Sam Stone Impromptu News and Review

Hi folks,

Last night’s performance went off a half-hour faster than I had expected but, given the torrential rain, it was probably good to let folks run home between the raindrops. For those who stayed to listen to the two young men with guitars (can’t recall names but one’s a grandson of Dot Drew) the evening was as full and as entertaining as anyone could wish.

We had a total of 40 in attendance including patrons, playwrights and
actors, which has become our average over the past few months. I feel, as there were a half-dozen or more new faces, we might have had a full house except for the (probably) inch of rain that fell during the 45 minutes before we began.

Liz Malzone, our Stage Manager and Lighting Techie was home preparing for knee surgery. Thank you, Ludy Wilkie, for stepping in and helping out.

Gordon Pendarvis and Richard Brown of Rutherford County, along with Paula Orr of H’vle were our “Featured Performers” of the evening. Gordon has shown considerable leadership in the casting and directing of some of our plays, which takes much of the burden off me.

I was running late, sending the program to the printer after noon on the day of our performance and, in my haste to include specific info about theatre works our members are involved in, I accidentally included a statement that Tom Bennett was involved in a Shelby Community Theatre production of “The Secret Garden.” That statement was incorrect… Shelby Community Theatre is producing “The Taffetas,” a musical that will
be running through next weekend…. Break a leg!

Dannette, “Dante” Calderin brought a two-page monologue to the meeting, which I asked permission to present at our next performance… she agreed.

Next month, our performance will be Saturday, August 22 at 7:00pm. Our meeting will be held at 4:00pm that afternoon… actors are always welcome to come and read scripts.

Theatre Under the Stars… author Michael Moon of Chicago stopped in enroute home from Winston-Salem last Sunday and met with cast and crew members. He’s considering the change of the play’s name from “A Whippoorwill Call” to “Crossroads” which is a name more appropriate to the play itself. We’re still shooting for the 5th weekend of August.

Wishing all well and success.
Sam

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