2004 PRODUCTIONS

The Blue Ridge Community Theater presented the following productions to very responsive audiences in 2004:   A Streetcar Named Desire; Musical Comedy Murders of 1940; Barefoot In The Park; and Della's Diner 1:  The Christmas Episode;

We hope you were able to enjoy each of them!

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK - by Neil Simon

Chad Avery portrays Paul Bratter, a newly married lawyer whose young and vibrant wife’s Corrie Bratter played by Gwendolyn Kinnebrew main goal in life is to have fun and to have it with Paul.

This play is full of great lines. Patricia Burley, who portrays Corrie's mother and has some of the funniest lines and Victor Velasco, played by Michael Pruitt, are two of the most endearing stage characters created by Mr. Simon.  

Mike Lacy plays Harry Pepper the all too exhausted telephone man and - Daniel Parrish & Bill Alexander the exasperated deliverymen.

CAST

Corrie Bratter - Gwen Kinnebrew
Paul Bratter - Chad Avery
Victor Velasco - Mike Pruitt
Corie's Mother, Mrs. Banks - Pat Burley
Harry Pepper - Mike Lacy
Delivery Men - Daniel Parrish, Bill Alexander
Movers - Daniel Parrish, Bill Alexander, Mike Lacy, Ed Radcliffe, Betty Ratcliffe, Michael Gray, Kelsey Kinnebrew, Lee Maslankowski, Tina Maslankowski, Sam Hancock  

BEHIND THE SCENES:

Director - Ann Kinnebrew
Assistant Director/Stage Manager - Patti Vick-Lee
Produced by - Lisa Lacy-Avery
Box Office - Elizabeth Hunt, Sue Green, Linda Clabaugh
Costumes - Sue Green, Ann Kinnebrew, Nancy Johnson, Anne Thomason, Annie Tate
Props - Wanda Jefferson, Susan Marsh
Sound & Lights - Richard Scott, Lee Maslankowski, Tom Kimmel
Set Dressing - Daniel Parrish
Set Design - Dan Pruitt
Publicity - Mike Lacy, Susanne Lee
Program Design - Elaine Owen
Playbill -Joe Webb, Elaine Owen
Cover Art - Dan Pruitt
Stage Hands - Kelsey Kinnebrew, Rod Chamberlain
Set Construction - Joe Webb, Larry Hudson, Bill Marsh, Bill Jefferson, Ted McWilliams, Rod Chamberlain, Ed Ratcliffe
Set Painting - Lee and Tina Maslankowski, Tina Rice, Michael Gray, Ande Cook, Trudy and Albert Kraft
Fundraising - Joe Webb
Volunteer Coordination - Helen McMahon

A Streetcar Named Desire--by Tennessee Williams

This Pulitzer prize-winning winner of four academy awards set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War II envelops an environment which evokes not so much a specific time and place in American culture as an almost nostalgic apparition of that past, in which a faded Southern belle, who too obviously stands for ante-bellum gentility, is crushed by the forces of a brutal if vital immigrant future.

Director Dan Pruitt successfully personifies the modern practicality, crudeness, cynicism, brutality, childlike helplessness, romantic yearnings, and pretensions of Streetcar through his four multi-dimensional main characters and the taut dramatic situations in which they are enmeshed. His efforts intelligently depict the lies we all need to sustain our precarious existence in this world.

Cast

Stella Kowalski - Jessica Warren
Stanley Kowalski - John Marsh
Blanche  BuBois- Lisa Lacy-Avery
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) - Jason Smith
Steve Hubbell - Mike Pruitt
Eunice Hubbell - Susan Loftin
Pablo Gonzales - Rod Chamberlain
A young Collector and Doctor - Tim Stanley
Nurse - Betty Ratcliffe
Mexican Woman - Helen McMahon

Behind the Scenes
Director - Dan Pruitt
Assistant Director/Stage Manager - Ann Kinnebrew
Produced by - Meyer Birnbaum
Box Office - Elizabeth Hunt, Sue Green
Costumes - Sue Green, Nancy Johnson, Audrey Phillips
Props - Entire cast and crew
Sound & Lights - Jason Smith, Richard Scott & Chad Avery
Set Design - Dan Pruitt
Publicity - Mike Lacy & Susanne Lee
Playbill Design - John Fritchie
Cover Art - Dan Pruitt
Fundraising & Playbill Ad Sales - Joe Webb & Elaine Owen
Set Construction - Bill Marsh, Al Youmans, Bill Jefferson & Joe Webb
Volunteer Coordination - Helen McMahon

DELLA'S DINER 1:  THE CHRISTMAS EPISODE - by Tom Edwards

Set in Della's Diner on Morning Glory Mountain, TN, country music comes to life in this country-western soap opera.   The original of the 6-episode series, it's Christmas and the gang is trapped in a blizzard.

Described as "a country-western soap opera", Della, Ramona, Joey, Ronnie Frank, Ricky Jim, Preacher Larry, and Connie Sue  discuss the importance of family (Who IS Joey's real daddy?  And who is Ramona's mama?), the value of relationships (Will Ronnie Frank and Ramona D-I-V-O-R-C-E?  Will Preacher Larry marry?) and perform brain surgery (that's right, I said "BRAIN SURGERY...").  But even amid the excitement of a visit from a famous country-music-singing star and the constant search for Joey, there's still time to sing some great country standards.  Backing up the vocals is Connie Sue Day's Un-Holy Smoke, the Diner's live band.   

CAST

(Left to right:  Niki Shaw, Micha Stuart, Rachel Romano, Jason Smith, Shannon Fleeman and Sam Hancock)

Della - Rachel Ramono
Ramona - Niki Shaw
Ricky Jim - Micah Stuart
Preacher Larry - Sam Hancock
Ronnie Frank - Jason Smith
Connie Sue Day - Shannon Fleeman
Connie Sue Day's Unholy Smoke Band - Dan Worley, Shannon Guinn, Birdie Towe, Daryn Bennett 

BEHIND THE SCENES:

Director - Mike Fleeman
Assistant Director/Stage Manager - Tim Stanley
Produced by - Lisa Lacy-Avery
Box Office - Elizabeth Hunt, Sue Green
Costumes - Sue Green, Nancy Johnson, Anne Thompson
Props - Wanda Jefferson
Sound & Lights - Richard Scott, Tom Kimmel
Set Dressing - Cindy Trimble-Kelley, Danielle Kovecsi
Set Concept - Dan Pruitt

Set Design - Larry Hudson
Publicity - Mike Lacy, Susanne Lee
Program Design - Elaine Owen
Playbill -Joe Webb, Elaine Owen
Cover Art - Steve Martin
Set Construction - Joe Webb, Larry Hudson, Bill Marsh, Bill Jefferson, Ted McWilliams, Ed Ratcliffe
Set Painting - Larry Hudson, Jamie Robinson
Rodeo Mural - Chuck Whited

Fundraising - Joe Webb
Volunteer Coordination - Helen McMahon