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Sandy Rustin |
Jonathan Lynn |
Hunter Foster and |
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Brette Doyle and Tech Help at SMA - Thanks for helping us with our streaming service!
SMA Administration—Thanks for supporting our creative adventures!
SMA Faculty and Staff—Thanks for supporting myself and the students as we dust off our boots.
SMA Maintenance Crew—Thanks for keeping us all safe at SMA.
Especially, Thank you to the parents, caregivers, family and friends who are so supportive of St. Mary’s Theatre. Thank you for sharing your lovely humans with me during this time!
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Clue is one of my favorite movies of all time. I love witty humor and farce. (My siblings, mostly my sisters and I, would watch the movie again and again while growing up and we can probably quote it verbatim). And although the stage version is not exactly the same as the movie, it does effectively captures the essence of the cult classic. I was excited to share the story with my students and give them the opportunity to embody these iconic characters and style. I hope we have captured the style and essence of the movie.
It is a somewhat surreal feeling having a live audience again. We had a live streaming audience one year ago when we produced our Zoom Play, Trap and even further back to Mary Poppins in March of 2020 since we had an in-person audience. And now, a year later, we have both a ‘virtual’ and in-person audience which feels like the best of both worlds. At times throughout this process it has felt like and old hat – coordinating scene changes, costumes, playbill photos. And at other times I feel like I am learning how to ride a bike again. As with everything from these past long months, there will be a lot to process from this experience, but for now I hope that I can just stand in the moment and feel it fully. I am so thankful for my Team Tech partner, Demetri, and all he continues to give to SMA and our students. I am so grateful for the support I receive from the SMA administration and my fellow faculty and staff who continue to give encouragement and humor to the process. But most of all, I am so thankful for the opportunity to work with brave, gentle, creative, sometimes-snarky-but-always kind, grace-filled students. There would just be no point to do this without any of them.
Whether with us in the Clark Family Auditorium or out there in places like Montana, thank you for your support of SMA Theatre!