Curtain Rises on Stage Door this Weekend
Good old-fashioned fun is what this weekend’s Huntington High School drama club production is all about. The show is set for 8 p.m. both Friday and Saturday nights in the school auditorium. Tickets are available at the door.
When the lights go down and the music fades up, local folks can settle in for a thoroughly entertaining performance of the 1937 classic, “Stage Door” by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.
“Following a mere 35 rehearsal, the cast is ready to share all their hard work,” drama club advisor Michael Swendemann said. “The set is painted, the lights are hung, the costumes are stitched, the lines are memorized; all that’s missing is the audience.”
Dozens of students are involved in every aspect of the production, from acting to set construction, lighting, sound and music and numerous other responsibilities.
“Stage Door” is set in the New York City boarding house of Mrs. Orcutt (played by Huntington senior Rebecca Silverman), where the hopes and ambitions of sixteen wanna-be actresses who have come to pursue their careers are hilariously revealed.
The central plot line has to do with the courageous Terry Randall (Lena Freed), who fights against discouragement for a position in the theatre. Kaye (Cody Jacobs), one of Ms. Randall’s fellow aspirants gives up in despair, Louise (Dayna Reyes) gets married, Jean (Kirsten Freiman) goes into movies, but Terry, with the help of the idealistic David Kingsley (Samuel Sainthil), sticks to her guns.
Color and contrast are offered by Judith (Ally Kiley), the wiseacre, Madeleine (Rebecca Deegan), who is always looking for a date, Bobby (Diana Frank), the southern belle, big and little Mary (Kelsey Getz and Emily McGoldrick), the inseparable friends, Linda (Jaime Moskowitz), who has a run in with her mother (Danni Cerezo) and a bevy of young beauties (Shira Moskowitz, Anna Wertheim, Katelyn Postiglione, Anna Harris, Mary-Liz O’Neill, Erin Lasorsa, Kiki Thompson and Laura Ironman) all trying to make it big.
An impatient cab driver (Brendan Higgins), a few young men callers (Matthew Petry, Tommy Monks, Samson Widerman and John Fariello), a movie magnate (Ian Coneys) and a young Keith Burgess (Jonah Kramer), the playwright who “goes Hollywood,” see how it all comes together or falls apart.
Tickets ($10 general admission, $5 for students, staff and senior citizens) will be available in the auditorium lobby prior to each show. The facility is completely handicapped accessible.
Call the Office of Performing Arts at 673-2106 for more information.
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