Thursday – Saturday June 11th – 13th 7:00 pm

Sunday June 14th 2:00 pm

Thursday – Saturday June 18th – 20th 7:00 pm

Sunday June 21st 7:00 pm
Tickets are $10.00 and available at Peter and Annie’s or at the ETC door.

ETC presents the classic Broadway Hit Musical Fiddler on the Roof the 2nd and 3rd weekends in June. Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein and Sheldon Harnick have adapted Sholom Aleichems stories of Tevye the Dairyman to this wonderful family play. Best known songs from this play include If I were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset but there are another dozen or so songs that you may find yourself humming upon leaving the theater.

Fiddler depicts the life of Tevye and Golde and their five daughters and other friends as they make their way as Jews in pre revolutionary Russia, about 1905. Much of the story focuses on the marriages of three of the daughters, each one threatening tradition more than the last, as well as increasing troubles with the Russian authorities.

Dan Hoffman plays the lead the first week and Ron Ruppel the second week, and Val Dehline plays the part of Golde. Their daughters are played by Bethany Nash, Zoe Hopkins-Hile, Lauren Dehline, Caitlin Harris and Natasha Rodriguez.

Kelsey Pederson plays The Fiddler on June 11, 14, 19 and 20, and Anna Ruth Haugen plays The Fiddler on June 12, 13, 18 and 21. Hope Vicich is Yente the Matchmaker, and Jim Kerr is Lazar Wolf. Conor Erb, Josh Thornwall and Micah Weltzin play the grooms and Jeanne Beck, Jamie DeGolier and Abraham Ortiz are other soloists. Nathan Thornwall, Aaron Effertz, Micah Weltzin, Juliana Braml, Josh Thornwall and Abraham Ortiz are principal dancers. Other villagers and Russians include Margritte Graf, Kate Stone, Mariah Capra, Lindsey Bangsberg, Livia Barker, Melissa Haugen, Cheryl Buechner, Anna Ostenson, Alaura Thornwall, Quinn Buechner, Steve Wickre, Roger Hilde, Tom Toftness, Corey Graf, Mike Clay, Jason Baker, Jakob Braml, Falisity Buechner, Dakota Buechner and Craig Bucher.

Dave Evenson directs and John Westin is the Musical Director. The pit band includes Marty Voshell, Lisa Barker, Kelsey Pederson, Anna Ruth Haugen, Shawn Muench, Gary Dorn, Nancy Keeler and Eric Westin. Choreographers are Catherine Tuminaro and Chris Hopkins-Hile and other cast members.

Steel Magnolias: April 30-May 3 and May 7-10
Directed by Mike Clay and Eva Srubar
Performances:
Thursday, April 30th 7:00 pm
Friday, May 1st 7:00 pm
Saturday May 2nd 7:00 pm
Sunday May 3rd: 2:00 pm

Thursday, May 7h 7:00 pm
Friday, May 8th 7:00 pm
Saturday May 9th 7:00 pm
Sunday May 10th: 2:00 pm

High School Play: Acting Can Be Murder by Eddie McPherson.
It is a backstage mystery-comedy. The show times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 26, 27, & 28 at 7:00 P.M. We will not have a Sunday show. The tickets are only $5.00 and will only be sold at the high school office.

Anne of Green Gables
This new dramatization captures the charm and excitement of L.M. Montgomery’s enduring classic about an orphan girl, Anne Shirley, from her first encounter with her austere guardian to her thrilling graduation from Queen’s Academy.

The play faithfully recreates the memorable events and characters from the brilliant novel. All the tragedies and triumphs that mark Anne’s growth from adolescence to early adulthood are here: her friendship with Diana, her feuds with Gilbert, her adoration of Matthew, the mistaken wine bottle, the cake disaster, the broken leg, the scholastic achievements, and the saving of Green Gables.

Whether the playgoer is an “old friend” of Anne’s or meeting her for the first time, this play will solidify a lasting friendship between the audience and one of literature’s most unforgettable characters.

Cast:

Act I:
Young Anne Shirley: Kait Dorn , Lindsey Bangsberg (double cast, will alternate performances)
Mathew Cuthbert: Brain Keeler
Station Master: Andy Bangsberg
Marilla Cuthbert: Meg Atkins
Rachel Lynde: Dorene Weltzin
Mrs. Blewett: Kathleen Grenquist
Mrs. Rev. Bentley (instead of Rev. Bentley): Sharai Hefty
Mr Phillips (teacher): Jesse Hokanson
Prissy Andrews: Kelly Grenquist
School boys: Carl Grenquist, Abraham Ortiz
Miss Rogerson (Sunday School Teacher): Chelle Barnaby
Sunday School Students: 1st girl Naomi Rodriguez,2nd girl Kate Stone, other Sunday school students: Elsa Barnaby, Sorche Barnaby
Young Diana Barry (Anne’s best friend) Natasha Rodriguez
Jerry (hired hand): Andy Bangsberg
Mrs Barry: Krista Rodriguez
Young Minnie May Barry: Naomi Rodriguez
Josie: Caitlin Harris
Young Ruby: Miranda Haack
Tillie: Tice McNurlin
Jimmy: Abraham Ortiz
Moody: Micah Weltzin
Charlie: Ben Stone
Jane: Shanna Frasier
Bessie: Kallai Hokanson
Gilbert Blythe: Ryan Mathison
Miss Stacy (teacher): Krista Rodriguez
Mary Jo (French Canadian Girl, employed by Barry’s): Amaris Vesely

Act II:
Teen Aged Anne Shirley: Zoe Hopkins Hile
Matthew: Brain Keeler
Marilla: Meg Atkins
Rachel Lynde: Dorene Weltzin
Mrs. Barry: Krista Rodriguez
Teen Aged Diana Barry: Sophia Allen
Teen Aged Josie: Caitlin Harris
Teen Aged Ruby: Kelly Grenquist
Older Minnie May Barry: Amaris Vesely
Caroler with the Barrys: Carl Grenquist
Teen Aged Gilbert Blythe: Ryan Mathison
Teen Aged Moody: Micah Weltzin
Aunt Josephine Barry: Sharai Hefty
Rev. Allen: Tom Harris
Mrs. Allen: Kathleen Grenquist
Teen Aged Jane: Shanna Frasier
Teen Aged Carrie: Abigail Barnaby
Teen Aged Charlie: Ben Stone
Teen School Girl: Juliana Braml
Mr. Sadler: Jesse Hokanson
Miss Stacy (teacher): Krista Rodriguez
Mourner: Carl Grenquist

Thur-Sun, August 21-24 2008

Shows: June 25, 26, 27, 28 2008 at 7:00 pm, June 29 at 2:00 pm

Cumberland High School Presents Guys and Dolls

Thur- Sun, Mar 27-30

Cumberland High School students will take the stage the end of this month with the Tony Award Winning musical Guys and Dolls written by Frank Loesser.

Guys and Dolls revolves around Nathan Detroit (Travis Thorp), trying to juggle his two loves: Miss Adelaide (Hannah Kollock) and being the organizer of the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York. Detroit eventually bets fellow gambler Sky Masterson (David Hile) that he can’t make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. The next girl he sees happens to be Miss Sarah Brown (Sophia Allen), a pure-at-heart Salvation Army-type reformer. Throw in a mix of hotbox dancers and sinful crapshooters and the stage is set for a hilarious evening of complications. Come enjoy the show as twenty-five high school students light up the stage with singing and dancing.

This production has been a collaborative effort from the start. The director of the show is Ann Ethen, the vocal director is Michael Pechman and the orchestra director is Dan Hopkins.

The performance dates are March 27, 28 and 29 at 7:00 P.M. and March 30 at 2:00 P.M at Cumberland’s ETC Fine Arts Center. Tickets on available now for $8.00 in advance in the Cumberland High School office.

Humorist Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself. The consistent response: “You’ll shoot your eye out.”

All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys’ experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net stocking.

Brian Keeler plays the narrator- Ralph looking back at his childhood.
The family is played by Dorene Weltzin as Mother, Andy Bangsberg as The Old Man, Jesse Hokanson as Ralphie and Reid Olson as brother Randy.

Sharai Hefty portrays the teacher, Miss Shields, Cameron Ljungkull plays Flick, Ryan Mathison is Schwartz, Caitlin Harris is Esther Jane Alberry and Lindsey Bangsberg is Helen Winters. Luke Bangsberg portrays the bully, Scut Farcus. Shawn Warwick plays several characters. Other school children are Shanna Frasier, Kayla Johnson, Juliana Braml, Alicia Wessman, Stacy Vono, Makenna Olson, Aaron Turcott, Ben Gilbert and Micah Weltzin.

A Christmas Story is directed by Diane and Travis Thorp.

Show Dates:
Thur Nov 29 at 7pm
Fri Nov 30 at 7pm
Sat Dec 1 at 7pm
Sun Dec 2 at 2 pm
Thur Dec 6 at 7pm
Fri Dec 7 at 7pm
Sat Dec 8 at 7pm

All shows are at the ETC
Tickets are $7.00 and can be purchased at Peter and Annie’s.

Riddle: What do you get when you put 5 rugged men in long johns, one sassy woman in leather, a case of Leinenkugels, a jar of moose testicle milkshake and a jar of porcupine pee? Answer: One of the funniest plays of the year!

“Escanaba in Da Moonlight” is a fabulously funny comedy about the men of the Soady family. Each year as hunting season begins, they trek to their cabin north of Escanaba, in Michigans Upper Peninsula to drink, hang out and bag a buck! This particular year, Reuben Soady is in danger of becoming the oldest member in the history of the family to never bag a buck , or witout venison as dey say. In an effort to change his luck, he alters several of the time-tested rituals of the Soady deer camp, but only succeeds in fueling a series of strange and unexplainable events! In the words of Patriarch Albert Soady , Dat year was as tense as a mooses butt durin fly season.

So join the cast and enjoy this hilarious tale of humor, horror & heart as Reuben goes to any and all lengths to remove himself from the wrong end of the family record book. Show up dressed for deer camp (blaze orange) and get your first beer free!

Travis Thorp plays the hero cowboy, and Amy Braml is the new schoolmarm and heroine. Down at Sam’s (Diane Thorp) Saloon you will meet ruffians played by Phil Warner and John Westin and Saloon singers played by Jaime Helgeson, Karen Matthys and Zoe Hile, as well as cowboys played by Jim Kerr, Jim Bryce, Jim Schweiger, and Abraham Ortiz. Livia Barker, Juliana Braml, Libby DeJardin, Caitlin Harris and Micah Weltzin play the school children and Craig Bucher, Jeanne Beck, George Strom, Sharai Hefty, Bob Chubb, Roxie Matthys and Dave Evenson play the good townsfolk. Larry Vetter on banjo, Diane Stone on violin and various guitarists accompany. Dave Evenson wrote and directs Cactus Butte, USA.

Show dates are Thursday- Saturday, August 23-25, at 7PM, and Sunday August 26 at 5 PM. All admissions are $7.00 at the door; there are no advance tickets. Take a break from the midway and split your sides laughing in air-conditioned comfort at The Cumberland ETC.