Program for "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" at Pentacle Theatre

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A Live Radio Play CAST

Freddie Filmore................................................................ Scott Ramp as Announcer, Mr. Gower, Clarence, Peter Bailey, Cop, Ernie, Pete, Horace, Schultz, Sherriff

Sally Applewhite.............................................................Diane Slamp as Mary, Young Mary, Matilda

Lana Sherwood................................................................Teresa Waite as Violet, Young Violet, Mrs. Hatch, Mrs. Thompson, Janie

Harry "Jazzbo" Heywood........................... Anthony J. Redelsperger as Joseph, Potter, Old Man Collins, Tommy, Nick, Harry Bailey, Ed, Sam Wainwright, Martini, Dr. Campbell

Jake Laurents..................................................................BrAd Steiner as George Bailey, Young George

Trent Touchstone, Foley Artist....................................... Jason Ramey as Uncle Billy, Bert, Charlie, Binky the Bouncer, Mr. Welch, Bridge Keeper, Man (2)

Betty Blackwell, Foley Artist....................................... Barbara Ramp as Rose Bailey, Ruth, Zuzu, Sadie Vance

TIME & PLACE Christmas Eve, 1946, the Stage and Auditorium of Studio A at WBFR, Manhattan The show runs approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.

Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com)

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Adapted by Joe Landry

PRODUCTION STAFF

Director............................................................................ Debbie Neel Assistant Director............................................................... Liz Rogers Technical Director......................................................... Chris Benham Production Assistant........................................................ Laura Davis Costumes...................................................................... Susan Schoaps Hair and Wigs..................................................................Eddie Willits Set Design..................................................................... Chris Benham Set Construction........... Quinn Connolly, Sean Needles, Scott Ramp, Antonio Schoaps, Rob Sim Strike Crew .................... Quinn Connolly, Antonio Schoaps, Rob Sim Sound Design..................................................................... Liz Rogers Light Design.................................................................. Chris Benham Light Hang......................................... Chris Benham, Quinn Connolly Light and Sound Technician............................................ Kelli Jaecks Foley Prop Construction ..........................Chris Benham, Scott Ramp Stage Manager................................................................... Kai Hennig Assistant Stage Manager................................................. Kelli Jaecks House Manager........................................... Karen and Chris McCarty Board Liaison............................................................ Holly Giesbrecht Poster Design...................................................................... Liz Rogers Program Design............................................................ Carlee Wright Photography....................................................................Vicki Woods

SPECIAL THANKS

Quinn Connolly  Norm DeVol  Geri Greeno Kelli Jaecks  Katie Lindbeck  Kirsten DuBrowa Manning Ele Matelan  Michael McIntosh  Scott Ramp John Roesch  Emma Thurston

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DIRECTOR'S NOTE

We are excited to be bringing It’s a Wonderful Life to the Pentacle stage through the experience of watching a live radio broadcast in 1946.

Directing this play within a play which requires multiple microphones on stage, sound effects done live, musical underscores and transitions, as well as actors able to portray radio actors playing multiple parts with minimal movement has been more than challenging. I am so fortunate and more than grateful for the wonderful cast and amazing production team that has made this all possible. I thank them for every hour, creative idea, prop, wig, costume piece, and word of encouragement they have contributed.

This is a story of looking for the good in the world, appreciating what we have, recognizing our own value, and realizing the impact we have on those around us. George Bailey and the characters of Bedford Falls remind us that even with all of its difficulties, life is wonderful!

Thank you all for coming this evening and enjoy the broadcast.

Debbie Neel Director

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CAST & CREW Debbie Neel Director

Debbie has been an active Pentacle member since 1980 when she was cast in the chorus of Oklahoma! Since then, she has appeared in more than 35 shows including Plaza Suite, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, Talking With, Women of Lockerbie, Other Desert Cities and the last show of the 2019 season, Dashing Through the Snow. In addition, she has directed seven shows for Pentacle, worked on costumes for numerous shows, been a light technician, a sound technician, served as assistant director and as a production consultant. In 2004, Debbie was honored as a Lifetime Member of Pentacle Theatre. She is currently serving on the Pentacle Board.

Debbie is a former middle school drama teacher, who also spent two years as an assistant costumer and acting instructor for Children's Educational Theatre in Salem.

She would like to thank her husband Mike, whose love and support make her life so wonderful.

Liz Rogers Assistant Director

Liz Rogers first appeared on the Pentacle stage in 1982, as Mrs. Bascomb in Carousel and followed with performances in L'il Abner (1983) as Appassionata Von Climax and in three productions in the 1984 season: as Joanne in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; as Nurse Sandwich and the Duchess in The Elephant Man; and as Viney in The Miracle Worker. In 1986, she was cast as Fiona in How the Other Half Loves.

Liz has received several certificates of recognition from the Television Academy (EMMY) for her contributions to television shows Everybody Loves Raymond and Two and a Half Men. She has done voiceover work for Seinfeld and Ellen. Liz is a documentary filmmaker with several of her films currently in distribution, a book editor and publisher, and sound editor.

Liz and her husband, Academy Award winner Donald C. Rogers live in Salem and enjoy collecting classic cars.

Liz served on the Pentacle Board in 1986 and is a current member of the 2021 Pentacle Governing Board.

She is happy to be home in Salem and thrilled to be home at Pentacle Theatre.

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CAST & CREW Jason Ramey Trent Touchstone/Foley Artist

This is Jason's third performance at the Pentacle Theatre, having appeared in Almost, Maine and 1984. Jason performs improv comedy, including radio theater improv, and writes sketch comedy. He wrote, performed, and produced a post apocalyptic comedy radio theater show called Radioactive Report.

By day, he is an administrative law judge.

Jason thanks his family, Jessica, Bella and Will, for making it a wonderful life.

Barbara Ramp Betty Blackwell/Foley Artist

Barbara is new to the Pentacle stage, but has heard about it endlessly from her husband Scott for almost 40 years. She is an accomplished artist and owns (with her husband) a Halloween business that makes and sells products to haunted venues, films and the general public all over the world. She grew up in Maui and theater is in her blood. Her late father was a child tap dancer on the Vaudeville circuit and her grandmother co-wrote and directed — under a man’s name, due to the times — a Broadway musical in 1911-12. She has played a variety of roles in theater productions over the years in both Hawaii and California.

Favorites include Mrs. Keller in The Miracle Worker, Catherine Reardon in And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, Lady MacDuff in MacBeth, June Talley in Fifth of July, Osa Johnson in Chamber Music and many others. This is, however, her first time sharing the stage with her husband Scott — whom she met while attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. Barbara dedicates this performance to her very “Bailey” parents, Betty and Frank.

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CAST & CREW Scott Ramp Freddie Filmore

Scott returns to the Pentacle stage for the first time since 1981.

At Pentacle he was seen in Little Mary Sunshine, Sugar, I Get A Kick Out of You: A Cole Porter Review, Oklahoma! and The Vagabond King. He worked on dozens more. For most of the past 40 years, Scott lived in Los Angeles, working as an actor, a makeup artist and a teacher.

He was last seen onstage as Lazar Wolf in Fiddler on the Roof at the Lawrence Welk Resort near San Diego. In addition to acting in productions around Los Angeles from Shakespeare to Broadway touring companies (La Cage Aux Folles with Broadway legends Larry Kert and Harvey Evans), Scott taught makeup, acting and directed dozens of plays as a faculty member at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood. As a makeup artist, he has taught and mentored hundreds of artists, one of whom won the Best Makeup Academy Award in 2014.

He runs large-scale events, primarily at Universal Studios Hollywood and Six Flags parks and has been the makeup designer at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Los Angeles since 1992. He appeared on Season 5 of the SyFy television series Face/Off. He designed makeup for numerous productions at The Old Globe in San Diego, including the world premiere of Meteor Shower with Steve Martin and Camp David with Richard Thomas.

He and his wife of 36 years, Barbara, moved back to Salem in 2020. He is thrilled to return to the theater that nurtured his love for theater and gave him his start all those years ago.

Anthony J. Redelsperger Harry "Jazzbo" Heywood

Anthony has a long portfolio of performances in theater productions since the early 70s and films and music videos since the 80s.

He was previously seen in Pentacle's productions of The Elephant Man as Ross, Dracula as Dracula and Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express as Samuel Ratchett, as well as in The Verona Studio's production of Life Sucks as Vanya.

In addition to acting, Anthony is a visual artist and musician. He is pleased to have the opportunity to use his voiceover skills, along with this talented cast, to bring life to many characters in this classic holiday story.

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Honoring the generous individuals who make a provision in their estate plans for Pentacle Theatre: Pamela Abernethy Karen & Edward Arabas Laurene & Roger Brousseau Eden Rose Brown Cherie & Craig Cline Cesie Delve Scheuermann Susan Elliott Carol Farber Chris Fletcher Linda Gilbert Ron & Kelli Jaecks Ed Kramer Louise Larsen MaryKate Lindbeck Dennis & Linda McIntire Jackie Miller Jeanne Miller Janet Neuburg Larry Roach Tom Scheuermann Laurel Shellin Barbara & Bruce Thompson

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CAST & CREW Diane Slamp Sally Applewhite

A newcomer to Pentacle Theatre, Diane has theater credits hailing from Corvallis' Majestic Theater, Gallery Theater (McMinnville) and Albany Civic Theater. Her most recent roles were in the Scraps and Lamps monologues of Talking With, as Brooke Wyeth in Other Desert Cities, Annie Cannon in Silent Sky, Sheree Hollinger in Sweet Delilah Swim Club and Gwen Dorway in Women Playing Hamlet. She was recently cast in Corvallis High School's upcoming February production of Mamma Mia!

Her two most important roles to date are as mom and wife in Team Slamp.

She has two outrageously cool children, August and Rocco, as well as two stinky basset hound babies, Fred and Alfie Roberta. She is a very proud wife of Stoked2sk8 skateboard shop entrepreneur, Josh. Diane would like to thank her family for their unwavering support of her love of theater, as well as Debbie and Liz for trusting a Pentacle newcomer to this fabulous holiday party. Diane is inspired by the vibrant and joyous theater community of the Mid-Valley.

BrAd Steiner Jake Laurents

Normally shy and withdrawn, BrAd has secretly craved the spotlight. Thanks to the Pentacle Theatre, caffeine and his family, he is able to perform for an audience. He appeared on stage at Pentacle in The Nerd and Leading Ladies, and he built a vomit machine for God of Carnage. Before moving to Salem, he performed in the state of Washington in productions such as Prescription Murder, The Odd Couple, Hate Mail, Rumors, Leading Ladies and 1940s Radio Hour. He owes his current acting career to his wife Liz, who lets him come to rehearsal and play with the other kids.

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PENTACLE THEATRE

LIFETIME MEMBERS Every five years the Pentacle Theatre Governing Board honors as Lifetime Members five people who have been active in Pentacle Theatre for at least 20 years. We also remember fondly those Lifetime Members who are no longer with us.

Lifetime Members Pamela Abernethy Dick Bond Robin Bower David Cristobal Maggie Dayton Jo Dodge Chris Fletcher Lois Hanson Ken Hermens Robert Herzog

Deborah Johansen Cec Koontz Dave Leonard Katie Lindbeck Pauli Long Marian Milligan Nancy Moen Debbie Neel Jeff Sanders Ed Schoaps

Susan Schoaps Larry Stevens Kathryn Straton Faye Trupka Cherie Ulmer Jeffrey D. Witt De Zajic Tony Zandol

IN LOVING MEMORY Wayne Ballantyne Dean Bartell Jack Bellamy Dr. E.B. Bossatti Edith Bossatti Benny Bower Virginia Choate Ken Collins Bill Cross Phyllis Cross

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Dave Davis Ron Fox Rose Ann Hansell Mrs. Ray Loter Alice Norton Peg Pink Bob Putnam Margaret Ringnalda Murco Ringnalda Larry Roach

Dick Schmidt Pat Schmidt Helen Shepard Meryl (Bill) Smith Barbara Sullivan Tom Ulmer Claytene Vick Madison Vick Stephen Warnock Rollie Zajic

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CAST & CREW Teresa Waite Lana Sherwood

Teresa Waite has previously worked on a number of Pentacle shows including Dancing at Lughnasa, A Christmas Carol, All My Sons, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Women of Lockerbie, Other Desert Cities, The Diviners, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods, Lost in Yonkers, The Odd Couple, Moon Over Buffalo, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and The Sound of Music.

She’s been a cast member, assistant director, stage manager, house manager and worked in the light booth.

Other theater-related work experience includes Frost/Nixon, The Graduate and a virtual production of Dancing at Lughnasa, all at Gallery Theater.

Teresa is married to Ross Waite and has one child, four stepchildren and three grandchildren, as well as three Schnauzers.

Her hobbies include sewing, knitting, painting and generally trying new creative endeavors wherever they crop up. Her mom and sister, Shawn, are very important in her life.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT Pentacle Theatre in Salem is located within the ancestral homelands of the Kalapuya, Yamhill, and Luckiamute people who had lived here since time immemorial.

In the 1850s, these tribes were displaced by colonization and were eventually resettled on reservations.

We celebrate and honor the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz members, their resilience and their present and future right to this land.

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Pentacle Theatre is Salem’s premier community theater, offering quality live theater in an intimate setting. The directors, cast and crew delight in presenting audiences with entertaining and innovative seasons of top-quality productions in an all-embracing range of theatrical styles.

Over the River and Through the Woods Written by Joe DiPietro. Directed by Jo Dodge. Auditions are Dec. 11.

Twelfth Night

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April 22 to May 14

Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Isaac Joyce-Shaw.

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July 8 to 30

She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition Written by Qui Nguyen. Directed by Katie Lindbeck.

The Fantasticks

Sept. 23 to Oct. 15

Nov. 25 to Dec. 17

Music by Harvey Schmidt. Book and lyrics by Tom Jones. Directed by Cherie Ulmer.

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER

As I conclude my two years of service as President of Pentacle Theatre, I cannot help but think how fitting it is to end my term with this production of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. It's not just that I love the show, having watched the movie every single Christmas for the past 60+ years. It is that the essence of the show captures how our theater has come through the COVID lockdown: "No man is a failure who has friends."

No theater is a failure which has friends. Whatever we have done to earn your support, we must tell you how much we appreciate it. Your love of the arts got us to where we are in December 2021. You have given us donations, joined the Bright Lights Society, attended work parties and Zoom meetings and purchased tickets. Our success in being here tonight is attributable to all of you. We did not fail, we survived. And we can celebrate our shared humanity together as we delight in this wonderful play.

Happy Holidays to all of you from the bottom of my heart.

"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. And when he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"

Thank you for touching my life with yours.

Chris Fletcher

Governing Board President

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Mission Statement

Pentacle Theatre provides community members a collaborative opportunity to create and experience theater in an atmosphere of respect, support and enjoyment.

TICKET INFORMATION Tickets for upcoming productions will be available online at pentacletheatre.org. Prices range from $25 to $30, depending on the type of production. In partnership with Salem For All, Pentacle Theatre offers half-price tickets to individuals who have an Oregon Trail card.

Purchase a season ticket for a 15% discount.

LATECOMERS POLICY Pentacle Theatre productions will begin on time. At intermission you will be ushered to an available seat. If you leave your seat during the performance, you will not be reseated until intermission. Sorry, no refunds for latecomers.

MASK REQUIREMENT Pentacle Theatre values the safety and health of our patrons and volunteers. In that spirit, please observe our mask policy. You must wear a mask while in the auditorium. You may only remove your mask to take a brief sip of water. Your mask must cover both your mouth and your nose.

Patrons who are observed violating this policy will not be reseated after intermission.

The performers you are about to see have had a recent negative COVID test and wear their masks whenever they are off stage.

Concessions are not on sale for this production.

We have provided complimentary bottled water outside the lobby.

SMOKING Smoking is allowed only in the designated area outside the lobby.

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play in rehearsal.

Photos by Vicki Woods.

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YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE! As of 11/22/2021. Ticket sales alone do not cover the cost of our productions.

Your membership and donation help make this theater possible. Thank you!

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COMING SOON:

Nick is a single, Italian American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he’s been offered a dream job. The job he’s been waiting for—marketing executive—would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn’t sit so well.

Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents?

Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O’Hare as bait…we won’t give the ending away here.

Written by Joe DiPietro and directed by Jo Dodge, Over the River and Through the Woods runs Feb. 4th to Feb. 26th. Tickets will be available soon.

For more information visit www.pentacletheatre.org or call 503-485-4300.