Theatre Company of Saugus

Something old, something new,
something tried, and something fun to do!
That is what our new season brings to you!
TCS is proud to announce its 2016-2017 season!

Planning for the next Theatre Company of Saugus season had been delayed.  Since we didn’t have a new permanent home during the first half of 2016, we didn’t know where we would be performing or rehearsing.

Now we are pleased to announce that we have a home for the first show of our season (at least).  We will be at the American Legion Hall in Saugus.

Despite the uncertainty, the board of directors came up with a slate of shows that we think can be performed in a smaller venue and rehearsed wherever.  The exact timing of each some of the shows is to be determined.

The general membership approved the plan at our General Membership Meeting on Wednesday 29 June 2016.

• Heathers, a recent musical based on the cult movie from the 1980s.  (We had also been consdidering Pippin but rights to it are restricted now.)  We will do this during the Halloween season, the last two weekends of October 2016.
• A Miscast Musical Revue.  This is your opportunity to perform a song that you would normally never get to do.  Cast yourself against type.  In early December 2016.
• Lost In Yonkers.  The Pulitzer Prize-winning comic drama by Neil Simon, in winter 2017.
• Nunsense 2, The Second Coming.  The second in our planned series of musical comedies about funny nuns, in spring 2017.
• An entry in the EMACT Drama Festival, to be determined.  Propose a show to us, that runs under an hour long.

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During 12-14 May 2016, the Saugus High School Drama Club presented the comic musical Shrek.  Based on the animated film.

The production was directed by Steve Black, the drama teacher at Saugus High.  Steve has been a helpful collaborator with TCS.  Shrek was performed in the Lemoine-Mitchell Performing Arts Center at Saugus High, just two weeks after the TCS production of Urinetown.  Half of the Urinetown set was left in place for Shrek.  All of the lighting equipment was rented for an extended period and used for both shows.

Several TCS members participated in Shrek.  Gabby Silva (a teaching assistant for the 2015 Youth Theatre Workshop) played the leading role of Fiona, the princess rescued by Shrek the ogre.

Two students who have been on the TCS stage multiple times since they were little were featured as some of the many fairy tale characters who invade the ogre’s swamp home.  Autumn Dion played Mama Bear, and William Fafard Jr. played Humpty Dumpty and the Pied Piper.  Both were also in the dance ensemble.

Elvira Schoenthal (who appeared in our recent production of The Laramie Project) was the costume designer for Shrek.  TCS president Amanda Allen was the makeup designer; providing the prosthetics for Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona.  Larry Segel was the lighting designer.  James Wlodyka was the Sound Designer and Operator.

Local reporter Neil Zolot of the Saugus Advertiser has written an article about the production, including quotes from some of the TCS participants.