2008 Season - 41st Anniversary Season

 

SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
Music/Book by Lynn Ahrens
Lyrics/Book by Stephen Flaherty

Performances:
February 29, March 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 2008

Where: Watt Auditorium Ionia Middle School
Director: Warren Wentworth
Cast list:
Musical Director:  Mary Cusack
Artistic Director:   Dennis Janiske
Technical Director:  LaFonna Kananen
The Cat in the Hat:  Emily Slater
Horton the Elephant:  Dave Miller
Gertrude McFuzz:  Haley Hildebrandt
Jo Jo:  Lauren Vaughn
Mayor of Whoville:  Brian Camacho
Mrs. Mayor/The Lorax:  Cat Sage
Mayzie La Bird:  Marley Slater
General Ghengis Kahn Schmitz:  Greg Stratton
Sour Kangaroo:  Jenny Slater
The Wickersham Bros.:  John Slater, Allan Dawson, Andrew Bailiff
The Grinch:  Helene Dunn
Bird Girls:  Ashley Feehan, Tesha Lake, Ashley Bowker
Thing 1:  Kelsey Mullin
Thing 2:  Brooke Becker
Cindy Lou Who:  Samantha Speckin
Small Kangaroo:  Cassandra Bennett
Vlad Vladikof:  Cassie Frost
Cadets:  Karri Walczak, Brittany Smith, Steven Walczak, Garrett Gamble
Judge Yertle the Turtle:  Robert Benjamin

Additional Ensemble/Chorus:
Nora Fitzpatrick, Breegale Smith, Jessica Warren, Mackenzie Kneale
Jacob Rowley, Keturah Kelley, Cassandra Williams, Audrea Malakofsky
Ali Fezzey, Hope Simon, Abby Ziegler, Kelsey Lehman
Athena Heydenburk, Pat Cherpes, Shannon Ferris, Alexandra Allen
Janae Stover, Tiffany Fezzey, Maddie Downes, Kaci Ray
Emma Fitzpatrick, Pam Robinson, Jessica Holliman, David Holliman

"THE LAST FIVE YEARS"
Book, Music and Lyrics by: Jason Robert Brown

The Last Five Years premiered in Chicago in 2001 and was then produced off-Broadway in March of 2002 . Since then it has enjoyed numerous productions internationally.

last five years

A contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. The Last Five Years explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. The show uses a novel form of storytelling in which Cathy travels backwards in time (beginning the show at the end of the marriage), and Jamie travels forwards (starting with the couple's first date).
CAST: Cally Redder and Ben Bookie

DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER
by Marc Camoletti
Adapted by Robin Hawdon

Bernard is planning a weekend with his mistress. He has hired a gourmet cook, is packing his wife Jacqueline off to her mother's, and has invited his best friend, Robert, to provide an alibi. It is foolproof. What could possibly go wrong?
don't dress for dinner

Suppose Robert doesn't know why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers? What happens if the cook is mistaken for the mistress and the mistress can't cook? Mix these ingredients and you have the recipe for an evening of hilarious confusion... where nothing can go right!

An evening of pratfalls, mistaken identity, and immoral activities will leave the audience rolling in the aisles.

Director:
Dennis Janiske

Cast:
Bernard- Warren Wentworth
Jacqueline- Coleen Pierce
Robert- Adam Rewa
Suzanne- Emily Slater
Suzette- Jody Rewa
George-Timothy LaBelle