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2010’s
Year Month Production 2010 March Accomplice [photo album] April One-Act Plays [photo album] #235 June Bells Are Ringing [photo album] September Born Yesterday November My Three Angels 2011 February-March Key for Two [photo album] April An Evening of One-Act Plays [photo album] #240 June The Importance of Being Earnest [photo album] August-September And Then There Were None [photo album] November Cinderella (Enchanted Edition) [photo album] -
2000’s
Year Month Production 2000 March/April Where’s Charley? June/July You Can’t Take it With You August/September Laura (show #195) November Divorce, Southern Style (Winter Chicken) 2001 March Misery June Drop Dead August/September A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum October/November Our Town (200th Show) 2002 March Painting Churches April (one-act) The Last Cigarette June Moon Over Buffalo August Soup du Jour October/November A Party to Murder 2003 March The Odd Couple (female version, #205) June Light Up the Sky August Kiss Me Kate November The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle 2004 March/April Mastergate [photo album] April One-Act: Gaslight Cafe (MEACT) June/July Of Thee I Sing [photo album] (#210) August Don’t Drink the Water [photo album] November The Manchurian Candidate [photo album] 2005 February Omar Ricardo’s “That’s Italian” [photo album] March Death of a Salesman [photo album] April One-Act: Gaslight Cafe (MEACT and Regional) June/July How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [photo album] September Dinner With Friends [photo album] (#215) November Arsenic and Old Lace [photo album] 2006 March Omar Ricardo and his Many, Many Women (fundraiser) [photo album] May The Real Inspector Hound [photo album] June Jake’s Women [photo album] August Songs for a Summer Night (musical revue) [photo album] November The Mousetrap [photo album] 2007 March Almost, Maine [photo album] April One Act: Almost, Maine (selections: MEACT) June/July Lucky Stiff [photo album] August Crimes of the Heart [photo album] November Over the River and Through the Woods [photo album] 2008 March Don’t Dress for Dinner [photo album] (#225) June Bye, Bye Birdie [photo album] August Wonder of the World [photo album] November Private Lives [photo album] 2009 March Bell, Book and Candle [photo album] April The Ties That Bind (one-act plays) [photo album] July Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [photo album] August/September Five Women Wearing the Same Dress [photo album] November Rabbit Hole [photo album] -
1990’s
Year Month Production 1990 March Catch Me If You Can (show #150) May 2 One_Acts: (Love Course; The Actor’s Nightmare) August Blithe Spirit November Baby 1991 April The Tempest June The Music Man (#155) August On the Verge November A Loss of Roses 1992 March On Golden Pond June The Odd Couple (Female Version) August Oklahoma (#160) November Of Mice and Men 1993 February Love Changes Everything (musical revue) March Barefoot in the Park June Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat August Wait Until Dark (#165) November Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe 1994 February Brother, Can You Spare A Dime (fundraiser: musical revue) March Lend Me A Tenor June Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Maine Premiere) August Dames at Sea (#170) September Come Back Little Sheba 1995 March The Front Page June The Foreigner August 2 Albee One-Acts: (The Zoo Story and The American Dream) November Agnes of God (#175) 1996 March One Act Festival in Camden: Zoo Story March Daddy’s Dyin’ Who’s Got the Will July Steel Magnolias September Gaslight (Angel Street) November House of Blue Leaves (#180) 1997 April Do Not Disturb June/July Infidelities August A Cheever Evening (Maine Premiere) November Twelve Angry Men 1998 March Harvey (#185) June Inherit the Wind Augusta Nunsense November The Taming of the Shrew 1999 March Rehearsal for Murder July The Complete works of Wllm Shkspr, Abbr. (#190) August/September Plaza Suite November The Country Girl -
1980’s
Year Month Production 1980 Summer Aaron Slick of Pumpkin Crick October The Magical Pied Piper of Hamlin December A Christmas Carol 1981 April Pajama Game June The Madwoman of Chaillot August Cat on a Hot Tin Roof October Song by Song by Sondheim (musical revue) 1982 January The Lion in Winter March/April Bye Bye Birdie June Carousel July America the Musical (musical revue) October The Butler Did It (#125) December Sounds Like White Christmas (musical revue) 1983 April Anything Goes July America the Musical II/Broadway on the Kennebec; musical revue) 1984 March The Mousetrap July Sparklers (#130) November Guys and Dolls 1985 May Bus Stop July/August You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown November Camelot 1986 April Twelfth Night (#135) June 3 One-Act Plays (The Anniversary, Aria da Capo, Thursday Evenings) October On The Air (original radio show) 1987 April Vanities July ESSays (Original Music show) July I Do, I Do (#140) October California Suite November James and the Giant Peach 1988 March 2 One-Acts: (Who Dunnit?, The Real Inspector Hound) May/June Crimes of the Heart July Company November All My Sons (#145) 1989 March See How They Run June The Lady’s Not for Burning October Once Upon a Mattress December Performance at a Christmas Ball -
1970’s
Year Month Production 1970 February Write Me a Murder (#93) April Everyone Loves Opal (#94) May When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet November Cactus Flower (#95) 1971 Under the Yum Yum Tree (#96) Spring Wait Until Dark (#97) Fall Camelot (#98) 1972 March Invitation to a March (#99) April Auntie Mame (100th Show) October Don’t Drink the Water (#101) 1973 March Oliver (#102) November Kiss Me Kate (#103) 1974 May Forty Carats (#104) December The Music Man (#105) 1975 April Mrs. McThing June An Endless Line of Splendor (pageant) September Curse You, Jack Dalton (Gay 90s Revue) November Our Town 1976 April Arsenic and Old Lace August Broadway (revue) November Broadway Revisited (revue, #109) 1977 May Sorry, Wrong Number/The Spiral Staircase August Ladies Night at the Theater (revue) 1978 January Bits from Hollywood Hits (revue) 1979 Early summer Lil Abner -
1960’s
Year Month Production 1960 French With an Accent (Show #70) 1961 The Potting Shed (#71) November Golden Fleecing 1962 March Midas and the Golden Touch (children’s play) April/May Design for Murder Send Me No Flowers 1963 February The Emperor’s New Clothes (children’s play) April Teahouse of the August Moon (#75) November Picnic (#76) 1964 April Critic’s Choice (#77) November John Brown’s Body (#78) 1965 February/March Snow White and Rose Read (children’s play) April A Shot in the Dark (#79) October The Elves and the Shoemaker (children’s play) November Diary of Anne Frank (#80) 1966 March Mary, Mary (#81) April Angel Street (#82) November Never Too Late (#83) 1967 February The Bat (#84) April King of Hearts (#85) April Sky High (Youth Theater) November A Thousand Clowns (#86) 1968 February Bell, Book and Candle (#87) April Barefoot in the Park (#88) November The Odd Couple (#89) 1969 February Any Wednesday (#90) April The Chalk Garden (#91) November Come Blow Your Horn (#92) -
1950’s
Year Month Production 1950 April Little Foxes Hansel and Gretel (fundraiser) October The Torch Bearers 1951 January Bell for Adano April Ten Little Indians May Jack and the Bean Stalk (fundraiser) October The Velvet Glove (show #42) 1952 January The Petrified Forest (#43) April Life With Mother (#44) May Rumplestiltskin (fundraiser) November Ladies of the Jury 1953 February The Corn is Green (Kerosene Circuit) April Born Yesterday November The Silver Whistle 1954 February The Hasty Heart April The Happy time (#50) November Harvey (#51) Cinderella (Fundraiser) 1955 February Stalag 17 May My Three Angels The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker Sabrina Fair 1956 January Dial M for Murder (#55) #56? October The Tender Trap November The Desperate Hours December Nativity Scene 1957 April You Can’t Take It With You (#59) Gentleman Prefer Blondes 1958 March Come Back, Little Sheba Witness for the Prosecution Monique 1959 May 27-29 Visit to a Small Planet (by Gore Vidal, directed by Maybelle Tarr) -
30’s and 40’s
Year Month Production 1938 Arms and the Man 1939 April The Late Christopher Bean September The School for Scandal 1940 February The Cap’n Alden Place May The Royal Family October The Bat 1941 January Smiling Through April Hay Fever May The Prince of Liars November George Washington Slept Here 1942 February Aaron Slick of Pumpkin Crick March The Bishop Misbehaves May Icebound October Arsenic and Old Lace 1943 January First Lady May Papa is All July Pure as the Driven Snow (A Working Girls Secret) September Ladies in Retirement December First Year 1944 March Bundy Pulls the Strings June It Pays to Advertise October Junior Miss 1945 February The Woman June Angel Street (Gaslight) November SNAFU 1946 March Blithe Spirit May Night Must Fall Summer Oh Promise Me (Kerosene Circuit) 1947 January I Remember Mama April Pygmalion Summer Sweetwater Train October State of The Union 1948 January The Barretts of Wimpole Street April Skylark September Volunteer Bride (Kerosene Circuit) November Trial of Mary Dugan 1949 Jan Joan of Lorraine April French With an Accent May The Emperors New Coat (fundraiser) Oct Three Man on a Horse -
Bell, Book and Candle
By John Van Druten
THE STORY: Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly because she is attracted to him. He falls head over heels in love with her at once and wants to marry her. But witches, unfortunately, cannot fall in love, and this minute imperfection leads into a number of difficulties. Ultimately, the lady breaks off with her companions in witchery, preferring the normal and human love offered her by the attractive publisher. But before the happy conclusion of the romance, Gillian comes very near to losing him—but doesn’t.
John Van Druten