On Golden Pond
by Ernest Thompson
Directed by Jeff Groh
Friday, September 24, 2010 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 25, 2010 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 26, 2010 3:00 PM
Thursday, September 30, 2010 8:00 PM
Friday, October 1, 2010 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 2, 2010 3:00 PM
Saturday, October 2, 2010 8:00 PM
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Cast
- Norman
- Tom Manning*†
- Ethel
- Bett Kooris*†
- Charlie
- David Levy*†
- Chelsea
- Laura Coccimiglio†
- Billy
- Tanner Walters†
- Bill
- Glenn Schaich†
Crew
- Director
- Jeff Groh*
- Producer
- Ray Persing*
- Assistant Producer
- Gretchen Roose
- Stage Manager
- Mary Stone
- Technical Director
- John Netzley
- Costumes
- Kasmira Kit
- Hair/Makeup
- The Cast
- Hospitality
- Elaine Volker
- Lighting Design
- Eric Bardes
- Light Execution
- Mary Stone
- Lobby Display
- Tony Doench
- Program
- Tom Fox
- Original Show Art
- Brandon Flaig
- Props
- Megan Schultheis*
- Publicity
- Kasmira Kit
- Set Design
- Ray Persing*
- Master Carpenter
- Ray Persing*
- Sound Design
- David Levy*
- Sound Execution
- Greg Schairet
- Set Decor
- Ray Persing*, Gretchen Roose*, Megan Schultheis*
- Tickets/Box Office
- Gretchen Roose
* Orchid Award winner – ACT Cincinnati
† Orchid Award winner Excellence in Ensemble – ACT Cincinnati