What a wonderful Summer it has been!
We finished off our Spring with an extravagant production of My Fair Lady, directed by Stephen Stearns. This was senior Taylor Patno's farewell performance. He has been performing with NEYT for over 5 years as a student!
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| Taylor Patno as Henry Higgins and Aurora Phillips as Eliza Doolittle. |
Next, The NEYT Alumni Association took over the theater to produce and perform in Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Ben Stockman, 0'4.
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| Shannon Ward, Addison Rice, & Sam Perry star in Cyrano de Bergerac. |
Then the NEYT Summer Programs got under way! First up were the Junior Melodramas, both original plays written and directed by Jane Baker and Stephen Stearns.
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| Ella B and the Great Escape directed by Stephen Stearns and Naomi Shafer. The actors left and right: are Kit Blazej and Aiden Meyer. |
Next we dazzled audiences with Beauty & the Beast, directed by Rebecca Waxman. To kick off this wonderful event, we had a social service appreciation night. Youth Services, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Boys & Girls Club, United Way, and many other local organizations were given free tickets to the final dress rehearsal of the show.
After Beauty & the Beast, the summer programming continued with Jr. Shakespeare's presentation of All that Glisters - scenes from the Merchant of Venice, Circus Minimus's An Animal & Insect Circus, Senior Melodrama's original plays written and directed by Jane Baker and Stephen Stearns, and finally, the Senior Shakespeare Program's The Merchant of Venice.
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| Graduating senior, Jacob Knapp plays Shylock the Jew. Behind him are Ethan Reichsman and Alex Luckham, playing Antonio and Bassanio. |
The summer wrapped up with another Alumni production - the Original Works Festival. Alumni presented original plays, music, art, and videos in an intimate setting.
It was quite a successful summer!
