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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Theater review:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font><font size=5 color=red><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>Charming 'Main-Travelled Roads' is perfect
for Actors' <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City></span></font><font
color=red><span style='color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Size, style of musical a good fit for <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hudson</st1:City></st1:place> theater <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>By Kerry Clawson<br>
Beacon Journal staff writer <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>POSTED: 01:43 p.m. EDT, Sep 22, 2008 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The sparkling little musical <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Main-Travelled Road</span></i>s, being performed
through Oct. 5 by Actors' <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City>,
has kernels of truth that are universal to the human experience, no what
century you live in. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The story's portraits of turn-of-the-century life in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:place></st1:State> bring to life
the heartbreaks of love lost due to tragic misunderstanding; the destructive
forces of jealousy and inadequacy; the yearning for ethnic assimilation; the
hopelessness of a crumbled marriage; and worries about survival during
desperate economic times. These themes could just as well be set in 2008 <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The tales are based on the 1891 short stories of
Hamlin Garland, who was born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">West
Salem</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:State></st1:place> in
1860, seven years before Laura Ingalls Wilder would be born just a few miles
north. Pioneer life in that part of the country obviously provided hearty
literary fodder that still resonates today. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It may come as a surprise that the vignettes in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Main-Travelled Roads</span></i> aren't all light and
airy: Each has a strong dose of painful heartache. That's the very reason why <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Main-Travelled Roads</span></i> draws you in. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sasha Thackaberry makes a bright directorial debut at
Actors' Summit, assembling a vivacious, talented cast of four. She not only
elicits impeccable dramatic and comedic timing from her cast, her creative hand
can be seen everywhere, from the clothesline that winds its away around the
proscenium for quick, onstage costume changes to her lively choreography. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Actors Kathleen Culler and Keith Stevens are especially
sweet singing and dancing to <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Small Town
Telegraph, </span></i>a tune about gossip. Later, the machinery-driven <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Threshing</span></i> creates a dramatic shift in
atmosphere, all created by the four cast members' movements. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>Main-Travelled
Roads</span></font></i> is the perfect size and style musical for Actors'
Summit, which did wonders last season with the intimate <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Quilters</span></i>, a beautiful, heartfelt piece
about the joys and sorrows of American pioneer women. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Actors' Summit's show marks the regional premiere
for this charming little musical, which was developed at the Chicago Stages
Festival of New Musicals in 2006, played at Madison Repertory Theater last year
and at New York's Barrow St. Theatre this year. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Culler provides much of the heart of the story as
Aggie, who begins as a young, starry-eyed innocent. One of the most eloquent
moments in the show occurs when Aggie says her one true love ''tore a seared
and ragged path to an innocent, happy heart.'' <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stephen Brockway creates a vivid characterization as
the cruel, brutish Dave, a hardened man who has been pummeled by life. This
excellent Equity actor demonstrates his range through his other character, Ed,
a lighthearted dandy of a creamery man. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stevens delivers the most humor, from his deadpan
portrayal of a disapproving father to his crazy characterization of an
obnoxious German mother. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rounding out the cast is C.J. Bonde as the endearing
Nina, a German girl who wears her heart on her sleeve. It's hard to believe
this assured young actress is only a senior in high school. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Though each of the show's characters comes from
different backgrounds, most experience some form of hardship, loneliness or
isolation in these stories of rural life. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thackaberry has created bare-bones staging with a
picnic bench symbolizing everything from a wagon to a piano. This homespun
simplicity enhances audience members' abilities to actively use their
imaginations. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Theatergoers can thank Bob and Marty Hills (she's a
theater trustee) for discovering this enriching show during their travels and
bringing word of it back to Actors' Summit co-artistic directors MaryJo
Alexander and Neil Thackaberry, paving the way for its local production.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Kerry Clawson may be reached at 330-996-3527 or <a
href="mailto:kclawson@thebeaconjournal.com">kclawson@thebeaconjournal.com</a>.<br>
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Details<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Musical: Main-Travelled
Roads <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>When: Continuing through
Oct. 5, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Where: Actors’
Summit, 86 Owen Brown St., Hudson <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Onstage: C.J. Bonde,
Stephen Brockway, Kathleen Culler, Keith Stevens <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Offstage: Paul Libman,
music; David Hudson, book/lyrics; Sasha Thackaberry, director/choreographer;
Evie Morris, musical director; Peter Voinovich, assistant director; MaryJo
Alexander, costumes/props/set; Neil Thackaberry, lighting; Constance
Thackaberry and Debra DeRoche, set crew <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Price: $25-$28; senior
citizens, $22 Thursdays and Sundays; students, $7 all performances <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Information: 330-342-0800<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The sparkling little musical <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Main-Travelled Road</span></i>s, being performed
through Oct. 5 by Actors' Summit, has kernels of truth that are universal to
the human experience, no what century you live in.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The story's portraits of turn-of-the-century life in
Wisconsin bring to life the heartbreaks of love lost due to tragic
misunderstanding; the destructive forces of jealousy and inadequacy; the
yearning for ethnic assimilation; the hopelessness of a crumbled marriage; and
worries about survival during desperate economic times. These themes could just
as well be set in 2008 America.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The tales are based on the 1891 short stories of
Hamlin Garland, who was born in West Salem, Wisconsin in 1860, seven years
before Laura Ingalls Wilder would be born just a few miles north. Pioneer life
in that part of the country obviously provided hearty literary fodder that
still resonates today.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It may come as a surprise that the vignettes in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Main-Travelled Roads</span></i> aren't all light and
airy: Each has a strong dose of painful heartache. That's the very reason why <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Main-Travelled Roads</span></i> draws you in.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sasha Thackaberry makes a bright directorial debut at
Actors' Summit, assembling a vivacious, talented cast of four. She not only
elicits impeccable dramatic and comedic timing from her cast, her creative hand
can be seen everywhere, from the clothesline that winds its away around the
proscenium for quick, onstage costume changes to her lively choreography.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Actors Kathleen Culler and Keith Stevens are
especially sweet singing and dancing to <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Small
Town Telegraph, </span></i>a tune about gossip. Later, the machinery-driven <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Threshing</span></i> creates a dramatic shift in
atmosphere, all created by the four cast members' movements.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>Main-Travelled
Roads</span></font></i> is the perfect size and style musical for Actors'
Summit, which did wonders last season with the intimate <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Quilters</span></i>, a beautiful, heartfelt piece
about the joys and sorrows of American pioneer women.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Actors' Summit's show marks the regional premiere
for this charming little musical, which was developed at the Chicago Stages
Festival of New Musicals in 2006, played at Madison Repertory Theater last year
and at New York's Barrow St. Theatre this year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Culler provides much of the heart of the story as
Aggie, who begins as a young, starry-eyed innocent. One of the most eloquent
moments in the show occurs when Aggie says her one true love ''tore a seared
and ragged path to an innocent, happy heart.''<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stephen Brockway creates a vivid characterization as
the cruel, brutish Dave, a hardened man who has been pummeled by life. This
excellent Equity actor demonstrates his range through his other character, Ed,
a lighthearted dandy of a creamery man.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stevens delivers the most humor, from his deadpan
portrayal of a disapproving father to his crazy characterization of an
obnoxious German mother.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rounding out the cast is C.J. Bonde as the endearing
Nina, a German girl who wears her heart on her sleeve. It's hard to believe
this assured young actress is only a senior in high school.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Though each of the show's characters comes from
different backgrounds, most experience some form of hardship, loneliness or
isolation in these stories of rural life.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thackaberry has created bare-bones staging with a
picnic bench symbolizing everything from a wagon to a piano. This homespun
simplicity enhances audience members' abilities to actively use their
imaginations.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Theatergoers can thank Bob and Marty Hills (she's a
theater trustee) for discovering this enriching show during their travels and
bringing word of it back to Actors' Summit co-artistic directors MaryJo
Alexander and Neil Thackaberry, paving the way for its local production.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:line id="_x0000_s1027"
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