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Port City Playhouse

2009-2010 Season

Port City is proud to present its 32nd Jim Gauthier Memorial Season of Plays for 2009-2010:

The Front Page – by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur – Directed by Roland Branford Gomez

Performance dates: Fri and Sat at 8 pm 03/12 & 03/13, 03/19 & 03/20, 03/26 & 03/27; Tue at 8 pm 03/23; plus Sun Matinee at 2 pm 03/28/2010

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The Front Page is considered responsible for defining the modern stereotype of a reporter as a hard-drinking journalist intent on uncovering truth even in the face of danger. Hildy is that reporter and wants to take a break to go on a belated honeymoon. When a convict escapes from a jail cell and ends up as Hildy's captive, the reporter conceals his prize in a roll-top desk and phones his managing editor with the scoop. Their job is to prevent other reporters and the sheriff from opening the desk and finding their story. The Front Page is “one of the funniest and most exciting of American plays." - NY Times

Cast Includes:

· Mark Adams - Hildy Johnson

· Eleni Aldridge - Mrs Schlosser & Jennie

· Geoffrey Baskir – Schwartz (Reporter)

· Brian Clarke – Murphy (Reporter)

· Ray Converse - Woodenshoes

· Gary Cramer - Earl Williams

· Ted Culler – Bensinger (Reporter)

· Jim Day - McCue (Reporter)

· Ron Field - The Mayor

· Kacie Greenwood - Mollie Malloy

· Elizabeth Heir - Peggy Grant

· Howard Jaffe - The Voice & Policeman

· Bonnie Jourdan - Mrs Grant

· Robert Kraus - Diamond Louis

· James McDaniel - Walter Burns (Editor)

· Will Monahan - Endicott (Reporter)

· Jerry Morse - Sheriff “Pinky” Hartman

· Ron Sturman - Mr Pincus

· P. Spencer Tamney- Wilson (Reporter)

· Cal Whitehurst – Kruger (Reporter)

Abandonment – by Kate Atkinson – Directed by Mary Suib

Performance dates (subject to change): Fri and Sat at 8 pm 05/14 & 05/15, 05/21 & 05/22, 05/27 & 05/28; Tue at 8 pm 05/25; plus Sun Matinee at 2 pm 05/30/2010

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Abandonment is a mixture of social comedy, family drama and mystery. The play takes place in a drawing room today and in 1885. It involves two sets of characters occupying the same space and two love stories which end unhappily. Elizabeth is a recently separated woman who wants to be alone and start afresh. She moves into a converted mansion, alive with history, character and dry rot. But worse, she is besieged by invaders of the human kind, from friends and family to former inhabitants disturbed from their resting place. It is a play of love, death, identity and evolution that proves that the past is never far away. Abandonment is “sophisticated entertainment” a “passionate, vibrant play.” – ChicagoCritic.com

Our Town – by Thornton Wilder - Directed by Rosemary Hartman

Performance closed: Sun 11/15/2009

Our Town "will make you think about the meaning of the smallest things in your life that you may be taking for granted." - Show Biz Radio

Cost of Our Town - photo compliments of Scott Carter

Cast included:

• Peggie Arvidson – Choir, Dead Woman, Wedding Attendee
• Sue Bevine - Mrs. Webb, Choir
• Krista Barnette – Choir, Mourner, Wedding Attendee
• Chris Brewster - Doc Gibbs
• Corrine Brush - Emily

• John Camarella - Joe Crowell Jr., Baseball Player 2
• Scott Carter - George
• Arthur Chu - Baseball Player3, Choir, Mourner
• David Citron - Sam Craig, Choir, Wedding Attendee, Man in Auditorium
• Dan DeVany - Stage Manager

• Daniel Durgavich - Baseball Player1, Si Crowell, Joe Crowell Jr. (Understudy)
• Brodie Evans – Choir, Dead Woman, Wedding Attendee, Woman in Auditorium

• Florence Ferraro - Mrs. Soames, Choir
• Robert Kraus - Joe Stoddard, Wedding Attendee
• Jon Marget – Choir, Dead Man, Wedding Attendee
• Donald Neal - Mr. Webb
• Eliza Malakoff - Rebecca
• Tricia O'Neill-Politte - Mrs. Gibbs, Choir
• Bob Scott - Howie Newsome, Choir, Mourner, Wedding Attendee
• Michael Switalski - Constable Warren, Choir, Mourner, Wedding Attendee

• Joshua F. Turner – Wally Webb
• Ron Vardiman - Professor Willard, Choir, Dead Man, Wedding Attendee
• Cal Whitehurst - Simon Stimson, Choir