Much Ado About Nothing

The production marked the stage debut of Jackson Currier, who played a young boy. (He retrieved a rifle that was thrown into the moat by one of the soldiers returning home from war, and although his younger brother Nate had appeared in utero when mom Lesley played Lady Macduff in 1991, this was the first visible sighting of the second generation of Curriers on the Forest Meadows stage.)

 Danny Kovacs almost missed one performance when his wife was about to go into labor, but timing is everything, and Danny, although a bit preoccupied and rushing off before the curtain call, proved that the ‘show must go on.’

Bob Walters served as our first Equity Stage Manager for the 1995 season, a role we are extremely grateful he was willing to play. He brought a calm, level-headed precision to what could have been a very hectic season. It was, in fact, our first season as an official Equity company (rather than as an amateur company that used Equity Guest Artists) – a distinction understood and appreciated by few.

However, we were delighted to employ five Equity artists, a record for us at that time. We continue to hold as a vital goal the ability to pay actors even the small, but significant, weekly salary allowed under our particular contract. Theatre does not exist without actors, who devote as much time to a production as does any other worker to a full-time job. Paying those actors to do the often onerous – although, we hope, also vastly rewarding – work they do is essential to the future vitality of theatre itself. 

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