GABRIOLA PLAYERS THEATRE SOCIETY May 2013 Bravos! for “The Gin Game” Mark Smith and Lesley Hazeldine presenting Director Anne Drozd with a bouquet. Mark Smith and Lesley Hazeldine shone in the roles of Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey. There were standing ovations for this performance of D. L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize- winning play The Gin Game. This was theatre at its best. A big thank you to Mark Smith and Lesley Hazeldine for their stirring performances, to Anne Drozd for undertaking this challenging play so successfully in her directorial debut with Gabriola Players, and to all the crew who helped make this such a wonderful experience.
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GABRIOLA PLAYERS THEATRE SOCIETY
May 2013
Bravos! for “The Gin Game”
Mark Smith and Lesley Hazeldine presenting Director Anne Drozd with a bouquet.
Mark Smith and Lesley Hazeldine shone in the roles of Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey.
There were standing ovations for this performance of D. L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Gin Game. This was theatre at its best.
A big thank you to Mark Smith and Lesley Hazeldine for their stirring performances, to Anne Drozd for undertaking this challenging play so successfully in her directorial debut with Gabriola Players, and to all the crew who helped make this such a wonderful experience.
Youth Group Held May 5th and 26th We had to do a little bit of re-scheduling and so the date has been changed but the children are “polishing” up their lines of prose and poetry in preparation for their first ever event! ………
“Mad Hatters Tea Party”
Put on your “mad hat” in support of the Youth Group Program.
Featuring a Special Presentation by the Gabriola Players Youth Group
Enjoy a “cuppa” and a tasty treat!
Prize for the “maddest hat”
Door prizes!
Sunday June 30, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
ROLLO CENTRE
Admission: By donation (Suggested donation $5)
All proceeds to benefit the Youth Group Program
Mark Your Calendars!
Did you know?........ (A little bit of Canadian Theatre Trivia)
Antoine Foucher (1717-1801), of Terrebonne (father of Louis-Charles Foucher), was the owner of the first Francophone theatre in Canada. In 1774, with various British officers, he staged the first production of Molière at his home in Montreal. Other Garrison performances were private shows put on for troops, publicly performed by officers, which helped bridge theatre and war during its initial stages of development. It was welcomed by the populaces and distracted soldiers from war and routine military protocol.
Before 1825, the Hayes House Hotel on Dalhousie Square, Montreal, had a theatre that staged German Orchestras and held Viennese dances. After it burned down, John Molson built the Theatre Royal in 1825, presenting Shakespeare and Restoration authors. It sat 1,000 guests and was also used for circuses and concerts. Edmund Kean and Charles Dickens both performed there before it was demolished in 1844 to make way for the Bonsecours Market.
A performance at John Molson's Theatre Royal, Montreal, 1825
Questions and Answers! We are often asked what roles and duties are required by production crews so, this is another in a series of information bits on how you can become involved in a production by Gabriola Players.
“What is the role of? .............”
Front Of House Manager
The Front of House is responsible to the Producer.
Duties:
1. Oversee the smooth operation of the Front of House. 2. Be responsible for ticket sales at the door, crowd control and distributing
programs and collecting at the end of the show. 3. Ensure Front of House staff and techs are wearing name tags. 4. Familiarize yourself with the theatre facility. Know the locations of:
washrooms, phone, exits, fire extinguishers, and fire alarms. 5. Get cash box from Producer/Treasurer.
Crowd Control:
1. Ensure that outdoor directional signs are in place for all shows. 2. Meet and greet patrons in a friendly, welcoming manner. 3. Each ticket should be checked that it is for the correct performance, torn
in half with one half going back to the patron and the numbered half kept in a container for accounting.
4. Ensure that there is a box set up and a sign encouraging recycling of programs. 5. Check washrooms just before show starts and inform the Stage Manager that
the show is ready to begin. 6. Remind patrons carrying cameras or recording devices that their use is not
permitted.
Ticket Sales:
1. Reserved tickets should be prepared in advance with the name of the person(s) clearly identified on the front of the envelope and a master list prepared of reserves.
2. The cashier should have the cash box with a float and tickets available for sale at the door.
3. Tickets paid by cheque should be made payable to Gabriola Players. 4. Once the performance has started the cashier will deliver the cash box and all
remaining tickets to the FOH Manager. 5. The ticket taker will hand over the ticket stubs to the FOH Manager.
So, any time you want to assist in a production we welcome your participation and there will always be someone to help “teach you the ropes”.
Overture!... Curtains!... L I G H T S Gabriola Players has a lot to be thankful for over the past month! As many of you will have already seen, our new stage spotlights made their debut during the The Gin Game, and worked brilliantly... literally! Thanks first and foremost to Michael Stebbings, a stage lighting guru from Nanaimo with whom we've organized workshops in the past, who happened to notice 12 Colortran stage lights collecting dust in the corner of a theatre whose lighting system he was upgrading. Knowing how much we'd appreciate and make use of them, Michael acquired them all on our behalf, tested and serviced them, replaced any missing or broken parts – and we took delivery at minimal cost in time for the last production. The icing on our cake, however, came from Gabriola Recreation Society, who recently awarded the Players a grant to purchase a computerized control board that will operate the Colortrans and will provide state-of-the-art lighting functions for our future productions. A huge "thank you" to both Michael and Gabriola Recreation Society for blessing us with their generosity.
Play Readings
Just in case you don't have enough to keep you occupied during the summer, our informal play readings will resume – the next date being Sunday, 7 July, 3:00 pm at the Rollo Centre. We'll be reading a murder mystery comedy: The Marquis Crossing Ladies Society's First Attempt at Murder, by Pat Cook. You think it's easy to write a murder? Just ask the Marquis Crossing Ladies Society for the Arts. They decide to do just that, especially when they find out they have to pay royalties to do someone else's play. The ladies soon find themselves writing an "operatic murder mystery dinner theatre with possible audience participation," providing no one sells fruit to the audience! Then two genuine convicts on the run decide the best place to lay low is with the ladies, who drag them into the play. This is a wise-cracking farce where no one can tell the loaded guns from the unloaded ones.
