Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2010
Stratford, Ontario


A theater trip sponsored by the
Friends of Theatre at MSU


   
An autographed copy of The Tempest program
   
Christopher Plummer
We  were privileged to see Plummer
perform as Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
His final performance for the 2010 Season

The group enjoying Don Gochberg's
Saturday talk on Kiss Me Kate
The musical is based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew


 
   
Don Gochberg at the Lectern
Don is a retired MSU professor of Humanities
and our Shakespeare critic and lecturer


   
   
Charles and Halen Foster

Beth Cafagna leads the singing of tunes from
Kiss Me Kate accompanied by Joan Gochberg

   

Some Songs from KISS ME KATE
So in Love, Too Darn Hot, Wunderbar,
Always True to You in my Fashion,
Brush up your Shakespeare,
From This Moment On


   
Checking their song sheets
   
   
Ruth Polin and Margaret Frisch

Bea Linder and Marge Simon

   
   
Al and Beth Cafagna
They led the group in singing
the songs from Kiss Me Kate


Joan Gochberg, Accompanist
Joan is a composer and Temple Musician at
Shaarey Zedek Congregation

The photos on this page are courtesy of Joan
   
   

(l to r) Jane Vieth Suits, Marilyn Stevens,
Clare Mackey and Judy Ross
Jane headed the trip planning committee
for the Friends of Theatre at MSU. 
Judy came with her friend Louise Swanson all the way from
Columbus, OH, to join the group.


Lois Lynch and Henry Blosser

   
   
Don Gochberg with two of the four
MSU theater students we sponsored to joined us.
They will be doing As You Like It, an MSU Theatre
Department production in November 2010


Renee, Our Bus Driver
Very accommodating and professional

   
   
Marilyn and Walter Baird

Ruth Magen and Beatrice Linder

   
   
Beth Cafagna and Don Gochberg
Discussing the text
Mary and Sam Austin
Sam is immediate past president of
Friends of Theatre at MSU


Marion Stole and Ruth Fineup
Outside the Festival Stage Theatre

Linda Dolecki
Our tour guide from Classis Travel

   
   
The Gochbergs and the Fosters

At the Festival Theater
A Jazz group playing
before the matinee

 
 

The Bridge over the Avon River leads to the Festival Theater
A short walk from our hotel
where we saw
The Tempest,  As You Like It, and Kiss Me Kate