Footlight players gala8/10/2023 Shelly Lillibridge has been in several productions for the Footlight Players and directed many children's shows. He just keeps messing up every single time because something happens and it kind of catches him off guard," Addom said of his character. He's the one trying to get everything done correct while everything is happening behind him or to him. "Jonathan I would say is the serious one out of everyone. The senior at the Coshocton County Career Center plays Jonathan, who is Charles Haversham, the murder victim in "Haversham Manor." While most of the performers are experienced actors, Ryan Addom is in his first play ever. There are some nights where we hit it on all points and if we could bottle that up for every night, we would just knock it out of the park." We know how to ramp it up," Wickham said of the veteran cast doing comedy. The actors are the offense, but that backstage crew is the defense and you can't win a game without a good defense," Osso said.ĭavid Wickham is Dennis, who portrays Perkins the butler in the "Murder at Haversham Manor." Wickham describes Perkins as someone who loves the theater, but isn't that best at memorizing or pronouncing lines. "If you want to put a sports analogy on it. There is also a large backstage crew and two back stage managers, which is rare for a community theater play. It's a set Osso calls the ninth character on stage. He knows of a director in Tuscarawas County who said she would love to do "The Play That Goes Wrong," but is intimidated by the elaborate set. And that just doubles the pleasure of being involved in community theater." Because, you're supposed to be laughing and having fun. "When you do theater and you do comedies, it's an absolute blast. "You're trying to figure out both angles, 'Haversham Manor,' but then the real play, 'The Play that Goes Wrong,'" Osso said of the play within the play aspect. As the script notes, these "are not bad actors, but the victims of unfortunate circumstance."ĭave Osso plays Chris, the leader of the drama society making his directorial debut who is also Inspector Carter in the murder mystery. This includes the props breaking, actors blowing lines, a fire on stage and a second floor collapsing. Throughout the course of the performance, about everything that could go wrong with a stage play does. The Cornley Drama Society is staging "The Murder at Haversham Manor," a serious murder mystery set during an engagement party at a palatial estate in the winter of 1922. It has since spawned several sequel productions such as "Peter Pan That Goes Wrong" opening on Broadway this spring and "The Goes Wrong Show" that ran for two seasons of 12 episodes on the BBC. "The Play That Goes Wrong" was first performed in 2012 in England by the Mischief Theatre Company and came to Broadway in 2017. COSHOCTON − A trendy comedy that combines the physical slapstick of the Three Stooges and the wit of the Marx Brothers is opening for the Coshocton Footlight Players.
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