Kaleidoscope
Theatre Newsletter
July
2006
www.kaleidoscopetheatre.com
kaleidoscope@kaleidoscopetheatre.com
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Hello and welcome everyone, to the
Kaleidoscope Theatre
Newsletter, Issue 2.7! A hearty welcome
especially goes
out to the many new subscribers who have
signed up for
our newsletter in the past month.
In our newsletter, we will inform you of
many things,
including: upcoming Kaleidoscope Theatre
performances;
special offers involving discounted tickets
or merchandise;
new sale items; how to bring Kaleidoscope
Theatre’s
award-winning school-touring shows to your
school;
updates on Kaleidoscope Theatre company
members;
and much, much more!
In this issue you’ll find information on:
1. Kaleidoscope’s Season Opener at RIC
2. Upcoming Performances
3. Carol Smith’s return to the Kaleidoscope
Stage
4. $ 100 off coupon!
5. Fall Preview
1. Season Opener
Kaleidoscope’s Summer 2006 Series opened on
July 11th
at Rhode Island College with “Beauty and the
Beast”.
The show went very well and the audience was
wonderful!
We’d like to give a great big ‘thank you’ to
all of you who
joined us. The performance of “Heidi” at
Rhode Island
College has also gone by; however, the show
will be
performed again this coming Friday, July 21
at the
Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, RI.
2. Upcoming Performances
For those of you who are unable to visit us
in Woonsocket,
we have six other shows still remaining at
Rhode Island
College including: “Snow White” on July
25th, “Sleeping
Beauty” on August 1st, “Cinderella” on
August 8th,
“Rapunzel” on August 15th, “Little Red
Riding Hood” on
August 22nd, and “Jack and the Beanstalk” on
August 29th.
We hope to see you there!
3. Carol Smith’s Return to the Kaleidoscope
Stage!
In August, our former Artistic Director will
be making a
guest appearance with Kaleidoscope. Carol
Smith, will
be playing the part of ‘Disgustia’, one of
the silly step
sisters, in “Cinderella” starting August 8th
at Rhode Island
College. She was gracious enough to agree to
the
following interview:
Q: How did you originally become involved
with
Kaleidoscope Theatre?
A: Back in the 1970s, Kaleidoscope Theatre
used to
perform a half hour musical each Saturday at
the
Warwick Mall and I used to go every week to
see them.
I also used to get up very early on weekend
mornings
to watch the television show they had on
Channel 12
– I saw them all! A few years later, when I
graduated
from high school I auditioned for the
company and was
hired as the understudy for the character of
Annie Brown
in “I’m Special”. I played Annie Brown for
my first three
years as a theatre student at RIC. My first
summer
musical was the original production of
“Mother Goose”
at the Warwick Musical Theatre – I was Old
Mother Hubbard! I directed “Heidi” and
“Hansel & Gretel”
in 2000 and then David Payton,
Kaleidoscope’s Executive
Director, asked me to be Artistic Director
and I did that job
for 2001. Then I had to give it up because I
moved to
England to get married and it was just too
far to commute!
Q: What did you do for Kaleidoscope Theatre
in the past?
A: What didn’t I do?! I’ve played Annie
Brown in both
“I’m Special” and “Welcome Home”; and then I
got older
and played Liza Brown in “I’m Special” –
that was great!
I’ve been both stepsisters in “Cinderella”
(thankfully at
different times!), I’ve been the White
Rabbit/March Hare
and Sister/Cook in “Alice in Wonderland”, I
was the first
Empress Euphenia in “The Emperor’s New
Clothes”
(I even played the Minister in that one,
once!), Old
Mother Hubbard in “Mother Goose”, Jerfis T
Jerfis in
“Pinocchio”, Mama Bear in “Goldilocks”, I
was the
original Witch in “Hansel & Gretel”. For one
performance only I was Peter’s
Grandmother/Miss
Rottenmeier in “Heidi”! While I was Artistic
Director,
I directed “I’m Special – You’re Special”,
the new
“Bad Company”, “Goldilocks”, “Heidi”,
“Cinderella”,
“Snow White”, “Beauty & the Beast”, “Snow
White”,
“Hansel & Gretel”, “Pinocchio” and “Jack &
the
Beanstalk” and “The Killer Cabaret”, one of
Kaleidoscope’s dinner theatre productions.
Q: What are you doing now over in England?
A: I work now as the Office Manager/PA for a
local
hospice in Cheshire. I get to do all kinds
of computer
work and design posters and I administer the
hospice’s
website. It’s a very cheerful place to work
and I love
the people I work with. I also get to know
some of the
patients and their families, which I really
enjoy. I live
in a Victorian terraced house with my
English husband
and two cats. We’re in the process of doing
some
renovations on the house at the moment so
that takes up
a lot of time! Without theatre to keep me
busy (and out
of trouble!) I’ve started doing other things
– I’ve taken
up bird watching and my husband and I have
been taking
kayaking lessons. I’ve also started growing
strawberries.
Q: Have you been involved in any theatre
since you
left Kaleidoscope Theatre?
A: I’ve not actually done any theatre here
in England yet.
I’ve joined a local theatre company but they
haven’t done
any plays yet that I could fit into – I need
to work on my
English accent! [grin] I may have to wait
until they do
some American plays! My husband and I go to
see a LOT
of theatre, however. We’re only a couple of
hours away
from London by train and there are some
regional theatres
here that do fantastic work. It’s lovely to
be in the
audience for a change!
Q: How does it feel to be making a return to
the
Kaleidoscope stage?
I can’t tell you how excited I am to be back
doing a
show with Kaleidoscope! There are a lot of
old friends
in the cast of ‘Cinderella’ and I’m already
learning my
lines and the songs. It would be exciting to
be on any
stage again for the first time in four years
– but working
with Kaleidoscope will be even better – it
will be
coming home to family! And that’s the best.
Thanks Carol! We look forward to having you
back!
4. $ 100 Coupon!
We have a special offer this summer that
we’d like to
make all our readers aware of… this summer
at the
Kaleidoscope Theatre Concession stand, you
can
pick up a coupon for $100 off a school
touring
production for this coming school year. Just
ask for
a $ 100 dollar coupon, pass it on to your
child’s school,
and that school can book a Kaleidoscope
school touring
production for a reduced rate! Our school
touring
productions include: “B.U.L.L.Y” – a show
about dealing
with bullying situations in and out of
school, and
“I’m Special, You’re Special”, which is
about the
inclusion of a young man with differing
abilities. For more
details, visit our concession stand!
5. Fall Preview
We’re very excited to announce that a new
theatre has
joined the Kaleidoscope family. Starting in
September,
Kaleidoscope Theatre will be presenting a
different
fairy tale musical each month at the Melrose
Memorial
Hall in Melrose, MA. The four shows chosen
for our fall
tour are: “Rapunzel” on Sept. 10th, “The
Emperor’s New
Clothes” on Oct. 15th, “Snow White” on Nov.
12th, and
“Cinderella’s Christmas” on Dec. 3rd. All
shows will be
on Sundays at 1:00 pm. More information on
our 2006
Fall Series will appear in the August
newsletter. |
