Gehrke acted for 40 years on the stage named for her. A memorial service was held in the theater that bears his name. Herb Williams died in 2014 in Green Bay at age 79. He may have directed more plays than anyone in the region. He retired after 30 years in May 1996 and continued to direct and perform in Green Bay and the Fox Cities. He loved to act and appeared many times in leading roles at Theatre on the Bay. Everyone in the family has bagged their fair share of bucks except Rueben. Williams was professor of communication arts and artistic director of Theatre on the Bay with a lively and engaging personality. A family in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan has a storied tradition of deer hunting. The design of the stage was one of the first of its kind in the region. Three steps lead to the stage, which today bears the name The Nancy A. The theater includes brick walls on both sides of the stage and a white ceiling of half circles radiating from the stage, with the area above the stage exposed for the guts of the lighting grid. Central in the theater is a thrust stage, a half octagon that the audience surrounds. The bay of Green Bay is in shouting distance to the east. Williams Theatre is located in the Fine Arts Building of the University of Wisconsin-Marinette, 750 W. Note: Masks required due to COVID-19 protocol. Running time: 85 minutes (no intermission)
#Escanaba in the moonlight movie#
“Dumb and Dumber,” a jillion other movie and TV roles, currently on Broadway in the iconic “To Kill a Mockingbird” as Atticus Finch… and having written the earthy and happily weird “Escanaba in Da Moonlight” – extraordinary.Ĭreative: Playwright – Jeff Daniels director – Patrick Hines set designer – Joshua LaLonde lighting design and sound technician – Chris Weber costumer – Annalisa Mines stage manager – James Porras II (Warren Gerds)įinal thought: Jeff Daniels defies being boxed. It’s wild and woolly production that’s a hoot. He breaks into singing a hymn, spews lines like throwing darts and moves and gestures with tight, snappy actions. Jeff Daniels totally rips Department of Natural Resources agents, and Chris Mayse leaps into that fray. A family of hunters in Michigan deals with the eldest son (Jeff Daniels) who has never shot his own deer. Whoa.Ĭhris Mayse is – another whoa – ramrod solid as Ranger Tom, a sendup of a family-hated DNR agent. Another one is a gas – or four or five gas, as in the passing thereof. Patrick Mines’ feat of “acting” includes downing a pint of what Jimmer believes is homemade hooch in one take. Jimmer is a dumpy guy, a dumpy dresser and a legendary guzzler. Mines does a twofer – directing this controlled mayhem to bundles of laughs and also playing Jimmer, the hairy UFO escapee who sort of speaks in tongues.
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