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2010-2011 Plays Announced, New Board Members Elected
Local playwright Lew Holton is in good company in Murrells Inlet
Community Theatre’s 2010-2011 season lineup. His comedy “The Early
Miracle” is flanked by Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” and Arthur
Miller’s “The Price” – award-winning plays by legendary
playwrights.
The season will open with “Lost in Yonkers,” winner of the 1991
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Drama Desk Award for Best New Play, and Tony
Award for Best Play. Set in 1942, the play pries open a Yonkers, N.Y.,
household where two young brothers live with their tyrannical
grandmother and luckless aunt. Other characters are a hoodlum uncle,
sickly aunt and the boys’ father, a traveling salesman struggling to
pay off his late wife’s medical bills.. Doris Hudson will direct.
Written in 2002, “The Early Miracle” was workshopped by the
Charter Theatre at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Washington,
D.C., where it premiered in 2004. Set in a trailer park in a fictional
South Carolina town, it was designed as a tour-de-force for three actors
portraying a whirlwind of characters, according to Holton, who teaches
part-time at Coastal Carolina University. An additional weekend has been
added for this play. The director will be announced.
Miller’s “The Price,” winner of the 1968 Tony Award for Best
Play, will close out MICT’s 13th season. The drama takes
place in a furniture-filled attic, where two estranged brothers – a
successful surgeon and a police sergeant – spar over the sale of their
parents’ belongings. Joining the fray, which ultimately reveals the
reason the brothers parted ways, is an ebullient antique appraiser and
the sergeant’s discontented wife. The director will be announced.
Check the Upcoming Plays / Tickets page for ticket information.
2010 Annual Meeting
The trio of plays was announced Wednesday, May 12, at MICT’s Annual
Meeting at the Murrells Inlet Community Center.
Other business included the election of six people to join the
11-member board of directors. New members Mike Bivona, Mary Palmer,
Karen Sauls and Barbara Smullen were elected, along with incumbents Bea
Boyle and David Mooney. Rounding out the board are Marlowe Tully,
Rosalie Aragona, June Jordan, Karen Porter and Chip Smith.
The troupe also announced plans for a staged reading of a new work by
local playwright Joyce Armor, “The Circle People”. That event took
place June 3.
Dr. Brook and Dr. Pugh Named MICT's First 'Great Blue
Herons'
Throughout our 12-year history, Murrells Inlet Community Theatre has
been blessed with financial and in-kind support from individuals and
businesses throughout the community.
This year we received our most generous gift to date: a full-production
sponsorship of “Sylvia” from local physicians G. Lynn Brook, DO, and
Robert L. Pugh, MD. For their generosity and spirit of community, MICT
designates them our first “Great Blue Herons.”
Bonnie Dorman takes the cake with her
creation for the "Sylvia" Cast & Crew Party.
MICT Reader’s Theatre
Members of MICT's Readers Theatre (Jim Siegrist, director Karen
Porter and Marlowe Tully) garnered laughs galore in recent
performances at Agape' Senior in Garden City Beach and the
Surfside Library. Both programs included Martina the Beautiful
Cockroach (a Cuban folk tale), Mr. Twit's Revenge and Clever
Gretel.
Eeek?
If you've acted, dressed a set or carried out any role requiring you to be on
stage for a recent MICT production, chances are you've spotted a mouse in some
inconspicuous corner of the set. Never fear - it's only Stage Mouse, MICT's
resident thespian rodent. Stage Mouse was conceived (creatively, of course) by
June Jordan, who designs MICT's posters and programs and also serves on the
board. We asked her when Stage Mouse made his debut.
"The
first show that I put him on stage was Proof. Because I worked on that
set, the idea came to me that it would be cute to hide a mouse somewhere on the
set. The mouse has been on the stage ever since."
So
Stage Mouse stays. After all, he's not stealing any scenes - just our hearts.
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