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Hello friends! Welcome to our 58th season, which we have lovingly dubbed our “Season of Friends and Family.” Putting together a season of shows that is both entertaining and cohesive can be a fun challenge. Obviously, I want both shows to be funny and energetic, but ideally both productions should also share a common theme. These two shows might seem like an odd pairing. But the more I thought about the themes of both shows, the more I realized that this would make a wonderful season. Guys on Ice is about friendship. Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help is about family. Our 58th season explores how our family becomes our friends. And sometimes, our friends become our family.
My very first show here at Lake George Dinner Theatre was in 2012 when I performed in “The Love List”. My good friend and mentor Terry Rabine was running things back then and he very warmly welcomed me into the LGDT family. Many of the same folks that I met back then are still with us and we’ve picked up a lot of new family members along the way. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all these wonderful people, without whom none of these productions would happen. Let me start with the fine folks right here at The Holiday Inn Resort. They have been our partners and friends in this endeavor since David and Vicky Eastwood joined forces with them in 1976 to create Lake George Dinner Theatre. Our incredible Board of Directors who work tirelessly to keep the company running smoothly (special shout-out to our outgoing President Sharon Reynolds and incoming President Erin Coon). Our brand-new Managing Director Sara Friedman who literally does it all. Our incredibly talented designers and technical crew - too many names to mention but they know how much I depend on them.
Finally, thank you to you, our audience, the most important friends we could ever ask for. Theater is nothing without an audience. You are the reason we all do what we do. They say that friends are the family you choose. We are so grateful that you have chosen to be a part of the LGDT Family. On behalf of the Holiday Inn Resort management and staff as well as the LGDT board of directors and creative team, thank you for joining us. We hope you enjoy the show!!
Jarel Davidow, Artistic Director
Welcome! I am honored to be part of the magic, working with Artistic Director, Jarel Davidow and Managing Director, Sara Friedman – a theatrical dream team whose vision has brought us a 2025 season full of wit, charm, and heart.
Lake George Dinner Theater is a yearly tradition for those of us who live nearby and a vacation delight for the many visitors who travel here each season to experience the beauty of our region. I remember coming to see shows here as a child, sitting with my family as the room dimmed with candles flickering on the tables. It was like being alone until the lights came up, the actors entered, and I entered a whole new world! It was thrilling then and it’s just as thrilling now.
This season shows’ themes remind us how very important family and friends are. Who are you here with today? I still come with my family every year and look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones at my table. That’s the real magic of theater and we have been creating it in the Lake George region for 58 years.
Our predecessors, including Immediate Past President, Sharon Reynolds, David and Vicky Eastwood and Terry Rabine, would be proud of this season and would join me in saying to you: Enjoy the show!
Erin L. Coon, PhD, President, Board of Directors
OUR HISTORY
This theater company began as a collaboration between David Eastwood and Bruce Jordan who met in The Glens Falls Operetta Club’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 1967.
They loved the experience and felt that the area needed live theater opportunities in the summer months. Hence in 1968, they rented the GF High School for two weekends and produced Barefoot in the Park. The first weekend only a few people attended….but the second weekend brought in enough money to ‘break even’.
The next summer they moved to the Towers Hall, a carriage barn for the Fort William Henry Hotel. It was a BIG empty space so they located and purchased 400 seats from a movie theater in Vermont, not realizing that all of the seats had been on a raked floor and needed to be modified for a flat floor. Neil Akins along with Jane and David Otoupal were our biggest helpers back then. With their support, plus high school students Scott Clugstone and Terry Rabine, the seats were installed just in time for our second show, The Star Spangled Girl.
They remained at Towers Hall for 8 summers - presenting three shows a year, children’s theatre, and a cabaret at the Fort William Henry lounge after the shows.
In 1976, Nan Veeder, owner of the Lake George Holiday Inn Resort, and David joined forces and Lake George Dinner Theatre was born. Two years later, they joined Actor’s Equity Association, the professional theater union. LGDT still has the distinction of being the smallest, most intimate professional dinner theatre in the country.
In1978, Bruce Jordan and Marilyn Abrams created Shear Madness on our stage. That show went on to become an international sensation and the longest running nonmusical play in American theater history, closing in Boston in 2020 due to Covid.
Tragically, in 1991 David was diagnosed with leukemia and, after a year’s struggle, died in June 1992. His wife Vicky took over the reins as Producer, successfully continuing the tradition for another 15 years.
In 2008 Terry Rabine stepped out of his comfort zone as an actor/director and purchased the theater from Vicky. For the next 11 years, Terry led the theater bringing it forward to a Not For Profit and eventually retiring in 2019.
2020-2021 was a shock to the theater world and was, hopefully, the only time we were unable to open a season with ‘dinner and a show’. Thankfully, in 2021, the Wood Theater in Glens Falls offered to co-produce our show, Buyer & Cellar, and we enjoyed a brand new theatrical collaboration.
Now, thanks to the Crocitto family, we are continuing the tradition of “dinner and a show” at the Holiday Inn Resort where we feel right at home.
58 YEARS OF MEMORIES
1968 Barefoot In The Park
1969 Star Spangled Girl
Owl & The Pussycat
The Fantasticks
Any Wednesday
1971 Stop The World, I Want To Get Off
The Odd Couple
Plaza Suite
1972
You’re A Good Man
Charlie Brown
Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
Barefoot In The Park
1973 Roar Of The Greasepaint, Smell Of The Crowd
The Effect Of Gamma Rays
On Man In The Moon Marigolds
Butterflies Are Free
Love Is Just Another Four
Letter Word
1974 Dames At Sea
Play It Again, Sam
Lovers & Other Strangers
1975 Arsenic & Old Lace
Man Of La Mancha
The Fantasticks
1976 6 RMS RIV VU
The Sunshine Boys I Do, I Do
Champagne Complex
It Better Be Good
An Evening With Mark Twain
1977 A Thousand Clowns
Private Lives
The Apple Tree
Godspell
Show & Tell
Spiffy Music Hall
1978 Lovers & Other Strangers
Shear Madness
Little Mary Sunshine
1979 California Suite
Shear Madness
Same Time Next Year
1980 Chapter Two
Vanities
Dames At Sea
1981 The Gin Game
Romantic Comedy Deathtrap
1982 I Ought To Be In Pictures
On Golden Pond
1983 They’re Playing Our Song
Educating Rita
Greater Tuna
1986 Brighton Beach Memoirs 1987 Biloxi Blues
1988 I’m Not Rappaport 1989 Broadway Bound 1990 Oil City Symphony
1991 All Night Strut
1992 I Ought To Be In Pictures
1993 Beau Jest 1994 Breaking Legs 1995 Mixed Emotions
1996 Jest A Second
1997 Don’t Dress For Dinner
1998 Perfect Wedding
1999 Over The River . . .
2000 Wally’s Cafe
2001 Remember Me?
2002 Over The Tavern
2003 The Crazy Time 2004 The Underpants 2005 A Bench In The Sun
Power Play 2007 Shear Madness
2008 Greater Tuna 2009 Old Love
2010 Our Son’s Wedding 2011 Skin Deep 2012 The Love List
2013 Moonlight and Magnolias
2014 Lake Effect
2015 The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (Abridged)
2016 Almost, Maine
Southern Comforts
2017 Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
The Great Kooshog Lake
2018 Jerry Finnegan’s Sister
The Long Weekend
2019 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lunch With Mrs. Baskin
2020 Covid-19 Intermission
2021 Buyer & Cellar
2022 First Night
2023 Shear Madness
Marriage is Murder
2024 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Old Love
2025 Guys On Ice
Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual
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Our sincerest gratitude to the many donors who contributed and have asked to remain anonymous. The generosity of these donors help sustain our ongoing efforts to bring quality professional performances to the community. We recognize and appreciate your support!
Special Thanks
Cody Alvord, Rich Berg, Aaron Friedman, Anne Fuller, Eldon Hassler, Barbara Miner, Steven Moulton and Devon Sweenor, Sidonia Sheerer, Frieda Toth, Katie Weaver, The Charlton School, The Charles R. Wood Theater, Signarama Santa Rosa, and Temple Beth El of Glens Falls
Directed by JAREL DAVIDOW
Music Direction & Choreography by JOHN BENWARE
Production Stage Manager: Maggie Caradonna*
Set Design: Marc Christopher
Costume Design: Gina Kowalski
Lighting Design: Rachel Budin
Assistant Stage Manager: Gloria Berg
Production Manager: Bridget Dunigan
Props Coordinator: Sarabeth Mason
Technical Director: Steve Moulton
Master Carpenter: Mike Hewitt
Conceived and researched by Fred Alley and Frederick Heide Originally Directed by Jeffrey Herbst for Northern Sky Theater
THE CAST
(in order of appearance)
Marvin (A Bachelor Ice Fisherman) ....................Tom Staggs*
Lloyd (A Married Ice Fisherman) ........................Trevor Bunce*
Ernie (A Moocher) …………….….Dayle Vander Sande* *Indicates Member of Actor’s Equity Association.
DE GUY FROM TEE VEE ..............................................................................................Marvin ODE TO A SNOWMOBILE SUIT ..................................................................Lloyd & Marvin EVERYTING IS NEW ......................................................................................................Lloyd DE KING ............................................................................................................The Company
TINGS AINT LIKE DEY USED TO BE ..............................................................................Ernie DE ONE DAT GOT AWAY ..............................................................................................Lloyd FISH IS DE MIRACLE FOOD ..........................................................................Lloyd & Marvin
There will be one 12-minute intermission
ACT II
LEINIE’S IS DE BEST BEER ...............................................................................................Ernie TWELVE BEERS IN A TWELVE PACK .............................................................Lloyd & Marvin DE MARVIN I KNEW .....................................................................................................Lloyd WHAT’S MINE IS YOURS ..............................................................................................Ernie YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH .........................................................................Lloyd & Marvin DE BEER IN DE BUCKET .................................................................................Lloyd & Marvin WHEN ON THIN ICE .......................................................................................The Company
The taking of photographs or the making of recordings of any kind during the performance is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices during the performance.
GUYS ON ICE CAST
Trevor Bunce (Lloyd) is delighted to spend the summer in beautiful Lake George. Growing up in Minnesota, Trevor spent childhood winters ice fishing with his father in a trailer-turned-ice-house, and hopes you enjoy this hilarious ice fishing musical. Recent credits: Lancelot in Camelot at Human Race Theatre, Swing/US Nicely Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls at Guthrie Theater, and Steve/US Roger in the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Rent. You can follow him @thetrevorbunce across social media platforms, or @mayday. theband @nulliusband and @involuteofficial for music. Love to Bean, Oz, and family both born and forged.
Tom Staggs (Marvin) grew up Wisconsin-adjacent in Western Illinois and is thrilled to be making his Lake George Dinner Theater debut with Guys on Ice. Recent NYC credits include The Last Grain of Rice at The Tank and The Script in the Closet at La MaMa Etc. Tom has spent years in immersive theater, working with LiveIn Theater and is currently part of The Jury Experience for Fever. Regional credits include Shennandoah at Paper Mill Playhouse and Fiddler on the Roof and Christmas Carol at North Shore Music Theatre. None of this would be possible without the support of my friend, guide, love and wife, Lynda, and our awesome daughter, Katelynn!
Dayle Vander Sande (Ernie) is tickled to be performing this broad comedic role with Lake George Dinner Theatre, and he recently played some “broads” among the nine characters comprising the D’Ysquith Family in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. He also portrayed multiple characters-in-one as Adult Man in Spring Awakening. Other recent roles include Scrooge (A Christmas Carol, Menken), Walter Hobbs (Elf), Judge Pitkin (On the Town), Col. Mustard (Clue), and Sir John Middleton (Sense & Sensibility). He lives in Manhattan and gives a dollar to the “subway accordionist fund” each time he sees a fellow squeezeboxer delighting commuters.
The Lake George Dinner Theatre is a professional theatre, employing members of the Actor’s Equity Association. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.
SUPPORT OUR NEXT 58 YEARS!
Your tax-deductible donation goes to helping create amazing entertainment for the Lake George Region. We are grateful for our audiences and for your support. Thank you to our amazing patrons!
Directed by JAREL DAVIDOW
Production Stage Manager: Marcie Friedman*
Set Design: Marc Christopher
Costume Design: Gina Kowalski
Lighting Design: Rachel Budin
Assistant Stage Manager: Gloria Berg
Production Manager: Bridget Dunigan
Props Coordinator: Sarabeth Mason
Technical Director: Steve Moulton
Master Carpenter: Mike Hewitt
INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP received its World Premiere in 2019 at Chenango River Theatre (Greene, NY), Bill Lelbach – Artistic Director
INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP was subsequently produced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Blake Robison Artistic Director, Buzz Ward Managing Director
Time: 1973
Place: The O’Shea Household
There will be one 12-minute intermission
THE CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Terri...............Laurie Dawn*
Becky...........Olivia Dybas
Jo..................Lesley O’Donnell
Mike/Betty/Fr Lovett.....Buzz Roddy*
Linda...........Lauren Schirnhofer
*Indicates Member of Actor’s Equity Association.
The taking of photographs and the making of recordings of any kind during the performance is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices during the performance.
SUPPORT OUR NEXT 58 YEARS!
Your tax-deductible donation goes to helping create amazing entertainment for the Lake George Region. We are grateful for our audiences and for your support. Thank you to our amazing patrons!
Laurie Dawn (Terry) had so much fun playing Molly in Old Love last season, she is back again! Off-Broadway: Strictly Personal & Mountain Song. National Tours: All My Sons & Barefoot In The Park. Regional: Bakersfield Mist & Faith Healer (Riverside Theatre). Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Last Of The Red Hot Lovers (New Harmony/USI) Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (John W. Engeman Theatre); Good People (Public Theatre), The Diary Of Anne Frank (Rochester Civic) The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (Nevada Conservatory); God Of Carnage, Crumbs From The Table Of Joy, (New Century); Moon Over Buffalo (Ivoryton PH & Oregon Cabaret), and many Always… Patsy Clines & Steel Magnolias. Film/TV: Joker: Folie À Deux, Bridge Of Spies, Good Kids, Good Ol’ Boy, The Adjustment Bureau, 8:46, Lost Girls, The Scrapper, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: SVU, Broad City, Hunters. lauriedawn.net
Olivia Dybas (Becky), a Glens Falls native, is overjoyed to be making her Lake George Dinner Theatre debut in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help! She grew up performing all over the region—from Lake George Youtheatre to recent roles in Rent (Maureen) and 9 to 5 (Doralee) with Glens Falls Community Theatre. This summer, she’s thrilled to be working as the Sales and Marketing Associate at Adirondack Theatre Festival, where she’s also performed in Traffic & Weather, Mystic Pizza, and more in past seasons. Performing where her love of theatre began is truly a dream come true!
Lauren Schirnhofer (Linda) is an actor, singer, and teaching artist who has performed and taught throughout the U.S. and internationally, from Argentina to Switzerland. After receiving a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Boston Conservatory, Lauren studied theater at L’Ecole de Comédie Musicale in Paris, France. Now based in the Capital Region, she teaches voice from her home studio in Ballston Lake, and is delighted to be a part of its vibrant theater community. Lauren is beyond stoked to make her LGDT debut with this groovy team. laurentaylorberkman.com
Lesley O’Donnell (Jo) is thrilled to be joining LGDT this season! Education; Catholic University Rome School of Music; BM-Musical Theatre. Credit highlights; Bernstein’s Mass The Kennedy Center, National Tours of Camelot, If You Give a Pig a Pancake. Regional and local; Surflight, Park Playhouse, Homemade Theatre. TV/Film/Voice; Law and Order SVU, Comcast Cable in The Classroom, The Wrong Box Studio Recording among others. Lesley is a private voice teacher with student’s success witnessed on American Idol, Broadway stages and with international recording careers. Lesley’s all time favorite role is raising her 3 kiddos with husband Mike.
INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CAST
Buzz Roddy (Mike/Betty/Fr Lovett) Buzz has appeared at Albany’s Capital Rep – most recently in Jersey Boys. Other recent theatre credits: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Paper Mill); Waiting For Lefty and Awake and Sing (Quintessence Philly), Little Shop Of Horrors (Arkansas Rep), Cheers: Live On Stage, (National Tour); A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage); (A)Loft Modulation, The Show-Off, The Night Of The Iguana and Sump’n Like Wings (Off-Broadway). TV: Elsbeth, Awkwafina is Nora From Queens, The Deuce; The Blacklist, Russian Doll, Blue Bloods, Search Party, Younger, Jessica Jones, Gotham, Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock, Welcome To Chippendales, F.B.I. and many more. Movies: Passing, A Nice Girl Like You, Windows On The World. www.BuzzRoddy.com
The Lake George Dinner Theatre is a professional theatre, employing members of the Actor’s Equity Association. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.
SUPPORT OUR NEXT 58 YEARS!
Your tax-deductible donation goes to helping create amazing entertainment for the Lake George Region. We are grateful for our audiences and for your support. Thank you to our amazing patrons!
CREATIVE TEAM
John Benware (Music Director and Choreographer, Guys On Ice) This is John’s second season musicdirecting and choreographing with LGDT. His talents and skills are too numerous to detail here. This year some highlights include music-directing for the Proctor’s award-winning rendition of Hadestown Teen Edition (South Glens Falls Senior High School), performing in the Cooper’s Cave Composers Consortium (celebrating their 4th year), and, most recently, stage managing for the Lake George Music Festival. He enjoys long walks, shoeless and shirtless in the sun, and makes his own organic dark chocolate with raw local honey.
Rachel Budin (Lighting Design), as always, is delighted to be returning to LGDT for a sixteenth season. Past designs for LGDT include I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Shear Madness (2023), Marriage is Murder, First Night, Buyer and Seller, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Lunch with Mrs. Baskin, Jerry Finnegan’s Sister, The Long Weekend, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Great Kooshog Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby, Almost Maine, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Lake Effect, Moonlight and Magnolias, Old Love, My Son’s Wedding, Skin Deep and The Love List. She is also a member of the LGDT Board of Directors. Other regional theater work includes over a dozen productions for Albany’s Capital Repertory Theatre, the Denver Center Theater, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Budin recently retired from the theatre faculty of Ramapo College of New Jersey in the School of Contemporary Arts. She is excited to now be a permanent resident in the North Country!
Marc Christopher (Set Design) is a working Musical Theatre Performer out of NYC. He is excited to be joining the Lake George Dinner Theatre team, this time wearing another hat! His Scenic Design work has been seen all over the Capital Region at Playhouse Stage Company, Schenectady Light Opera Company, Not So Common Players, and Home Made Theatre. @marcittymarcmarc www.marcchristopher.net
Jarel Davidow (Artistic Director; Director, Guys On Ice & Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help) joined LGDT as the Artistic Director in 2018. At LGDT, he has directed Almost Maine, The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby, Jerry Finnegan’s Sister, The Hound of the Baskervilles, First Night, I Love Your, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Old Love, among others. Other directing credits include several offBroadway one-act play festivals and The Comedy of Errors in Central Park. Locally, he has directed shows for SUNY Adirondack, Curtain Call Theater, The Charles R. Wood Theater and Art in the Public Eye. As an actor, he has been seen in LGDT’s The Love List, Moonlight & Magnolias, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged, Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Shear Madness. He has also been seen in regional theaters around the country as well as several appearances at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School and is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio as well as a member of Actors Equity..
Katie Forgette (Playwright, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help) spent the first half of her professional life as an actor. At Seattle Repertory Theatre she was privileged to work with such directors and playwrights as Doug Hughes, Bill Irwin, Pamela Berlin, Dan Sullivan, John Patrick Shanley, Liviu Ciulei, Lillian Garrett-Groag, and Jon Robin Baitz. Her plays include: Mrs. Loman is Leaving, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, A Facility for Living, Evidence of Things Unseen, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, The O’Conner Girls, Everybody’s A Critic, It Went Like This, The Body Snatcher, and Welcome to Vital Vista Village. Her plays have been produced at the Alley Theatre, Penguin Rep, Asolo Rep, Florida Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Human Race Theatre, Greater Boston Stage, Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, CAP21, People’s Light, Park Square Theatre, Barter Theatre, Austin Playhouse, Cortland Rep, The Dorset Theatre Festival, Vertigo Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Centenary Stage, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Bristol Valley Theater, and Chenango River Theatre. She lives in a tiny, brick house in Seattle with her favorite husband, actor R. Hamilton Wright.
Gina Kowalski (Costume Designer) is very excited to be returning for her second season with Lake George Dinner Theatre! During the winter, you can find her working with the amazing kids at Ballston Spa Middle School to costume their spring musical. Gina resides in Malta with her husband and kids.
Sarabeth Mason (Props/Set Dressing) This is Sarabeth Mason’s ninth season as properties coordinator and set decorator for Lake George Dinner Theatre (LGDT) . In additional to LGDT, she has also been the properties designer for Glens Falls Community Theater (GFCT). Most recently for their production of 9 to 5 where she also performed as part of the Ensemble. When not working backstage within the community she can be found in the library at the Margaret Murphy Kindergarten Center in Hudson Falls as their library assistant. Teaching both kindergarten and Prek-Library. As well as running multiple youth theater programs for the district including her new position as Drama Director for Hudson Falls High School.
STAFF
Gloria Berg (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be working on her sixth season with the Lake George Dinner Theatre. She started working in theater in high school and continued into college. She started her career with LGDT as an intern in 2019 on Hound of the Baskervilles, and is very grateful to continuously be asked back year after year. Gloria would like to thank her parents and her fiancé for their continued support and love.
Maggie Caradonna (Production Stage Manager, Guys On Ice) is very excited to be making their LGDT debut as a Stage Manager for Guys on Ice. She has spent the past year touring the continental US with TheaterWorksUSA, stage managing the beloved Charlotte’s Web and Ada Twist:Scientist and Friends. They are a recent graduate of Ithaca College with a BFA in Stage Management along with a BA in Psychology. They are excited to be back in upstate New York for the summer working with this great company! Maggie wants to thank her family for their unconditional love and support.
Elise Charlebois (Box Office Manager) This is Elise’s first season with the Lake George Dinner Theatre. She is a board member, box office associate, and technician at Schenectady Civic Playhouse, active since 2010. Memorable productions include props design for Murder on the Orient Express, The Explorer’s Club, Pride@Prejudice, This Random World, and The Cake. During the day, she is a math teacher/substitute in the Shenendehowa School District, and a math tutor for Sylvan Learning. She also works for the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall as a Box Office Associate.
Bridget Dunigan (Production Manager) is delighted to be back for her third season with LGDT! Originally from the area, Bridget spent many years working and performing at Fort Salem Theatre. She went on to get her BA in Theatre from SUNY Plattsburgh. She immediately moved to New York City where she was the manager for The Players Theatre for five years. She was a co-founding member of TP&co which focused on classical theatrical pieces. There she helped to create the Shakespeare Off-Broadway Series, which was committed to continuously offering evocative, affordable, and accessible productions of Shakespeare’s work. She then moved back to the area to work for the Adirondack Theatre Festival and The Park Theater in Glens Falls.
Marcie Friedman (Production Stage Manager, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help) is thrilled to return to one of her favorite places for the 8th summer! Working primarily in opera, select credits include: San Diego Opera, Florentine Opera, Opera Colorado, New York City Opera, Sarasota Opera, Dayton Opera, Central City Opera, Tulsa Opera and Opera Saratoga. New York/Regional: Baltimore CenterStage, Westport Country Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Skylight Music Theatre, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Lincoln Center. National Tours: Flamenco Vivo Carlotta Santana, The Acting Company and the Kennedy Center. Marcie also works as an event production manager and was an associate production manager for New Year’s Eve in Times Square for 5 years. Proud member of AEA and AGMA.
Sara Friedman (Managing Director) is excited to return to LGDT. She started her career as the Assistant Stage Manager for LGDT’s Jest a Second in 1996. After more than a decade in New York City as a professional stage manager and a non-profit communications manager, Sara returned home to Glens Falls, NY where she continued to stage manage for professional theatre companies in the area, including LGDT. She joined Mills Entertainment in 2014 and spent several years on the road as a Tour Manager and as the company’s General Manager. In 2024, she returned to LGDT as Director of Marketing and then as the Production Stage Manager for Old Love. Sara is happy to be on the team full time to start the next chapter of Lake George Dinner Theatre. Thank you to Jarel, Colleen and Sharon for making this dream come true!
Michael Hewitt (Master Carpenter) has been an adjunct instructor and technical director with SUNY Adirondack for over 20 years in the music and theatre departments. While completing his MM degree in Vocal Performance from Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music he performed the roles of Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Grandpa Moss in Copland’s The Tender Land, Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème, and the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Most recently Michael performed the role of Geronimo, in Il Matrimonio Segreto, by Domenico Cimarosa, with the Bulgarian National Opera Orchestra, in Stara Zagora Bulgaria. Backstage, Michael has worked as a technical director, staff carpenter, stage manager, and sound designer.
Steve Moulton (Technical Director/Master Electrician) is thrilled to be returning to work with Lake George Dinner Theatre! He has been the Technical Director since 2015. A Saratoga native, he is also the Technical Director for The Local Actors Guild of Saratoga. He has been a part of the production staff for many local theater productions at Home Made Theater, The Egg, Charles Wood Theater, The Glove, Park Playhouse, Siena College, Sage College, and Schenectady Civic Theater. By day, Steve manages IT and communications for The Charlton School and spends much of the summer tackling the Adirondack 46 High Peaks.
LAKE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Erin L. Coon, PhD, President
Steve Moulton, Vice President
Mary Pat Rabin, Treasurer
Rachel Budin, Secretary
Sharon Reynolds, President Emeritus
Frank Cappabianca
Barbara Miner
Bruce O’Connell
ADVISORY BOARD
Ruth Liberman
HONORARY MEMBER
Vicky Eastwood Ganser
OUR MISSION: To serve our region by presenting high quality theatre and enriching the local community through the performing arts.
