Are there no study guides for your final three presentations this spring? Is this another financial cut back?

has this been cast yet?

[...] Center Stage is gearing up for the production of Grey Gardens May 26th-June 21st. This is one that we're really looking forward to! You can help build the [...]

We post the cast bios once they have had the opportunity to sign off on the final draft of the playbill. We’ll post them in the next day or so.

Grey Gardens was fabulous!! My second favorite of the season (it’s hard to get better than Storm…)

This comment from Judy was left on the blog:

I have to say, this is a fabulous play, and from the pov of a female who was a child in the early ’50s it is a disturbing image of our culture then. I loved it. And the costumes…my god! Thank you Chris, cast and crew for another home run!

[...] went to the opening night of Grey Gardens and sat front and center, because I’m way fancy like that. I also had cocktails prior and [...]

Our apologies on the delay for the study guides this season. Our plan is to have all the guides for the year up and running by the opening of next season. We’ll kepp you posted.

We were at the Tuesday evening, June 9 show. We thought the production was good but we were disappointed that Sharonlee McLean was not “off book”. I don’t know what transpired as Dale Soules understudy, but the fact that she was not only “on book” but with her face in “the book” much of the second act, I couldn’t help but think we weren’t seeing the real depth of the second act. It was very disappointing to say the least. Rocky Blumhagen

I completely understand that it is not the optimum situation to have an understudy who needs to be on book. Unfortunately in this case, circumstances required contracting an understudy at the last minute. The alternative would have been to cancel the evening’s performance, and we felt that canceling would have been more of a disappointment to our audience.

Friday 6/12 – we attended our first performance at your theatre. (Grey Gardens) We were so excited about attending. Loved the first act but the second act was a brick. Having a key actor with her face in the book (reading line by line) was so distracting. Considering we paid $67 per seat – we were astonished by the poor performance.

Don’t think we will be attending another performance anytime soon.

The Gerding Theatre was beautiful though.

Even though the production has ended its run, I still feel strongly enough about the understudy situation to add this comment. Perhaps, in future, the management will add the fact that an understudy will carry a script in the performance, should it be necessary, at the time the understudy announcement is made. In this way, the audience knows what to expect and has the opportunity to root for the actor, rather than feeling hoodwinked. As an audience member, this has been my experience in similar situations at other theatres.