Summer Stock 2010!

Classic plays presented for summer audiences!

Something's hot at Prana this summer! 
Two weekends of great summer entertainment - classic summer stock!

week one June 28-July 2 - performances July 2 & 3
week two July 5-July 9 - performances July 9 and 10

Harvey! by Mary Chase When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn't so bad after all.

 

Harvey cast

Veta Louise/Betty Chumley: Brianna Lueders
Myrtle Mae/Ruth Kelly, R.N.: Frankie Servidio
Elwood P. Dowd: Alessandro Arena-DeRosa
Dr. Sanderson/Mrs. Ethel Chauvinet: Crockett Henderson
Judge Gaffney: Evan Londono-Ayr
Duane Wilson/Cab Driver: Lee Mogren
Dr. Chumley: Ben Rutberg

Presented through special arrangement with the Dramatists Play Service


 

Next - Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced!  When the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette reports a murder before it takes place, the village inspector, neighbors, and gossips all gather to watch the crime unfurl. So does Miss Marple, who may be forced to place her own life on the line in order to solve the puzzle. The biggest mystery is: will you be one of the few who are able to outmart Agatha Christie's famous crime-solver?  Without the brilliant books and plays of the mystery master Agatha Christie, there would be no CSI, Law & Order, or Clue!!  Join us for Prana's first-ever murder mystery! 

A Murder is Announced cast
 

  1. Julia Simmons - Erin Clancy
  2. Miss Blacklock, her aunt and lady of the house - Colleen Fitzpatrick
  3. Patrick Simmons, brother of Julia - Joseph Duda
  4. Dora “Bunny” Bunner, Miss Blacklock’s childhood friend - Jenna Ferland
  5. Miss Marple, the famous amateur detective - Frankie Servidio
  6. Mitzi, Miss Blacklock's housekeeper and cook, a young refugee - Randy Stopa
  7. Philippa Haymes, a young widowed paying guest - Maddy Totman
  8. Mrs. Swettenham, a neighbor - Rachel Pollinger
  9. Edmund Swettenham, her son, an aspiring writer - Lee Mogren
  10. Inspector Craddock- Beth Hobbs
  11. Rudi Scherz - Philip Bassett

Directors: Roberta Weiner, Philip Bassett and Sarah Bassett