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“Stage Door” at Blind Brook

November
14

I received the following notice from Christina Colangelo, of the acting Colangelo Family:

“STAGE DOOR”
By Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
November 21st and 22nd, 2008
Blind Brook High School is proud to present Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s Stage Door.

The play is about a group of young girls who have come to New York to study acting and find jobs and is an exploration of the Broadway-Hollywood culture clash of the mid-30s. The scene is Mrs. Orcutt’s (freshman Nora Fisher) boarding house, where the hopes and ambitions of sixteen young women are revealed. The central plot has to do with courageous Terry Randall (senior Corinne Segal), who fights against discouragement to a position in the theater. She falls for an idealistic young playwright named Keith Burgess (senior Zack Bodinger), who, as the tart-tongued Judith Canfield (senior Lauren Konigsberg) describes him, “starts out on a soapbox and ends up in a swimming pool.”  One of Terry’s fellow aspirants, Kaye Hamilton (senior Stacey Lurie) gives up in despair, and Jean Maitland (senior Kelsey Crandall) goes into pictures, but Terry, with the help of movie producer David Kingsley, (senior Steven Fisher), sticks to her guns.
Stage Door will be performed Friday, November 21st and Saturday, November 22nd at 8 PM at the Blind Brook High School Theatre. Tickets are $10.00 for all performances can be reserved by e-mailing BBHSDRAMA@blindbrook.org or by calling (914) 937-3600 ext 3171.
The cast includes:  Scott Bass, Zack Bodinger, Elaine Chandras, Kelsey Crandall, Alyssa Davis, Mari Diamond, Jordan Drutman, Blythe Duckett, Nora Fisher, Steven Fisher, Sydney Grau, Ali Hartman, Carson Jardine,
Christine Joyce, Tyler Ketchabaw, Lauren Konigsberg, Jacob Kupin, Elana Levy, Stacey Lurie, Kevin Maclean, Jackie Mamorsky, Melanie Mauro, Diksha Nagia, Samantha Park, Alyssa Piperis, Karen Rind-Segal, Corinne Segal, Stephanie Sherry, Zack Taitz, Alex Woychowski.
Blind Brook High School English and Drama Teacher, Christina Colangelo, directs the production with the assistance of Student Assistant Director Eric Schulkin.  The Stage Manager is Eddie Licitra and Jason Kaye is on the light board.

This entry was posted on Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am by Peter D. Kramer.
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