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July 21, 2022 · 10:28 am

JEKYLL AND HYDE Runs Aug. 18-21

INNOVA_Jekyll & Hyde logoJEKYLL AND HYDE
INNOVAtheatre
Aug. 18-21
Sorg Opera House [Middletown]

Directed by Richard Lee Waldeck 
Music directed by Lorri B. Johnson-Topping

Cast: Tanner Brown as Jekyll/Hyde, iz Lindon as Lucy, Laura Bay as Emma, Brian Laughlin as Sir Danvers, Jacob Nichols as Utterson, Forrest Fairley as Bishop of Basingstoke, Terry Neack as Lady Glossop, Matthew Ebersbach as Sir Archibald Proops, Davis Byrd as Spider & Stride, Jeannine Parson as Lady Beaconsfield, Spencer Jones as Bissett/Ensemble, Robert White as Poole/Ensemble, Joey Mason as Featured Engagement Party Dancer/Ensemble, Bri Landrum as Nellie/Featured Red Rat Dancer/Ensemble, Michaela Pandorf as Dance Captain/Featured Red Rat Dancer/Featured Engagement Party Dancer & Ensemble, Christyn New as Featured Red Rat Dancer/Featured Engagement Party Dancer & Ensemble and Krista Schaeffer as Featured Red Rat Dancer/Featured Engagement Party Dancer & Ensemble
Ensemble: Bridget Sciartelli, Jamie Pavlofsky, Tamar Fishbein, Joanie Marie Kienlen, Michelle Bellamy, Melanie Brown & Thomas R. Coop

An evocative tale of two men – one a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other a terrifying madman – and two women – one beautiful and trusting; the other beautiful and trusting only herself. Both women are in love with the same man and both unaware of his dark secret. A devoted man of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that can solve some of mankind’s most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuffed by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his own experimental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons along with the man that the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde.

  • Thu-Fri, Aug. 18-19 at 8pm
  • Sat, Aug. 20 at 3pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Aug. 21 at 3pm

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June 22, 2022 · 11:57 am

Disney’s FREAKY FRIDAY Runs July 21-24

INNOVA_Freaky Friday logoDisney’s FREAKY FRIDAY
INNOVAtheatre
July 21-24
Sorg Opera House [Middletown]

Directed by Denise A Schnieders
Music direction by Jovonné Lewis

The new musical, Freaky Friday, is based on the beloved 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers and the hit Disney films. It is developed by Disney Theatrical Productions expressly for licensing to theatres, and features a book by Bridget Carpenter – the co-executive producer and writer on the beloved TV hits, “Friday Night Lights” and “Parenthood.” Music and lyrics by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey – the Pulitzer Prize-winning composers of “Next to Normal” and “If/Then.”

When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again. Freaky Friday, a new musical based on the celebrated novel by Mary Rodgers and the hit Disney films, is a heartfelt, comedic, and unexpectedly emotional update on an American classic. By spending a day in each other’s shoes, Katherine and Ellie come to appreciate one another’s struggles, learn self-acceptance, and realize the immeasurable love and mutual respect that bond a mother and daughter.

  • Thu-Fri, July 21-22 at 8pm
  • Sat, July 23 at 3pm & 8pm
  • Sun, July 24 at 3pm

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June 19, 2022 · 8:52 am

2021-2022 Orchid Awards for INNOVAtheatre

INNOV_logoINTO THE WOODS

  • EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTION – Aaron Washington
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Brooke Partin
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Sophie Caton
  • EXCELLENCE IN OTHER – Nelson Riley For Milky White Design & Construction
  • EXCELLENCE IN SOUND DESIGN – Zeke Plymesser

LITTLE WOMEN

  • EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTION – Anna Rae Brown & Michaela Cramer
  • EXCELLENCE IN ENSEMBLE – Anna Rae Brown & Michaela Cramer and the Cast
  • EXCELLENCE IN LIGHT DESIGN – Richard Lee Waldeck
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Abriella Ruby
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Angela Allen
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Linnzie Hays
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Max Fox
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Nicholas Brown
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Robert Rhodes

SCROOGE the Musical

  • EXCELLENCE IN COSTUME DESIGN – Poleena Greely
  • EXCELLENCE IN LIGHT DESIGN – Richard Lee Waldeck
  • EXCELLENCE IN LOBBY DISPLAY – Denise A. Schnieders
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Nick Dunker
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – TJ Montgomery
  • EXCELLENCE IN PROPERTIES – Denise Schneiders, Richard Lee Waldeck, and Michael Greely
  • EXCELLENCE IN SOUND DESIGN – Richard Lee Waldeck

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

  • EXCELLENCE IN COSTUME DESIGN – Anna Rae Brown & Jeanne Schindler
  • EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTION – Nicholas Brown
  • EXCELLENCE IN ENSEMBLE – Nicholas Brown & The Cast
  • EXCELLENCE IN LIGHT DESIGN – Richard Lee Waldeck
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Abby Brown
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Clare Hingsbergen
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Jacob Nichols
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Liz Lindon
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Samuel Horton
  • EXCELLENCE IN ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE – Judy Mansky & The Orchestra
  • EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCING – Abby James & Kat Brown
  • EXCELLENCE IN SOUND DESIGN – Zeke Plymesser
  • EXCELLENCE IN VOCAL DIRECTION – Adelyn Rae Helms

TUCK EVERLASTING

  • EXCELLENCE IN CHOREOGRAPHY – Aaron Washington, Tomi Newman & Featured Dancers
  • EXCELLENCE IN COSTUME DESIGN – Poleena Greely
  • EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTION – Aaron Washington
  • EXCELLENCE IN ENSEMBLE – Aaron Washington & Cast
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Abriella Ruby
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Griffin Greear
  • EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE – Max Fox
  • EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCING – Denise A. Schnieders & Michaela Cramer

 

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June 10, 2022 · 11:31 am

Cast Announced for JEKYLL & HYDE at INNOVAtheatre

INNOV_logoINNOVAtheatre is excited to announce our cast of JEKYLL & HYDE the musical.

Congratulations to all those that showed us what was behind their facade!

Running Aug. 18-21, tickets are on sale now at www.SorgOperaHouse.org.

The cast includes:

  • Jekyll/Hyde……Tanner Brown
  • Lucy…….Liz Lindon
  • Emma……..Laura Bay
  • Sir Danvers……Brian Laughlin
  • Utterson……Jacob Nichols
  • Bishop of Basingstoke…Forrest Fairley
  • Lady Glossop………Terry Neack
  • Sir Archibald Proops.Matthew Ebersbach
  • Spider & Stride…..Davis Byrd
  • Lady Beaconsfield…..Jeannine Parson
  • Bissett/Ensemble….Spencer Jones
  • Poole/Ensemble….. Robert White
  • Featured Engagement Party Dancer/Ensemble…Joey Mason
  • Nellie/Featured Red Rat Dancer/Ensemble…Bri Landrum
  • Dance Captain/Featured Red Rat Dancer/Featured Engagement Party Dancer & Ensemble…Michaela Pandorf
  • Featured Red Rat Dancer/Featured Engagement Party Dancer &
  • Ensemble…Christyn New
  • Featured Red Rat Dancer/Featured Engagement Party Dancer &
  • Ensemble…Krista Schaeffer
  • Ensemble…Bridget Sciartelli
  • Ensemble….Jamie Pavlofsky
  • Ensemble….Tamar Fishbein
  • Ensemble…Joanie Marie Kienlen
  • Ensemble….Michelle Bellamy
  • Ensemble….Melanie Brown
  • Ensemble….Thomas R. Coop

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May 30, 2022 · 10:26 am

INNOVAtheatre Presents CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD

INNOVA_Considering Matthew Shepard logoINNOVAtheatre presents Craig Hella Johnson’s CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD in five performances:

  • Thursday through Saturday, June 2nd -4th, 8:00 PM
  • Saturday & Sunday June 4th & 5th, 3:00 PM

CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD explores the life, death and legacy of Matthew Shepard. With the Musical Direction of Sarah Plaugher, INNOVA will be joined by a diverse ensemble of musicians to bring this work to the Sorg Opera House.

A three-part fusion oratorio, CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD speaks with a fresh and bold voice, incorporating a variety of musical styles seamlessly woven into a unified whole. Johnson sets a wide range of poetic and soulful texts by poets including Hildegard of Bingen, Lesléa Newman, Michael Dennis Browne, and Rumi. Passages from Matt’s personal journal, interviews and writings from his parents Judy and Dennis Shepard, newspaper reports, and additional texts by Johnson and Browne are poignantly appointed throughout the work.

In October of 1998, Matthew Shepard, a young, gay student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie was kidnapped, severely beaten, and tied to a fence. He died five days later. Approaching the eve of the 20th anniversary, Craig Hella Johnson responded with his composition, Considering Matthew Shepard.

“Matt Shepard and his story have led me on an inspiring, challenging and deeply meaningful journey that I continue to this day. In composing Considering Matthew Shepard I wanted to create, within a musical framework, a space for reflection, consideration and unity around his life and legacy.” — Craig Hella Johnson, composer

Tickets available in advance or at the door: $25.00.

Visit www.SorgOperaHouse.org.

Parking for The Sorg Opera House is free and located on either side of the theatre as well as in the public parking lot behind the theatre.

INNOVAtheatre and The Sorg Opera House is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501 [c](3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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