2008 Adult Mainstage Season
The 2008 season ran from May to November and combined British farce, a globe-trotting comedy and big-cast musicals such as Footloose. The archived listing keeps the directors, casts and performance dates for each production.
Archive page. The dates, prices and booking details below are historical and are kept for the record. The Apple Hill barn theatre closed in 2020, and phone numbers and email addresses from the original page have been removed.
| Adult Mainstage Theater |
| A young bride of a few weeks, living above a bank with her husband who is the assistant manager, innocently sends a mail order off for some Scandinavian glassware. What arrives is Scandinavian porn. What to do with the floods of photos, books, films, and finally, girls, is complicated by the arrivals of the husband’s mother, his boss, a bank inspector, a police superintendant and a muddled friend. Many doors open, close and slam in this titillating farce in the best tradition of sexual onslaught and mischevious fun. Director: Nate Newell The Cast: Michael Byrne, Pam Farneth, Monica Filippone, Kate Hagerty, Chip Kerr, Patrick Link, Andy Nesky, Kate O’Halloran, Jim Scriven May 15,16,17,22,23,24,29,30,31 at 8 p.m. Matinee: Sunday May 18th at 2 p.m. |
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No Sex Please, We're British |
| Henry Pulling, a bachelor bankclerk, at age 55 reunites with his 75 year old Aunt Augusta at his mother’s cremation. His Aunt reveals family secrets that free Henry from his servitude at the bank and they promptly set off on a series of journeys across Europe to Insatnbul to South America, meeting up with pictueresque characters who turn this play into an elaborate game of “Clue.” Great comedy built on intrigue and layered with a catalog of moral concerns. Director: Iva Jean Saraceni The Cast: Dan Krack, Meighan Lloyd, Scott Ludwick, Shirley Ratner June 12,13,14,19,20,21,26,27,28 at 8 p.m. Matinee: Wednesday June 18th at 2 p.m. |
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| Travels With My Aunt By Giles Havergal from the novel by Graham Green |
| When teenager Ren and his mom relocate from Chicago to a small rural town, he is not prepared for the rigorous local laws which include “NO DANCING.” FOOTLOOSE is propelled by the rockin’ rhythm of its Oscar nominated Top 40 score, the Soundtrack album having hit #1 on the Billboard charts. Absolutely exhilarating! Director/ Musical Director: Michael Rozelle Choreographer: Laura Wurzell The Cast: Alyssa Bruno, Maria Bruno, Ian Cicco, Sarah Sewchek, Bill McMaster, Ken Cooper, Leyna McCarthy, Melissa Newell, Nate Newell, Rob North, Beverly Price, Jonathan Baird, Meghan Ginley, Josh List, Elaine Painter, Audra Qualley, Ron Ruckenbrod, Paige Smith, Katy Shields, Brendan Conway, Jeremy Earhart, Chelsea Watts, Clark Stewart, Tina Lepidi-Stewart, Diane Mousseau, Jim Mousseau, Jim Skriven, Deborah Ragan. July 10.11.12,17,18,19,24,25,26 at 8 p.m. Matinee: Wednesday July 23rd at 2 p.m. FOOTLOOSE SPECIAL EVENT!! Saturday July 26 OPAC President Ron Ferrara will award the Marietta Adams Memorial Scholarship to Johnathan Baird of Penn Trafford S.D. and Maria Bruno of Kiski Area S.D. during intermission. IN CELEBRATION... AHP alumnus BRAD BROMAN, just off tour with the national cast of HAIRSPRAY will perform, along with FOOTLOOSE cast members, at the cabaret-after-the-show which starts "about" 10:30 PM. All are welcome. |
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| Footloose By Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow, Walter Bobbie & Kenny Loggins |
| This fast moving, hilarious comedy presents two earnest young men struggling to put out a “protest” magazine and the All American girl who moves in next door and manages to send both of them into a romantic tailspin providing laugh-till- you -hurt hallmark Simon comedy. Director: Jim Mikula The Cast: Melissa Newell, Mike Crosby, Patrick Link July 31 August 1,2,7,8,9,14,15,16 at 8 p.m. Matinee: Wednesday August 13th at 2 p.m. |
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| The Star Spangled Girl By Neil Simon |
| In this hilarious comedy two English Shakesperean actors are so down on their luck that they are performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Pennsylvania Amish countryside. Hearing that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. Arriving in York, they learn that the relatives are not nephews but nieces. Jack and Leo thus become Maxine and Stephanie in the Ludwig highly combustible and continuously hilarious new comedy. Director: Ron Ferrara The Cast: Dennis Donegan, Briana Downs, Monica Filippone, Rozella Hoffman, Justin Mohr, Nate Newell, Bob Peters, Steven Rafferty August 21,22,23,28,29,30 September 4,5,6 at 8 p.m. Matinee: Wednesday August 27th at 2 p.m. |
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| Leading Ladies By Ken Ludwig |
| They’re Baaack! It’s the Futrelle sisters, Frankie, Twink and Honey Ray. It’s Christmas time in Faro, Texas and Honey Raye is desperately trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb’s Christmas program going. The program and the Futrelles spin hilariously out of control as sisters squabble and family secrets are revealed in the company of a surly Santa, a vengeful sheep and a reluctant Elvis impersonator. Good, clean, family insanity! Director: Meghan O’Halloran | Stage Manager: D. J. Sullivan The Cast: Lisa Bompiani, Mike Crosby, Dennis Donegan, Pamela Eyler, Elizabeth Monyok, Patrick Link, Andy Nesky, Kathleen O’Halloran, Janet Robb, Renee Ruzzi-Kern, Frankie Shoup September 18,19,20,25,26,27 October 2,3,4 at 8 p.m. Mantiee: Sunday September 28th at 2 p.m. |
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| Christmas Belles By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope & Jamie Wouten |
| Based on the novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at MonteCarlo, LUCKY STIFF is a musical farce in the best sense of the word. The complicated hysterically funny plot involves one dead body, a nerdy English shoe salesman, six million bucks in diamonds, and a lot of dogs. Irreverent, zany , madcap farce. Director: Nate Newell | Musical Director: Eric Barchiesi The Cast: Kevin Bass, Bob Capanna, Pam Farneth, Ryan Hadbavny, Josh List, Leyna McCarthy, Melissa Newell, Audra Qualley, Jim Scriven, Laura Wurzell October 16,17,18,23,24,25,30,31 November 1 at 8 p.m. Matinee: Sunday October 19th at 2 p.m. |
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| Lucky Stiff By Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty |