![]() ![]() "And the play touches the heart and the soul of these people. “If you're from lower Michigan, there’s a romanticism to the UP," he said. He believes the latest Naples version of "Escanaba" will entertain audiences as well. Hennessey said "Escanaba in da Moonlight" was so popular about 15 years ago in Naples that it ran for two years at the former Stage 88 Theatre at Norris Community Center, now home to Gulfshore Playhouse. Hand" in the 1982 comedy "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Scott ("Patton") and Roy Walston, best known for playing an alien on the 1960s TV show "My Favorite Martian" and later the teacher "Mr. Through the years, Hennessey said, he became friends with many great actors, including Academy Award winner George C. Today, she operates a bed and breakfast in Menominee, Michigan.He played quarterback at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant and studied theater at Wayne State University in Detroit before heading to New York City to perform on and off Broadway. Gehrke acted for 40 years on the stage named for her. A memorial service was held in the theater that bears his name. Herb Williams died in 2014 in Green Bay at age 79. He may have directed more plays than anyone in the region. He retired after 30 years in May 1996 and continued to direct and perform in Green Bay and the Fox Cities. He loved to act and appeared many times in leading roles at Theatre on the Bay. Williams was professor of communication arts and artistic director of Theatre on the Bay with a lively and engaging personality. The design of the stage was one of the first of its kind in the region. Three steps lead to the stage, which today bears the name The Nancy A. The theater includes brick walls on both sides of the stage and a white ceiling of half circles radiating from the stage, with the area above the stage exposed for the guts of the lighting grid. Central in the theater is a thrust stage, a half octagon that the audience surrounds. The bay of Green Bay is in shouting distance to the east. Williams Theatre is located in the Fine Arts Building of the University of Wisconsin-Marinette, 750 W. Note: Masks required due to COVID-19 protocol. Running time: 85 minutes (no intermission) “Dumb and Dumber,” a jillion other movie and TV roles, currently on Broadway in the iconic “To Kill a Mockingbird” as Atticus Finch… and having written the earthy and happily weird “Escanaba in Da Moonlight” – extraordinary.Ĭreative: Playwright – Jeff Daniels director – Patrick Hines set designer – Joshua LaLonde lighting design and sound technician – Chris Weber costumer – Annalisa Mines stage manager – James Porras II (Warren Gerds)įinal thought: Jeff Daniels defies being boxed. It’s wild and woolly production that’s a hoot. He breaks into singing a hymn, spews lines like throwing darts and moves and gestures with tight, snappy actions. Jeff Daniels totally rips Department of Natural Resources agents, and Chris Mayse leaps into that fray. Whoa.Ĭhris Mayse is – another whoa – ramrod solid as Ranger Tom, a sendup of a family-hated DNR agent. Another one is a gas – or four or five gas, as in the passing thereof. Patrick Mines’ feat of “acting” includes downing a pint of what Jimmer believes is homemade hooch in one take. Jimmer is a dumpy guy, a dumpy dresser and a legendary guzzler. Mines does a twofer – directing this controlled mayhem to bundles of laughs and also playing Jimmer, the hairy UFO escapee who sort of speaks in tongues.
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