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Performances at the air conditioned, handicapped accessible Powerhouse in Waveny Park will take place on Friday and Saturday, July 25, 26, August 1, 2, 8 & 9 at 8PM and on Sundays, July 27 and August 3 at 2:30 PM. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors (age 62 and older). Before each performance the Town Players will accept donations for the Food Bank of New Canaan, which serves over 100 people each week. The audiences' contributions will be delivered to the Food Bank on the Monday morning following each weekend’s performances. To reserve seats, please call the Town Players box office at (203) 966-7371 or visit www.tpnc.org.
Michael Day, who has appeared with the Town Players as the father in "Proof" and as Reverend Morell, Candida's husband, in "Candida," began his Broadway career as the dance captain in "A Chorus Line," has toured with dance companies across the United States and overseas, and is an accomplished director. Mr. Wietryzchowski has created over 25 original musicals, written more than a decade of scores for The Downtown Cabaret Theatre of Bridgeport, and is Professor of Voice at the Hartt School of Music.
George Baker, who will play Bellomy, Luisa's father, has appeared with the Town Players as Eldwood P. Dowd in "Harvey" and in "Next Station to Heaven II," and also roles with the Sterling Barn Theatre and the Westport Community Theatre. For the past fifteen years he has written for and appeared in New Canaan's annual Gridiron Club Show and in February, March and April of this year, he appeared with Regina Todd for Sunday afternoon concerts at the New Canaan Library, featuring songs of Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, and Duke Ellington. Beginning this spring he has portrayed the character of President John Adams in his one-man show performed more than 25 times throughout New England. Don Martocchio played the role of Matt at the Charles Playhouse in Boston and now thirty years hence, a little wiser and more experienced, will portray El Gallo. While at Harvard, Mr. Martochhio also had leading roles in "Dames at Sea," "Cabaret," "Company" and "Candide," and before moving to New Canaan sang with the Blue Hill Troupe in New York City. More recently, he has performed his one-man shows, "Life Is A Cabaret," Midlife Crisis Cabaret," and "Give Me A Voice" at the Regency Hotel and the Metropolitan Room in New York, as well as the Inn at Longshore in Westport, CT. Appearing as Hucklebee, Matt's father, will be Bill McGaughey. Over the past ten years he has performed regularly with the Connecticut Choraliers in over twenty cabaret/revue style productions doing a variety of musical theatre, jazz, pop and standards. Most recently he has had roles in “The Music Man” at Curtain Call and in "Yeoman of the Guard" with the Troupers Light Opera Company. Mr. McGaughey traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe with the Collegiate Singers, a professional performance ensemble that shared the stage with such notables as Bob Hope and Dinah Shore. In the role of The Mute, who never speaks but is always present propelling the play's action forward, will be Terry Le Bel. She appeared this year with the Troupers Light Opera in Gilbert & Sullivan's "Yeomen of the Guard" and since 2000 has performed in two musicals reviews per year with the Connecticut Choraliers Show Chorus. Ms. Le Bel has produced two musical reviews for the Connecticut Nurses Association, "Celebrating the Decades" and "Nursing, Yesterday and Today."
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