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April 20, 2007
RIPON, Wis. – The Ripon Summer Players will start their second decade of live theatre with Charles Morey’s frantic comedy “Laughing Stock,” Thursday, May 31 through Saturday, June 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Benstead Theatre of Ripon College’s Rodman Center for the Arts.
The hilarious backstage farce follows an overmatched summer-stock theatre company through wild auditions, chaotic rehearsals, disastrous opening nights, and eventual dramatic success.
The Salt Lake City Weekly said, “Laughing Stock soars as farce. The delightful thing is that Morey strikes a balance between a depiction of everything that can and usually does go wrong and a genuinely affectionate look at the magic that holds theatre companies together.”
The play features a cast of 13 talented performers, some veterans of the Ripon Summer and some new to the summer stage. The cast includes Robert Amsden, Amy Dorman, Mark Geldmeyer, Bryan Gerretsen, Stephanie Hasz, Amy Hill, Tylor S. Loest, Dan Olson, Brian Reilly, Jim Tronoff, Robin Woods, Amy Vanden Hogen, and Vida VandeSlunt. Kenneth Hill, Ripon College professor of Theatre, directs “Laughing Stock” and Susan McDaniel Hill, adjunct Theatre professor, is the technical director.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $6 for students and seniors, and are available in advance at Ripon Drug or at the door the night of performance. The Ripon Summer Players, a program of Ripon Noon Kiwanis and the Ripon College Theatre Department, has provided quality live theatre to the Ripon area for ten seasons.
About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 361 College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s, and among the 160 best schools in the nation by Colleges of Distinction. For more information about Ripon College, visit www.ripon.edu.
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