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McNary opens drama season Oct. 18
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
The McNary drama de-
partment will have a guest
director when it opens its
2018-19 season with Death by
Design on Thursday, Oct. 18
at 7 p.m. in the Ken Collins
Theater.
McNary English teacher
Laura Reid serves on the
Keizer Homegrown Theatre
Board of Directors but hasn’t
directed a show at the high
school since Linda Baker was
the drama teacher.
“I really enjoy directing
and it’s great to be back,”
Reid said. “This is a really
good bunch of kids and it’s
been really fun to interpret
the script and see what the
kids bring to it. It’s kind of an
artistic party.”
Death by Design: A Com-
edy with Murder, written by
Rob Urbinati, is set during a
weekend in an English coun-
try manor in 1932.
Edward, a playwright
played by Connor McCor-
mack, and his wife Sorel, an
actress portrayed by Rachel
Herriges, fl ee London and
head to Cookham after a di-
sastrous opening night. But
various guests arrive unex-
pectedly – a conservative
politician (Crash Diavmet),
a fi ery socialist (Michael
Zwemke), a nearsighted ingé-
nue (Elise Myers) and a zany
modern dancer (Mercedes
Feinauer) – each with a long-
held secret.
When one of the guests is
murdered, it’s left to Bridget
(Madelyn Hurst), the feisty
Irish maid with a macabre
interest in homicide, to solve
the crime.
Jonathan Echavarria Val-
ladares plays Jack, a cockney,
charming, clever chauffeur.
Stage managers are Kaitlyn
Duncanson, Kendall Tacchini
and Hannah Collee.
Additional performances
of Death by Design are sched-
uled for Friday, Oct. 19 at 3
and 7 p.m. and Saturday, Oct.
20 at 2 and 7 p.m.
Tickets are $5 and available
at mcnary-theatre.ticketleap.
com.
McNary’s entire perform-
ing arts department (drama,
orchestra and choir) will
combine for a Holiday show
on Dec. 14-15 at 7 p.m.
For the school’s musical,
drama teacher Tom Cavana-
ugh wanted to pick a show
that would draw interest from
the entire student body.
“I’m really trying to reach
out to students who don’t
traditionally do theatre and I
thought Grease would bring
out a bunch of kids,” Cavana-
ugh said.
Although he wasn’t able
to announce the show before
auditions last spring, 94 stu-
dents came out.
“We got a lot of kids who
had never done a show be-
fore but I think we could
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have gotten even more if we
would have been able to say
out loud we’re doing Grease,”
said Cavanaugh, who was able
to cast 76 students, including
26 boys.
“It’s the most (boys) I’ve
ever had in any show,” Cava-
naugh said. “That’s pretty im-
pressive.”
Grease is scheduled for Jan
10-12 and 17-19.
McNary will then hold its
annual One Act Festival on
March 14-16.
The fi nal show of the sea-
son, Treasure Island on May 16-
18 and 23-25, will give Ca-
vanaugh the chance to teach
sword fi ghting.
“The fi rst couple of years
I just really wanted to pick
some stuff to showcase a
bunch of different things
we’re capable of doing,” Ca-
vanaugh said.
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