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T h e C u e S h e e tA u g u s t 2 0 1 5
N e w s l e t t e r o f t h e f e N t o N V i l l a g e P l a y e r s
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By Matthew E. Semrau
It’s every father’s nightmare.Wednesday Addams
(Isabelle Birt)—the ultimate princess of darkness—is all grown up. She has fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man, Lucas Beineke (Austin Fos-ter) who comes from a respectable family.
Neither of Wednes-day’s parents have met him.
This musical comedy will dazzle the mind and warm your heart as we see two conflict-ing worlds meet and explore their differenc-
es—and similarities.She decides to confide
in her father—Gomez Addams (Jonathan Smith)—and pleads with him not to tell her mother.
Gomez must now do something he’s never done be-fore—keep a secret from his beloved wife, Mor-ticia Add-ams (Am-ber Fullmer.)
Everything changes
when the Addams fam-ily hosts a dinner with Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his par-ents, Alice Beineke (Car-la Feamster; Rachael
Hildreth) and Mal Beineke (Dan Mal-danado.)
“The Addams Family” is an origi-nal story created by authors
Marshal Brickman, Rick Elice and Andrew Lippa.
The Fenton Village
Players’ production is di-rected by Stevie Visser, produced by Jill Tomlin & Joy Carr, musical di-rection by Rafeal D. Mc-Daniel and choreogra-phy by Rachel Hildreth.
For a full list of the cast and crew, please see Page 3.
Tickets can be pur-chased online at our (temporary—more on this on Page 4) website, FentonVillagePlay-house.wordpress.com, or from box offices in and around Fenton.
Photo: Pam Buerger Partial cast of “Addams Family” rehearsing on main stage
on applause alone. It runs on budgets and labors of love by vol-unteers who have the-ater in their blood.
They devote their time to the theater for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. They do it for the sake of their art, without financial support from municipal or county governments.
Putting on a show can be fueled by great, infectious enthusiasm, but creating an orga-nization to sustain a series of shows and build a place in the communi-ty takes much more and requires the Board of Directors to be vigilant in following the mission.
Just getting the
rights to produce a play or musical can be costly, depending on the age of the show. Non-musicals generally are less expen-sive to produce, but mu-sicals draw the biggest crowds.
We had hoped to stage “Grease” next sum-mer but the rights have been moved to “premier” status which basically means “lots of money.” Rights, score, scripts, music, etc., could cost more than $5,000—for our
size theater it’s unlikely that we could to do that.
The Board will review our options and make a decision at our next meeting, August
11, 2015.“Grease”
is our high-est gross-ing play ever and we had hoped to have fun with it again. But, there are lots of other fabulous produc-tions. I am confident the Board will choose
Photo: Scott Loftesness at Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Board of Directors
the very funny “Addams Family the Musical.” Please come join us, es-cape the heat—our the-atre is air conditioned—and support your local, community theatre.
We know you know the theme song—you can snap along!
That’s the perk of doing the newsletter. A little box where you can ramble and ramble and ramble until Bev tells me to be quiet or to edit it out. Muaha-haha. The power!
But seriously, it’s always fun to reach the end and realize I only have to fill a small little box and I’m done. It’s my victory lap.
But let’s look forward
to September. We need your submissions. Send me anything. I’d love to put a short story in here or a poem or just your experience watching a show or volunteering (ooo, volunteering.)
Help make my box small by not giving me any room to put it in!
Matthew Semrauthe Cue sheet
editor-iN-Chief
Fenton Village Playhouse14197 Torrey Rd.Fenton, MI 48430
Visit us online for upcoming shows, au-ditions, news, tickets, and more:www.FentonVillagePlayers.org
VillagePlayers.org have been greeted with a surprise: it’s not there.
The outage is the result of technical issues with the domain name.
The Board is in the process of resolv-ing these issues.
“Hopefully in the next week or so all board members will be listed on the account so if this ever happens again, we can reestablish it faster,” wrote Stevie Visser, who manages the Theatre’s website.
“Unfortunately the email is attached to the domain so our email is
down until ownership of the domain is veri-fied,” Stevie concluded.
This means that all any email sent to an @FentonVillagePlay-ers.org email address will not be received until this problem has been resolved.
In the meantime, you can access our temporary website at FentonVillagePlay-house.wordpress.com.
Of course, you can always call our office at (810) 750-7700.
You can also di-rect questions to our Facebook page and our Facebook com-munity group.
Website woes will be resolved Thursday, August 6
7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Friday, August 7
7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Saturday, August 8
7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Sunday, August 9
2:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Friday, August 14
7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Saturday, August 15
7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”
Sunday, August 162:00pm - Show “The
Addams Family”Monday, August 17
6:30pm - Auditions “The Cemetery Club”Tuesday, August 18
6:30pm - “The Cemetery Club”Friday, August 21
7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Saturday, August 22
7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Sunday, August 23