October 2, 2013
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SCC’s 2013-14 Productions Announced St. Charles Community College’s Center Stage Theatre has announced its lineup for the 2013-14 season. The season includes five shows of varying genres, including two Tony Award winners. The first play of the season is John Steinbeck’s Tony Award-winning The Grapes of Wrath. The play, adapted by Frank Galati and directed by Hal Berry, emeritus faculty member at SCC, tells the story of the Joad family shattered by depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s. They, along with millions of Americans, struggled to survive the national crisis. Steinbeck’s message is that of universal oneness. The story is told with music of the Depression’s famous folk artist Woody Guthrie, vivid and contrasting lighting, and an ensemble dramatizing the movement of people west to find a better life in California. Performances will be October 2-6 with a matinee performance for high school students at 10am on Thursday, October 3. On Golden Pond is a classic American comedy and drama by Ernest Thompson that will be directed by Lynne Snyder, SCC associate professor of theater. The play is about a retired couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend every summer at their home on Golden Pond,
The cast of Charlie’s Aunt, a previous SCC show Photo courtesy of SCC
Maine. This year, their adult daughter and her fiancé visit, bringing along his 13-year-old son. The turbulent relationship between father and daughter, the generation gap between young and old, and the difficulties, joys and fears facing a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage combine to give this play insight into the modern family. In the end, they all learn from one another. Auditions will be at 7pm Monday-Tuesday, October 7-8, with callbacks at 7pm Wednesday, October 9. There are parts for three men, two women and one boy. Performances will be November 20-24 with a matinee performance for high school students at 10am on Thursday, November 21. Lonna Wilke, SCC associate professor, will direct The Elephant Man, the Tony Award-winning play by Bernard Pomerance. The play is based on the life of John Merrick who lived in London during the latter part of the 19th century. Merrick, a horribly deformed young man and victim of rare skin and bone diseases, had become the star attraction in traveling sideshows. Found abandoned and helpless, he was admitted to London’s prestigious Whitechapel Hospital. Under the care of a celebrated young physician, Frederick Treves, Merrick was introduced to
London society and slowly evolved from an object of pity to an urbane favorite of the aristocracy and literati—only to be denied his ultimate goal to become a man like any other. Auditions will be at 7pm Tuesday-Wednesday, January 21-22, with callbacks at 7pm Thursday, January 23. There are parts for six men and two See THEATRE page 2
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