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St. Marys Community Players wins ‘Show Must Go On’ award from WODL
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By Emily Stewart
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A technical difficulty during the adjudication performance of Norm Foster’s Opening Night led to a victory for the St. Marys Community Players (SMCP). The community theatre group won the Western Ontario Drama League’s (WODL) The Show Must Go On award for the 2023/2024 season. SMCP ran their production of Opening Night from Oct. 26 to Nov. 5, 2023.
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St. Marys council approves additional $70,000 contingency for Mercury Theatre renovations
By Galen Simmons After addressing unforeseen structural challenges during renovations of the old Mercury Theatre building in St. Marys, council has approved a staff request for an additional $70,000 in contingency funds as contractors embark on the second phase of the project.
As part of an overall effort to make better use of town buildings in downtown St. Marys, the town recently began work on structural upgrades to the interior of the building at 14 Church St. N, which included demolition of the building’s interior and the eventual construction of a second
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The WODL award honoured the crew behind the production and the greater St. Marys community rallying together and getting a new speaker when the sound system failure occurred 10 minutes before the show was set to start, and the performance had to be delayed. Lianne Gregory-Sterritt, vice president of SMCP, said the adjudicator was familiar with the Foster comedy and certain sounds were critical to advance some plot points. The cast and crew looked for people to contact to resolve the problem. “We knew that we had a whole bunch of other resources who would jump to our aid,” she said. “Sure enough, there was a whole bunch of people that were willing to do that. It just felt great. I mean, that's part of living in a community that cares about each other, right? You know you can ask. You're not cornered with trepidation like, 'Oh no, I don't want to bother somebody.' You know that they're right with you and that they're going to deliver right.” Marie Stevens, a member of SMCP’s board of directors, said SMCP acquired a speaker from the Front Porch Show, a live talk show filmed in front of an
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