TOD:
Semio-pro Community Theater (positive, all):
The Odd Couple
Stop the World! I Want to Get Off
Brigadoon
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Community Theater (in which I was involved -- all positive experiences, but only ONE horrible production)
The Music Man (train conductor and townsperson; danced in Marian, The Librarian and Shipoopi)
Twelfth Night (Antonio)
The Fantasticks (Matt)
The Subject Was Roses (costumes)
Tea and Sympathy (roommate of Tom)
See How They Run (Rev. Toop)
Mame (grown-up Patrick -- dreadful production)
Come Blow Your Horn (Buddy...toured Italy, Greece and Turkey U.S. military sites)
Ten Little Indians (Tony Marston)
Bye Bye, Birdie (Albert Peterson)
(also did publicity for all the following):
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Thoreau's brother)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Mortimer)
See How They Run (produced as President of the Naples Little Theater)
1776 (director, produced)
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (produced)
That Championship Season (produced)
Ten Little Indians (Philip Lombard, produced)
The last performance was in the fall of 1972. I continued trying to be involved in other community theaters, but they all had community support problems that kept the shows from going forward beyond the first rehearsals. I directed a dinner theater of some comedy in the fall of 1987 in Naples, Italy, but all further efforts to revive theater there were met with indifference from the community. This last part was a geographic problem After a huge earthquake in Naples, Italy, in the late 70s, many apartment buildings were damaged or demolished. As a result, there were fewer close-in accommodations for the transient U.S. military community, so they moved "outward" and many were 20-plus miles from the installations in the late 1980s -early 1990s. That did not bode well for folks who would have to commute just to be in a play (and gasoline was very expensive).
As an audience member, I have enjoyed:
La Boheme (Baz Luhrmann, pre-Broadway)
Wicked (world premiere)
Annie (national tour)
South Pacific (national tour)
White Christmas