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Friday, February 29 at 7 p.m. is the premiere of Theatricks latest production ANNE OF GREEN GABLES sponsored by Outreach Health Services. The production will be Feb. 29 and March 7 at 7 p.m. and March 1, 2, 8 & 9 at 2 p.m. in the Honey McGee Playhouse located at 313 W. Mulberry in Sherman, TX.
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES is the heart warming story of orphan Anne Shirley which is so eloquently depicted by author L.M. Montgomery and skillfully adapted into play fashion by Joseph Robinette.
Green Gables is the home of loveable Matthew Cuthbert and his stern sister, Marilla. They agree to adopt a boy to help with the farm work. Imagine their consternation when Anne Shirley, a girl in her teens, is sent by the orphanage by mistake! Anne touches Matthew's heart with her vivid imagination and her charitable viewpoint, but it takes time to reach the tender heart beneath Marilla's hard exterior.
Cast as the highly imaginative and red-headed Anne Shirley is Ellie Margolis, an 8th grader at TCS. Her adoptive parents are Matthew Cuthbert, played by Boyd Highlander a Theatricks veteran actor, and Matthew's sister Marilla Cuthbert, played by Dorothy Fowler a freelance writer.
The Cuthbert's nosey neighbor Rachel Lynde is being portrayed by Sherman newcomer Anne Zehnder. Anne Shirley's bosom friend Diana Barry is Meredith Foster, an 8th grade student at Piner M.S., and is joined by Mrs. Barry and Minnie May Barry played by 1st time Theatricks performers Heidi Yoder and 4th grade Wakefield student Meribeth Phillips.
Anne Shirley's school friends include: Josie Pye (Taylor Garland 6th grade Dillingham student), Ruby Gillis (Annie Porter 9th grade Whitewright H.S.), Tillie Boulter (Hannah Scott 6th grade Dillingham), Bessie Wright (Elizabeth Leanch 7th grade homeschooler), Carrie Sloan (Suzannah Morgan 10th grade Sherman H.S.), Jane Andrews (Sarah Walker 6th grade Dillingham), Moody MacPherson (Berkley Burney 6th grade Gunter M.S.), Charlie Sloan (Callahan Harrison 6th grade Dillingham), Gilbert Blythe (Kelly Phelan 8th grade Whitewright M.S.), Jimmy Glover (Wesley Fulce 6th grade Dillingham), and Priscilla Andrews (Madison Nelson working on undergraduate degree). Olivia Johnson, Anna McGowan, and Hannah Walker are also school students of Anne's.
Other characters who round out the cast are: Jim Walker playing Mr. Phillips and Mr. Sadler, Chelsea Oliver as Ms. Stacy and Ms. Rogerson, Leigh Walker as Mrs. Blewett and Aunt Josephine Barry, Karla Vessels as Mrs. Allen, Zeke Dolezalek as Jerry Buote, and Dean Leanch as the stationmaster and Rev. Allen/Rev. Bentley and College President.
Directing ANNE OF GREEN GABLES is Theatricks Director Webster Crocker assisted by Zeke Dolezalek. The Costumers for ANNE OF GREEN GABLES creating the Victorian Era style clothing are Melissa Leanch and her daughter Elizabeth, Brenda Bowling and her daughter Kristin, and Robin Phillips. Assisting with hair and makeup are Bailey Page and Madelyn Walker, props are headed up by Jennifer Bryan, and lighting/sound is Tristan Wiese.
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