The Grand Marais Playhouse continues to be a flurry of activity. The Playhouse is preparing to participate in the Minnesota Association of Community Theater’s One Act Festival March 19 – 22. The play selected will be September Bears by Jeff Barker. Jack Nickolay will direct the cast of Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux, Beth Faraone, Kevin Kager, Will Moore, Hannah Nickolay and David Warren.
There will be a public performance on March 12 at 7 p.m. to help us raise money to bring the show to Dassel-Cokato Performing Arts Center. The Playhouse production will be the second show of the 1 p.m. set on Friday, March 20. For more information about the festival including workshops and other participating theaters, please go to MACT.net
The Playhouse will be presenting a one-woman show The Belle of Amherst by William Luce on February 21 at 7:30 p.m. This very special event will be performed by Catherine Glynn. Tickets will be $15 adults and free to students 18 and under.
Catherine Glynn (above) is The Belle of Amherst. The one woman show shares the story of one of America’s greatest poets Emily Dickinson.
In The Belle of Amherst, Emily Dickinson welcomes audiences into her lifelong Amherst homestead in mid-19th century Massachusetts. While Dickinson found solace in solitude through much of her life, acclaimed playwright William Luce weaves her poems, diaries, and letters into a one-woman portrait of one of America’s greatest and most prolific poets, mixing Dickinson’s encounters with close friends and family with the poet’s own, often amusing observations.
“Full of passion and poetry and heart,” New York Daily News wrote. “The Belle of Amherst illuminates a brilliant wordsmith through the words she left behind.”
Catherine Glynn began rehearsals for The Belle of Amherst 26 years ago and performed it at St. John’s University as her senior thesis project for her BA in Humanities. Since then she has acted, studied and taught theatre at UT-Austin and The University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program. She has acted with the Austin Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Shakespeare, The Rude Mechanicals, Collaboraction, SPAC, The Commonweal, Chicago Dramatists and The New American Theatre among others. She is appearing with permission of Actor’s Equity.
The musical for the summer repertory will be I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! Book and Lyrics are by Joe DiPeitro and music is by Jimmy Roberts. Auditions will be March 3 at 7 p.m. The cast includes two men and two women. People wishing to audition should prepare a piece that demonstrates their vocal ability. They should also demonstrate a character singing voice.
Performance dates are July 17, 19, 23,25, 31 Aug. 2 (at 3 p.m., not 2), 6, and 8.
The comedy is still being selected but auditions will be in early March as well. The dates for the comedy are July 16, 18, 23, 25, 30, Aug.1, 7 and 9. Rehearsals will begin this winter as cast availability works out and then move to stage in July.
Contact the Playhouse at (218) 387-1284 to be notified of auditions.
The Playhouse conducted interviews for the upcoming youth production James and the Giant Peach. This play calls for a huge cast. Stay tuned for more information soon!
Grand Marais Playhouse Artistic Director Sue Hennessy provides this behind-the-scenes look at Grand Marais Playhouse activities.
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