WHAT A SHOW!!
Many thanks to the talents of a wonderful cast and crew, Ten Nights miraculously performed 12 shows. The ensemble expertly (and patiently) maneuvered 14 set changes, multiple, quick costume changes; juggled massive sets, props and special effects; and successfully staged a monumental musical melodrama. Ten Nights and 2007’s The Miser, with their 16-member casts and multi-faceted production values, are types of shows we like to do but are rarely seen in showcase form because of the expense.
Second Season / Second Production
W.W. Pratt’s 1850’s temperance play, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, exposed the cruel treatment women endured as their men struggled with the evils of the bottle…to the death as their final reward. (Mourners at the funeral of Simon Slade are Chief Full-of-Bull, Larry Gutman;son Bruised Bull, Oscar Salazar; Romaine, James Speake; Anne Slade, Lin Snider; and Joe Morgan, Jon Dykstra.)
Praise the Lord! To offset all the temperance gloom and doom, clever adaptation (by Connie Day and Scott Robinson) too
k the musical melodrama song & dance format and inserted it between the scenes. The musical “olio acts” brightened the play – AND added many more costumes and many more quick changes to the show.
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