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Acting Up! 2024
Acting Up! 2024 August 23-24, 2004
The Orange Players presents ACTING UP! 2024, an evening of original, unpublished one act plays.
PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMESAugust 23 at 7:30 PMAugust 24 at 3 PM and 7:30 PM
VENUEHigh Plains Community Center525 Orange Center Rd., Orange, CT
SEATING Cabaret-style seating. Tables seat up to 8. BYOB and food.
DOORS AND PRE-SHOWDoors open 2:15 PM matinee, 6:30 PM evenings. Pre-show entertainment provided. 50/50 and prizes each performance, $1 per ticket. Drawings during intermission.
TICKETS$22 per personRecommended audience 16+Some plays contain brief language and adult themes.
Master of Ceremonies: Albert Burton Glassman
Welcome, we are looking forward to another spectacular evening of one act shows!
PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMESAugust 23 at 7:30 PMAugust 24 at 3 PM and 7:30 PM
VENUEHigh Plains Community Center525 Orange Center Rd., Orange, CT
SEATING Cabaret-style seating. Tables seat up to 8. BYOB and food.
DOORS AND PRE-SHOWDoors open 2:15 PM matinee, 6:30 PM evenings. Pre-show entertainment provided. 50/50 and prizes each performance, $1 per ticket. Drawings during intermission.
TICKETS$22 per personRecommended audience 16+Some plays contain brief language and adult themes.
Master of Ceremonies: Albert Burton Glassman
Welcome, we are looking forward to another spectacular evening of one act shows!
THE GOOD DYBBUKPlaywright: David LipschutzDirector: Jackie KoralWhen a young man goes to clean out his grandparents’ attic, he discovers more than he expected.- Zayde: Jeffrey Rossman- Asher: Phoebe Kebabian- Mother: Luisa Olah
WHO DIDN'T DUNNIT?Playwright: Thomas J. MisuracaDirector : J. Michael SpencerThree unrelated people are invited to a luxurious mansion one dark and stormy evening. There, their host, Parker, reveals they are blackmailing them. Parker is surprised when not only do they not care if their dark truths are reveal, but nobody murders Parker in classic mystery style. Instead they try to help this stranger get their life back on track.- Nigel: Paul Cassella - Christine: Meghan Scopelliti - Ruth: TJ Chila - Parker: Matt Simmons
A WAKEPlaywright : Brian C. PettiDirector: Hugh TuckerThis play takes place in a funeral home, during a conversation between old friends.- Woman 1: Krissy Dorn- Woman 2: Colleen Leary
BREAKWATERPlaywright: Robert J. LeBlancDirector: Lynne GannonWe all need someone to protect us from ourselves.Monty is a stubborn old lobster man who might be suffering a heart attack. Mattie, his equally stubborn wife is trying to convince him to go to the hospital before she takes matters into her own hands and drags him there herself.- Monty: Tom Schmidt - Mattie: Mallie Massaro
BUMP IN THE NIGHTPlaywright: John MabeyDirector: Kuhlken GormanThere's never a good time for a couple-fight, especially during a home invasion. And you're the invaders.- Ben: Dan Anderson- Sarah: Nora Rodriguez- Voice: Christine Thomson
WHO DIDN'T DUNNIT?Playwright: Thomas J. MisuracaDirector : J. Michael SpencerThree unrelated people are invited to a luxurious mansion one dark and stormy evening. There, their host, Parker, reveals they are blackmailing them. Parker is surprised when not only do they not care if their dark truths are reveal, but nobody murders Parker in classic mystery style. Instead they try to help this stranger get their life back on track.- Nigel: Paul Cassella - Christine: Meghan Scopelliti - Ruth: TJ Chila - Parker: Matt Simmons
A WAKEPlaywright : Brian C. PettiDirector: Hugh TuckerThis play takes place in a funeral home, during a conversation between old friends.- Woman 1: Krissy Dorn- Woman 2: Colleen Leary
BREAKWATERPlaywright: Robert J. LeBlancDirector: Lynne GannonWe all need someone to protect us from ourselves.Monty is a stubborn old lobster man who might be suffering a heart attack. Mattie, his equally stubborn wife is trying to convince him to go to the hospital before she takes matters into her own hands and drags him there herself.- Monty: Tom Schmidt - Mattie: Mallie Massaro
BUMP IN THE NIGHTPlaywright: John MabeyDirector: Kuhlken GormanThere's never a good time for a couple-fight, especially during a home invasion. And you're the invaders.- Ben: Dan Anderson- Sarah: Nora Rodriguez- Voice: Christine Thomson
UNREASONABLE SITUATIONSPlaywright: Lindsey BrownDirector: Tina Marie ManusSometimes a park bench can offer you the opportunity to hide from life. But it will only ever be temporary. A woman is about to learn this lesson the hard way, with a bit of help from the law.- Lorin: Carol Palumbo- Officer Kent: Mariah Young
153Playwright: Steven G. MartinDirector: Em KrammA 45-year-old man and 18-year-old boy fight about poor life choices that have left them on the brink of a journey neither expected or want to take. They are joined by a 90-year-old man who understands and allays their uncertainty. "153" is about giving ourselves a bit of grace for our past and allowing there is a potential for joy in our future.- 18: Qesar Veliu - 45: Mark Moyher - 90: Jack Levine
GOODBYE TOMPlaywright: Barry WoodDirector: Janine WolfeObsessed amateur playwright Tom, is struggling to write, while his wife Louise does all the housework around him. But the tables are turned when she comes up with the perfect idea for a play.- Tom: Hugh Tucker- Louise: Kate Telfer
SERIAL KILLER OF ELSINOREPlaywright: Michael WatersonDirector: Maggi HeilweilThe scene is Elsinore Castle right after the events of “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” The seat of Danish royalty is a crime scene, and homicide detectives Monday and Cannon question the late Prince’s good friend, Horatio, about what transpired. During the investigation they uncover a chilling conspiracy. - Joe: Dawn Reiss-Melillo - Bill: Tony Benedetti - Horatio: Barry Hatrick - Fortinbras: Paul Templeton
LA 8 AMPlaywright: Mark Harvey LevineDirector: Matt GriffithsSome things can be reduced to numbers. Some can't. - Kevin: Tom Homa - Paige: Brittany Homa - Narrators: Justin Wargo & Michelle Burt
153Playwright: Steven G. MartinDirector: Em KrammA 45-year-old man and 18-year-old boy fight about poor life choices that have left them on the brink of a journey neither expected or want to take. They are joined by a 90-year-old man who understands and allays their uncertainty. "153" is about giving ourselves a bit of grace for our past and allowing there is a potential for joy in our future.- 18: Qesar Veliu - 45: Mark Moyher - 90: Jack Levine
GOODBYE TOMPlaywright: Barry WoodDirector: Janine WolfeObsessed amateur playwright Tom, is struggling to write, while his wife Louise does all the housework around him. But the tables are turned when she comes up with the perfect idea for a play.- Tom: Hugh Tucker- Louise: Kate Telfer
SERIAL KILLER OF ELSINOREPlaywright: Michael WatersonDirector: Maggi HeilweilThe scene is Elsinore Castle right after the events of “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” The seat of Danish royalty is a crime scene, and homicide detectives Monday and Cannon question the late Prince’s good friend, Horatio, about what transpired. During the investigation they uncover a chilling conspiracy. - Joe: Dawn Reiss-Melillo - Bill: Tony Benedetti - Horatio: Barry Hatrick - Fortinbras: Paul Templeton
LA 8 AMPlaywright: Mark Harvey LevineDirector: Matt GriffithsSome things can be reduced to numbers. Some can't. - Kevin: Tom Homa - Paige: Brittany Homa - Narrators: Justin Wargo & Michelle Burt