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September 13, 2007
Allergies, driving and some red hot lovers!
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Penobscot Theatre’s varied new season opens Friday
cott R. C. Levy stood in the bright, natural spotlight of the sun at this
morning’s meeting and described the Penobscot Theatre’s 2007-2008
season. As the saying goes, there is something for everyone.
Mr. Levy, the Producing Artistic Director for the theater, described
the season’s stories that started as plays and were made into films
(“Driving Miss Daisy,” with which PTC opens its season this week) and
“Night of the Iguana” (May 7-18, 2008), and dramas that began life as film and were
made into plays. The company takes a break this season from producing “A Christmas
Carol” and will go airborne with “Peter Pan”
in which flying effects will wow audiences of
all ages.
The Second Annual New Play Festival in
May 2008 will be the largest theater festival
in America when the PTC hosts two weeks of
readings and workshop productions of new
theatrical work in development.
Mr. Levy credited PTC Board President
Durell Buzzini with helping to make major
changes in the Opera House, home for the
PTC. A new sprinkler system is nearly
complete
that will enable the company to use the
Scott Levy
balcony. The building’s exterior has a test patch
of cleaned pre-cast concrete that will eventually be restored to its 1920 appearance when
the Opera House opened.
“Collaboration is key,” said Mr. Levy. “We are renting the Opera House to
performing groups. We want to keep the building open as often and long as possible.” He
also described occupancy in a building on Somerset Street that is owned by John Bapst
High School. The building was unused, and now provides the necessary space to build
sets. The theater leased the building for ten years.
Mr. Levy was asked how he chooses the plays that he produces. “I have to balance
what the community wants to see with what I want to see,” he said. “I chose ‘Driving
Miss Daisy’ because of the success of last year’s ‘Tuesdays with Morrie.’ These stories
fill an emotional need in all of us.”
The beautiful brochure describing the season is also available for viewing at
www.penobscottheatre.org.
A new bell ringer…
…opened the meeting. President-to-Be-in-Two-Years, Bruce Roscher, girded his loins
and led the business meeting proceedings like a seasoned elected official, substituting for
Princess Adams.
The club collected about $200 for Steve Harrison’s
trip to Nepal next month. Steve noted that his grandmother
died. Steve is also the new Director of Financial Reports
for the club, crunching numbers and business news for
“retired” longtime reporter Jodi Steele.
Perfect days, except for Saturday (some rain), are
forecast by Nat WeatherEye Bond. Dr. Lew Phillips
extolled the virtues of the most used over-the-counter
drug, aspirin. “The recommended dose of aspirin in the
prevention of cardiovascular disease is 75 – 81 milligrams‘baby aspirin’,” he said.
The Back-in-the-Vocal-Saddle 4-Way quartet sang a
harmonious birthday tribute to Joe Pratt, who agreed that
his $5 was worth it. Rev. Bob Carlson gave a sad dollar
for the death of his father last night. He was 92.
Steve Harrison
He also defended his timing for mailing his dues, which
the club treasury had yet to receive as of the start of this
morning’s meeting. He paid cash, but refused to pay the extra $25 assessment for postJuly 31 payments. “The check was in the mail,” he seemed to be saying.
The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure happens this Sunday. Lisa Wahlstrom
announced that on-line fundraising tripled this year. She gave Happy$s for “fantastic
media coverage” and thanks for those who have visited and pledged at
www.komenmaine.org. There’s still time to visit the site and pledge for Team Jepson.
And it will be quite a team, with cousins and aunts and uncles and her immediate family
participating. Judy Horan said Channel 2 WLBZ will stream the end of the race, and
you can have a picture of yourself taken with a buddy at the race that will be posted at
www.wlbz.com.
This note may not appear in the board minutes from yesterday’s meeting, but
President-for-a-Day Bruce Roscher received a rather spectacular pair of Superman briefs
from Mischelle Adams and Jodi Steele because of Bruce’s expression of nervousness
about chairing today’s meeting. He left them in his car.
Les Myers- September 13, 2007
Note: your editor and reporter enjoyed a splendid two weeks on Grand Manan Island. It
also gave us a chance to clean the presses, restock the paper supply, order new ink, and
prepare for the fall season of The Roundtable. During that time, Marie Cattelle,
Managing Director of the Penobscot Theatre Company, joined the club. Welcome!
Thank you for reading.
End Frames
Ivan McPike and Dick Cattelle
…not harmonizing
Huddle
Proposed New Member
Peter Buzzini