View from the porch watching the snow fall.
The creek behind the barn that is overflowing its banks.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Children of Eden Cast
TWIN CITY STAGE Presents the Joyous Musical, Children of Eden
Twin City Stage enjoyed the largest turnout in the past decade during its auditions for the musical Children of Eden, which opens March 25 for a three-week run. More than 75 people showed up at the Arts Council Theatre on Coliseum Drive to win one of 40 parts in the cast. Not since the theater company did The Sound of Music has an audition drawn so much interest from the Triad community.
The popular show features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell and Wicked) and book by John Caird (Les Misérables). Leading the TCS cast will be Jim Shover, director, Maggie Gallagher, music director, and Benji Starcher, the dance captain.
An award-winning director, Shover calls Children of Eden a “real spectacle” with an important message. As he describes that message, “We are here for each other.”
The story is based on a familiar book, Genesis. Act I presents the generational challenges that occur first between Father (Chuck King), Adam (Justin Hall) and Eve (Amanda Martin) and then between the world’s first parents and their sons Cain (Phillip Fullerton) and Abel (Joe Boles). In the second act, the same struggles are repeated between Noah (Art Bloom) and Mama Noah (Lalenja Harrington) and their sons Shem (Shane Fisher), Ham (Ray Pruett) and Japheth (Troy Wilson) and their wives Aphra (Elizabeth Barr), Aysha (Liz Townley) and Japheth’s intended, Yonah (Lauren Stephenson).
In addition to the inspiring message set to music, audiences will enjoy special effects that include multiple actors moving in tandem as the Tree of Knowledge and as the Snake and, in the second act, a stage flooded and filled with Noah’s Ark.
The popular show features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell and Wicked) and book by John Caird (Les Misérables). Leading the TCS cast will be Jim Shover, director, Maggie Gallagher, music director, and Benji Starcher, the dance captain.
An award-winning director, Shover calls Children of Eden a “real spectacle” with an important message. As he describes that message, “We are here for each other.”
The story is based on a familiar book, Genesis. Act I presents the generational challenges that occur first between Father (Chuck King), Adam (Justin Hall) and Eve (Amanda Martin) and then between the world’s first parents and their sons Cain (Phillip Fullerton) and Abel (Joe Boles). In the second act, the same struggles are repeated between Noah (Art Bloom) and Mama Noah (Lalenja Harrington) and their sons Shem (Shane Fisher), Ham (Ray Pruett) and Japheth (Troy Wilson) and their wives Aphra (Elizabeth Barr), Aysha (Liz Townley) and Japheth’s intended, Yonah (Lauren Stephenson).
In addition to the inspiring message set to music, audiences will enjoy special effects that include multiple actors moving in tandem as the Tree of Knowledge and as the Snake and, in the second act, a stage flooded and filled with Noah’s Ark.
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| FATHER Chuck King ADAM Justin Hall EVE Amanda Martin CAIN Phillip Fullerton ABEL Joe Boles YOUNG CAIN Britton Sear YOUNG ABEL Landry Bohn SETH Zachary Campbell SETH'S WIFE Ashley Bodford NOAH Art Bloom MAMA NOAH Lalenja Harrington JAPHETH Troy Wilson YONAH Lauren Stephenson HAM Ray Pruett AYSHA Liz Townley SHEM Shane Fisher APHRA Miriam Davie SNAKE Benji Starcher Miriam Davie Karen Fullerton Rioghnach Robinson John Parsons Tyler Harmon-Townsend | STORYTELLERS: Sally Lindel Angela Hodges Abby Kelpin Carol Simes Hailey Lewis Charity Hampton Miles Stanley Justin Attkisson Ryan Chan Jacob Peller Gary Freedman CHILDRENS ENSEMBLE: Annalisa Ebbink Cardari Lee Justin Harrington |
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Christmas 2010
Christmas 2010 with my family - brother and his daughter and granddaughter. They drove from Illinois to spend time with us. We had a wonderful time together. This was the last Christmas with my Mother who died on January 4, 2011.
Blackberry Wine Cake
Made this Blackberry Wine Cake for Christmas this year. Used the Rooster Black wine from Weathervane Winery http://www.weathervanewinery.com/default.html. The cake was quite good and moist - disappeared in one day.
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| Blackberry Wine Cake 1 box white cake mix 4 eggs ¾ cup oil 1 cup Rooster Black wine 1 (3 oz) pkg. Blackberry Fusion jello Glaze: ½ cup Rooster Black wine 1 ¾ cup confectionary sugar
Line pound cake pan (sides too) with parchment paper. Preheat oven at 325 degrees. Combine cake mix, jello, eggs, oil, and 1 cup of wine. Pour into pan. Bake for 60 minutes or until cake is done. Remove from oven and pierce cake while in pan with pick. Make glaze. Pour over warm cake. Let cake sit 15 minutes before removing from pan. Recipe developed by Paulette Yost and Barb Teague.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Our Revels Now Are Ended!
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.- William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 4 scene 1
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