On September 14th 2018 director Jennifer Kafka Smith will be opening a new show at the Garfield Center for the Arts; The Marx Brother’s classic comedy musical, Animal Crackers. This will be the third musical that the Garfield Center has produced since they collaborated with the Tred Avon Players and the Oxford Community Center on Little Women, the Musical in 2010, My Fair Lady, which the Garfield produced in 2016 and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street earlier this year.
As a new director to the Garfield, Kafka Smith was blessed with a cast of regulars to the local stage. Their combined talent promises an evening of non-stop hilarity in this musical comedy written by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby. The cast is as follows:
Captain Spaulding………….……………….……………………….…Jim Landskroener
Mrs. Rittenhouse…………………….……..………………………Diane Landskroener
Hives………………………………….……………………………………………..Brad Chaires
Emanuel Ravelli………………….………………………………………………….Zac Ryan
The Professor……………….……………………………………….………….Kirby Powell
Jamison……………………..…………………………………………………………Ian Ellison
Madame Doucet………………………..…………………………….……Julie Lawrence
Roscoe W. Chandler …………………………………………..……………Mike Heffron
John Parker………………………………………………..………………………Dan Guidice
Wally Winston…………………………..…………………………………………Bee Betley
Mary….…………………………………………………….…………………Gretchen Sachse
Arabella Rittenhouse…………………………………………………………Natalie Lane
Mrs. Whitehead………………………………………………………..Mallory Westlund
Grace Carpenter…………………….……………………………………Brianna Johnson
Butler/Sgt. Hennessey………………………………………….……………Robin Wood
Maid/Ensemble……………………………………………………….…………MG Brosius
Harem Girl/Ensemble………………………….…………………………….Brooke Ezzo
The show runs for three weekends, with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm, September 14-30.
Animal Crackers is sponsored in part by Germaine’s Carry Out and PNC Bank.
Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for seniors 65+ and members of the US Military, and $10 for students. They are available online at www.garfieldcenter.org or by calling the Garfield Center box office at 410-810-2060.
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