ACE brings back a cult favorite.Byline: The Register-Guard A wry Tom Stoppard Noun 1. Tom Stoppard - British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937) Sir Tom Stoppard, Stoppard, Thomas Straussler comedy as well as a musical about a boy, a girl and a maneating plant are set to open on area stages Friday. OPENING THIS WEEK Little Shop of Horrors Actors Cabaret of Eugene Friday through Oct. 17 "Little Shop" has long been a standby for Actors Cabaret of Eugene. The cult-favorite musical comedy grew out of a 1960 black-comedy film of the same title and has become its own theatrical empire. ACE's new production will feature a brand-new enormous version of Audrey II, the famous maneating plant. Audrey's voice will be supplied by ACE regular Mark VanBeever, who was just elected Eugene's new Slug Queen. The director is Michael Watkins, with musical direction by Jim Greenwood and vocal direction by Gerald Walters. The cast also includes Cody Mendonca, Samantha White, Marc Innocenti, Colin Gray, Ashley Apelzin, Sophie Mitchell, Melissa Miller, Emily Schmerber, Laura Elizabeth, Sue Menen Jessing and Alexander Holmes. Showtime show·time or show time n. 1. The time at which an entertainment, such as the showing of a movie, is scheduled to start. 2. Slang The time at which an activity is to begin. Noun 1. is 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Sept. 18-19 and 25-26 and Oct. 2-3, 9-10 and 16-17. A single Sunday matinee mat·i·nee or mat·i·née n. An entertainment, such as a dramatic performance or movie, presented in the daytime, usually in the afternoon. begins at 2 p.m. Oct. 4. Tickets are $19 reserved, $16 restricted view and $35.95 for dinner seating. Brunch tickets for the Sunday matinee are $32.95. For tickets, go to www.actorscabaret.org or call 683-4368. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Hamlet’s traitorous friends; “adders fang’d.” [Br. Lit.: Hamlet] See : Treachery Are Dead Cottage Theatre Friday through Sept. 19 Stoppard's comedy imagines the offstage lives of two very minor characters in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two bit parts so similar that they are often confused in Shakespearean productions, are fools adrift in a world that is beyond their understanding in Stoppard's telling. The play drew Tony and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Drama Critics Circle awards for best play in 1968. Cottage Theatre's production is directed by Tony Rust. The cast features Nikki Pagniano as Rosencrantz (or is it Guildenstern ) and Eliza Roaring Springs as Guildenstern (or perhaps she plays the other one). Also in the cast are Anna Sheehan, Josh Wayland, Jessica McClean, Jim Curtiss Jim Curtiss (b. 1969) is an American writer and author of the novel Every Thing Counts, an intercultural and spiritual adventure. Library of Congress records show that he is the first American to copyright the phrase "Global Village Idiot". , Ruth Townsend, Hal Holbrook Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. (born February 17 1925) is a Tony Award-winning American actor. Biography Early life Holbrook was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Aileen (née Davenport), a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook, Sr. , Glenn Rust, Heidi Eldridge, Zach Nailon, Lindy lin·dy or Lin·dy n. pl. lin·dies A lively swing dance for couples. Also called lindy hop. [From Lindynickname of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Smith, Amanda Ferguson and Joe Ortis. Curtain is 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Sept. 18-19 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors and students at cottagetheatre.org or 541-942-8001. |
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