OTP Volunteer Table: Recent Episodes
Old Town Playhouse Volunteers
We chat with Katie in the Green Room of the Old Town Playhouse about her upcoming play Something Rotten. The musical will be perform May 12 through June 3. Katie tells us of the travails and putting up a large musical comedy. It is not Shakespeare but Shakespeare does make an appearance.
The Old Town Playhouse announced their 2023-24 season and we chat with Phil about the plays, director applications, and more.
Our Aged To Perfection group meets and performs at the Old Town Playhouse. Unlike the regular playhouse players the ATP has restrictions. You must have reached the age to 55 to join our group. Yes, age discrimination! This is just the way it is and we are proud of it. Hettie and Cathy explain.
We chat about her time at the playhosue and her work on The play that goes wrong. The chat went right.
We discuss the role of Stage Manager at the playhouse. Denni has played at the Playhouse for a long time and performed the role of Stage Manager for our production of The Laramie Project". Allison has performed on stage and had back stage responsibilities , however, for The Laramie Project" she took on the role of Asst. Stage Manager and worked with Denni, who mentored her.
We chat with Cherie about her original compositions for the Old Town Playhouse's current production of The Laramie Project.
Michelle and Dan perform in the Old Town Playhouse's production of The Laramie Project. We chat about the their roles and the play.
We chat with Terri Heffron about the nuts and bolts of putting The Laramie Project on the Old Town Playhouse main stage.
Meaghan and Nick tell us how it feels to rehearse a show and have it cancelled just before opening, wait two years then finally open.
Ed and Pat are playhouse members who have worked on stage for several years. However, in Cinderella, the production we just closed, they worked back stage. Lets find out what that means.
June Zambrana plays the role of Prince in our production of Cinderella while Trevor Van Aasche plays the role of Jean Michele. This is our chat.
Darci and Samantha are the co-Dance Captains for our production of Cinderella. We chat about this and more.
We chat with Carson Clark, a volunteer at the playhouse for several years and Gary Brown, this is his first show here. There is an age gap as well.
Abigail Baggott and Sarah Mikulski share the role of Cinderella in Old Town Playhouse's production of Cinderella. We chat about the role and what they did to prepare plus go far afield.
We chat with Stephanie and Dina about the how they got into the cast and how the process works for them.
WE chat with Karen torti, Kathy Lewis, Hannah Gordon and Bradley Roswell about costume changes during a play. How it's done.
Carly Molenkamp has never been involved in theater. She had never been in the playhouse until she volunteered. What does a new person to the Playhouse see and feel? Our chat with Carly is a window.
The scary times are with us at the Playhouse. Not halloween but auditions! We chat with Betsy about her upcoming auditions for Cinderella.
DEnni has waited 2 years to direct Savanna Sipping Society. Why? Our chat will tell the story.
Steve just added Escanaba in Da Moonlight to his extensive resume of Old Town Playhouse productions. We chat about this and more.
Andrew just completed Escanaba in the Moonlight and now is off on an adventure. We chat.
Everybody has a nickname at the Playhouse. Some nicknames are not public, some are rarely used and one, in particular, is used almost exclusively. That is Lil' Bit for Elizabeth Stewart. Here is her story.
The Old Town Playhouse has an improv group within the Aged to Perfection group. Mike Spry leads this group and chats with us about the program.
Margaret Anne is a member of the ATP group at the Playhouse and will direct a play for them going up on October 1, 2021. Hear about it here.
Every orchestra we have for our musicals requires Trumpets. We chat with some of those trumpeters today.
Whether you need a seam stitched, and nail driven or a set dressed, Nancy is your goto girl.
The playhouse is back! We had our show directors give a short presentation on each of their shows for our 21-22 season.
What possesses you to come tot he playhouse? Could be any reason but for Joanie it was a boy!
Phil began in theater at a tender age but went to work and put his theater on hold for many years. Now, we hear his story.
On July 18, 2021 the Playhouse celebrated their volunteers with a party in our parking lot. Every volunteer regardless of participation is a valued resource to the theater. During this party we honored several of our volunteers who worked "outside the script" in support of the playhouse. These are special recognitions of service. Terri Heffron, Dan Mello and Tracey c. Towner were so honored.
In any type of theater or entertainment one must be heard. We call that projection. Diane Clark will share with us how to be heard.
Our chat with the 4 directors of Theater Under the Tent productions presented at the Old Town Playhouse plus a chat with Deb Jackson, the executive Director of the Playhouse, about the TUTT season.
We chat about Annie's time at the playhouse, her departure, and her return. We, also, learn about "Stage of Fools" an original podcast play, a comedy, based on community theater.
Jeff's work takes him away from the playhouse for most of the year. Hoes does he live without theater?
Kerr, originally, directed THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST on the main stage in September, 2020. He, in collaboration with the Traverse Area District Library, mounted the production again with the same actors however this time it was on the internet. We find out how it was accomplished.
It is fun to chat with new members. These two have been with the playhouse a short time but have make a huge impact.
Harriett has directed many plays at the Playhouse and has a company of players performing (pre-COVID) Reader's Theater.
Some people come to the Playhouse with theater experience. Some come just to check the Playhouse out and stay. Colleen came to the Playhouse not for these reasons but because her son wanted to join the Young Company, the education arm of the Playhouse. She did have theater experiences as well but...
Long time member of the Playhouse, Ed tells about his time at the Playhouse and his future plans post COVID.
We chatted about her involvement at the Old Town Playhouse. We. also, chatted about the online performance she and Terri Heffron collaborated on, "Phantasms of a Fevered Imagination".
In October of 2020, Terri Heffron collaborated with Cherie VanMaanen to create a streaming performance of poetry and original music. In February of 2021, she conceived and directed a presentation based on Dorothy Parker. We chatted with her about the process of creation.
A self admitted "No Talent", Dan Mello has shown a not surprising amount of roles and involvment at the Playhouse. His "No Talent" keeps getting him lead roles and some interesting parts as well.
Anybody who knows anybody knows Rick is passionate about the playhouse. He gives it his all in this chat.
Ever wonder how the sound for a show, whether the music before or the sound effects during a performance, are created? Gary chats about this and more.
Former Development Director and long time volunteer actor and director, Betsy Willis, chats with us on her take of directing a play.
In theater we always have actors, stage crew, lighting people and sound people. But only in musicals do we add musicians and a music director. Sam Clark will tell us about those people in the chat.
Chuck and Annie have vast amounts of experience in theater from time before The Playhouse. They brought is all for our to us. We are very happy.
A little chat about her and a lot of chat about directing a show from Denni Don's point of view.
Barb Goodearl and Larry Haines chat about the Playhouse's senior group, "Aged to Perfection".
Two long standing members of the playhouse community chat about the playhosue and their history.
A chat about Shakespeare with Mychelle Hopkins, a Shakespeare scholar, vokunteer at Old Town Playhosue.
Kerr Anderson and Jeff Kroger are two lead carpenters that build sets for the Old Town Playhouse. Here is some of their story.
Even with the playhouse closed due to the pandemic we still have valued volunteers. At our annual volunteer appreciation meeting we honor these individuals. Meet three of them and hear their stories.
Live from Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City, Michigan a virtual table for community theater discussions.