Rehearsals started last week for The Fantasticks, and the cast and production staff are working hard and fast to get everything together for our October 2 opening. Reservations We expect good crowds for this particular show, so it’s a good idea to make reservations. Here’s how. via email (best way) Email us via act2theatre@gmail.com by …
We are excited to announce that singer and music director extraordinaire , Joshua Stubbs, has agreed to take on the musical direction for our upcoming show, The Fantasticks. Joshua has appeared in Granger’s Test Tube (Kevin), Trouble in Tahiti (Sam), Summer and Smoke (John), The Magic Flute (Papageno), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Le Nozze di …
Meet director Jerry McKeen. After a little time away from theatre, he got back into action with us last year, and we’re so glad he did! Last year he directed Eleeomosynary and it was a truly outstanding piece of theatre. Very recently he mentored our newest director, Susan Capicotto Nichols, as she made her directorial …
Auditions for The Fantasticks are slated for August. Check out the details on our Audition Info page.
Hunter Riley rounds out the Holy Cannoli cast in the role of Anthony, a friend of Maria’s family. Hunter made his ACT 2 debut and appeared most recently as Doug in Polterguest. Earlier this year he also appeared as the sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello in Little Shop of Horrors at Robert C. Byrd High School. He explains, …
We needed a guy who was willing to play a guy in drag. And did we ever get the right guy for this! Shawn Rogers is playing duel roles as John, Maria’s roommate, who must quickly transform into “Suzanne” when Maria’s strict Catholic parents come to visit and expect to meet Maria’s female roommate. Shawn Graduated …
Mark Ford is making his theatre debut with Holy Cannoli opening June 19 at the Friedlander’s Center in Clarksburg, WV. So how did a nurse end up in a play for the very first time? We let Mark explain that. Chorus Line was my first ever Broadway show and I saw it on my first of …
Lindsay Morgan is making her ACT 2 debut as Maria in our upcoming production of Holy Cannoli opening June 19 in Clarksburg. Lindsay is studying Spanish Education at Glenville State College and hopes to one day teach abroad. She has been involved with theatre since elementary school and recalls her very first role as the Princess in The …
Jessica LeMasters (also known as “Mouse”) started working with ACT 2 Theatre while we were still a part of the curriculum at Robert C. Byrd High School. That was many years ago, then last year, she agreed to stage manage our production of Reasons To Be Pretty which was directed by one of her former …
Deb Sambol made her formal theatre debut with ACT 2 Theatre just a couple of months ago. Now she’s back in action playing the role of Nicolette (Sal’s wife, Maria’s mother) in Holy Cannoli. Here’s her theatre story. I think I’ve always been a theater geek. I can remember being one of the only kids …