Ravenscroft has been selected to represent the NW Region at the State OCTA fest in September.
The cast and crew won 11 awards!

Awards won were:

Cast - Excellence in Ensemble

Lisa Wiley - Excellence in Directing
Excellence in Set
Excellence in Stage Combat

Jennifer Wertz - Excellence in Costumes

Ellie Stuck - Merit in Acting

Rob Albach - Merit in Acting

Deb Presser - Merit in Acting

Kelli Market - Merit in Acting

Dawnis Edge - Merit in Acting

Ellen Larsen - Outstanding in Acting


The cast and crew had a very fun weekend and look forward to planning for State in September! Thank you to everyone involved for their help and support.

Lights, Camera and Action!
Farndale opens tonight.
I hope all goes well. It is a cute slap shtick farcical show and the audience is sure to have a good time. Lets see what the reviewers think!

More to come on this:
Have a video audition tonight.....for a TV show....let's see what happens!

Farndale

Currently I am designing and running lights for the Harlequins Production:

Farndale Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth

By David McGillvray and Walter Zerlin Jnr.

April 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, May 1, 2, 3, 2009

When you delve into performing live theatre, as the ladies of The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society will attest, things can go wrong. However, the show must go on as everyone knows…and it does…whether or not it should is another question. However, the ladies have spent nine months rehearsing and hope to take their production of Macbeth to the national final. Luckily (or not), a well-respected adjudicator is present who will judge their performance worthy. Sets facing the wrong way, actresses who don't show up, props, costumes...if it can go awry...well, hilarity and mayhem ensue.

Harlequins Community Theatre
414 Wayne Street, Rear, Sandusky, OH 44870-1582
http://www.harlequinstheatre.org/

Finnegan

Well, the weekend run is over and I have to say that it was awesome. I have never been involved in an interactive production before and it is something quite challenging and also very rewarding! The audiences seemed to love the show and we had many, many great comments on the show as well as individual performances.

As an actor the challenge for me came in having to be “on” for 3 or so hours. No intermission, no walking “off stage”. Maintaining the energy for that long was exhausting and at the end of the show it felt like I had been run over! Now- I have to say that if I didn’t have a ”day job”, perhaps it wouldn’t have been so tiring, but- I think that anything that you concentrate on for that long that hard is draining.

We have two more shows scheduled at this time and I understand that more will be booked as the year continues. The show will eventually have a couple of different “casts” so that the “show can go on” with or without the original cast.

I have met some wonderful folks during this show and I will miss them and I do hope to be fortunate enough to work with several of them in the future. Till the next adventure----Farewell to Finnegan.

Lisa

Finnegan

Well rehearsals are almost at an end! Tonight is our Final Dress!
I am sportin' a new hair and new hair color! It is such a fun show and it really has been a learning experience! I do hope the audience enjoys it!

Finnegan

Wow- Rehearsals have been great! It is quite a riot at rehearsals. It will be a fun show. I am so very tired right now. Long days at work an then long nights at rehearsal. One more week of rehearsal and then the show begins. We are getting many other bookings for the show from what they tell me. It will be good to have this on the back burner for slow times. We will work in another cast so that we can be more flexible with scheduling. Off for now.....