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Break out your old instrument, brush up on your dance moves, grab your buddies to form a singing group, or practice your karaoke. Then come to auditions Saturday, January 9 from 9-11AM. Rehearsal will be Friday, January 22 with the show on Saturday, January 23 at 7 PM.

For performers, the theme we’re going for this year is a coffeehouse, (think beatniks and folk music) so see if you can work that into your act. We can help you find accompaniment and costumes, if needed – just show up to auditions with your ideas.

Sunday, December 13, 2015, St Anthony’s Catholic Church

Friday, and Saturday, November 6 & 7 2015
Show Time: 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 8 2015
Show Time: 4 p.m. Doors open at 3:30 p.m.

Advance Tickets available at Peter & Annie’s World Market
Tickets sold at the door
Ticket Price: $8.00

PG 13
Parents strongly cautioned
Strong language, not suitable for young children

Neil Simons comedy The Odd Couple has been produced for the stage, for the big screen and for two network series on television.
The original Odd Couple, which is about two mismatched guys whose marriages have broken up, was written by Simon in 1965. In 1985, the famous playwright wrote a female version featuring Florence Unger, instead of Felix Unger, and Olive Madison, rather than Oscar Madison.

The names and genders have changed from the original play about roommates Felix and Oscar, but the plot is the same: Olive, a slob who concedes she is so sloppy that she leaves a mess after reading a book, takes in Florence, who is compulsively neat and, unlike Olive, always on time and proper. They are separated from their husbands, and they try to coexist in a New York apartment
Upstairs are two brothers, Manolo and Jesus Constazuela, who have moved to New York from Spain, and Olive arranges a dinner date that — to say the least — doesn’t turn out as Olive had planned.

Other characters in this comedy are four women friends of Olive and Florence who gather regularly to play Trivial Pursuit and get caught up in the drama as Florence deals with depression after her husband asks for a divorce, and as Olive deals with a roommate who is constantly cleaning everything, including the telephone. Don’t wipe the telephone, Olive shouts at one point. Some of my favorite fingerprints are on that telephone.

Leads in the play are two veterans of ETC productions Chris Johansen as Olive and Dorene Weltzin as Florence. It is directed by Eva Srubar.

Performances will be at the Cumberland Arts Center
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, June 4,5,6,11,12, and 13 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday June 7 and 14th at 2:00 p.m.
Ticket $14.00, and are available at Peter & Annies (715-822-9959)

Charles Peterson sings the part of Jesus, Jeremy Westin portrays
Judas, and Mary Magdalene is played by Kiara Conners.
Other soloists include Albin Peterson, Randy Skow-Anderson, Ron Ruppel, Amy Lundgren and Jim Schweiger.
Many other local actors play multiple parts- disciples, money-changers at the Temple, the sick and bereaved, and the angry mob at the trial. John Westin is Musical Director, and Dave Evenson directs the production.

This comedy is overall a fun, light-footed romp and is the 1937 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Alice is the normal one in a family of eccentrics and shes fallen in love with Tony, the son of a strait-laced Wall Street banker. Alice’s sister is a dancer and a candy maker. Her mother is a playwright who has yet to finish a play. Her father builds fireworks in the basement, and her Grandpa has left life’s rat race but is now dealing with the IRS as he hasn’t paid income tax for three decades.

You Cant Take It With You is a charming comedy which has many screwball, high-society elements common in so many plays written in the 1930s and features themes that still are relevant today.

Show times at the Cumberland ETC:
Thursday, March 26th 2015 at 7:00 PM
Friday, March 27th 2015 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 28th 2015 at 7:00 PM

ETC has been working on James Valcq quaint production of The Spitfire Grill musical.

The plot is based on a feisty parolee Percy Talbott(Lauren Thornwall) following her dream to experience the magnificent brilliance of the Northern Wisconsin Fall colors. She finds herself in a small town called Gilead, which could be Cumberland. Percy lands a job working at the Spitfire Grill that is owned by an ornery woman, Hannah Ferguson (Christine Johansen).

The Spitfire Grill is for sale, but there are no takers for the only diner in the depressed town, so newcomer, Percy comes up with a raffle winning idea which turns the townspeople in tumultuous directions as they realize they couldn’t see the forest for the trees.

The music is folksy, charming, powerfully embracing and will pull at your small town heartstrings. The play is directed by Ann Kysely and others in the cast are Carol Houghdahl, Tom Toftness, Jeremy Westin, Val Dehline and Tommy Youston.

Show performances will be:
October 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 – 7:00 P.M.
and
October 5 – 2:00 P.M. Matinee

Tickets $12 Available in Advance at Peter and Annies downtown Cumberland
Cumberland Fine Arts Center
1595 Second Avenue
(Across from Cumberland Elementary)

DICK SAMPSON, JOHN WESTIN, ELAINE MOLLS, MIKE JENKINSON, ALBIN PETERSON

JULY 19TH, 2014, 7:OOPM at the ETC
ADMISSION $5.00

MARCH 20,21,22, – 7:00 P.M.
SPECIAL MATINEE SATURDAY, MARCH 22 2014 2:00 P.M.

By Joe Dipietro
Inspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLY!
$10 ADULTS, $6 STUDENTS
Tickets Available in advance at CHS office or at the door if not sold out!

Fri. Sat. Sun. Oct. 25, 26, 27
Thu. Fri. Sat. Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 2
Curtain 7pm except for Sun-2pm matinee

One of the great Broadway successes in recent history, this ingeniously constructed play offers a rare and skillful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients: gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter. Dealing with the devious machinations of a writer of thrillers whose recent offerings have been flops, and who is prepared to go to any lengths to improve his fortunes, Deathtrap provides twists and turns and sudden shocks in such abundance that audiences will be held spellbound until the very last moment.

Veteran actor Dan Hoffmann plays the down on his luck playwright Sidney Bruhl, who comes up with an ingenious plan to improve his fortunes. He is aided by former student and aspiring writer Clifford, played by newcomer Jim Tempesta. Sidney’s conflicted wife is played by Ann Kysely. The cast is rounded out by Meg Atkins, playing the fey Helga Ten Dorp, and newcomer Sherman Hanks, playing Sidney’s lawyer. The play is ably directed by Phil Amundson & Mike Clay.

Tickets are available at Peter and Annie’s in downtown Cumberland, or if not sold out, at the door before each performance. Admission is $8.