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ONLY 8 TIMES LEFT
TO SEE WHY PEOPLE ARE STANDING AND CHEERING FOR
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
Thru Oct. 13 Only
Thurs. Oct. 4, Fri. Oct. 5, Sat. Oct. 6 at 8:00, and Sun Oct. 7 at 7:30
Wed. Oct. 10, Thurs. Oct. 11, Fri. Oct. 12 (ASL performance), and Sat. Oct. 13 at 8:00
"A delightful comedy, as well as extremely topical in our current world."
Victor Gluck, "Theatre Scene"
"It's fun, and fits the current times perfectly." - Karl Levitt, "Back Stage"
The Cast and Notes for It Pays to Advertise
 Tom Byrn (Ambrose Peale), last summer, performed in ELTC's He & She and was seen previously in The Dictator and The Ransom of Red Chief. Recently, he appeared in God of Carnage at River Valley Rep in Poughkeepsie, NY, and A Wrinkle in Time and Beautiful Boy at People's Light & Theatre outside Philadelphia. He has worked with theater companies in Philadelphia, Ohio, and New York, and was an ensemble member at the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble for eleven years. Tom is a director and teacher also. On Mon., Oct. 8 he's teaching an acting class in Cape May: contact ELTC for details.
 Glen Corlin (Johnson) has been an active member of the theater community for over thirty years. Recently, he relocated to the Cape May area after living in Hawaii for thirty-five years where he was active in community theater, performing in such shows as Fiddler on the Roof and Oklahoma. During that time he also lived in Germany for seven years, where he was active in the Army Community Theater, appearing in many shows, such as Annie, Cabaret, Snoopy, and Lilies of the Field. He is a social worker currently working for the U. S. Coast Guard here in Cape May.
 Thomas Raniszewski (Ellery Clark) graduated from Rowan University with a BA in music. His album, A Midnight at a Time, won the Stonewall Society 2004 Pride in the Arts Award and the album's Christmas track, "Through a Child's Eyes" was released as a single in partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, raising funds and awareness. He's appeared in several ELTC shows including The Butter and Egg Man, Berkeley Square, Dulcy, Why Marry? and most recently The Poe Mysteries. In May of this year he reprised his role as Warren in The Twentieth Century Way which made its Philadelphia premier in 2011, receiving critical acclaim.
 Matt Baxter Luceno (Rodney Martin) recently performed in and helped create an original adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau for Piper Theatre Productions in Brooklyn. Theater includes King Lear starring Stacy Keach (dir. Robert Falls, Shakespeare Theatre Company - Helen Hayes Award), Ion (STC), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare on the Sound), The Merry Wives of Windsor Terrace (Brave New World Rep), Uranus (Superhero Clubhouse), Scapin (Turtle Shell), Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Allentown Shakespeare), The Laramie Project (dir. Joan Potter), Hamlet (dir. Elmore James), and readings at La MaMa E.T.C. He's worked in commercials, film, voice-overs, and in numerous comedy clubs in NYC. TV: Guiding Light, Shark Week. Matt holds a BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase and is a former Fellow at Shakespeare Theatre Company, D.C. www.mattbaxterluceno.com
 Phil Pizzi's (William Smith/Donald McChesney/George Bronson) first production with ELTC was in the reprise of The New York Idea. He also appeared as the reverend in Why Marry? and had several roles and operated sound effect in ELTC's radio version of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Copper Beeches. Phil gets up very early every morning, Monday through Saturday, to co-host "The Morning Wake-Up" radio show on 98.7 The Coast, the most listened to radio station in Cape May County. He also produces commercials and programming for Cable TV, such as Jersey Cape Fishing, South Jersey's longest-running local fishing show (12 years.) On most fall weekends, Phil appears on local gridirons as a high school football official.
 Kate Shine (Mary Grayson) ELTC debut! Last seen in the New York Avant Garde Festival's production of My Past Girlfriends (Winner: Best Play) at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Some favorite performances include: The Red Thread with Miami Theatre Center, Hamlet at Interborough Repertory Theatre, The Parkville Project with Bated Breath Theatre Company, Love's Labour's Lost, Stop Kiss and The Arabian Nights, all with Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Film/TV credits include 30 Rock, Gossip Girl and The Sitter. Kate holds her BFA in Acting from The University of Connecticut and currently resides in New York City.
 Maria Silverman (Comtesse De Beaurien) made her professional debut on Broadway in Michael Mayer's Tony Award-winning A View From the Bridge. Since, she has appeared in over 30 productions, including 14 world premieres. Recently Maria portrayed Rev. George in Billie Holiday Theatre's Women In the Pit. Off-Broadway: Beachwood Drive, Tales from the Tunnel. NYC: The House of Mirth, Open Rehearsal, Tech Support, Cool Blues, Skin.Flesh.Bone., Dreamers of the Day, Macbeth, Uncle Vanya, Galileo, S/HE (dir. Jose Zayas), No Place to Be Somebody (dir. Woodie King, Jr.), As You Like It, The Seagull, Expressing Willie, Nights at the Circus (NY Fringe), and Embracing Freedom (Ellis Island). Regional credits includes: Lend Me a Tenor, Tennis in Nablus, Night Train, Trio Sonata, Camino Real, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Crucible, and Much Ado About Nothing. B.A. in Theatre and Chinese from Yale University; postgraduate training at Lon-don Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. mariasilverman@hotmail.com
 John Cameron Weber (Cyrus Martin) You may remember John in last year's ELTC productions The World of Dorothy Parker and He and She. Or maybe perhaps from the previous year in The Dictator? Well, surely you recollect him in The Butter and Egg Man? Well, anyway, he's spent the last 30 years performing in national tours (Damn Yankees, 1776) and European tours (West Side Story, Guys and Dolls). He has worked in regional theaters and summer stock in every state except Maine and Hawaii. (They must have been alerted.) And has appeared in commercials (IBM) and in soaps (As the World Turns).
 Gayle Stahlhuth (Director/Marie/Miss Burke) has performed off-Broadway (Manhattan Theatre Club, etc.) in national tours (Cabaret, Fiddler, etc.), regional theater (Gateway Playhouse in Long Island, etc.), television (various soaps, etc.), and radio (jingles and Voice of America). As a playwright and performer, she's been awarded commissions from The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution, the Missouri and Illinois Humanities Councils, Theatreworks/USA and other theatres, and grants from the NJ Humanities Council, the NYS Council on the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts. Since becoming ELTC's Artistic Director in 1999, she has produced 65 different shows (some returned for another season), including 17 world premieres and 8 New Jersey premieres, and directed 38 of them. She is an Active Member of the Dramatists Guild, SAG/AFTRA, and is in her 40th year as a member of Actors' Equity.
Playwrights Megrue and Cooper
Roi Cooper Megrue (1883-1927), born and raised in NYC, worked for Elisabeth Marbury, a well-known theatrical and literary agent, before becoming a successful playwright. His first major success, Under Cover (1914) involved jewelry smuggling and U.S. Customs agents, good guys, and bad, played against the backdrop of High Society. Under Fire (1915), Potash and Perlmutter in Society (1915), Under Sentence and Tea for Three (1918) followed. His 1916 comedy, Seven Chances, was made into a film directed by and starring Buster Keaton in 1925. The film was remade in 1999 with the title The Bachelor starring Chris O'Donnell and Renee Zellweger.
ELTC, along with the Cape May Film Society, showed the classic Keaton film in September, accompanied by live organ music written and performed by Wayne Zimmerman. (Our next Silent Film Classic is Nosferatu on October 14, and, again, Wayne will be playing his own score on the organ.)
Megrue directed and co-produced Jesse Lynch Williams' Why Marry? in 1917; the first play to win the Pulitzer Prize. ELTC produced Why Marry? in 2006, bringing it back in 2007 due to its popularity. ELTC's production was the first time this comedy had been produced in eighty years.
Walter C. Hackett (1876-1944) born in Oakland, California, was successful in a variety of ways in the entertainment industry. His play Regeneration, written with Owen Frawley Kildare based on Kildare's book, My Mamie Rose, was made into a film in 1915 directed by Raoul Walsh. In 2000, Regeneration was selected for preservation by The Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." It's about a young man's rise from poverty to becoming a crime boss. Two other plays were made into British films in the 1930s: Freedom of the Seas, about war, and Hyde Park Corner, about a policeman investigating a current crime that has its origins in the 1780s.
Hackett married Marion Lorne, who grew up in Pennsylvania, and began performing on Broadway in 1905. They moved to England where they built The Whitehall Theatre, designed by Edward Stone. From its opening in 1930 with The Way to Treat a Woman, through 1934, most of the plays were written by Hackett, starring his wife. In 2004, the theater was redesigned and is now called Trafalgar Studios.
When Hackett died in 1944, Lorne moved back to America where she resumed her Broadway career in hits like Harvey. Her film debut was in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) playing Robert Walker's mother. Television roles soon followed, and it was her perplexed witch, Aunt Clara, on Bewitched that gave her well-deserved fame towards the end of a long and respected career. It earned her an Emmy in 1968, accepted on her behalf by Elizabeth Montgomery. Marion Lorne had died from a heart attack a few months before.
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Direct from Scotland
THE TWO IANS
Ian Bruce
and
Ian Walker
AN EVENING OF MUSIC FROM THE BRITISH ISLES
Oct. 4 at 8:00pm
Marq's Pub
Marquis de Lafayette
501 Beach Ave.
Cape May, NJ
Tickets: $15
Reservations:
884-3500 |
Michele LaRue
Performances
on Sat. Oct. 6
in Cape May
On Saturday, Oct. 6 at 4:00 p.m., Tales of the Victorians takes place at The Cliveden Inn, 709 Columbia Ave., with performer Michele LaRue reading classic American stories while patrons enjoy tea and treats on the inn's lovely porch. The cost is only $10 and anyone age 12 and under is free. This ELTC popular pastime is now in its 23rd season, and reservations may be made by calling the company at 884-5898.
That evening, at 8:00, Michele performs Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire.
The location has changed from the J. Thompson Baker House
to The First Baptist Church, 230 E. Maple St. (corner of Atlantic and Maple) in Wildwood.
Written by Marie Jenney Howe one-hundred years ago, Michele has been traveling the country doing this witty, wonderful piece for over 20 years, receiving high praise from audience and reviewers. She has performed in various plays regionally and in New York City, and is a member of the professional unions, the Actors' Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. As a theater editor-writer, she is also a member of the Drama Desk, a group of New York drama critics. For information about this performance,
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ELTC's
ANNUAL
BIG 50/50 Auction
Drawing to be held on the evening of Nov. 8
At Aleathea's Restaurant during ELTC's Annual Fundraising Event
Only 300 tickets will be sold at ONLY $40 each
The Winner receives 30% of total sales
(could be $3,600)
2nd Place: 15% of total sales (could be $1,800!)
3rd Place: 5% of total sales (could be $600!)
Only cash and personal checks accepted: no credit card purchase.
Checks may be mailed to the office: 121 Fourth Ave., West Cape May, NJ 08204 or may be purchased at the box office before a performance.
ELTC is a not-for-profit organization with state and city permission
to hold this raffle: Id#536-5-38660*RL#6/2012
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PERFORMANCE VENUE:
First Presbyterian Church
500 Hughes St.
Cape May, NJ 08204
OFFICE:
121 Fourth Ave.
West Cape May, NJ 08204
Phone: 609-884-5898
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OUR ANNUAL NEWSLETTER!
Only 8 Performances Left of IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
Must close on Oct. 13
TALES OF THE VICTORIANS with Michele LaRue and see her in SOMEONE MUST WASH THE DISHES on Oct. 6
Acting Class with Tom Byrn on Monday, Oct. 8
THE POE MYSTERIES in Barnegat and Wyckoff Oct. 24-29
EMMA GOLDMAN Performances on Oct. 26 and 28
Tickets Available for our Annual BIG Raffle! Winner could get $3,600 for buying a $40 ticket! (Scroll down for details.)
Another Trip to Peddler's Village in October!
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AN ACTING CLASS WITH TOM BYRN
 Mon. Oct. 8 from 6:00-9:00 For ages 17 on up Fee: $20
ELTC is pleased to offer another class with Tom Byrn! If you're a seasoned performer, never performed, or a theater lover who wants to find out more about how actors work, join us! The class involves improvisation and the basics of scene work. Tom has performed in several ELTC productions, worked with many Philadelphia-area theaters, and was a member of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. Tom is playing advertising expert Ambrose Peale in It Pays to Advertise. Reservations are requested and payment is due the evening of the class, in cash or personal check made out to East Lynne Theater Company. |
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EMMA GOLDMAN: MY LIFE
Written and Performed by Lorna Lable
Directed by Karen Case Cook
Friday, Oct. 26 at 8:00
The Metropolitan Playhouse
220 East Fourth St., NYC, NY 10009
Tickets: $15 Call: 212-995-5302
or online at metropolitanplayhouse.org
Sunday, Oct. 28 at 2:00
Mahwah Public Library
100 Ridge Rd., Mahwah, NJ 07430
201-529-READ FREE
Funding for these performances has been made possible due to a grant awarded to ELTC by THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION |
ANOTHER TRIP TO PEDDLER'S VILLAGE!
East Lynne Theater Company is hosting a trip to Peddler's Village in Lahaska PA, which has over 70 unique shops and many outlet stores within walking distance. The trip includes transportation on Comfort Coach and lunch at the Cock - N- Bull Restaurant in Peddler's Village.
Departure from Cape May is about 7:30 AM, with a return around 7:30 PM on Tuesday, October 16th. Cost is only $65.00 per person. A side trip to the Mercer Museum in Doylestown is also available for $9.00 additional. This museum is an 18th Century Castle filled with art and history of Bucks County.
For reservations, call Frank at 898-9508. Reservations came quickly for our last trip to Peddler's Village, so make your reservations early!
Proceeds will go to the not-for-profit ELTC to help with educational outreach, and to maintain our modest ticket price for our mainstage productions. |
Ticket Prices:
$30 general; $25 senior (62+); $15 students,
and ages 12 and under are free
For reservations and information: 609-884-5898
Dinner/Show Partners:
The Washington Inn, Aleathea's at The Inn of Cape May,
410 Bank Street, and Frescos
B&B/Show Partners:
Henry Sawyer Inn and The Victorian Lace Inn
Most evenings, 1/2 price tickets are available 24 hours in advance at njArtstix.org.
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