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By Matthew E. Semrau

It’s every father’s nightmare.Wednesday Addams

(Isabelle Birt)—the ultimate princess of darkness—is all grown up. She has fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man, Lucas Beineke (Austin Fos-ter) who comes from a respectable family.

Neither of Wednes-day’s parents have met him.

This musical comedy will dazzle the mind and warm your heart as we see two conflict-ing worlds meet and explore their differenc-

es—and similarities.She decides to confide

in her father—Gomez Addams (Jonathan Smith)—and pleads with him not to tell her mother.

Gomez must now do something he’s never done be-fore—keep a secret from his beloved wife, Mor-ticia Add-ams (Am-ber Fullmer.)

Everything changes

when the Addams fam-ily hosts a dinner with Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his par-ents, Alice Beineke (Car-la Feamster; Rachael

Hildreth) and Mal Beineke (Dan Mal-danado.)

“The Addams Family” is an origi-nal story created by authors

Marshal Brickman, Rick Elice and Andrew Lippa.

The Fenton Village

Players’ production is di-rected by Stevie Visser, produced by Jill Tomlin & Joy Carr, musical di-rection by Rafeal D. Mc-Daniel and choreogra-phy by Rachel Hildreth.

For a full list of the cast and crew, please see Page 3.

Tickets can be pur-chased online at our (temporary—more on this on Page 4) website, FentonVillagePlay-house.wordpress.com, or from box offices in and around Fenton.

Photo: Pam Buerger Partial cast of “Addams Family” rehearsing on main stage

“Adams Family,” the macabre musical

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It’s every father’s

nightmare

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By Bev Tippet

Community the-ater does not run

on applause alone. It runs on budgets and labors of love by vol-unteers who have the-ater in their blood.

They devote their time to the theater for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. They do it for the sake of their art, without financial support from municipal or county governments.

Putting on a show can be fueled by great, infectious enthusiasm, but creating an orga-nization to sustain a series of shows and build a place in the communi-ty takes much more and requires the Board of Directors to be vigilant in following the mission.

Just getting the

rights to produce a play or musical can be costly, depending on the age of the show. Non-musicals generally are less expen-sive to produce, but mu-sicals draw the biggest crowds.

We had hoped to stage “Grease” next sum-mer but the rights have been moved to “premier” status which basically means “lots of money.” Rights, score, scripts, music, etc., could cost more than $5,000—for our

size theater it’s unlikely that we could to do that.

The Board will review our options and make a decision at our next meeting, August

11, 2015.“Grease”

is our high-est gross-ing play ever and we had hoped to have fun with it again. But, there are lots of other fabulous produc-tions. I am confident the Board will choose

another wonderful play.Finally, coming to

our stage this month,

Chairperson

Bev Tippett

Vice Chair-person

Ryan Particka

Treasurer

Jill Tomlin

Recording Secretary

Carla Feamster

Correspond-ing Secretary

Joy Carr

Trustees

Timothy Terpening

Richard Holtje

Stevie Visser

Vic Tatum

Kimberly Barrett

Ron Barrett

Grease most likely ‘out’

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Photo: Scott Loftesness at Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Board of Directors

the very funny “Addams Family the Musical.” Please come join us, es-cape the heat—our the-atre is air conditioned—and support your local, community theatre.

We know you know the theme song—you can snap along!

There are lots of other fabulous

productions. I am confident

the Board will choose

another wonderful

play.

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CastGomez Addams

Jonathan Smith Morticia Addams

Amber FullmerFester Addams

Daniel RaganWednesday Addams

Isabelle BirtLucas Beineke

Austin FosterAlice Beineke

Carla FeamsterRachael Hildreth*

Mal BeinekeDan Maldonado

Pugsley AddamsGriffin Grabowski

Grandma AddamsAnn Oravetz

LurchNick Carter

Cousin ItSamantha Campbell

ThingSadie Lynn Kessler

MonsterMackenzie Durant

Young GomezTravis Tomlin

Ancestorsalphabetically by last name

Samantha CampbellAlyssa CarrJoy CarrMackenzie DurantSadie Lynn KesslerRachel HermanRichard HoltjeGeno EssenmacherPatsy EssenmacherJill Tomlin

Ancestors continued

Justin TomlinBrienne WrightJimmy Wright

ProductionDirector

Stevie VisserProducers

Joy CarrJill Tomlin

Musical DirectorRafeal D. McDaniel

ChoreographerRachael Hildreth

Set DesignStevie VisserJoy Carr

Set PainterJacob Hoffman

‘Addams Family’ cast and crew

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Set ConstructionShelby Carr

CostumerKaren Craner

LightsScott Auge’

SoundAdam Ezell

Stage ManagerGayle Barthel

PropsJoy CarrJill Tomlin

Program InsertPam Buerger

PhotographerJim Waite

* August 21st Production

Photo: Jill TomlinSome members of Addams Family cast at the Fenton Freedom Festival Parade, July 4th

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August Calendar

Editor’s NotesI like my little box.

That’s the perk of doing the newsletter. A little box where you can ramble and ramble and ramble until Bev tells me to be quiet or to edit it out. Muaha-haha. The power!

But seriously, it’s always fun to reach the end and realize I only have to fill a small little box and I’m done. It’s my victory lap.

But let’s look forward

to September. We need your submissions. Send me anything. I’d love to put a short story in here or a poem or just your experience watching a show or volunteering (ooo, volunteering.)

Help make my box small by not giving me any room to put it in!

Matthew Semrauthe Cue sheet

editor-iN-Chief

Fenton Village Playhouse14197 Torrey Rd.Fenton, MI 48430

Visit us online for upcoming shows, au-ditions, news, tickets, and more:www.FentonVillagePlayers.org

Call us at:(810) 750-7700

Email newsletter feedback & ideas to:Matthew@Semrau.me

Those visiting our website, Fenton-

VillagePlayers.org have been greeted with a surprise: it’s not there.

The outage is the result of technical issues with the domain name.

The Board is in the process of resolv-ing these issues.

“Hopefully in the next week or so all board members will be listed on the account so if this ever happens again, we can reestablish it faster,” wrote Stevie Visser, who manages the Theatre’s website.

“Unfortunately the email is attached to the domain so our email is

down until ownership of the domain is veri-fied,” Stevie concluded.

This means that all any email sent to an @FentonVillagePlay-ers.org email address will not be received until this problem has been resolved.

In the meantime, you can access our temporary website at FentonVillagePlay-house.wordpress.com.

Of course, you can always call our office at (810) 750-7700.

You can also di-rect questions to our Facebook page and our Facebook com-munity group.

Website woes will be resolved Thursday, August 6

7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Friday, August 7

7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Saturday, August 8

7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Sunday, August 9

2:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Friday, August 14

7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Saturday, August 15

7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”

Sunday, August 162:00pm - Show “The

Addams Family”Monday, August 17

6:30pm - Auditions “The Cemetery Club”Tuesday, August 18

6:30pm - “The Cemetery Club”Friday, August 21

7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Saturday, August 22

7:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”Sunday, August 23

2:00pm - Show “The Addams Family”