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Welcome to Dundalk Community Theatre’s 50^th Anniversary season!

You may think of the John E. Ravekes Theatre as DCT’s home, but did you know this theatre actually had much humbler beginnings? It started out in the auditorium of Dundalk High School before moving to a lecture hall at Dundalk Community College that doesn’t even exist anymore. Technical Director Marc Smith was not only on hand, but he took photos documenting the construction of the College Community Center as well as this theatre.

Over the years, DCT has weathered storms (including a blizzard that cut short a run of Brighton Beach Memoirs), survived COVID (which canceled an entire weekend of Mamma Mia!), and kept a performance of Intimate Apparel running while Marc climbed out on a catwalk to fix a malfunctioning light! This spirit of resilience and resourcefulness has long been the hallmark of DCT, and contributes greatly to the accomplishment of reaching our 50^th year.

From that early beginning as a vehicle to showcase and serve the Dundalk community, DCT has expanded its reach to the whole Baltimore metro region, as well as surrounding counties, Delaware, DC, and beyond. In 1996, Tom and Marc even took a production of I Do, I Do to the International Maytime Theatre Festival in Dundalk, Ireland, bringing home awards for People’s Choice, Best New Play or Company, and a Best Lighting Design award for Marc Smith.

It’s no surprise, then, that DCT has built a reputation for theatrical excellence in production after production, as well as artistic courage in producing lesser-known works of great value. Under the leadership of Tom Colonna, in partnership with Marc Smith’s design and construction expertise, the little theatre that could has offered thousands of singers, actors, and dancers a stage to perform, while giving this community a place to convene, where audiences can laugh, shed a tear, and share the experience of live art.

This anniversary season gives us an opportunity to reflect on our past, celebrate the present, and plan for our future. What’s yet to come will awaken fond memories, make you breathless with laughter, and—we hope—keep you celebrating with DCT for years to come.

Welcome to the John E. Ravekes Theatre! Welcome home!

Kelly Williams Carlson, Artistic Managing Director
Dr. R. Michael Walsh, Dean of Arts & Communications/Producer
Dr. Anne M. Lefter, Director of the Arts

Director's Note

It has been a thrill preparing this production for you. Fifty years of rich history is a lot to break down into a few hours; however, having some of the most amazing performers in Baltimore sharing these pieces will hopefully remind you why Dundalk Community Theatre is one of the best venues in town. Your support is vital to the future of this theatre, so please come back for the rest of the season. You won't be disappointed.

Ken Ewing
Director, Writer, Emcee

Cast

Eileen Aubele
Jim Baxter
Allison Comotto Baxter
Bella Comotto
Ken Ewing
Temple Fortson
Max Ozbolt
Rob Tucker
Tiffany Walker-Porta Burrows

This Evening's Program

Act One

Another Openin’, Another Show | Ensemble

Solo – Cabaret | Temple

Monologue - The Little Foxes (Birdie) | Eileen

Jukebox Musical Medley
River Deep, Mountain High |Temple
Where the Boys Are | Allison
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus | Rob
Jingle Bell Rock | Eileen
It’s Now or Never | Jim

Monologue - The Glass Menagerie (Laura) | Bella

Solo - One Hundred Easy Ways | Eileen

Moneymaker Medley
Once Upon a Dream | Allison
Stay with Me | Temple
The Travel Song | Jim & Rob
A Lil’ Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place | Eileen
With Anne on My Arm | Max
9 to 5 | Eileen
He Plays the Violin | Bella
Little Girls | Allison
Barrett’s Song | Rob
I Just Want to Be a Star | Eileen
Lullaby of Broadway | Jim
The Winner Takes It All | Temple

Monologue - The Rainmaker (Starbuck) | Jim

Solo  - Lost and Found | Allison

Marc W. Smith Appreciation Segment
It’s Possible | Temple & Eileen

Solo - I’m Not That Smart | Max

Patsy Cline Medley | Tiffany
Honky-Tonk Merry-Go-Round
I Fall to Pieces
Walking After Midnight
Your Cheatin’ Heart
Back in Baby’s Arms
She’s Got You
Lovesick Blues
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Sweet Dreams
Crazy

Act Two

Song Challenge - Men vs. Women
Close Every Door | Bella
You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun | Max
If I Had My Druthers | Bella
As Long As He Needs Me | Max
Corner of the Sky | Bella
Before the Parade Passes By | Max
Get Me to the Church on Time | Bella
June is Bustin’ Out All Over | Max
If I Were a Rich Man | Bella
Beauty and the Beast | Max
Ya Got Trouble | Eileen
Astonishing | Rob
Anthem | Temple
Someone to Watch Over Me | Jim
A Lot of Livin’ to Do | Bella
You Gotta Get a Gimmick | Max

Monologue - Crimes of the Heart (Babe) |Allison

Solo - Where in the World | Rob

DCT Double Production Medley
Comedy Tonight | Temple
Try to Remember | Rob
Tea for Two | Jim & Allison
What Could Be Better? | Jim & Allison
Heart and Soul | Temple
That Old Black Magic | Eileen
Steal with Style | Jim
Anything Goes | Allison
Dancing Queen | Ensemble

Monologue - A Few Good Men (Col. Jessep) | Rob

Solo - Goodbye | Jim

In Memoriam
My Favorite Things | Temple & Rob

Monologue - Brighton Beach Memoirs (Eugene) | Max

Tom Colonna Appreciation Segment
The Night It Had to End | Eileen
I’m Coming Out of My Shell | Rob
The Miller’s Son | Allison
What I Did for Love | Ensemble

Solo - Gimme, Gimme | Bella

Raise You Up/Just Be | Ensemble

Creative Team

Orchestra

Charlotte Evans Crowley
Musical Director/Piano

Lisa Wood
Drums
 

Meet the Company

Eileen Aubele

Eileen has performed all over Baltimore with Dundalk Community Theatre, Cockpit in Court, Paint and Powder, Tidewater, Spotlighters, and Vagabonds. Her professional credits include The First National Tour of Master Class with Faye Dunaway. Favorite roles include Marmee in Little Women, The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot, and Lucy in Avenue Q.

Jim Baxter

Jim Baxter is very excited to return to the stage after a long break. His most recent credit is A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Ensemble) in 2019! Favorite DCT credits include: Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale Jr.) and The Addams Family (Lucas Beineke). Jim was not trained so much as raised by a pack of wild theater kids. He is a full-time Videographer and part-time nerd (or vice versa, depending on who you ask). Special thanks to Allison for her outstanding wit, perfect palate, and endless patience.

Allison Comotto Baxter

Allison is thrilled to return to DCT after a pandemic-sized hiatus! Past credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Sibella), Little Women (Beth), The Addams Family (Wednesday), Titanic (Kate Mullins), and Annie (Annie). Other local favorites: Cockpit in Court: The Little Mermaid (Ariel), Sylvia (Sylvia). Spotlighters Theatre: Spring Awakening (Wendla), Zombie Prom (Toffee). Allison also spent a wonderful decade treading the boards at Children’s Playhouse of Maryland. She sends all her love and thanks to the absurdly talented Baltimore theatre community that helped raise her!

Bella Comotto

Bella is extremely pleased to be taking part in this special event! Bella previously participated in two other DCT cabarets. Favorite credits: The Witch in Into the Woods, Wednesday in The Addams Family, Jane in Mary Poppins, Sharpay in High School Musical, Fiona in Shrek, Mal in Descendants, Paulette in Legally Blonde, Sandy in SpongeBob, JoJo in Seussical. Bella also performed in Zelda: A Staged Concert as Young Zelda/Scottie in both the MD and NY productions. You can catch her next in The Sound of Music as Liesl at Phoenix Festival Theater! She would like to thank Ken & Bill for this opportunity. For Nana.

Temple Fortson

Temple is very excited to be part of this incredible cast in celebrating 50 years of DCT performances. She recently appeared as Aida in Aida with Artistic Synergy of Baltimore and as Mabel in Crowns with 2nd Star Productions. An active member of the theater community for most of her life, some of her favorite past roles include Armelia in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Hannah et all in Puffs, Anita in West Side Story, Narrator in Joseph…Dreamcoat, Gary Coleman in Avenue Q, Berniece in The Piano Lesson, Jack’s Mother in Into the Woods, Little Sally in Urinetown, and Lead Diva in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Backstage she has served as a director and a choreographer. Temple thanks her family and friends for always being supportive and the audiences for making this thing called theater worth every moment.

Max Ozbolt

Max is so excited to be making his DCT debut with their 50th Anniversary Cabaret. He is a sophomore at Carver Center in the acting prime. Max most recently appeared in the Teen Ensemble of The Prom at Cockpit in Court. Some of Max’s other favorite credits include Carlos in Descendants at CPM, Schlomo in Fame the Musical at Carver, Race in Newsies at Beth Tfiloh Community Theatre, and SpongeBob in SpongeBob the Musical at CPM. Enjoy the show!

Rob Tucker

Rob has been a regular performer in the area for 15 years. Regional: Che in Evita, The Courier in 1776, Jonas Fogg in Sweeney Todd, Leonardo in Lauren Gunderson's Eye of the Beheld (premiere), Player 2 in Shipwrecked... (WATCH Award), Barrett and Andrews in Titanic, Mungojerrie in Cats, and Hunter in Title of Show. Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Wilmington Concert Opera, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Buffalo, NY (featured vocalist). BFA Music Theatre, MEd. (Arts Education), University at Buffalo and a MEd. (Early childhood), Towson University. Robert teaches theatre and is the director of Edgewood Theater Group at Edgewood High School. He also assists his wife Amy organizing the Thirsty Thursday reading series in Havre de Grace.

Tiffany Walker-Porta Burrows

Tiffany began performing on the DCT stage when she was 11 years old as a member of the Act I Children’s Theatre in productions of Li’l Abner, Anything Goes and Pippin. Other DCT productions include appearances as Patsy Cline, in Always, Patsy Cline, Marge in The Bridges of Madison County, Nancy in The Women, Martha in The Secret Garden, Maggie in A Chorus Line, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Electra in Gypsy. Nationally, some of her credits include performing at the Aloha Bowl, Rocky Gap, and Carnegie Hall. Some of her favorite Regional credits include: Patsy Cline in Always, Patsy Cline (Toby’s Dinner Theatre & Winters Lane Theatre), Rose in Gypsy (MAF), Mayzie in Seussical (Pumpkin Theatre), Fastrada in Pippin, Florinda in Into the Woods (MTM), Jan in Grease (MAF), and herself in Smokey Joe’s Café (Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre)… just to name a few. Tiffany was the Director/Owner of Drama Kids International of Central Baltimore and Harford County. She is a Special Education teacher at Stoneleigh Elementary School in Baltimore County. Tiffany holds two Master’s Degrees from Goucher College.

Ken Ewing

Director, Writer, Emcee

Ken has performed in Baltimore theatres for several decades. Favorite roles at DCT include Freddie in Chess, Rochester in Jane Eyre, and the title roles in Jekyll and Hyde the Musical. Offstage Ken is husband to Christina, father to Kara and Corey (humans), father to two dogs and two cats, grandfather to one cat, and tender to seventeen chickens and three ducks.

Bill Watson

Musical Arrangements

CCBC's recently retired Dean Emeritus of Arts and Communication, Bill began his career at CCBC in 1978 as an adjunct, and has since held a variety of positions, including music program coordinator and chair of the performing arts and humanities department. He is trained as an instrumental music educator, drummer/percussionist and composer, and has performed throughout the area, including the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, and the Lyric and Hippodrome Theatres.

Charlotte Evans Crowley

Musical Director

Charlotte Charlotte is excited to be back onstage at Dundalk since having last musically directed Always Patsy Cline back in 2019! She is currently the resident musical director at Children’s Playhouse of MD which resides at CCBC Essex. She has also musical directed locally at Stevenson and Towson University, Beth Tfiloh Community Theatre, Vagabonds, Cockpit in Court, and Stillpointe Theatre. Professional regional credits include Millbrook Playhouse (PA), Stagedoor Manor (NY), Gallery Players (NYC), Festival 56 (IL), Crown Uptown (KS), and Surflight (NJ). Charlotte also runs her own cake business, confectionsbycharlotte.com which keeps her busy during the day. Check it out!

Marc W. Smith

Technical Director/Scenic, Lighting, Sound, Projection Designer

Marc has been involved in theatre for over 40 years and has been responsible for designing or technically directing over 350 productions. With B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Technical Theatre and Design from Towson University, he has been the full time Technical Director for CCBC Dundalk since 1980. In addition, he is the theatre technical consultant for the CCBC Catonsville and Essex theatre facilities. Marc has received numerous technical theatre achievement awards from The United States Institute of Theatre Technology. Several of his production designs have been displayed in juried expositions including A Little Night Music and The Cemetery Club for technical achievement and Bus Stop for Scenic and Lighting Design. Marc’s scenic and lighting designs for the CCBC Essex production of Zombie Prom were part of the finalists in the Region II Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and his lighting design for the DCT production of I Do, I Do, won “Best Lighting Design” at the Maytime International Theatre Festival in Ireland.

TraceyAnn Tokar Smith

Stage Manager

TraceyAnn happily adds this year's DCT Fundraiser to the list of shows she has stage managed for DCT which include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcost, A Bronx Tale, A Chorus Line, Intimate Apparel, Mamma Mia!, Side Show, A Year with Frog and Toad, and The Bridges of Madison County. TraceyAnn also stage managed Witness Statements, Something Rotten, And Then There Were None, The Unexpected Guest, and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean at Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre. Away from the theatre, TraceyAnn works as the Lead Teacher for Lansdowne High’s Distance Learning Program.

Gordon Lord

Light Board Operator

Andrew J. Boeren

Projection Operator

Lisa L. Boeren, Karen DiPasquale

Follow Spot Operators

Emily Machovec

Production Liaison

Donors

The Theatre Patrons Association of DCT is comprised of audience members who want to share a “special” appreciation to the theatre experience.
A TPA gift is a demonstration of gratitude and encouragement
to our actors, directors, designers and volunteers.

BENEFACTOR
Keith Ewancio

ASSOCIATE
Barbara & Chalres Meyer

PATRON
Anne Bonner
Janice Evans
Carole H. Fogle
Nancy Ginn

SPONSOR
Karen Bayne | Frances Bochenek | Darlene Durst
Dorothy Ey | Virginia Foster | Elizabeth Geci
Nancy Hughes | Charlotte Jankowiak | Colleen Kuhn
Regina Lapetina | Sandra Lucas | Wendy McGarry 
Marry Morris | Richard Pazourek | Dolores Stump
Francis & Adele Scheidt 

DUNDALK COMMUNITY THEATRE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kelly Williams Carlson | Artistic Managing Director
Dr. R. Michael Walsh, Dean of Arts & Communications/Producer
Marc W. Smith | Technical Director
Sarah Chrzanowski | President
Emily Machovec| Vice-President
Cheryl Vourvoulas | Recording Secretary
Angelique Causey | Corresponding Secretary

Lisa L. Boeren | William Feuer | Amy Sacks | Lauren Stuart

SPECIAL THANKS

Dr. Sandra L. Kurtinitis, President, CCBC
Dr. Joaquin Martinez, Provost & Vice President of Instruction
Melissa Hopp, Vice President, Administrative Services
Dr. R. Michael Walsh, Dean of Arts & Communications
Professor Nick Van Horn, Chair, Performing Arts and Humanities
Dr. Anne Lefter, Director of the Arts
Cathy Kratovil, Communications Assistant
William Lunner
All performers, technicians, production staff, volunteers, board members and audience members who have ever joined us on this golden journey!