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Green Bay Packer Foundation Grant awarded

On Wednesday, December 5th, The Wabeno Area Players were honored with a $4000 Grant from the Green Bay Packer Foundation.  It was a momentous occasion for the players and one the community can truly be proud of.  The grant will be used for a New Fine Arts Series and Community Programing.  The Players will be adding two concerts in conjunction with the three mainstage productions in 2019.  The performing groups will also be spending the day with area school students working with them on music, theater and dance.  Included with the concert additions the players will be hosting several adult workshops throughout the year for adults.  The workshops will range from beginning acting to short play performances.    The three mainstage productions for 2019 are On Golden Pond, Working and Farce of Habit.

The Players are a completely community focused non-profit organization.

Open auditions for “On Golden Pond”

Wabeno Area Players will hold open auditions for “On Golden Pond” at Madonna Hall, 1793 Elm Ave., Wabeno, WI 54566, at 6 p.m. Monday, December 10, and Tuesday, December 11.

Auditions are open to anyone in the community regardless of race or ethnic background.  No previous stage experience is required to try out for any Wabeno Area Player production.  Casting decisions are made by the director and production team.

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Wabeno Area Players present The Dastardly Doctor Devereaux and a Weekend of Raising Funds for Community Causes

The cast of The Dastardly Doctor Devereaux.

Lotta Cash, a wealthy widow, must be on the lookout.  The evil Dogsbreath Devereaux, M.D. plans to marry Lotta so he can inherit her fortune and her late husband’s clinic.  Helping him is the nasty nurse, Hilda Hatchet, whom he promises to wed after he gets rid of Lotta.  Wild?  Well, talk about medical mania when the insanely jealous Hilda catches Dogsbreath flirting with our heroine, Wendy March.  We can only hope that Dr. Phil Good, our hero, can save Wendy and the unsuspecting Lotta from certain death.  With an abundance of zany patients, wild tunes (’How Do You Bandage a Broken Heart?,’ ’Emergency,’ ’Do the Bop,’ etc.)  and a hilarious plot, this musical melodrama will certainly have you in stitches all the way!  As they say, Nurses!  Foiled again!

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Wabeno Area Players Raises over $700 for New Hope Shelter & Transitional Housing

The cast and director of Wabeno Area Players Production of And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little. L-R Linda Harter, Carol Bartlein, Kathy Millan, Max Skenandore, Sue Ferguson, Joan Sackett, Time Derfus and Josh Jameson

The cast, crew and patrons of Wabeno Area Players Production of And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little raised over $700 and several boxes of food items for the New Hope Shelter & Transitional Housing.  Every year Wabeno Area Players chooses a local organization or group to sponsor as another way to give back to the community.  This year it was New Hope Shelter & Transitional Housing.

The reason New Hope Shelter & Transitional Housing was chosen was all that it gives back to those in need.  “We are lucky to have an organization, director, Micah Dewing, and staff in our community to help those that need it.  They really need funds to drive the programs they have.  If you want to support a local organization that gives 100% back, please give to them this holiday season.”  stated Josh Jameson, Wabeno Area Players President.

The contact information for New Hope Shelter & Transitional Housing is: New Hope Shelter
PO Box 187
Crandon, WI 54520
Phone: (715) 478-3669
Email: info@newhopeshelter.net

And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little is the final Seasons production for Wabeno Area Players

Their father having deserted them in their childhood, the three Reardon sisters have grown up in a house of women, dominated by their mother, who is only recently dead. But time has erased the tender closeness of girlhood; one sister has married and cut herself off; another has begun to drink more than she should; and the third, after a scandalous incident at the school where she teaches, is on the brink of madness. When the married sister comes to dinner to press the need for committing her sibling to an institution, the simmering resentments of many years burst alive and are exacerbated by the intrusion of a well-meaning but boorish neighbor couple, whose unexpected arrival impels the action towards its shattering conclusion—in which all the pathos, humor and searing honesty of the play combine with overwhelming effect.

 

“In Paul Zindel we seem to have that rarity—a playwright who can write intelligent, sensitive, entertaining plays for a wide public. —Newsweek.

 

“It is funny and fierce and, well, absolutely extraordinary.” —Boston Globe.

 

“…he has created three parts that most actresses would trade their souls to play.” —Hollywood Reporter.

 

This production contains adult language and subject matter.  Parental guidance is suggested. 

 

It will be held November 16th, 17th and 18th at 7:00PM.  The Sunday performance will be at 1:00pm on the 19th.  The venue for the show will be Madonna Hall in Wabeno.  It is located at 1793 Elm Ave. right behind St. Ambrose Catholic Church.  Tickets are $15 each.  To get tickets for the season productions, you are able to call (800) 838-3006 or go online to http://www.wabenoareaplayers.brownpapertickets.com.  You can choose your seat or have them do it for you.  We now have tiered and comfortable seating.  Not a poor seat in the house!  As always, refreshments and free popcorn are available throughout the shows.  Tickets will only be made available at the door 90 minutes prior to each performance.  Tickets are not guaranteed as most productions will be at capacity.  Please purchase your tickets early for best seating and available dates.

For more information you can go to Wabeno Area Players website at: http://www.wabenoareaplayers.org.