Award Winning Musical Oliver Hits the Stage!
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rab your tickets and prepare to be amazed as 48 of your friends and neighbors sing, dance and act their way into your hearts as they present Charles Dickens’s time-honored tale of the orphaned boy Oliver as he searches for love and belonging. Oliver, adapted from the original by Wayne R. Scott, will open the sixth season of our local community theater troupe, The Sunriver Stars, and be performed at The Door, 56885 Enterprise Drive under the direction of Victoria Kristy. How did Sunriver get so lucky to have it’s very own community theater? CASCADES “A lot of wonderful things had to happen to make my dream come true,” THEATRICAL COMPANY says Kristy, Artistic Director and Founder of SSCT. “My background PRESENTS is directing children’s theater but when my husband and I retired to Sunriver, it just seemed natural to start a theater for the community that would offer performance opportunities for all ages. I love to see eight year Photo courtesy of Sunriver STARS olds and 80 year olds on stage together!” she says. Four times a year the Sunriver stars are invited to transform the Door space into the imaginary places theater is bound to take us. When you enter the ‘theater’ beginning October 19, you will be transported to the streets of Victorian England. Black pipe and drape surround the walls and bring intimacy to the usually open space. A two level set, created by Doug Griffin will make you believe you have stepped into a time machine and are wandering the back alleys of London. Glorious Victorian era costumes will add to the magic and those 48 local actors ranging this time in age from five to mid 70s will make you so proud that we have our very own community actors group and a place to perform, you’ll want to join! Oliver runs October 19-20 and 25-27. Tickets and information can be found at sunriverstars.org
Altar Egos BY MAXWELL ANDERSON DIRECTED BY KAREN SIPES
OCT 25 - NOV 11
THU-SAT: 7:30PM SUN: 2PM MATINEE $20 ADULT $16 SENIOR • $16 STUDENT 148 NW GREENWOOD AVE. BEND, OR 97703 TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT CASCADESTHEATRICAL.ORG OR THROUGH THE BOX OFFICE 541.389.0803 “Bad Seed” is presented in special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services, Inc. New York
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he High Desert Community Theater Presents! Altar Egos (The I Do’s and Don’ts of an American Wedding). “All we want is a simple wedding,” agree Mark and Colleen as they get engaged. And their simple wedding stays simple, for about two minutes. Then the families get involved. There are the McMasters, who think the Frobishers are a bunch of snooty dudes, and the Frobishers, who picture the McMasters as a crowd of hillbillies. The bride’s father keeps offering the soon-to-bewed couple thousands of dollars to elope, “No questions asked!” The bride’s mother decides to call in her sister, who is a sweet, lovely woman, until she becomes “The Coordinator." The groom needs a best man so he enlists his uncle Josh, who’s an old hippie. The bride’s kid sister can’t wait for the wedding either, since she gets the bride’s old room, if she can talk Dad out of it, who wants it for a den, if he can talk Mom out of it, who wants it for a quilting room. The two mothers are literally dueling over the rehearsal dinner seating chart while the bride and groom wonder where it all went wrong. Throw into this mix football
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referees, tailors, circus ringmasters, caterers and even an interpreter and you get just some of the Altar Egos. Written by Pat Cook and produced by special arrangement with Eldridge Publishing Company. Altar Ego will be performed by the High Desert Community Theater on October 25-27 at 7pm and October 28 at 2pm at The Madras Performing Arts Center. Tickets are free and available at the Madras Chamber of Commerce and the Culver City Hall. Donations are gladly accepted at the door.