The award-winning Moorestown Theater Company will present a great night for theater lovers, as its Scenes & Songs II will showcase 15 different musicals and plays starting on Friday, Sept. 19. The production will include a scene from Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,” with Channel 6abc News Anchor Rick Williams playing the sloppy, easygoing ‘Oscar Madison’ and MTC Producing Artistic Director Mark Morgan playing the neat, uptight ‘Felix Unger’. Scenes & Songs was created in 2013 by MTC Trustee Tom McHale, who has directed both productions.
There will be six performances of Scenes & Songs II, which will be performed by a 41-member adult cast. The production will be at Westfield Friends School, 2201 Riverton Road in Cinnaminson as follows:
-Friday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m.
-Saturday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
-Friday, Sept. 26 at 7 PM
-Saturday, Sept. 27 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
All tickets are reserved and are $10. Tickets can be ordered on-line at www.MoorestownTheaterCompany.org or they can be purchased at the door an hour before curtain time. Due to some mature dialogue and lyrics, MTC is suggesting a rating of PG-13 for this production. For more information, visit the MTC Website or call (856) 778–8357.
Besides The Odd Couple, there will be scenes performed from these other plays or television programs:
The Breakfast Club • Death Of A Salesman • Monty Python’s Flying Circus • Moonstruck
There will also be songs performed from these Broadway musicals:
A Chorus Line • The Full Monty • A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum • Hair • How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying • Into the Woods • Little Women •
The Phantom Of The Opera • Rent • West Side Story
“For a wonderful variety of theater performances, you just can’t spend your entertainment dollars better than by buying tickets to see the Moorestown Theater Company’s Alternative Stage production of Scenes & Songs II”, said McHale, a Moorestown resident and Financial Planner for PNC Investments, who besides directing the overall production, is directing six of the 15 individual scenes and songs. “After a great debut last year, I am even more excited about the level of talented performers who are in this year’s production.”
The other members of the Directing Staff for MTC’s Alternative Stage ’14 are: Directors Bruce Jordan (Moorestown), Brendan McHale (Moorestown), Morgan (Moorestown), Carol Ann Murray (Moorestown), Debbi Nanni (Moorestown), Mark Pinzur (Cherry Hill), Chris Resavy (Lumberton) and Thom Sirkot (Merchantville); Vocal Directors Murray and Pinzur; Choreographers Lizi Baldwin (Delanco), Julia McHale (Moorestown), Kaitlin Tumulty (Moorestown) and Kathy McHale Williamson (Allentown, PA).
“Where Families Have Fun Performing Musical Theater Together”
The Productions Staff consists of Morgan (Producer), Murray (Producer and Costume Manager and Properties Designer), Beverly Bennett (Music Director, Mount Laurel), Annette De Rosa (Assistant Producer, Moorestown), Taylor Adair (Technical Director, Moorestown), Resavy (Stage Manager), Sirkot (Costume & Make-Up Designer) and Bridget Gibbs (Hair & Wig Designer, Moorestown).
The Moorestown Theater Company is a non-profit 501©(3) performing arts organization, incorporated in 2003, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Morgan, Managing Director Carol Ann Murray, and Administrative Director Annette De Rosa. MTC, which prides itself on being the place “where families have fun performing musical theater together”, presents the following “season” of annual productions:
“Junior Stage” (a children’s musical at the Jr. Theater Festival in January);
“Winter Stage” (a children’s musical in March);
“Spring Stage” (a Film & TV Camp or Modeling Camp held during the MTPS Spring Break week, April);
“Counsel Stage” (a musical for the middle school students of Our Lady of Good Counsel School, April);
“First Stage” (a pre-teen children’s musical, May);
“Main Stage” (an all-ages Summer Musical, July);
“Summer Stage” (a children’s musical theater camp with four musical productions, July and August);
“Alternative Stage” (an adult performance of Scenes and Songs, September);
“Extrava-Gala” (a fund-raising dinner dance and auction, October);
“Quaker Stage” (a musical for the students of Westfield Friends School, October);
“Second Stage” (an adult musical, November); and
“Fall Stage” (a children’s musical, December).
MTC also offers Spring and Fall Studio Classes in acting, dancing and singing with a session-ending Spring Recital, as well as private voice and dance lessons, and individual audition coaching sessions. MTC was the only theater company of 93 participating theater companies to receive three acting awards earlier this year at the prestigious Jr. Theater Festival in Atlanta, Ga. MTC is actively looking for its ‘own’ building to house all of these activities.
