Open Auditions
Auditions for the season are held the weekend of September 11 & 12. All shows for the upcoming season are cast during this weekend. the Schedule is the same for both days. Singing and Dance Auditions for Act Now!: Registration 9 am – Auditions begin at 9:30 am Reading Auditions (All Shows:) Registration 12:30 pm – Auditions begin at 1 pm
Please call 305-743-0408 for more information.
Mind Over Matt
by Scott Haan
Director:
Kris Teague
Assistant Director:
Kara Pascucci
Producer:
Eric Rolfe
Lights:
Paul Buckley
Sound:
Noah Daniels, Meagan O'Connor
Props:
Jennifer Powell
Costumes:
Riet Steinmetz
Cast
Matt
Nate Ferrara
Floyd
Eric Rolfe
Butch
Doug Gifford
Dylan
Marty Dillis
Rose
Noelle Belden
Zeke
Valarie Taylor
Mrs. Snyder
Marianne Benvenuti
Penny
Sarah Brignac
Mrs. Killian
Jennifer Powell
Devil / Myrtle
Kara Pascucci
Angel / Gertrude
Suzanne Terpos
Jessica
Meagan O'Connor
Adam
Noah Daniels
Buffy
Samantha Thompson
Mind Over Matt
8 p.m. Friday & Saturday July 30, 31 & August 6 & 7
MCT Gallery
8 pm
Matthew Lane is a successful illustrator with a couple of deadlines and several squabbling inner personalities who do weird and wonderful things. As Matt tries to gather up enough nerve to ask out the girl of his dreams, Matt’s egos, who all have their own hang-ups, lead him in one too many directions.
Director:
Marianne Benvenuti
Assistant Director:
Alicia Merel
Producer:
Gail Burnett
Music Coordinator:
Marilyn Tempest
Lights:
Tom O'Neil
Official Photographer:
Larry Benvenuti
annual fundraiser One Weekend Only Back to the 60's Marathon Community Theater Annual Fundraiser Music • Dance • Skits Celebrating music, movies, television, and stage productions of the years 1959 thru
1969.
Friday & Saturday October 15, 16 at 8 p.m. Sunday, October 17 at 3 p.m.
A weekly Trivial Pursuit game serves as group therapy for friends to have a few laughs, bicker… AND serve as the start of a dramatic relationship between two of them? When self-admittedly slobbish Olive invites obsessively clean and neurotic Florence to live with her after a devastating divorce, that is exactly what happens! Within a couple of weeks Florence drives Olive (and the Trivial Pursuit group) practically insane while Olive attempts to teach her how to stand on her own two feet. In a desperate attempt to help Florence forget her husband (and satisfy her own needs) Olive sets up (what turns into) a disastrous dinner date with the two handsome Spaniard neighbors. By the next day the women are left to face the fact: even BEST friends can make the WORST roommates.
The year is 1974. Fed up with the pressures and demands of her television career, character actress Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny Vermont hamlet of Beaver Haven and settles down to write her autobiography and grow some tomatoes. She is successful in turning aside the offers pressed on her by her long-time friend and agent, but dealing with her nosey, omnipresent neighbors is a different matter. In an attempt to shoo them away and gain some privacy, Myra invents a mad, homicidal sister named Sadie (really Myra in a fright wig). Sadie is kept locked in an upstairs room, but conveniently escapes whenever Myra wants to scare off uninvited visitors. The ruse works well at first, but complications arise when Piney, the rough local woodsman, falls for "Sis Sadie" and the ever-hovering neighbor ladies decide it's their duty to save the poor demented Sadie's soul. In desperation Myra announces that her crazy sibling has suddenly gone off to Boston - which makes the busybodies suspect murder and return with the sheriff! Needless to say, all is eventually straightened out in a final frenzy of over-the-top comedy.
Love Letters by A. R. Gurney is a beautiful story made up of fictional letters between two life-long friends. The correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and continues through summer camp postcards, college years’ trials, war, marriages and life’s unexpected challenges. The childhood friends, both born into wealth, follow different life paths. Andrew excels in law school while Melissa flunks out of a series of “good schools.” While he is at war, she marries someone else; but they continue to stay in touch as he becomes a successful attorney, gets into politics and is elected to the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, Melissa drinks too much, finds herself in an unhappy marriage and is estranged from her children.
Love Letters was first performed in 1988 in New Haven, Connecticut with Joanna Gleason and John Rubinstein. Other performers over the years include Shirley Jones and entertainer husband, Marty Ingles, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Reeve, George Segal, Joan Van Ark, Cliff Robertson, Stockard Channing, Elizabeth Montgomery, and many other well-known actors and actresses.
ACT NOW holds the "World Premiere production" at Marathon Community Theater this spring. The story takes place at a community theater during auditions for an upcoming musical. The members of the group gather at the theater after a summer hiatus. Some members of the troupe are old timers and have a long history together, others are first time auditioners. The audience is treated to a glimpse of how a show is cast along with learning a bit about theater including technical terms and improvisation. Along with the major question "who will get cast" are plot lines for individual characters that are facing major life decisions including a couple (Dave & Bethany) pondering "should we get married?", a recently widowed woman (Cassandra) "should I live my life away from my children?", a new theater member (Nicholas) "Can I get up the nerve to audition?" and a pair of on-again-off-again lovers (Jeff & Diane). A joyous tribute to the spirit of community theater, the show celebrates the actor in all of us and invites the audience to ACT NOW.
Charles Condomine is a novelist who invites an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, into his home in order to learn the language of the occult. Unfortunately for Charles and his second wife, Ruth, the séance summons back Elvira, Charles’ first wife, who "passed over" seven years ago. Only Charles can see Elvira, and she torments him by reminding him of their days and nights together. Elvira also has a ghostly plot in mind. She fixes the brakes on Charles’ car to make a ghost of him, thus giving Elvira’s life in the spirit world a bit more appeal. However, Ruth is the one who takes the fatal car ride and passes over, only to return with Elvira to plague the utterly bewildered Charles.
