From the President...

Welcome Village Players Family,

In the fall of 1995, there was a local pub that had a “Piano Bar” night. Many of the community actors and actresses would meet there, bring their sheet music, have a drink, share some stories of whatever show they were currently in, and just unwind. I went because I was friends with the pianist and because I loved to sing. After finishing a number, I was approached by a young man who asked if I would be interested in auditioning for a show. I thought “What have I got to lose?” That man was the director, Matthew Wiederhold. The show was 1940’s Radio Hour. The theatre was The Village Players.

From the moment I walked in for auditions, I sensed that there was something special about this place. It wasn’t something you could touch or see. It was something that you feel when you’re here. Over the years I have learned that it’s not just the illusion of the stage, or the craftsmanship of the actors. It’s the camaraderie of everyone involved. The willingness to teach or learn, the fact that there is always a shoulder or a hand when you need one. It’s The Village’s spirit. It’s the epitome of “community.”

In the 17 years that I have been here, I have seen countless people come through our doors as actors, techies, volunteers, board members, and audience. I have known some of them since grade school because they were my classmates’ parents. I have watched children grow and get married, strangers become friends become partners, couples become parents. We have celebrated and we have mourned, and we do it together. When one of us falls on hard times, the people of The Village are here for support. When one of us triumphs, we all applaud.

As I watch the news, it’s easy to be reminded of all of the things that make us different: our gender, age, color, orientation, job, politics, beliefs, et cetera. But here, none of that matters. We’re all here because of two shared loves: the magic of theatre, and the community of The Village.

Welcome to The Village Players. Magic happens here!

Jake GordyPresident

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2012-2013 SeaSon Board MeMBerSJake Gordy .................................................................................PresidentAndrew C. Todd ............................................................ V. Pres. ProductionChristopher Jagodzinski.....................................................V. Pres. PublicityOpen ....................................................................... V. Pres. DevelopmentDan Finkel..................................................................................TreasurerLaura Hansen .............................................................................Secretary

Joe Capucini .......................................................................Board MemberRich Chesko .......................................................................Board MemberPatrick Drummond ..............................................................Board MemberDebbie Marinik ...................................................................Board MemberJean Mills ...........................................................................Board MemberBrad Riker ..........................................................................Board MemberSara Speelman ...................................................................Board MemberAnn Veasey ........................................................................Board MemberJudy Wiederhold .................................................................Board Member

Volunteer StaffJake Gordy ...............................................................................NewsletterOpen ...................................................................... Volunteer CoordinatorAnn Veasey .......................................................Box Office and House Mgr.Debbie Marinik ................................................................. Casting DirectorJake Gordy .................................................................................ProgramsJudy Wiederhold .....................................................................Sold HousesLarry Farley ......................................................................................LegalJake Gordy ................................................................Season SubscriptionsLaura Hansen .......................................................Season Ticket MarketingSara Speelman .......................................................................... EducationRich Chesko & Jean Mills .............................................. Building & GroundsPatrick Drummond ............................................................. OCTA DelegateLaura Crawford ...................................................................... CTW LiaisonKari Kapszukiewicz .........................................................Costume ManagerElizabeth Piel Black .................................................Playreading CommitteeJake Gordy ..............................................................................WebMasterBrad Riker ..........................................................................Props Manager

a Brief HiStory of tHe Village PlayerS tHeatre

The Village Players Theatre presented its first play, The Great Sebastians, starring Rosemary Kahle and Edward C. Ames in 1957, in the Ottawa Hills High School. The original group performed in schools, churches and even in tents. The first musical, The Village Player’s fifth production was Plain and Fancy, which opened on February 25, 1958, in the Lincoln Hall at Collingwood Presbyterian Church. The show was directed by Arthur Lithgow, father of the television and movie star John Lithgow, and starred a whole cast of who’s who in Toledo.

The Theatre stopped moving from site to site in 1960. We put down roots when we purchased this building and converted it from a church to a theater. That Theatre Board took a leap of faith when they agreed to pay $45,000 for the church. However, because of their faith in the future of the theatre and the city of Toledo, literally hundreds of plays and thousands of actors have crossed these boards.

In thankful recognition of the continuing support of our members and volunteers, The Village Players Theatre culminated its 50th season celebration with the successful Rhinestone Ball held at the Toledo Botanical Gardens on June 29, 2007. In the 51st season, the Board was pleased to provide new seating for our patrons. In our 52nd season we installed a new stage for our actors. This summer we have renovated our light and sound booths, redecorated our lobby, and gone digital with our ticketing system. These projects are the direct result of responsible management of monies earned through Sold Houses and special donations over the years.

The Village Players Theatre has no paid year-round staff — volunteers keep it running. We take great pride in this and invite you to join us as we continue to add to the history of an organization making a significant cultural difference to our community.

2012-2013 Village PlayerS Board of directorS

Back Row: Andrew C. Todd, Patrick Drummond, Jake Gordy, Chris Jagodzinski, Debbie Marinik, Judy Wiederhold, Laura Hansen, Joe Capucini, Sara Speelman

Front Row: Brad Riker, Ann Veasey, Dan Finkel, Jean Mills

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Set Design by

Willard Misfeldt

Produced by special arrangement withDramatists Play Service

Book by

Beth Henley

Impossible Marriage

Originally produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, 1998(Todd Haimes, Artistic Director)

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Sidney Lunt ...................................................................... Jon MastersFloral Whitman .................................................................. Marissa RexKandall Kingsley ...........................................................Barbara BarkanJonsey Whitman ...............................................................Eric SimpsonPandora Kingsley .............................................................. Ashley GageReverend Jonathan Larence ............................................... John DuVallEdvard Lunt ...................................................................... David Engel

SettingTime: Mid-May

Place: The entire play takes place in Kandall Kingsley’s garden on her country estate somewhere outside of Savannah.

The garden has many entrances and exits: some leading to the manor; some into the woods.

contriButionSPlease let us know if your name has been omitted and we will correct future programs.

Producer’s Circle - $500Rich & Becky CheskoJean & Norb Mills

Sponsors - $125Marlene & Ray BrinkerMarge DembowskiRuss & Vicky GriggsEarnest & Nancy HatfieldHerbert Hoskins & Deborah RasmussonMadge LevinsonJack & Sally MalhoitCarol MatthewsWillard E. MisfeldtCharles SchraderRay & Kathreen SimonChristopher & Laurie Towles

Patrons - $50Sandra AhrensHarvard & Jean ArmusRaymond & Marlene BableCurtis & Marilyn BlackJohn & Nancy BurtonThomas & Gisela CainCharles & Jane CaseRichard Chesko, Sr.Robert & Darlene CookDeborah Peters & Steven CotnerAlvenia CrawfordSuzanne DennisJim & Monique DrotarRichard & Alice EdwardsLarry & Becky Farley John & Carole ForteWanda Foster Robert J. Gosling, MDRoy & Joan HeinzDan & Ethel Hodnicki

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Friends - $25Marie AdkinsBrenda BlackshearKen BoldtGeorge & Kayrl BoosDwight & Cheryl BryanLaverne BussdiekerMike & Lisa ClarkTerry & Barbara CooperTed & Billie DennisonRichard DockettPatrick Drummond & Laura CrawfordMr & Mrs. Joe A. DuerringerBarbara Sayers & Paul EpstienSally FergusonDuane “Dewey” HallLaura HanzlGail Odneal & Mel HonigMary Jane JoehlinRichard & Charlotte LauerJane MillerPhilip & Rebecca MillerBarb Myers

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Production StaffDirector: .......................................................................Matthew GretzingerProducers: ................................................... Patrick Drummond & Zac GilleyStage Manager: .................................................................... Christy PragerAssistant Stage Managers ....................................... Kate Argow & Mary ColeLighting Design: ................................................................. Andrew C. ToddMaster Electrician ............................................................... Andrew C. ToddLighting Crew: ........................................................................James HarrisSound Designer ................................................................... Laura CrawfordSound Crew: ................................................................................Zac GilleyCostume Designer .......................................................... Kari KapszukiewiczCostume Crew ................................................................... Maria MachinskiProp Designer ............................................................................ Brad RikerSet Designer ....................................................................... Willard MisfeldtMaster Carpenter ........................................................................ Rick BushSet Painters ................ Patrick Drummond, Ashley Gage, Matthew Gretzinger,

James MacFarlane, Christy Prager, Juan Rodriguez, & Eric SimpsonScenic Artist ............................................................................ Dale BalisterSet Dresser .............................................................................. John DuVallDialect Coach ...................................................................... Christina BillewChoreographer .............................................................Cassandra CardenasHouse Manager: ........................................................................Ann VeaseyBox Office Manager: ..................................................................Ann VeaseyBox Office Staff: .............................Sandy Blanchard, Kimberly Bruggemann,

Pam Engle, Darlene Hatfield, Patty Hoover, Denise McHugh, Dianne Nowakowski, & Susan Rice

Publicity: ................................................................ Christopher JagodzinskiProgram: .................................................................................. Jake GordyProgram Art & Cover Design: ..................................................... Jake GordyProduction Logo: ..................................................... Christopher JagodzinskiProgram Printing: .............................................................. The Copy CenterMarquee Sign: ....................................Jake Gordy & Christopher Jagodzinski

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tHe director

Matthew Gretzinger (Director) first fell in love with The Village Players Theatre when he appeared as Ariste in Molière’s School for Husbands, about a year ago. Since then, he has directed Shakespeare (Hamlet at The Toledo Rep and Macbeth for Catalyst Theatre Network). Most recently, Matthew acted on the Village stage in Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday. He is very

excited to be directing Beth Henley’s Impossible Marriage. Matthew would like to thank the actors, designers, and crew for making his first directing experience at The Village so rewarding and fun. To Christy, the most awesome-est stage manager ever, Matthew would like to say thank you, for making the Impossible possible.

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Jon Masters (Sidney Lunt) has acted in many shows around Toledo with the most recent being Bordertown Cafe, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Chekhov Shorts. Being part of Impossible Marriage has been a real good experience and he is grateful to have worked with such a talented cast and crew.

Marissa Rex (Floral Whitman) is excited to perform in her 4th production at The Village. Marissa was last seen in this season’s From Up Here (Caroline) and The Dinner Party (Mariette), along with The Toledo Rep’s I Hate Hamlet (Deirdre) and The Laramie Project series. Marissa would like to thank the cast and crew for making her laugh, reminding her every day why theatre is

magical. She would also like to thank Christina (a.k.a. Mr. Ducks) for her expertise, her parents for their support and good example, Justin for being the most patient husband ever (I promise no more shows for a while!), and the wonderful Village audience for putting up with her for three Village productions this season. “How kind you are and how polite!”

Barbara Barkan (Kandal Kingsley) “This has been a very rich full season for me”, Barbara remarks. It started last fall when she appeared in Hamlet at the Toledo Rep followed by directing I Hate Hamlet, then appearing as Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol. At The Village she then appeared as Gabrielle in The Dinner Party, directed Born Yesterday, and was cast in the final

show at The Village as Kandal. The best part of the season was directing her daughter, Thea, as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, a role Barbara played 38 years ago. Next season Barbara looks forward to directing The Liar at The Village Players. Barbara extends heartfelt thanks to all of the many talented tech, designers and casts that she has been blessed to work with.. On with the show..

Eric Simpson (Jonsey Whitman) I would like to thank The Village Players for allowing me the opportunity to perform on this stage again. This is my second show here, I was in From Up Here earlier this season. I have enjoyed working with everyone involved in this theater immensely I would also like to thank the audience for their continued support of the arts here in Toledo.

Without you, we couldn’t continue to have great shows like this. In addition, I want to thank my fiancée, Brenda, for putting up with my dialects in this and previous shows, and blame Zac Gilley for bringing me back into this once again. This is a wonderful piece and I do hope that you enjoy watching it as much as I have enjoyed performing here.

Ashley Gage (Pandora Kingsley) is excited to be working on The Village Players stage again. She started her volunteering at this theater 14 years ago and with the theater bug firmly implanted, The Village has never left her heart. Before her recent role in The Fox on The Fairway at the Toledo Rep Ashley hadn’t been on stage in several years. She is happy to say that

she has received a very warm welcome back by this awesome cast and crew. She would like to thank Matthew for helping her take this role further than she thought possible and her friends and family for their continued support. Last, but not least she would like to thank Mark for putting up with her turning into a ball of stress.

Would you like information on “Sold-House” opportunities at The Village Players Theatre: how your group, church, or other organization can purchase a performance and raise money through ticket sales?

Musical “Sold-Houses” are $800.00 per show; other productions are $700.00 per show. The theater seats 165 patrons. You determine the ticket price for your show and how much profit you make! A punch reception is provided at no additional cost. Show dates are limited.

Please call Judy at (734) 847-7746 for more information on “Sold Houses.”

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2012 / 2013 Performances:The Best Haunted House Ever (Teen Company)

October 19 & 20, 2012 The Poisoned Apple (Main Company)

December 6, 8, and 9, 2012Parlor Games (Teen Company)

March 1 and 2, 2013Blather, Blarney & Balderdash (Main Company)

May 2, 4, and 5, 2013Summer Musical Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka

July 2013

Children’s TheatreWorkshopTHEATRE BY CHILDREN, FOR CHILDREN SINCE 1954

For more details, call 419.244.5061 or visit www.ctwtoledo.org“Like” us on Facebook: Children’s Theatre Workshop (Toledo)

CTW offers fun theatre classes that encourage imagination, teamwork, creative characterization, concentration, & confidence.

Classes for children ages 5-18. All CTW students are encouraged and invited to participate in CTW’s productions.

Fall 2012 Session Registration Day is Aug 25. Classes are Sep 8 - Nov 10, 2012.

Winter 2013 Session Registration Day is Jan 5, 2013, 10am-12pm.

Open the door to your child’s creativity.

John DuVall (Reverend Jonathan Larence) This is John’s third show at the Village, he was Sgnarelle in School for Husbands, and Andre in The Dinner Party. He was also seen this season in The Rep’s production of I Hate Hamlet, where he appeared as Andrew. John has been performing on and off stage for over 25 years, and would surely be insane and probably locked away, if

it were not for the love and support of his partner of 13 years, Jeff, as well as friends and family. After the run, he plans to try to eat a tribe of bees.

David Engel (Edvard Lunt) is a local chiropractor who is pleased to return to The Village in this great production. He really has enjoyed working with such an experienced and talented cast, crew and director! Previously he has appeared in Office Hours, The Fantasticks (Hucklebee), Fleming at The Village and last summer’s production of Best Little Whorehouse

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theatrically thinkingTHEATRE LOGICAuthor Unknown

In is down, down is front, out is up, up is back, off is out, on is in, and of course - right is left, and left is right.

A drop shouldn’t and a block and fall does neither. A prop doesn’t and a cove has no water.

Tripping is O.K. A running crew rarely gets anywhere. A purchase line will buy you nothing. A trap will not catch anything. A gridiron has nothing to do with football.

A Strike is work (in fact a lot of work). And a green room, thank God, usually isn’t. Now that you are fully versed in theatrical terms, Break a leg ... but not really!

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share

with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.-Oscar Wilde

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and

creating peoples. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see

the truth about life and the social situation.-Stella Adler

Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.

-Abbie Hoffman

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great

theatrical actress.-Kathleen Turner

Well the least favourite question is the one that one’s asked particularly about in Japan is what’s the difference between

theatre and cinema and I think, well, that’s about eighty bucks.-Andrew Lloyd Webber

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.-Lusia Strus

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

-Christopher Eccleston

It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work —

the night watchman.-Tallulah Bankhead

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s

what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.-Stephen Sondheim

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing.

It’s harder-Ben Kingsley

The Village Players Presents

The Village Players Theatre is proud to announce “Anything Goes,” the debut production of The Upton

Players; a young-adult (ages 15-21) theatre group. Our purpose is to educate young actors in the many aspects of

mounting a professional theatre production including auditioning, acting, and technical aspects as well as expose new talent to The Village Players Theatre.

July 11-14, 2013 Tickets: $10.00

www.thevillageplayers.org

Directed By: Sara Speelman

Queen of Bingo (Comedy)by Jeanne Michels and Phyllis MurphyDramatists Play Service

Where can two sisters on the other side of fifty, who want to add a little zest, fun and excitement to their lives, find it? Bingo! On any Bingo night at St. Joseph’s, you can find Father Mac, Lonnie and Cindy Conklin, Marge Meranski, Coach Anderson, and the many off beat, colorful regulars we meet through the eyes of Sis and Babe. They dish the dirt, giggle like school girls and share old memories. Sis is a good loser who just loves to play. Babe is a player who has always got to win. Sis is naturally fit and trim. Babe is naturally overweight and always fighting the battle of the bulge. Sis is content in her widowhood. Babe is still looking for love. They compliment each other in ways only sisters can and they drive each other crazy in that same sisterly fashion. On this particular night, Babe and Sis share something new as they each confesses a secret and finds a special kind of redemption.

The Liar (Comedy)by Pierre CorneilleTranslation by David IvesDramatists Play Service

Paris, 1643. Dorante is a charming young man newly arrived in the capital, and he has but a single flaw: He cannot tell the truth. In quick succession he meets Cliton, a manservant who cannot tell a lie, and falls in love with Clarice, a charming young woman whom he unfortunately mistakes for her friend Lucrece. What our hero regrettably does not know is that Clarice is secretly engaged to his best friend Alcippe. Nor is he aware that his father is trying to get him married to Clarice, whom he thinks is Lucrece, who actually is in love with him. From all these misunderstandings and a series of breathtakingly intricate lies springs one of the Western world’s greatest comedies, a sparkling urban romance as fresh as the day Pierre Corneille wrote it, brilliantly adapted for today by All in the Timing’s David Ives.

Proposals (Comedy)by Neil SimonSamuel French

This elegiac memory play delightfully recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. The summer of 1953 brings romantic entanglements that coalesce one idyllic afternoon; Burt Hines, mid-50’s and convalescing from a second heart attack, eagerly anticipates the arrival of the ex-wife he still loves. Daughter Josie has just broken her engagement to a Harvard law student and pines for his buddy Ray, an aspiring writer with whom she once had a brief fling. Clemma, the black housekeeper at the center of the action casts a astute eye on the complications while facing with her own unresolved past.

The Village Players’2013–2014 57th Season

Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Comedy)by Neil SimonSamuel French

Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it’s too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a 20-ish actress who’s too kooky by half; finally comes September and Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be married to Barney’s best friend.

Lettice and Lovage (Comedy)by Peter ShafferHarper and Row

Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London’s stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust. Neither impressed or entertained by Lettice’s freewheeling history lessons, Schon fires her. Not one however, to go without a fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventionial Lotte in battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown. This hit by the author of Equus and Amadeus featured a triumphant award-winning performance by Dame Maggie Smith in London and on Broadway.