The St. Michaels Middle High School Drama is presenting its fall play, Drop Dead, at the school auditorium this Friday and Saturday night.
Like its last production, it is a play within a play, and it is very funny., The audience never stopped laughing. Reviews of other productions have called it “a nonstop physical comedy … (Variety)”, and, “a wacky slapstick comedy that will have you laughing out loud (KBIG)”.
A cast of has-been actors plan to revive their careers in the show, directed by Victor Le Pewe (a psychotic eye twitching megalomaniac) played wonderfully by senior Max Brennan. The cast is totally incompetent, the script a shambles, and egos are running wild. The playwright is mad at the director, the old stage star is deaf and can’t remember lines or blocking, and poor Phillip, the stage manager is just trying to hold everything together – literally!
At the dress rehearsal the set falls, props break, and the producer and an actor are murdered.
During Act 2, the opening night, the murders continue, and the cast is just wants to stay alive for curtain calls.
And the snow – you will just have to come see the show to get that reference!
Seniors Tori Gomez, as the Inspector, and Kyla Mullaney, as the Ghost of the Late Mr. Barrington, show how their acting skill have grown over the last few years.
The show will be presented Friday and Saturday night at the St. Michaels Middle High School Auditorium. The show starts at 7:00, with the doors opening at 6:30. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Note that the show has gun shots and is rated PG-13 for mild adult themes.
Contact: John Stumpf, jwstumpf@gmail.com, 410 – 924 – 7385
Baroque gem from the Venetian-born master. But just before Maestro Benichou took the stage, it was announced that the church’s newly acquired “piano” was actually an electronic keyboard instrument that could also be played in piano mode. Its versatility was deployed most effectively in the Vivaldi piece, which calls for a clavichord in the second-movement Adagio. The sound emanating from the keyboard resembled that of the more familiar harpsichord, also a staple of the Baroque period. It fit appropriately with the lyrical conversation between cello soloists Daniel Gaisford and Jacques-Pierre Malan, both drawn from the MSO roster of accomplished string musicians.
D major, which could easily be mistaken for a Mozart composition. Haydn met Mozart around the time this concerto was written and befriended the young genius. The first movement introduces a theme presented by the strings and further developed by the pianist, which Castell-Jacomin carries out with deft precision, further explored in a teasing tickle of the keys in the next movement. Eastern European dance motifs supply ample opportunity for the soloist to display his skills, though much of the concerto is in the higher end of the scale. Castell-Jacomin took the opportunity to show a greater range in a bonus performance of a Chopin etude. However, the limitations of the piano mode of the electronic device became apparent in reverberations in the lower registers.
The chorus will also sing a lovely collection of songs celebrating the birth of Christ. Included will be “This Little Babe” and Deo Grazias” by Benjamin Britten, “In the Bleak Midwinter” by Harold Darke, and the Revels version of “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen,” arranged by Jeremy Epstein. The songs will be accompanied by harp, flute and classical guitar.
e,” a scrapbook-style juxtaposition of a classic “why-don’t-you-kiss-me?” photo with a game-of-chance pair of playing cards—the king and queen of hearts. Next to “Enigma” is a tromp l’oeil appropriation of Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring.”
show include Raoul Middleman, featured at the Troika during last summer’s Plein Air Festival, and Victor Nizvotsev, who demonstrated his painting technique in a First Friday reception last weekend. His stunning harlequin painting “Carnival” will grab your eye as you walk through Troika’s front door. “Victor says we all go through life wearing many masks,” recalls gallery manager Peg Fitzgerald. “He does many jesters.”
outside the door.” She also leads a “Nature Sketchers” walk every first Sunday of the month at Adkins Arboretum near Ridgley. Her twin passions of serenity in painting and nature are reflected in “Chesapeake Sundown,” an oil for sale at The Green Phoenix. Nearby, Wetzel’s artisanal works in collaboration with Martha Bogan of Nevitt include woven rims framing ceramic bowls, plates and vases—the latter pretty enough to give flowers competition in a beauty contest.
