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St. Marys Community Players to stage family comedy, Over the River and Through the Woods The show runs at the St. Marys Town Hall Theatre from April 25 to May 10
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and her team are working around the clock to curb the spread of measles in both counties as part of the provincewide response to the outbreak that first arrived in Ontario in October 2024. “On Oct. 18, 2024, there was an exposure through a travel-related case in New Brunswick that was then connected to Ontario and introduced measles into Ontario,” Klassen said. “While New Brunswick declared their
The cast and crew for the St. Marys Community Players’ (SCMP) 2025 spring production will bring heartfelt laughter and family connections to the stage at St. Marys Town Hall Theatre with Tony Award winning playwright Joe Pietro’s Over the River and Through the Woods. The beloved play follows the story of Nick Cristano (Kevin Foad), a young, single Italian American man who has been having Sunday dinner with both sets of his loving but overbearing grandparents his entire life. When Nick announces a career move that would take him far from his family, his grandparents scheme to keep him close, going to hilarious and unexpected lengths to make him stay. “It’s the typical situation where it’s family and eat and mangiamo and tango familia – tango familia means I have family,” SMCP co-producer Gregory George said. “ … Essentially, (Nick’s intended move) begins a series of schemes by his grandparents to keep Nick around. They invite one of the grandmother’s Canasta partner’s daughter, Caitlin O’Hare (Marsha Irvine), to come to Sunday dinner the next Sunday, and … they’re trying to set him up. “ … It’s classified as something in the theatre called a memory play, so all of them, Nick in particular, have many monologues to the audience explaining who people are.” Both Nick and his grandparents get the chance to explore their backstories through these monologues. The grandparents’ stories in particular focus heavily on the Italian immigrant experience after the Second World War, giving the story on stage a deeply emotional backdrop. With sharp humour and deep emotional
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