Announcing our 40th Anniversary Season! 2009 - 2010

Gardners look forward to getting their floral catalogs in the mail so they can plan how they will play in the dirt. Tiger fans look forward to finding out what games are here at home and what teams they will be playing. School children like to find out which teacher they will have next year...

Well we thespians are very much the same. We get anxious to hear what groups are doing what shows next season, so we can ponder which ones we want to see, direct or be in. We enthusiastically imagine the sets, the costumes, the lights, the auditions!

This is a very exciting year for RCP! Not only do we go into our 40th season of performing, we also very likely will have our own building by then to continue it all in.

And we hope that you will join us! Just to tempt you, here is a glimpse into our next season (not necessarily in this order):

• Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

  Cast: 12 men, 1 man or woman, Drama

  A 19 year old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open and shut case, until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place - and decide on the guild or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it becomes, with each juror revealing his own character as the various testimonies are re-examined. Tempers are short, arguments grow heated, and the juroros become 12 angry men. A fine, mature piece of dramatic literature, and an experience you'll be proud to be part of.

• Twigs by George Furth

  Cast: 1 to 7 men, 4 women, Comedy

  Four inter-connected vignettes:

  Emily, a widow moving into a new apartment meets the owner of her moving company and begins an affair. Celia, the wife of a bigoted ex-Army Sergeant has invited an old chum for a visit. As the men relive old times and sports events, Celia is left out in the cold. Dorothy, and her husband, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, try as adroitly as possible to learn if the other has been faithful through the years. Ma, the mother of all 3 women, a headstrong lady who rises from her deathbed to have the priest sanctify her common law marriage.

• The Last Night at Ballyhoo

  Cast: 3 men, 4 women, Comedy/Drama

  It is December of 1939. Gone With the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family: bachelor Adolph, his widowed sister, Beulah, and sister-in-law, Reba. Beulah is determined to have her dreamy, unpopular daughter, Lala, attend Ballyhoo. Adolph brings his new assistant, Joe, home for dinner. Will they avoid the land mines of rejudice that stand in their way? Will Lala ever get to Ballyhoo? the family gets pulled apart and mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way. Events take several unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are.

• Funny Valentines by Dennis Andersen

  Cast: 2 men, 3 women, Romantic Comedy

  Children's book author Andy Robbins has been an unhappy bachelor since his divorce eight months before from his former collaborator, Ellen. On one incredible day, Ellen re-enters his lilfe, eight months pregnant; his agent arrives with a TV contract that needs both Andy's and Ellen's approval, and a beautiful lawyer appears to wrap up the deal and seduce Andy. Completely rattled, Andy lies and introduces the lawyer as his agent's fiance, while he tries to get Ellen to sign a contract she opposes. Comedy ensues.

Raffle Tickets!

RCP is excited to announce our building fund raffle!

Our members are busting their butts to come up with ways to obtain and renovate our own building, so please, take a chance on us!

6 $100 prizes will be given out during intermission of our next show "Don't Dress for Dinner," beginning April 24th, and a grand prize of $1500 will be given out closing night, May 9, 2009. Each ticket drawn will be put back into the pot for any subsequent drawings giving you up to

7 chances to win!

Tickets - $10

Saving the arts - priceless!

For more information on how to get tickets, write to us at:
staff@rosedalecommunityplayers.com

Announcing the cast of "Don't Dress for Dinner"

Marian and Cheryl are happy to announce the cast of Don't Dress for Dinner.

Character		Cast
Bernard	-	David Fedewa
Robert	-	George Baughman
Jacqueline	-	Ilana Burton (new member)
Suzanne	-	Tam Heaton (new member)
Suzette	-	Pam Mayer
George	-	Joe Marzka

Congrats to you all...

AACT FEST 2009

AACTFest 2009 was a wonderful experience and RCP is very proud of the entire cast and crew of 'night, Mother. We had a wonderful time in Monroe and would like to thank Monroe Community Players for their hospitality. While RCP didn't win the competition we feel because of all the support, commitment and hard work from our members and because of how the experience of putting on a this wonderful script touched us all, we have all won something much more important.

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AACT FEST - February 27 - March 1, 2009

Monroe Community Players will host the Michigan Festival at the Meyer Theater in the Monroe County Community College La-Z-Boy Center!

RCP is going to AACTFEST!!!

Donna Hansen will be directing Judy Durham and Cathy Kingsley in 'night Mother.

'night, Mother, written in 1981, was Marsha Norman's fifth play. The work received generally favorable reviews when it was first produced on stage in 1983. Among the numerous honors bestowed upon the play, it was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Critics have lauded the play for its emotional honesty and realistic dialogue, with much of the praise focused on the play's unflinching depiction of a family-specifically a mother and daughter-in crisis.