Bethany Aiken (music director): A Boston-based music director, pianist, composer, and teaching artist, Bethany returns to the Footlight for the fourth time, having previously served as MD for Willy Wonka, Seussical, and The Sound of Music. ![]() He is also a videographer specializing in dollmation and an ICF certified life and mental health coach. Vito has served on several theatre organization boards and still serves as a middle and high school play adjudicator in NC and is currently one for the musical division of The Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild (METG). Directing highlights include Same Time, Next Year, “A Funny Thing…”, Steel Magnolias, Children of Eden (Rosie Award), The Woman in Black, three adaptations of A Christmas Carol, Sordid Lives (starring the movie's original LaVonda, Ann Walker) and most recently Sylvia with Walpole Footlighters. Favorite roles include playing children and adults in numerous children’s theatre shows like Bridge to Terabithia, Fezziwig in Scrooge! The Musical, Billis in South Pacific (MTA award), Mitch in "Streetcar", Fester in The Addams Family Musical, Froggy in The Foreigner and most recently on this stage as Vanya in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. In Denver, CO he spent four seasons with the Tony-winning Denver Center Theatre Company before relocating to Charlotte, NC working in area theatre and winning several regional theatre awards including the Metrolina Theatre Association (MTA) Theatre Person of the Year. For ten consecutive years Vito produced and directed Christmas Theatre, a fundraiser for NY area AIDS organizations. He studied acting and performed in NYC, where he created and produced several seasons of just do it - a themed reading and performance series which he would later mount in two more cities. Vito Abate (stage director): Vito is an actor, producer, director and sometimes writer originally from Queens, New York. Synthesizer Programming - Bethany Aiken Special Thanksīrian Crete, Val Tracy, Michael Colford, Jonathan Drapinski, Jason Sheehan, Sam Dean, Mary Gatter Violin - Caroline Leguía/Marnen Laibow-Koser Photography: Matt McKee & Deborah Karson Orchestra To quote a lyric from the show, “Who knows where we may go…”Ĭostume Designers: David Alger & Liza Ulrich Wilde was watching over us theatre lovers rehearse this play with characters who identify as theatre lovers.Īnd now, to help complete the process we members of the company turn to you members of the audience and wholeheartedly invite you to join us on this journey together. I have imagined many times throughout our process that Mr. It also reflects on individuality and being true to oneself, conjuring another quote of Oscar Wilde: “Be yourself everyone else is already taken.” ![]() Our show covers many themes among them people making theatre simply for the love of it, and how art and the expression of it can bring people together while certain interpretations of it can be exploited to create a divide something still happening today. Oscar Wilde wrote: “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.” We are grateful to have you fellow humans here as we come together as a community to share this ancient art form of storytelling. In other news closer to home, the Boston Strangler is still on the loose, the Civil Rights Act is soon to be signed and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married for the first time on March 15. ![]() 95% of the country’s population identifies as Catholic, The Beatles hold the top 5 spots on the Billboard 100, the Profumo affair and other political sex scandals in the British Parliament are making international news, Vatican II is happening and the still-on-the-books 1861 Offences Against the Person Act making same-sex sexual activity illegal will not be repealed for 29 more years. Welcome to our theater in the social hall of Saint Imelda’s church located in Dublin, Ireland.
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