Another actor comes to join our project, coming to stay in the tip top of the tower... in the Tower House!
You may have wistnessed his evil villian side in last season's Bullshoot McCrummond and this year Jason Iannone will be adding his flair to characters seen in The Drowsy Chaperone which runs July 7th - 16th, Kong's Night Out August 4th - 19th, and Great Expectations September 1st - 10th
When the apple trees were planted earlier this year there were also a few blueberry bushes of a different variety planted on the little hill over the Perkins House. They have a lot to live up too.
Tonight is opening night of the first show of the season!
The Lakewood Theater website describes it thusly:
Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent’s doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancées, are hot on their trail. They go undercover as a nun and priest, but their presence, combined with the addition of a new nun, spur paranoia throughout the convent that a spy has been sent from Rome to shut them down. Wine and secrets are inevitably spilled as everyone tries to preserve the convent and reconnect with lost loves. Accusations, mistaken identities, and romances run wild in this traditional, laugh-out-loud farce.
Starring Kily Hilton, Cheryl Seamans, Dee Pizzo, Ethan Richards, Kristen Alberts, Bianca Stoutamyer, Mike Clements, and Olive Street's own Jakob Sutton
Performances May 26th - 26th at 8pm, May 29th at 4pm, June 1st at 2pm & 7pm, June 2nd - 4th at 8pm
Tickets can be purchased online by clicking here, at the box office during open hours, or by calling 474- 7176
This comming week marks new beginnings, with three new theater guests moving into the Tower House.
Colton Bagley is returning to the costume shop to lend his talent, and will also be found waiting tables at the Lakewood Inn Restaurant.
August Thornton returns to our stage - you may remember him from Mid-Summer and Living on Love in 2021 - and can be seen in The Girl on the Train playing June 9th - 18th, and Great Expectations which runs September 1st - 10th. He will be one of your waiters at the Inn as well.
Travis Harden is making his debut on the Lakewood Theater stage, in The Girl on the Train.
Tucker Atwood & Autumn Stupica are going to be staying in the Perkins House again this season. Autumn will be making her Lakewood debut in Critic's Choice which runs June 23rd - July 2nd, and will also be in Anything to Declare September 15th - 24th. . Tucker can be seen in The Drowsy Chaperone July 7th - 16th, and Anything to Declare.
Arriving later this season, MJ Clifford & Willow-the-cat will be my very honored guests at the Sugar Tree Cottage again, with MJ performing in Halfway There July 21st - July 30th while Willow keeps an eye on the cottage and soaks up some sun: and then returning for Great Expectations.
Already here on Olive Street of course is Jakob Sutton. Jakob will be in the opening production of the year Drinking Habits May 26th - June 4th, an ensemble member in both of the musicals - The Drowsy Chaperone July 7th - 16th & Dirty Rotten Scoundrels August 18th - 27th - and in the closing production of the year Anything to Declare September 15th - 24th.
Looking forward to the 2022 Season!
*The theater building itself may be hidden from view in the photo by the porch screen door frame in this photo, but it is surely there, standing fast. One of the benefits of being at the cottage through the late autumn to early springtime is the view during and following abscission, through the time of budding.
This beautiful spot of deep pink is, appropriately it would seem, on one of the Pink Lady varieties. Can't wait for the blossoms!
The gardens and flower beds are not put in yet for the year, but in makes my heart sing to see these begin their journey!
Of course he wrote about his adventures on that trip.
The book is now available via the On Olive Street bookshop link, through which proceeds of the sale will support the On Olive Street Project as well as Tucker.
The official anouncement of the 2022 Lakewood Theater Season! Come enjoy two dramas, three farces, two comedies, and two musicals! Opening night is May 26th, with Drinking Habits*
Please visit thier website to read more about what will be presented, and to get your tickets! www.lakewoodtheater.org/summer-schedule
Lakewood Theater can also be followed on facebook at www.facebook.com/lakewoodtheatermaine
*Drinking Habits: Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent’s doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancées, are hot on their trail. They go undercover as a nun and priest, but their presence, combined with the addition of a new nun, spur paranoia throughout the convent that a spy has been sent from Rome to shut them down. Wine and secrets are inevitably spilled as everyone tries to preserve the convent and reconnect with lost loves. Accusations, mistaken identities, and romances run wild in this traditional, laugh-out-loud farce.
It would seem a little strange, maybe, but here in winter, when the pace is a little slower than... well... other times, I suppose... a simple hello to those perhaps just joining us!
So, hello, I am Dawnella. I grew up in the 1970's just up the hill from Lakewood Theater. Being indeed very very entertained by enchanting stories about the theater by my neighbor Libby, one of Herbert Swett's daughters whose husband was in charge of things along with her brother-in-law for a while, I always felt that the place was magical.
Years later I introduced my son Jakob to Lakewood through their Young Performers Camp. He then hit the main stage in 2012, and he's been at Lakewood every summer since!
Together with a little help from others, we began restoring camps & cottages on Olive Street in 2019 with the goal to make spaces available to actors, techies, and those who love the old theater as much as we do.
You may be familar with the ghost light in the theater - a single bulb left burning whenever the theater is dark* - but I have been enjoying a ghost light of another sort this off season as well, as the large light in the Lakewood Theater parking lot has remained lit nightly, a clear and steady beacon visable from the Sugar Tree cottage. It brings me comfort.
Like my personal lighthouse in the winter fog.
*A theater being "dark" means that the theater is currently not open, not just the state of physical lighting. No shows, no rehersals, no sets being built. In general, some say the light is on to keep away ghosts, some say it is to light the way for the ghosts that already inhabit the theater (which is more the case for Lakewood)... and some even say it is on to keep the stage manager from tripping when he first comes in to work
