Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
Feb. 20-22, 27-28, 2004, Dinner 6:45 p.m., Show 8:00 p.m.
Schwitzer Student Center
Our Town, first produced and published in 1938, has since become not only a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, but an American classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. The play is narrated by a Stage Manager who transports the audience to Grover's Corners, New Hampshire in the early Twentieth Century. Emily Webb and George Gibbs discover how wonderful it is to live and love. They help the audience understand that it is the small things in life that truly matter. Wilder's frank theatricality and simplicity illuminate patterns of human experience that remain unchanged in the face of progress. A Dinner Theatre Production
Directed by guest artist Jeff Casazza
- Stage Manager - Emily Gerber
- Scenic Designer - Jim Ream
- Technical Director - Jeffrey Barnes
- Lighting Designer - Aaron Seelig
- Costume Designer - Sonja Hethcote
- Sound Designer - Krista Helms
- Props - Kristin Fife
- Hair /Make-up Designer - Kristin Bien
Cast
- Mrs. Gibbs/Choir - Courtney Bianchi
- Woman in the Auditorium/Choir - Julie Brown
- Professor Willard/Choir - Matthew Byerly
- Mrs. Soames/Choir - Joanna Cate
- Dr. Gibbs/Funeral Choir - Sam Fain
- Rebecca Gibbs/Funeral Choir - Mary Ferguson
- Sam Craig/Choir - Brian Glunt
- Mrs. Webb/Choir - Nikki Grotenhuis
- Baseball Player/Dead Man/Choir - Christian Guyn
- Joe Stoddard/Choir - Rob Hartman
- Constable Warren/Funeral Choir - Daniel Huber
- Howie Newsome/Funeral Choir - Nash Kegley
- Dead Woman/Choir - Ashleigh Kirby
- Emily Webb - Bethany Lillis
- Stage Manager - Robert Neal*
- Mr. Webb/Funeral Choir - Christopher Redmon
- Dead Woman/Choir - Erika Saperstein
- Baseball Player/Dead Man/Choir - Jonathan Stahl
- Lady in the Box/Choir - Crystal Vissers
- Joe Crowell/Si Crowell - Sara Wagoner
- Funeral Choir - Sara Wagoner
- Mrs. Smith - Kristina Webster
- Woman in Balcony/Choir - Jessica West
- Simon Stimson/Choir - Noah Winston
- Wally Webb - Patrick Whelan Mullen
- *Appears by permission of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Crew
- Assistant Technical Director - Kyle Baker
- Assistant Stage Manager - Jennette Wright
- Master Carpenter - Barry McFarlane
- Master Electrician - Jeska Morrow
- Assistant Master Electrician - Jared Duymovic
- Scenic Artist - Jessica Umbreit
- Costumer - Kristin Fife
- Construction Crew - Chase Eaton
- Light Crew - Amanda Gwin
- Sound Technician - Chris Vicoli
- Paint Crew - Jacque Cooper
- Running Crew - Evan Shearin
- Make-up Crew - Kathleen Pyle
- Light Board Operator - Lauren Busch
- Sound Board Operator - Delia Neylon
- Follow Spot Operators - Caleb Bateman, Amanda Gwin
- Publicity Crew - Ashley Bergdoll, Linda Atwell, Tracy Carson
- Front of House - Ashley Bergdoll, Rissa Guffey