Deck the Halls: December 8, 9, 10 & 11, 2022.Ī new event begins in February with Hoosier H’Arts, a celebration of Valentine’s Day, Black History Month and Indiana poets.Join us as we sing familiar holiday songs while learning the stories and traditions behind them. The Haunted States of America: October 14, 15, 22, 23, 28 & 29, 2022.Ĭandlelight Theatre’s holiday performance is Deck the Hallsby resident playwright, James Trofatter.This progressive play encompasses the entire mansion as guests are led on a voyage through the United States to meet apparitions of some of the country’s most haunted places. We will begin the season with The Haunted States of America by James Trofatter. NCT is still the greatest value in live theatre.After 19 years of partnership, the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site and Candlelight Theatre are proud to announce the 2022-2023 theatre season! Why not give her the red-haired Afro we are all familiar with and be done with it?Ĭredit where credit is due: Next season opens with the formidable MISS SAIGON, Music by les messieurs who brought you LES MIS. While Pisors’ was acceptable, the hairpiece given to Annie was a bit large for her head and reminded me of the style preferred by my grandmother. The server at the table for my dear sister Liz and me, I wondered why she needed a wig (Freda Carson) on stage. Grace (Megan Pisors) is an attractive stage presence with a clear voice. Goodman left it to the dancers to create their own little prances.į.D.R/Cop (David Snyder) channeled our most patrician of Presidents as the former and delivered an authentic Irish brogue as the latter. What little choreography there was (Shauna Goodman) could have been enhanced in ‘Hooverville’, generally a major production number. More rehearsal could make that the number it should be. Potential was lost in their own show stopper ‘Easy Street’. Her grifters-in-crime Rooster (Dewey Oriente) and Lily (Lindsay Mauck) are strong in their portrayals. Miss Hannigan (Gerri Weagraff) plays comic drunk well, a homegrown version of Carol Burnett. In the “Full Monty” his body was bare in this one he bares his hair! His scene explaining to Annie his growing up in Hell’s Kitchen was the most dramatic of the evening. Warbucks (Patrick O’Hara) is a fine actor and even better all around trouper. There is no doubt in my mind she will be the title character in some future production of this show. Molly (Nicole Hemphill) is simply too cute. Her voice was shrill rather than melodic and a voice instructor should suggest letting the air come over the palate from her diaphragm rather than straight from her chest. Her two aforementioned show stoppers were sung without the degree of desolation, yearning and hope the lyrics speak to. The set was one dimensional cartoon-ish in both design and application and in no fashion integrated with the heartstrings-pulling drama of the little orphan girl.Īnnie (Jamieson O’Brien) is a good actor and has quite a resume for her age. Production qualities were not commensurate with what we have come to expect at NCT. True, the tunes ‘Tomorrow’ and ‘Maybe’ stick in your brain like oil to a pelican in the Gulf disaster, but ANNIE should be sent to Old Timers Hall of Overdone Musicals. Their Doc Halladay was “Cats” and “Footloose” Cliff Lee was “Oklahoma” and “Joseph” and Cole Hamels was “Little Shop” and “Evita”.ĪNNIE was a minor league choice. Over the past 2 seasons New Candlelight Theatre had been in a groove like the Phillies pitching staff. Warbucks and Jamieson O'Brien as Annie, in New Candlelight Theatre's production of ANNIE.
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