By Patric Hedlund, TME
You may remember the glory days when the Mountain Shakespeare Festival and the Center of the World Festival (with its original scripts and songwriting competitions) were highlights of each summer.
These Mountain Communities love their theater, and are blessed with an abundance of talent—too much talent not to share it widely. Talents such as Kat and Bill Fair, Bob and Shelia Clark, David Stenstrom, Peter and Michelle Kjenaas, Beans Morocco, with Bobbie and Joe Ladin all brought professional skill to local theater.
Now there is a drama club at Frazier Mountain High School again. In the Wings Studio of Dance reliably produces two delightful gala productions a year. Julia and Rocky Canada have added to the line-up, as have Teresa LeGault with Focus Central. Now, after a hiatus, it appears that Pine Mountain’s clubhouse will be hosting dinner theater again in 2018.
Both the Mountain Theater Alliance (MTA) and the new PMC Performing Arts Group (referred to by founder Ross Canton as “PAG”) are planning seasons at the PMC Condor Room.
Canton said his Performing Arts Group has begun a call for both adult and child performers who would like to help with new productions. Every Sunday afternoon in May, at 1 p.m., PAG will offer The Wizard of Oz as a daytime “Children’s Lunchbox Musical Theater” [see ad on page 16]. Price of admission includes a box lunch and performance.
In June PAG will offer “Trouble in Tumbleweed,” as both a dinner theater comedy frolic and as a stand-alone performance.
Bill and Kat Fair of the Mountain Theater Alliance, meanwhile, will bring dinner theater performances of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” the first two weekends of April.
Every weekend in July the MTA will bring performances of two different shows to the Pine Mountain Village gazebo.
Canton said Jessie Hales, PMC’s recreation supervisor, and Karin Shulman, PMC’s general manager, are making it a pleasure to bring creative offerings into the clubhouse Condor Room.
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