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Sponsored by Friends of Theatre at MSU
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Outdoor theatre on banks of the Red Cedar River
All shows are FREE and the main stage shows start at 8:00 PM rain or shine
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Search the History of Summer Circle Theatre
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Friends of Theatre at MSU - Board of Directors |
Jane Vieth Suits, President |
Jacqueline Babcock, Vice President |
Joan Mattson, Treasurer |
Karen Kangas-Preston Secretary |
Kerry Chartkoff, Historian
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Gretchen Foster |
Carol Bryson |
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Katherine (Kate) Marchyok |
Scott MacMillan |
Sam Austin, Past President |
Robert M. Andrews |
Alan
P. Suits, Web Master |
Roger W. Peters |
Kirk Domer,
Theatre Department Chair |
Laura Peek, (ex-officio)
College of Arts and Letters, MSU |
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Friends of Theatre at MSU
Bus trip to Stratford Shakespeare Festival
September 9 - 11, 2011
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Stratford Festival Main Stage Theater
Here's where we enjoyed Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,
The Merry Wives of Windsor and the musical
Camelot by Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe
The Festival has a total of four theaters.
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The Whole Group of 40 Playgoers
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The Arden Park Hotel where we stayed
in Stratford, Ont., Canada
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The beautiful view from The Blue Water Bridge
as we cross over to Canada
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Don Gochberg
Don is a retired MSU professor of English
specializing in Shakespeare and Milton.
His talks were insightful and helpful in
understanding the plays.
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Joan Gochberg
She
played songs for us from the musical Camelot
This is a Stratford Bus Trip tradition
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Professor Gochberg clarifies a point
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Joan Gochberg (left) and Jane Vieth Suits
Joan is Temple Musician at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek and Jane is MSU Professor of History
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(l to r front row) Bernice Natoli, David Baur, Ruth Magen,
Marge Simon and Beatrice Linder |
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FOUR MSU THEATRE STUDENTS
(l to r) April Townsend, David Clausen,
Jennie Withers and Mandy Myers
The MSU students were awarded scholarships to
join the bus trip from
Friends of Theatre members' donations
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The swans are tame and sometimes arrogant.
Here they block the road and stop the bus.
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The most photographed swans in North America
"With wings held close and slim neck bent,
Along dark waters scarcely stirred,
Floats. glimmering and indolent,
The alabaster bird"
from Swans by Leonora Speyer
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Fair weather clouds were over the theater every day |
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Statue of the Bard in front of the
Festival Main Stage Theater |
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Gretchen Foster (left) with students April and David
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Robert and Nancy Muhlbach singing along |
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Lois Lynch, Henry Blosser and April Townsend
singing songs from Camelot accompanied by
Joan Gochberg at the piano
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Singing The Simple Joys of Maidenhood and
The Lusty Month of May from Camelot
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Gretchen and Richard Foster with MSU student
of costume design,
April Townsend |
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(l to r) Jennie Withers, Hari Kern and Mandy Myers
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Richard Mikel and Carmen Dykema |
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Bernice Natoli and David Baur |
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Gabriele Kende (left) and Sylvia Kruger |
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Ruth Magen in the Arden Park Dining Room |
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Alan Suits your humble web master
Please let me know at apsuits@aol.com
of any errors in the captions
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Linda Dolecki (left) our guide from
Classic Travel and Jane Vieth Suits
Chair of Friends of Theatre at MSU
and inspiration
behind the annual bus trip to Stratford
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Joe, our bus driver, accommodated all
of our requests cheerfully
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From the back of the bus headed home |
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The whole city of Stratford is well landscaped |
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