St Michael's Playhouse Presents BLITHE SPIRIT Through 7/24

The Saint Michael's Playhouse stages BLITHE SPIRIT, July 13 to 24, continuing the season of Equity professional summer theater, in the McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael's College. The show runs, July 13 - 17 and 20 - 24, each evening at 8 p.m., with matinees, July 17 and 24 at 2 p.m.

A seance is at the center of this elegant and charming Noel Coward comic mystery. When an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati shows up to orchestrate the session, she conjures the ghost of the lead actor's first wife, who does delightful mischief to all assembled. Chaos ensures with doors slamming and vases flying. A show that's called "a delightfully enchanting farce" perfect for a lighted-hearted summer evening."

"This is ‘the perfect storm' for a director," said Thomas Ouellette, director of BLITHE SPIRIT, who has directed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Charles Playhouse in Boston, and elsewhere. "It's a laugh-out-loud, classic comedy, a hard-working and hilarious cast, and a storybook setting in which to rehearse-Northern Vermont. It doesn't get better than this," he added.

"We couldn't be more pleased with the caliber of our 2010 Acting Company," said Chuck Tobin, Playhouse Producing Artistic Director. "Around the World in 80 Days" earned rave reviews-greater Burlington is enjoying some of the best actors in the business performing on The Playhouse stage this summer," Tobin said.

From its beginnings in 1947, Saint Michael's Playhouse has blossomed into an award-winning, highly-regarded equity theater company. The Playhouse features talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters nationwide, presented right here in Vermont. Housed in the Saint Michael's College McCarthy Arts Center, one of the finest theater facilities in the state, The Playhouse attracts approximately 16,000 theatergoers each season.

Saint Michael's Playhouse is a professional theater company operating as an auxiliary enterprise of Saint Michael's College. The Playhouse is Greater Burlington's only Actors' Equity resident theater company and as such operates under contract with Actors' Equity Association in New York City. At the same time, Saint Michael's College students have the opportunity to learn from the pros through internships in technical theater, costuming, lighting, set construction, and publicity.

The rest of the Saint Michael's Playhouse 2010 season:

ALWAYS . . . PATSY CLINE, July 27 - August 7

Written by Ted Swindley, this most frequently requested musical is directed and choreographed by Keith Andrews. Always...Patsy Cline is based on the true story of the legendary country singer's unlikely friendship with a Houston housewife, Louise Seger. This smash-hit musical and Playhouse favorite offers old fans and new ones a chance to see, through Louise's eyes, the American original and dazzling star that was Patsy Cline. An intimate look at the woman behind the legend, as only a true friend could tell it, filled with all of Patsy's greatest hits including Anytime, Walkin' After Midnight, I Fall To Pieces, She's Got You, Sweet Dreams and Crazy. Featuring Lucy Sorensen as Patsy Cline and Sarah Carleton as Louise.

Ticket information:

Evening, are $35; matinee tickets are $29. Tickets may be purchased online www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) or at the Saint Michael's Playhouse walk-up window in the McCarthy Arts Center, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Playhouse Junior

Playhouse Junior presents PINKALICIOUS, directed by Equity actor/director Marc Tumminelli, and performed by area youngsters with theater experience and Saint Michael's theater students. This brand new musical, direct from New York, takes audiences on a "be careful what you wish for" adventure. Pinkalicious is a girl who loves pink and wants everything in her life to be pink. After over indulging in pink cupcakes, she wakes up pink. Her dream has finally come true . . . or has it? Performances Friday, July 9, 11 a.m.; Saturday, July 10, 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Tickets, $9.50.

Visit www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org for more information.

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