2025 - Night at the Frick (Jan One Acts)

The Frick Theater was brand new this year and the Theater Department was trying a bunch of smaller projects to test out the space. We had done some concerts, a play, and some Beginning Acting Class one acts. We decided to use the actors who did not try out for the Fall musical in a series of short plays. 

We assembled a great group that ended up tackling 2 plays, a one woman monologue play, and a couple of songs. We titled the evening A Night at the Frick.

The T-shirts for the cast and crew

The plays all started working in the Black Box. 

This is the set up for IMPROMPTU

Once we got all of the plays into rehearsal we moved them into the Frick the week after Winter Break. Each of the plays got time in the space to work through blocking and for the technicians to get the lighting and sound figured out. Only one of the plays had complicated technical elements. The other acts were kept pretty simple. 

Luca Thies and Mr Schaefer ran the booth for the festival

                                                   

Lilly Hodel started the show with a one woman monologue 

called "Mrs. Sorken"

Lilly made her entrance and immediately began talking to the crowd

Each play in the line-up dealt with the topic of theater in some way. One was about a playwright, one was about a group of actors, and one was about a woman who liked going to the theater. We threw in a couple of musical theater songs and we had a show.

  

             The Cast and Crew of IMPROMPTU (missing Bex Derr)

(Top Row: Ebba Grimm and Julian Pool)

Bottom Row Lyd Foss and Selby Caldwell)

Ebba and Lyd in dress rehearsal 

Ebba, Julian, Lyd and Bex playing out the scene 

Ebba, Julian and Lyd

                                                  The Cast of "A Playwright's Dilemma"

                                       

(from left to right) 

Charlotte Jennings, Wil Strelinger, Myles Thompson, 

Connor Ledbetter, Clover Harris and Shyla Stone

      

       Charlotte Jennings and Wil Strelinger                          Connor Ledbetter as the writer    

      

                                            

                                   Connor running his opening monologue under the lights

                                           

     

Just need to find the right ending!

    

This wacky cast suited the script perfectly!

That'll be two dollars!

The IMPROV TEAM

Kashti Grimm, Robby Conroy, Charlie Ziegler, Ebba Grimm, Casey Drillingas and Julian Pool 

     

             The Improv team played a couple of games in front of the audience between two plays  

                                           

                                Daun Pawlicki sang a song between two of the plays to break things up

                                                                     Martha Poppen also sang           

    

BACKSTAGE

    

                                               The dressing room was full of energy!

                 It was a lot of people to cram into one dressing room, but they made it work

This was a really fun night of theater!

CLOVER SAYS,

"GO SEE A PLAY!!!"