Our 61th Season!
Here is a glimpse at our 2021 – 2022 Season.
Welcome back home again.
Photo Credit: Heartland Photography LLC
September 3 – 26, 2021
Kephart
Fiddler on the Roof
A classic musical favorite.
Follow Tevye and the people of the little village of Anatevka, as this poor milkman deals with the challenges of raising (and marrying off) his five daughters. Fiddler’s universal them of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality, and religion, that will leaver you crying tears of laughter, sadness, and joy.
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Production Sponsor – GREAT PLAINS MANUFACTURING
Costume and Orchestra Sponsor – HERITAGE REAL ESTATE ADVISORS, LLC
CAST
| Tevye | Michael Spicer |
| Golde | Vickee Spicer |
| Tzeitel | Elizabeth-Ali Schade |
| Hodel | Matea Gregg |
| Chava | Anna Gutierrez |
| Shprintze | Camille Graber |
| Bielke | Maya Brown-Mereles |
| Motel | Nathan King |
| Perchik | Scott Snyder |
| Fyedka | Joshua Warner |
| Lazar Wolf | Richard Groetzinger |
| Yente | Barbara Hilt |
| Constable | Michael Freeland |
| Rabbi | Robert S. Jones |
| Grandma Tzeitel | Kristina Freeland |
| Fruma Sarah | Jill M. French |
| Nachum (the Beggar) | Alex Engelland |
| Yussel (the Hatter) | Gabriel Freeland |
| Shaindel (Motel’s Mother) | Shannon Reid |
| Sasha, the Russian | Jeff Leger |
| Mendel, the Rabbi’s Son | Andrew Graber |
| Mordcha (the Innkeeper) | Timothy W. Burns |
| Avram (the Bookseller) | Christopher Graber |
| Fiddler | Harper Johnston |
| Russian #1 | Carl Linstrom |
| Russian #2 | Thomas Flores |
| Russian #3 | Rodney Penn |
ENSEMBLE
Marinela Brown-Mereles
Tasha Deiser
Jessica Ferguson
Dominic Freeland
Larkin French
Jane Goodwin
Keira Hoffman
Meadow G. Piepho
PRODUCTION
Director –Maggie Spicer-Brown
Assistant Director – Dalana Dutton
Vocal Director – Gin Hoffman
Orchestra Director –Tyler Breneman
Stage Manager –Amanda Reynolds
Props Chief – Sandy Houltberg
Photo Credit: Heartland Photography LLC
October 15 – 30, 2021
Sunflower Financial Theatre
The Half-Life of Marie Curie
Book by: Lauren Gunderson
The Half-life of Marie Curie revels in the power of female friendship as it explores the relationship between these two brilliant women, both of whom are mothers, widows, and fearless champions of scientific inquiry.
In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married Frenchman Paul Langevin, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Weakened and demoralized by the press lambasting her as a “foreign” Jewish temptress and a homewrecking traitor, Marie agrees to join her friend and colleague Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, and recover from the scandal at Hertha’s seaside retreat on the British coast.
Narrative by LaurenGunderson.com
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Production Sponsor – COLDWELL BANKER and KCOE ISOM
CAST
Hertha Ayrton – Victoria Spicer
Marie Curie – Elizabeth-Ali Schade
PRODUCTION
Director – Chaz Coberly
Stage Manager – Amanda Reynolds
Props Chief – Mandi Graber
Photo Credit: Heartland Photography LLC
November 19 – December 4, 2021
Salina Community Theatre will go dark for the second weekend in December in partnership with Salina Symphony’s Christmas Show.
We resume performances
December 17 – 19, 2021
Kephart Stage
Irving Berlin’s
White Christmas
By: Irving Berlin, Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, David Ives, Paul Blake
Based on the beloved, timeless film.
Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former army commander. With a dazzling score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love A Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the perennial title song, White Christmas is an uplifting musical worthy of year-round productions.
Narrative by Concord Theatricals
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Production Sponsor – FIRST BANK KANSAS
Costume and Orchestra Sponsor – EDWARD JONES
CAST
Bob Wallace – Michael Freeland
Phil Davis – Alex Engelland
Betty Haynes – Gin Hoffman
Judy Haynes – Megan Coberly
General Henry Waverly – Scott Price
Martha Watson – Kat Shaft
Susan Waverly – Larkin French
Ralph Sheldrake – Rodney Penn
Rita – Mary King
Rhoda – Callie Hobkirk
Ezekiel Foster/Snoring Man – Jeff Ebel
Mike – Carl Lindstrom
Tessie – Vicki Price
Assistant Seamstress/Snoring Woman – Cathie Norris
Train Conductor – Zach Swanson
Dance Captain – Tasha Deiser
ENSEMBLE
Matea Gregg
Mari Brown-Mereles
Brynn Shaft
Audrey Jagodzinske
Libby Kierscht
Kaity Geist
Will Ebel
Thomas Flores
Kinsleigh Showman
Aria Jagodzinske
Gabriel Freeland
PRODUCTION
Director –Michael Spicer
Musical Director –Melanie Allison
Choreographer –Maggie Spicer Brown
Stage Manager –Amanda Reynolds
Props Chief –Jessica Ferguson
Photo Credit: Heartland Photography LLC
January 1 – 23, 2022
No performances January 6-9
Sunflower Financial Theatre
Bus Stop
By: William Inge
The first play done by SCT and written by Kansas Playwright William Inge.
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She’s been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she’s ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, “Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I’m gonna end up in Montana …” As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.
Narrative by Concord Theatricals
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Production Sponsor – PKM STEEL
CAST
Elma Duckworth – Quinn Duxler
Grace Hoylard – Rachel Pearson
Will Masters – Mike Payne
Cherie – Madeline Norrell
Dr. Gerald Lyman – David Greiser
Carl – Jeff Ebel
Virgil Blessing – Tim Burns
Bo Decker – Nathan Endreshak
PRODUCTION
Director –Tyrees Allen
Stage Manager –Andi Hayden
Props Chief –Beth Ruder
Intimacy Director – Elizabeth-Ali Schade
Photo Credit: Heartland Photography LLC
February 11 – 27, 2022
Sunflower Financial Theatre
Over the River and Through the Woods
By: Joe DiPietro
A contemporary comedy by and award winning playwright.
Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he’s been offered a dream job. The job he’s been waiting for—marketing executive—would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn’t sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O’Hare as bait…we won’t give the ending away here.
Narrative by Concord Theatricals
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Production Sponsor – THE BENNINGTON STATE BANK
CAST
Nick Cristano – Scott Snyder
Caitlin O’hare – Mary King
Frank Gianelli – Scott Price
Aida Gianelli – Sandy Welsh
Nunzio Cristano – Richard Groetzinger
Emma Cristano – Vicki Price
PRODUCTION
Director –John Hendrick
Stage Manager –Amanda Reynolds
Props Chief –Beth Ruder
Photo Credit: Heartland Photography LLC
April 8 – 24, 2022
Kephart Stage
The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Jonathan Sayer, Henry Lewis, Henry Shields
The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by award-winning company Theatre Mischief. It was first published as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act play.
After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls?
Narrative by Concord Theatricals
Thank you to our Corporate Partners!
Production Sponsor – BANK VI and WEDEL FINANCIAL GROUP
CAST
Annie – Elizabeth-Ali Schade
Trevor – Scott Snyder
Chris – Nathan King
Jonathan – Christopher Graber
Robert – John Hendrick
Dennis – Chaz Coberly
Max – Alex Engelland
Sandra – Mary King
Stage Crew – Andrew Graber
Stage Crew – Jessica Ferguson
PRODUCTION
Director – Michael Spicer
Movement Coordinator – Maggie Spicer Brown
Stage Manager – Mandi Graber
Props Chief – Andi Haden
Run Crew Chief – Barb Gutsch
Photo Credit: Heartland Photography LLC
June 10 – 26, 2022
Kephart Stage
Kinky Boots
Book by: Harvey Fierstein
Music and Lyrics By: Cyndi Lauper
The exhilarating true story about a struggling shoe factory that will lift your spirits to high-heeled heights!.
Winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a joyous, Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, and a hilarious, uplifting book by four-time Tony winner, Harvey Fierstein.
Charlie Price has reluctantly inherited his father’s shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father’s legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola. A fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos, Lola turns out to be the one person who can help Charlie become the man that he is meant to be. As they work to turn the factory around, this unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible… and discover that, when you change your mind about someone, you can change your whole world.
Narrative by MTI
Thank you to our Corporate Partner!
Production Sponsor – THE BANK OF TESCOTT
CAST
Charlie Price – Alex Engelland
Young Charlie – Dawson Green**
Mr. Price – Richard Groetzinger
Lola/Simon – Simeon Rawls
Young Simon – Kingston Dowd**
Nicola – Casey Guthals Hageman**
Lauren – Mary King
Don – John Hendrick
Pat – Lanaisha Johnson**
Trish – Cathie Norris
George – Jeff Ebel
Simon Sr. – Jeremiah Johnson Jr. **
Harry – Braydon Boyer
Bailey – Kurt Krupp**
Milan Stage Manager – Paula Rolph
Angel #1 – Timothy Hernandez
Angel #2 – Jaicee Wilson
Angel #3 – Spencer Wesley
Angel #4 – Lorenz Rincones
**Indicates a performers first time in a Theatre Salina Mainstage Production.
ENSEMBLE
Ensemble/Marge – Renee Toms**
Ensemble – Tasha Deiser
Ensemble – Carley Pierce**
Ensemble – Zach Swanson
PRODUCTION
Director – Vickee Spicer
Musical Director – Gayle McMillan
Choreographer – Maggie Spicer Brown
Associate Choreographer – Anna Gutierrez
Stage Manager – Andi Haden
Props Chief – Dawn Pierce
