A Chronology of Past Seasons...
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1992 - 1993
The most recent incarnation of the Vanderhoof Community Theatre began with the 1992/93 season with Summer Arthur Long's Never Too Late, John Patrick's The Curious Savage, and local theatre member Doug Goodwin's musical revue Nothing Too Good For a Cowboy, based on the stories of Rich Hobson.
1994 - 1995
Our 1994/95 season featured Tim Kelly's The Butler
Did It, the madcap musical by Rick Abbott, Dracula:
The Musical?, Agatha Christie's Murder
at the Vicarage, and A.A. Milne's classic Winnie
the Pooh.
1995
The fall of 1995 brought The Little Shop of Horrors, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, to the stage. In the spring of 1996 three one-act plays were performed together as "Triple Treat": The Mice Have Been Drinking Again by Cleve Haubold, The Raft: An Interlude by Stephen Leacock, and Overlaid by Robertson Davies.
1996 - 1997
In October 1996 we undertook our second children's theatre, Little Red Riding Hood, the fairy tale story retold with a few extra twists by Eugene Schwartz. Later in November we joined with the high school drama group and turned to a classic, A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare. For most of 1997 we focused upon workshops, then in October produced Rainbow Jones by Jill Williams, a small-scale family musical with a cast of eight.
1998
Our
1998 season began the week after Valentine's Day with our first attempt
at dinner theatre when we produced two one act plays,
Pizza: A Love Story
by Julianne Bernstein, and Awkward
Silence by Jay Reiss. A wonderful meal and atmosphere (with high
school acting students as waiters) greatly enhanced the whole evening.
A second dinner theatre was held May 8 when the local Rotary Club sponsored
"Diamond Night." We performed three one act plays for the festive,
women-only crowd: Domestic Violence
by Frederick Stroppel, Family Names
by Edna Pelonero, and Morning Coffee
by Frederick Stroppel. The year ended by continuing the tradition of producing
children's theatre when we performed The
Adventures Of Peter Cottontail, a dramatization by R. Eugene Jackson.
1999
After a false start two years earlier, we were finally able to produce The Wild Guys to begin our 1999 season. One of the co-writers of this award-winning Canadian play was Andrew Wreggitt, who claims one of his formative theatre experiences was a walk-on part in a Vanderhoof Community Theatre production in the early '70s! November brought Not Now, Darling, a risque British bedroom comedy farce by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, one of the funniest adult comedies we have ever produced.
2000 - 2001
Whether it was millennium fatigue or simply bad luck, attempts
to produce "Angry Housewives" early in 2000 and provide improv
dinner theatre later that year fell through. This fallow year, however,
spawned The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney early in 2001 which
proved to be a big step upward 
for
the VCTS, combining real drama, humanity, and humour, as well as demanding
multiple characters from each actor. Too much seriousness, though, never
exists for long in the VCTS so we decided to finally produce the much-demanded
cult musical, Grease!
Record-setting, sell-out crowds necessitated adding an extra
performance. A six-piece band accompanied a cast of twenty. Everyone from
ticket takers to backstage crew got into the Grease spirit, wearing
far too much make-up and Brillcream!
2002
With only one production in 2002, we chose the play that has it all—humour, romance (of all kinds), Shakespeare in abundance, war, cross dressing, sword play, Canadian content, feminism, magical appearances, and even a tear or two—Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet. Our most literary play, it was also a great deal of fun to perform, bringing culture painlessly to an unsuspecting, laughing audience.
2003
The 2003 season opened continuing the literary theme with Man of La Mancha. This classic Broadway musical about Don Quixote proved to be a moving experience for both audience and cast. Don't let the Las Vegas popularity of To Dream The Impossible Dream turn you off; this is a must-see, must-do, musical! Continuing along the musical theme the VCTS decided to tackle Godspell for our Fall 2003 production. Stay tuned for more information on this show!
