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North Shore Players 2011/2012 ~ Main Stage Productions:
| NSP's upcoming spring production will be Neil Simon's classic comedy The Odd Couple - the female version.. The production will be the female version of the play, with Oscar and Felix now Olive and Florence. Performances are scheduled for June 8, 9 & 10, 2012 with rehearsals beginning in early February on Monday, Thursday and Sunday evenings. The cast has parts for six female and two male performers. For more information contact Howard Schneider at 978-590-7290, email boxhoward@verizon.net |
(Just completed: December 2,4, 9,10 &11, 2011 )
Miracle on 34th Street ~ The Musical
Book, Music & Lyrics by Meredith Willson
Cast photo taken at the end of last performance.
Video Promo of show: Video of Rehearsal (Best viewed with full screen setting)
Rehearsal Photos:
Susie thinks Santa is probably a fake
The judge advising Mr. Kringle of his rights
These guys don't really like Mr. Kringle that much.
According to Mr. Macy:
"That man over there is Santa Claus, I know, I know, I know ...."
These guys like Mr. Kringle, and they agree with Mr. Macy.
Mrs. Walker won't play second fiddle to anyone, especially Fred
2012/2013 Seasons Plays
Musical:
Prairie Lights
| Book by Susan Lieberman.
Lyrics by David Rush. Music by Rosalie Gerut.
Cast: 9m. 9w. (5 of the m. and 5 of the w. are teenagers, flexible chorus.) A holiday musical called "incisive and poignant affirming and
family-friendly …Evokes the hopefulness of the winter holidays... treats
children and adults with respect." —Columbus Dispatch
Prairie Lights tells the story of a Jewish brother and sister who journey west on an Orphan Train in 1905. Arriving with other homeless youths in a tiny Nebraska town just before the holidays, Benjamin and Rose are adopted by Wellspring's only Jewish couple, Abe and Sophie Birnbaum. Devout 12-year-old Benjamin clashes with Abe, a successful shopkeeper who has abandoned his religion. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Rose falls secretly in love with a fellow orphan, thus upsetting Sophie's marriage plans for the girl. Townsfolk are further divided by the fearful banker, Maxwell Ryder, who wants to send all of the orphans back to New York. As the town prepares for Christmas and Hanukkah approaches, Benjamin finds himself enlisting the young people—orphans and local kids alike—on a quest to reunite Wellspring.
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Straight Play:
Loco-Motion, Commotion, Dr. Gorilla and Me
by Tim Kelly
Two Acts, Farce, Thriller
| Cast: 8m / 14f.
Possible roles for teens, no children, principle cast in early 20s, although
several members could be older. The show is not a musical, but some of the
best laughs come from the three singing DePayne Sisters, who perform like
the Andrews Sisters.
If you've ever enjoyed those wonderfully dreadful late night mystery-thrillers of the past, you'll go wild over this clever, wacky, uproarious farce. Young Priscilla Del Mar has journeyed into the country with her superstitious cousin Patsy to view “The Old Dark House,” her inheritance from a weird uncle who was known to have carried on even weirder experiments! The property has burned down under those well known suspicious circumstances, and the girls are forced to take shelter in the home of Dr. Gorilla, a legendary master criminal. Unknown to the girls, guests at a nearby “home for the upset” have also invaded the premises: the feuding Grandma Hatfield, Lizzie Borden, and Sweet Alice Blue Goon. A few of the strange experiments from “The Old Dark House” seem to be on the loose, too! Of course there are disappearing corpses, manic, mile-a-minute chase scenes and all manner of inspired lunacy.
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Recently ~
Cheaper by the Dozen
A comedic play adapted by Christopher Sergel
from the book by Frank Gilbreth
and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.
Performances were on March 25 - 27, 2011
Cast Photo:
Play flyer
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Other recent past productions
It's a Wonderful Life the Musical Book and lyrics by James W. Rodgers Based on the film by Frank Capra Show Dates: Were Dec 4,5,10,11 & 12)
It's production week, and this group is ready to put on a great show.
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