[Capdist-announce] PRESS RELEASE AND CALENDAR LISTINGS FOR 'YOUR TOWN' - COPAKE'S FREE BICENTENNIAL PLAY!

[Carl Ritchie]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Carl Ritchie518-325-1234

taconicstage at aol.com

Includes calendarlistings 

 

TSC -  an original play – with music - celebrating Copake’s200th birthday, YOUR TOWN

 

Copake, NY – Localtheater company Taconic Stage Co. (TSC) presents Your Town, a play with musicwritten to celebrate Copake’s bicentennial in April.  The script and lyrics are by TSC Founder andProducing Artistic Director Carl Ritchie with music by Wayne Moore and ChuckPelletier.   Music director and pianist is Joe Rose andcostumes are thanks to Kevin Draves.  Thelight-hearted show has romance, songs and laughs for the whole family.

 This celebration of Copake’s 200th anniversarywas inspired by Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, as well as by theactual minutes from the first town meeting in April 1824. It stars CraigAddams, Diedre Bollinger, Susan Fullerton, Andrew Joffe and Constance Lopez, aswell as some local luminaries.  

Performances will be held the weekend of April 5th– 7th at the historic Copake Grange, 628 Empire Road in Copake,NY.  Sponsored by the town as part of its200th bicentennial celebration, admission is free – but reservationsneeded - for all four performances!

Since its founding in2009, TSC has delighted audiences with shows such as the hilarious, originalsend-up of growing older, Senior Moments, a spoof of the local vs.weekender mentality, The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia Countyand a celebration of middle-age, I Know I Came in Here for Something…, allwritten and directed by Ritchie.  Other productions include PrivateLives, The Belle of Amherst, The Last Flapper and A Lady ofLetters, just to name a few.

 

Carl Ritchie (script& lyrics, director) was born in New Brunswick, Canada and began his careeras a child actor.  After playing Oliver in a 1000 seat venue in hishometown, he insisted--at age 11--on moving 1000 miles away to Toronto topursue an acting career.  Subsequently, after living as a teen in Burmaand graduating from high school in the Himalayas of northern India, he attendedthe London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.  Ritchie has acted, writtenand directed for theaters worldwide, from Rangoon to Soho.  He is the authorof over 20 plays, which have been performed in well over a hundred theatres inthe US, Canada and as far away as New Zealand.  He and his husband,Christopher Grant, have had a home at Copake Lake since the mid 90’s and havebeen full-time residents for nearly twenty-five years.

 Performances will beheld at the Copake Grange, 628 Empire Road, Copake, NY, 12516 on Friday andSaturday, April. 5th & 6th at 7:00 pm and Saturdayand Sunday, April 6th & 7th at 2 p.m. Tickets are FREEbut reservations must be made at www.copakegrange.org.

 Although thisproduction is sponsored by the Town of Copake, Taconic Stage Company has beensponsored by Herringtons, Inc and Kneller Insurance Agency since Day One.   Throughthick and thin they have been by our side and we truly appreciate it.  Big thanks, Ed Herrington as well as KirkKneller.



 

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Calendar listing:

 

Copake, NY: TaconicStage Company presents Your Town, an original bicentennial ‘play withsongs’, written by Carl Ritchie with music by Wayne Moore and Chuck Pelletierand accompaniment by Joe Rose.  It stars Craig Addams, Diedre Bollinger, SusanFullerton, Andrew Joffe and Connie Lopez, as well as some localluminaries.  It is directed by TSCfounder and Artistic Director Carl Ritchie.  At the Copake Grange, 618Empire Road, Copake, NY, 12516: Fridayand Saturday, April. 5th & 6th at 7:00 pm and Saturdayand Sunday, April 6th & 7th at 2 p.m.  Tickets are FREE but reservations must be madeat www.copakegrange.org.  

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