University professor Mandy Lobraico. Lobraico is working on raising enough money to cover the cost of taking her entire class overseas for a study abroad program in Greece.
For more information on the event contact Mandy Lobraico at mlobraico@salemstate.edu or at 857-383-0645
