“Community Theatre

at It’s Best”

ECT FEBRUARY 2020 NEWSLETTER

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Mom’s Gift Announcement

PG. 3 Western Ontario Drama League 2020 Festival Line-up

PG. 4-5 Little House on the Prairie Update

Congratulations to the cast and crew of Mom’s Gift for being selected to proceed to the Western Ontario Drama League Festival. Nine plays were entered in festival, with only five being chosen to proceed. The festival is to be held at the Cambridge Community Players Theatre the week of March 16-20!

Mom’s Gift will be performed Friday March 20 at 8PM. Hope you all can come out to support our team. Tickets can be obtained by going online to the Cambridge Community Players website.

Connie McTaggart is a nominee for best Cameo for her role of Mrs. Norquist. Way to go Connie!

A big thank-you to all the people who worked very hard to make this happen. Once more into the breech we will fly!

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Mom's Gift is Going to Festival!

Photo by: Dan Dunlop

Festival Line-Up:

Monday March 16, 2020 – 8:00pm Art - Ghost Light Players

Tuesday March 17, 2020 – 8:00pm

West Moon - Owen Sound Little Theatre

Wednesday March 18, 2020 – 8:00pm Fun Home - Theatre Sarnia

Thursday March 19, 2020 – 8:00pm

East of Berlin KW Little Theatre

Friday March 20, 2020 – 8:00pm Mom's Gift - Elora Community Theatre

Saturday March 21, 2020 – 6:00pm

WODL 2020 Festival Gala

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Western Ontario Drama League Festival 2020

Photo by: Bill Longstaff

ECT’s production of Little House on the Prairie the Musical is fully casted and rehearsals are well underway.

Our talented Musical Director Zoe Clemens has been working hard on both large 3- and 4-part harmonies for ensemble songs as well as smaller groups and solos.

The cast is having a blast working together, lots of fun and laughter but no shortage of hard work. Our choreographer Marilyn Abraham has started the choreography and with the leadership of our Director Acey Kaspar and the rest of the crew we have begun rehearsing specific scenes.

Thank you to the Shaw Family for working alongside Zoe Clemens and David Tanner to produce and record the music for our production! We would like to put a few faces to our cast of characters.

Little House on the Prairie - The Musical

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Ingalls Family

Chris McCracken (Charles – Pa) Cecily Heslett (Caroline – Ma)

Addi Butchart (Laura- Younger) Jessica Kaspar (Laura- Older)

Lily Bitton (Mary) Ella Ladner (Carrie)

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Little House on the Prairie - The Musical

Choreo Rehearsal lead by Marilyn

Music Reheasal lead by Zoe