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July 21, 2017
By Garth Snow
Local instrument maker offers quick ukulele intro
State line cast adds area talent
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“Seussical, Jr.” in Hicksville, Ohio, will have a certain Indiana voice. Triniti McFarland of Carroll Middle school will play Mayzie in the confluence of Dr. Seuss stories. She will sing opposite Josh Fine of Hicksville as Horton. She will converse with Katherine Berger of Fairview (Ohio) High School as Cat in the Hat. Allen County, in fact, is well represented in the cast of 65 young people from five counties and two states. Fort Wayne, Harlan, New Haven and Woodburn also have youth in the second such summer production at the restored Huber Opera House & Civic Center. “It’s a nonprofit, totally run by volunteers, so there are no paid people at all at the Huber,” volunteer Chris Feichter said after a recent rehearsal. Sound crews or other tech help might be employed at a production, but that’s the size of the payroll. “The
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Katherine Berger (left) of Fairview (Ohio) High School plays Cat in the Hat opposite Triniti McFarland of Carroll Middle School as Mayzie in “Seussical, Jr.” at the Huber Opera House & Civic Center in Hicksville, Ohio. The Fort Wayne area has several students in the July 21-23 production.
board of directors pretty much take care of all the details of maintenance, repairs, the productions, doing fundraising and those kinds of things. I do some grant-writing for them. We’ve been lucky to get a couple of grants.” Like the many, varied
Huber productions, advertising for the first youth project in 2016 was pretty much by word of mouth. “Youth theater is one of the pieces of the puzzle that we initiated last year, and it was such a success See CAST, Page A9
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Friday, July 21, 7-9 p.m.; Saturday, July 22, 7-9 p.m.; Sunday, July 23, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Huber Opera House & Civic Center, 157 E. High St., Hicksville, Ohio. Adults $12, seniors $10, children $8.
Richard Ash can’t transform a ukulele novice into an independent artist instantly. But give him 2.5 hours and he will have the student playing the basics. “We learn a handful of chords, and strum those chords and hum along and we do a number of songs from ‘Clementine’ to ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight,’ and two hours into the class they’re changing chords pretty easily,” Ash said. The owner of Woodcraft Instruments usually teaches audiences from the Midwest and beyond at his Woodburn shop. Or he follows the folk music circuit across the South and beyond. But from 9:30 a.m.-noon Saturday, Aug. 5, he will share more than a quarter-century of ukulele know-how at the Fort Wayne Community Center, 233 W. Main St. Sign up at fortwayneparks.
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org. Aspiring uke players will pay $65 for the lesson and their own ukulele. You read that correctly. “They will take the ukulele with them,” he said. The beginners’ model won’t have the same luster as those that fill the walls in Woodburn, but the instruments will suffice for the introduction and the short-term. “It’s a one-time thing for most of the people,” Ash said. “They’re doing this for entertainment and they can work on this from home.” Ash has taught a ukulele class through the Fort Wayne Parks Department for about five years. “I’ve also done harmonica and tinwhistle. I’ve done a variety of programs with the Parks Department, and it’s very well organized,” he said. Some of Ash’s students have gone on to join See INTRO, Page A6
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