“Peril on the High Seas” Show Week and the fabulous sandwich “the MOLL”
Every year for a couple of months in late winter I lose my mind and my heart to a small group of winsome home school students with an interest in…
Read morePhotos from Show Week: “Say Uncle, Auntie Sylvia . . . ” by the numbers
Our fourteenth annual melodrama, “Say Uncle, Auntie Sylvia . . . or Trapped in a House of Fiends!” based on the script by Tim Kelly, is now one for the…
Read more“Virtue Always Triumphs” show week
I hurried to the back of the darkened auditorium, to catch a scene from our melodrama “Virtue Always Triumphs.” Between helping with scene changes and curtain pulls, I wanted to…
Read moreDress rehearsal sneak peek: “Virtue Always Triumphs!”
We’ve had three long days and now we get a bit of a breather before we put on our show this weekend. This is how it went: on Sunday, we…
Read moreBig hair rehearsal, meerschaum pipes, and painting large rocks
It happens every year during melodrama rehearsal schedule: About four or five rehearsals in, I look at the schedule (that I crafted, mind), magneted on a prominent place on the…
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