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Happy holidays!

Annual meeting

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eservations for the December 14 annual holiday dinner must be made by December 5. The cost is $21 a person; checks payable to SCCT should be delivered to Cindy Scott at 1 Dawn Sky Court (705-7167) or to Sharon Walker at 101 Hampton Circle (705-3919). 

   Dinner will start at 5 p.m. in Pinckney Hall. The menu includes London broil in mushroom and burgundy sauce, baked lemon pepper chicken, Lowcountry green beans, new potatoes, chocolate cake, iced tea and coffee. A cash bar will be provided.    

   The evening’s production will be “Murder’s Bad But Monday Can Kill You.” The curtain opens on the Restful Glen psychiatric ward where Harry Monday, a Sam Spade wannabe in trench coat and gumshoes, is called to investigate a triple murder, but which has only one body. He soon finds himself committed, along with a fascinating assortment of other patients, all with multiple personalities. As Harry says, “Clues are falling like cigarettes in the boy’s bathroom,” but something “smells like dead fish.” Could it be Harry? This hilarious whodunit is apt to have you on the floor, with the dead bodies, rolling in laughter.

   The play stars Bob McCloskey, Maya White, Lew Apgar, Bernie Anderson, Gordon Hooper, Gabrielle Testa, Joan Galasso, Carole Carl, Ed Galloway, Anne Blue and Larry Della Vecchia.

   Note: You do not have to attend the dinner to see the evening’s production, which will start after the 7 p.m. general membership meeting.       

   Election of officers will take place at the general meeting. The nominees are Bob Taylor for president; Sharon Walker, vice president; Carl Lehmann, treasurer; Arturo Iriarte, secretary; Ralph Spiegel, production chairman; Brenda Compton, social chairwoman; Anne Nusbaum, member at large. Carl Nusbaum automatically remains on the board as past president.

  Other nominee names must be submitted to the club secretary by December 1 with 10 signatures and acquiescence of the nominee.

Road show

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esides being the monthly production for December, “Murder’s Bad But Monday Can Kill You” will be presented next month at the Ulmer Auditorium in Bluffton (home to May River Theater). Four performances are scheduled: Friday, January 19; Saturday, January 20 (matinee and evening); Sunday, January 21. Details will be provided later. Invite your neighbors and join other members for what will be a hilarious show in a full-theater setting.

Important notice

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embership dues for 2007 are payable by January 1. Membership packets will be available at the December meeting. You must present your Activity Card to receive the packet. For those who cannot attend the meeting, membership packets will be available in Pinckney Hall from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday, January 15 (Chechesee room); 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, January 24 (Broad River room); 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, January 30 (Chechesee room); 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, February 1(Chechesee room.). After February 1, packets can be picked up at monthly meetings or by calling Sharon Walker at 705-3919. Membership is still $10 a person.

Coming up

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he spring musical, “The Boy Friend,” directed by Carol Wroblewski, will be presented March 22-24 for four performances (matinee included). The musical tells the story of a young couple who meet with many complications on their way to love. Bob Marguccio and Elaine Ragland will play Tony and Polly. The head mistress of the girl’s school that Polly attends is played by a very French Joan Galasso as Madame DuBonnet. Polly’s father is Bob Johnson. Comic relief will be provided by Bob Crewdson as Lord Brockhurst, who has an eye for young girls, and his stern, matronly wife, Shirley Glanell. The rest of the cast of young girls and boys and chorus will sing and dance their way into your hearts to the wonderful Charleston music of the 1920s.

Auditions

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indy Scott and Sharon Walker are planning auditions in early December for the February monthly mini-production. They are planning monologues/dialogues for six to eight men and six to eight women. Some scenes will be memorized and some will not. Call Cindy (705-7167) or Sharon (705-3919) for details.

Annual awards

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ext month’s meeting (7 p.m. January 11) will feature the annual Sunny Awards, presented to actors and directors for outstanding work in various categories during the 2006 season of traditional and monthly performances. Marvin Pearlstein will be master of ceremonies again.

Workshops

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he 2006 theater season brought us the playwriting and directing workshops and, at the March 8 meeting, members will be able to see the fruits of their labors when the new directors direct three short plays by the playwriting participants. Carl Nusbaum’s acting workshop and Bob Taylor’s directing workshop will be held in 2007. Veteran set designer Gordon Hooper is

planning to conduct a workshop taking interested participants from the beginning stages to final development of a stage set. A play reading workshop also is planned. These and possibly more workshops are intended to give members opportunities to deepen their theater skills as

well as support the traditional and monthly productions. For more information, call Carol Wroblewski, workshop chairwoman, at 705-2387.

Writing a play

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oan Galasso was among participants in the playwriting workshop conducted by Jan Henson Dow.

   “The ten of us who took advantage of this offer had a wonderful time learning about the fundamentals of playwriting and, most important, writing our own ten-minute plays,” Joan says.

   “It’s harder than you think. I knew I was in for a real challenge when Jan told us at the first session to go home and jot down ideas for our own plays, and I discovered I didn’t have a single idea rumbling around in my empty head. But she encouraged us, gave us insights and examples and convinced us that the impossible was not beyond us … Jan will repeat the course next fall and I thoroughly recommend it. Even if I never write another play, I’ll be an informed and appreciative member of the audience.”

2007 season

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ere’s what’s planned for 2007: annual Sunny Awards in January; monologues/dialogues in February; “The Boy Friend” in March; original plays by playwriting participants in March (monthly production); selected scenes from “Greater Tuna,” directed by Carl Lehmann, in April; actors workshop, directed by Carl Nusbaum, in May; a play to be determined by director Perry Molinaro in June.

   “My Fair Lady,” directed by Anne Nusbaum, is to be presented in late June at Bluffton High School, but only if rehearsal time becomes available at Pinckney Hall.

   The second half of the season will include Follies 2007, a concert presentation of a musical, an additional night of monologues/dialogues, one-act plays and a holiday-oriented December presentation.

   The fall production will be “Moon Over Buffalo,” to be directed by Bob Taylor.

   Stay tuned for updates at monthly meetings, at the community Web site and with member e-mail messages and Footlights.

(Footlights is published quarterly: March, June, September and December.)

Revised: December 01, 2006.