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    • Rosemary Mitchell 1944 - 2022
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    • Parker Chick 1932 - 2018
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    • Rita Rosano 1931 - 2016
    • Ceil Koziol 1922 - 2012
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    • Tom Svingen 1935 - 2006
    • Ed Kanter 1931 - 2004
    • Harry Harding 1904 - 2002
    • Sam Greiff 1921 - 2002
    • Sue Bennett Fielding 1928 - 2001
    • Eleanor "Soosie" Harding 1906 - 1999
    • Angelo "Beebe" DeFlaminis 1916 - 1998
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Our 2006-2007 Season

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Over the River and Through the Woods
A Comedy by Joe DiPietro
Directed by Joseph Mercure

October 20, 21, 27, 28, November 3, 4 at 8:00 pm
October 29 and November 5 at 2:00 pm

Starring Andrew Bradley, Paul Campbell, Kate Curley, Christine Grudinskas, Bob Maibor, and Evie Rayburg

Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream job. The job he's been waiting for—marketing executive—would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn't sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family's love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O'Hare as bait…we won't give the ending away here.
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"A hilarious family comedy that is even funnier than his long-running musical revue I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. —BackStage. "Loaded with laughs every step of the way." —Star-Ledger.

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Picnic
A Drama by William Inge
Directed by Mario Salinas

February 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 2007 at 8:00 pm
February 18, 25, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Starring (in alphabetical order):
Raven Birdsell, Andrew Bradley, Peter Bradley, Samantha Byer, Megan Conklin, Ninette Cummings, Maggie Nichols, Michael O'Connor, Jesse Seckel, Barbara Schapiro, and Charlene Winslow

Two middle-aged widows share a back yard. One house belongs to Flo Owens, who lives there with her two teen-aged daughters, Madge and Millie, and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher. The other house belongs to Helen Potts, who lives with her elderly and invalid mother. Into this female atmosphere comes a young man named Hal Carter, whose animal vitality seriously upsets the entire group. Flo is wary of temptations for her daughters. Madge, bored with being only a beauty, is lured by the excitement Hal promises. Her sister, Millie, finds her balance for the first time through the stranger's brief attention. And the spinster is stirred to make an issue out of the dangling courtship that has brightened her life.
​Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Circle Award.

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Red Hot and Cole
​Book by James Bianchi, Muriel McAuley and Randy Strawderman
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Musical Concepts and Arrangements by Dougee Zeno
Conceived by Randy Strawderman

Stage Direction by Marianne Phinney
Musical Direction by David Tiedman
Choreography by Sara Williams

May 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 2007 at 8:00 pm
May 13, 20, 2007 at 2:00 pm

Starring (in alphabetical order) Bill Bowen, Meghan Donnelly, Deirdre Hatch, Colleen Lavery, Stephen Lee, Jan Mercier, Richard Morton, Geroge Motley, Patrick Murphy, Elvira Para, Stuart Patterson, Michelle Perry

He’s “throwing a ball tonight” – and you're all invited, to a “swellegant” theatrical party spanning the life of Broadway’s greatest wit, the irrepressible Cole Porter. A scintillating mixture of biography and song, Red Hot and Cole celebrates the great American songwriter who brought style, elegance and sophistication to the stages and sound stages of Broadway and Hollywood, delighting the world with his devilishly clever rhymes, fresh and unexpected melodies and sassy, sexy sensibility.

Red Hot and Cole bubbles with songs that have become international standards, from such classic shows and movies as “Anything Goes,” “Kiss Me Kate,” “High Society” and “Can-Can” among others. It traces Porter’s life from his childhood in Indiana to the stages and penthouses of New York, London, Paris and Venice. It’s a champagne tribute to a glittering age gone by, and the man and talent who was Cole Porter.

Plus Two Special Events!

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A Christmas Carol
A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens
Adapted and Enacted by Gary Poholek

​November 18, 2006 at 8:00 pm
November 19, 2006 at 2:00 pm

Tickets $20 adults - $10 children 12 and under
Dicken’s favorite classic for all ages has been faithfully adapted by Poholek, who performs all the memorable characters with amazing fidelity and nuance.
Poholek is a well-known actor/singer, familiar to audiences throughout the greater Boston area, and a highly talented set designer and artist as well. He was most recently seen at Footlighters in May in the title role of  Pal Joey and the year before as Georg in She Loves Me. His designs and painting talent have been displayed at Footlighters in productions including 45 Seconds from Broadway, Little Shop of Horrors, Pal Joey and Wonderful Town, and have enhanced many other shows throughout the area.

Come join the Footlighters and kick off the holiday season with this unique theatrical experience.

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Tea with Emily Dickinson
An adaptation of
The Belle of Amherst by William Luce
Starring Beth Sonis Goldman
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March 10, 2007 at 8:00 pm
March 11, 2007 at 2:00 pm

Tickets $20
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Come spend an hour with Emily Dickinson as she shares her poetry and tells you about her life, family, friends, and her joys and sorrows. Actor Beth Goldman performs as Emily Dickinson in this adaptation of the play The Belle of Amherst by William Luce, which delicately explores the life of America's greatest woman poet at various stages in her experience from the age of 15, when she was full of hope and success, until she died at 56, a virtual recluse with her door closed against society. Her life is recreated with liberal excerpts from her poetry and by the method of her playing the roles of her father, teacher and friends.

Proceeds from special events benefit the Capital Improvement Fund.

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    • 2022 Scholarship - Sophia Goodsell
    • 2021 Scholarship - Mahoney Cyr
    • 2021 Scholarship - Brenna Hughes
    • 2021 Scholarship - Cate Lightbody
    • 2018 Scholarship - Riley Mulroy
    • 2017 Scholarship - Mia Straccia
    • 2016 Scholarship - Bridget Connell
    • 2015 Scholarship - Marc Sheehan
    • 2014 Scholarship - Michael McKeon
  • In Memoriam
    • Rosemary Mitchell 1944 - 2022
    • Kathleen Hardigan 1970 - 2022
    • Marge Scholz 1930 - 2021
    • Bruce Hainsworth 1923 - 2020
    • Rich Morton 1948 - 2019
    • Gene Guidi 1937 - 2019
    • Parker Chick 1932 - 2018
    • Barbara Pettis 1936 - 2017
    • Roger Pettis 1939 - 2016
    • Rita Rosano 1931 - 2016
    • Ceil Koziol 1922 - 2012
    • Joseph P. Scholz 1926 - 2008
    • Tom Svingen 1935 - 2006
    • Ed Kanter 1931 - 2004
    • Harry Harding 1904 - 2002
    • Sam Greiff 1921 - 2002
    • Sue Bennett Fielding 1928 - 2001
    • Eleanor "Soosie" Harding 1906 - 1999
    • Angelo "Beebe" DeFlaminis 1916 - 1998
  • Walpole Footlighters Privacy Policy