Peninsula Players Cast Announcements

By Door County Pulse , Peninsula Pulse – June 8th, 2018

Sean Grennan. Submitted.

Peninsula Players Theatre announces artistic company members for its 83rd season, running June 12 through Oct. 14. The line-up of shows, designers and casts were selected by Artistic Director Greg Vinkler who celebrates his 30th season at Peninsula Players.

The season opens with the world première of Now and Then by Sean Grennan. This touching, funny and unbelievable story centers on Jamie, an aspiring pianist, his girlfriend Abby and a mysterious older gentleman who offers them $1,000 each to talk with him for an hour. Their ensuing conversation changes their lives. The cast includes Vinkler, Erica Elam, Sean Fortunato and Barbara Robertson. Tom Mula directs.

Miss Holmes is a new play by Christopher M. Walsh based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this deadly mystery with a twist, Holmes and Watson are intelligent, independent women in 19th Century England. Cassandra Bissell and Maggie Kettering take on the lead roles. Other cast members include Elam, Fortunato, Karl Hamilton, Tim Monsion, Mula, and Robertson. Elizabeth Margolius is set to direct.

Cassandra Bissell. Submitted.

Maggie Kettering. Submitted.

The Tony Award-winning The Drowsy Chaperone will delight audiences with show-stopping song and dance numbers. The narrator of the show plays a recording and his apartment turns into a glittering Broadway set overflowing with songs, romance, comedy and lively dance numbers. The cast includes Vinkler, Joe Capstick, Dena DiGiacinto, Drew Humphrey, Meghan Murphy, Mary Nickson, Erin Parker, Jason Richards, Erica Stephan, Fortunato, Hamilton, Monsion, Mula, Robertson, Elizabeth Haley and Dan Klarer. Matt Crowle choreographs the show and directs alongside Valerie Maze.

Linda Fortunato returns to direct Living on Love. This new comedy by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro, based on the play Peccadillo by Garson Kanin, is set in a glorious Manhattan penthouse in 1957, which is home to a high-strung and long-married couple. The cast includes Hamilton, Mary Ernster, Crowle, Klarer, Richards, and Stephan.