[Capdist-announce] Ghent PLayhouse announces 13th Annual Panto

[Judy Staber]

THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE
Town Hall Place (Off Route 66)
Ghent, NY
 
10/1/2012
 
For Release Please to November and December Monthlies and calendars:
Image to follow in separate e-mail
 
THE PANTOLOONS WILL PRESENT THEIR THIRTEENTH PANTO AT THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE THIS NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER.

 
Ghent, NY — This year’s Panto at The Ghent Playhouse will be “Robin Hood  Fifty Shade of Green.”  This year marks the thirteenth production by the zany troupe of local actors known as The PantoLoons.  Now a tradition, the Panto opens on Friday, November 23rd (the day after Thanksgiving) and runs through Sunday, December 9th.
Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. with a special added matinee at 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 24th.  Tickets are $18 each, $15 for Friends of the Ghent Playhouse and $10 for children under 12 years.
 
The story of Robin Hood is well known. Robin and his men rob the rich to give to the poor and downtrodden.  In this time of financial upheaval, the need for relief, and the increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, this seemed a good story to choose.
Robin and his Merry Men live in the greenwood of Sherwood Forest, helping those down on their luck and trying to outwit the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham and his Barons.
Of course they succeed!
 
This year, those men in green will be played by Cathy Lee-Visscher as Robin Hood, Michael Meier as Little John, Paul Leyden as Alan a Dale and Joanne Maurer as Much the Miller’s Son.  Joining the band in the forest as Friar Tuck is Judy Staber and Paul Murphy as a man living rough.  Johnna Murray is Maid Marion and Monk Schane-Lydon, her maid Maude Lynne.
 
Sally McCarthy is the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham (playing a bad guy for the first time in 13 years), Tom Detwiler, his mother the Baroness Dona Trumpet, and Matthew Coviello as the bad Baron Getrich.
 
The PantoLoons all participate in various stages of the production.  Tom Detwiler doubles as director, Paul Leyden is music director, Judy Staber writes the script, Joanne Maurer designs and executes the costumes. Bill Camp is Stage Manager and lighting designer and everyone helps to get the set together. Each cast member writes lyrics and adds wit to the script as rehearsals proceed.  This year the Loons welcome two new cast members, Michael Meier and Matthew Coviello, both seen previously on the Ghent Stage. 
 
For years The Panto has been a British holiday tradition. As a child, writer Judy Staber went to a Panto every Christmas. These fondly remembered Pantos included the cross-dressing Dame (a man) and Principal Boy (a woman) and, of course, jokes, songs, slapstick, chases, and lots of audience participation with “It’s behind you!” and “Oh, no I’m not – Oh, yes you are!”  The PantoLoons have developed their own form of an American Panto over the years and it has now become a Columbia County tradition.
 
Tickets are $18 each, $15 for Friends of the Playhouse and $10 for children under 12.  For further information about tickets and future productions please go to the website: www.ghentplayhouse.org or call Brown Paper Tickets to order on line at 1-800-838-3006.
 
 
Judy Staber
Old Chatham, NY 12136-0072
518-794-9091
pantoloon at fairpoint.net 
www.jstaber.com/

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