Over the River and through the Woods

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The top five nominees will be revealed at the Awards Ceremony to be held on February 3, 2006 at the historic Palace Theatre, Manchester, NH. To learn more about the NH Theatre Awards and how you can obtain tickets to this event, click  on the banner above or this link </FONT><A HREF="http://www.nhtheatre.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nhtheatre.com"><U>http://www.nhtheatre.com</U></A> .</div> <div> <B>    </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >______________________________________________</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="16e352fe0.jpg" border=0 width="338" height="254" ALT=""Over the River and through the Woods" by Joe DiPietro (l-r) Erica Newhall, Mike Wood, William Pearre, Susan Kingsbury, Louis Marchiony and Sherri Middaugh (l-r) Erica Newhall, Mike Wood, William Pearre, Susan Kingsbury, Louis Marchiony and Sherri Middaugh" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> This moving play, by the same writer of the ongoing Broadway and Boston smash hit, "I Love You, you're Perfect, Now Change", is a moving show about the meaning of family and how different generations view inter-family relationships. Indeed, Nick Christano, the grandson in the piece, declares his grandparents have reached an age he can barely comprehend. </div> <bR> <div> Two sets of grandparents come to grips both with life's changing fortunes and a shocking annoucement from their grandson. At first glance, Nick Cristano is the ideal grandson, loving and devoted. However, Nick now has to make a decision.... a decision which will either blow his career out of the water or devastate his loving grandparents. If Nick chooses to accept a promotion offered by his employee, he will need to move to Seatle, Washington...the "far away Washington....out by California." </div> <bR> <div> "This is an unique play," said Mike Wood, director of the piece as well as the actor playing Nick, "because it is simply about a family trying to right by each other. Nick's grandparents want and need him to be happy and successful, but they are not prepared to let him go." </div> <bR> <div> Wood continues, "So they implore him not to go, and try all sorts of methods to make him stay. The most intriguing of which is a blind set up with a niece of one of the grandmother's canasta partners, Caitlyn O'Haire." </div> <bR> <div> Caitlyn is played Erica Newhall, a Nashua resident along with Wood. Nick's grandparents on his mother's side, Frank and Aida, are played by Louis Marchiony and Sherri Middaugh, and his grandparents on his father's side, Nunzio and Emma, are played by Bill Pearre and Susan Kingsbury. </div> <bR> <div> The play uses the unconventional conceit of sporadic side narratives spoken directly to the audience. These sidebars provide insights into the thoughts of each character and reveal some of the reasoning by idiosyncratic mannerisms of the family, especially the senior citizens. The grandparents, and later an enlightened Nick, reveal that the grandparent's antics are endearingly frantic efforts to continue the family line whom, ultimately, they just want to have better lives than they had. </div> <bR> <div> According to the script, Nick's grandparents' "firmly believed in the F's of life, family, faith and food." The plays takes the audience on a sweet and sentimental journey into the heart of the family you may have had, or wish you may have had. Oversized and overbearing at times, the grandparents are always good for a laugh, a story, or a piece of crumb cake and consistently manage to produce exasperated gasps from their nervous grandson Nicholas. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="f882d200.gif" border=0 width="45" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">          <IMG SRC="f882d200.gif" border=0 width="45" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">          <IMG SRC="f882d200.gif" border=0 width="45" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">          <IMG SRC="f882d200.gif" border=0 width="45" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>The Cast</U></B></div> <bR> <div> Nunzio . . . . . . . . . .  Bill Pearre<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="f320f0f0.gif" border=0 width="15" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> Emma . . . . . . . . . .  Susan Kingsbury<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="f320f0f0.gif" border=0 width="15" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> Frank . . . . . . . . . .  Louis Marchiony<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="f320f0f0.gif" border=0 width="15" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> Aida . . . . . . . . . .  Sherri Middaugh<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="f320f0f0.gif" border=0 width="15" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> Caitlyn . . . . . . . . . . Erica Newhall<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="f320f0f0.gif" border=0 width="15" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> Nick . . . . . . . . . .  Mike Wood<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="f320f0f0.gif" border=0 width="15" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="f320f0f0.gif" border=0 width="15" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009933" FACE="Arial" ><B>NH Theatre Award nominee!</B></FONT></div> <div>     <B> </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >______________________________________________</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Performances are scheduled for </B></div> <div> <B>October 6,7 & 8, 2005</B></div> <div> <B>Doors Open at 7:30 p.m.</B></div> <div> <B>Curtain rises at 8 p.m.</B></div> <div> <B>Tickets </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>$8</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009933" FACE="Arial" ><B>General</B></FONT><B> and </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009933" FACE="Arial" ><B>$5</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009933" FACE="Arial" ><B>Seniors/Students</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>At the Community House of Marlborough </B></div> <div> <B>Rte. 101, Marlborough, NH</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>To reserve tickets, call </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Arial" ><B>Producer Eric Walther</B></FONT><B> at </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Arial" ><B>603-381-8099</B></FONT><B> or </B></div> <div> <B>e-mail  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#EEEEEE" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto: branchriver@yahoo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto: branchriver@yahoo.com"><U><B>mailto: branchriver@yahoo.com</B></U></A><B> </B></FONT><B>and be sure to put </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Arial" ><B>"TICKETS" </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>in the subject field to prevent the spam filter </B></div> <div> <B>from removing your message!</B></div> <div> <B>TICKETS</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B> will also be available at the door on performance nights.</B></FONT></div> </td> </tr></table></body>