COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL •
JULY 3, 2018 • 7A
Live theater to return to BMD with new melodrama
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
In a year of change, Bohe-
mia Mining Days (BMD) is
hoping to stir up nostalgia as it
prepares to welcome back live
theater to the city’s largest fes-
tival of the year.
“In the past, Cottage Th eatre
has done live performances at
Bohemia Mining Days to pro-
mote their summer produc-
tion,” said BMD Coordinator
Cindy Weeldreyer. “When
they moved into their expand-
ed facility they began the chil-
dren's summer camps, which
produced the BMD melodra-
ma that coincided with our
annual theme.”
However, scheduling ulti-
mately scrapped the live per-
formances from the festival’s
line-up until this year.
Weeldreyer put out a call
to Opal Th eatre and Cottage
Grove Th eatre for individuals
interested in directing a play
during BMD.
Jennifer Mandeville-Schulz
saw the opportunity pop up
on a Facebook group.
“It’s said, ‘We’re look-
ing for someone to direct a
play for BMD’ and no one
was responding,” she said. “I
thought, maybe I need to do
baby steps.”
In the months prior, Man-
deville-Schulz had been creat-
ing choreography for an Opal
production, was in rehearsals
for a Cottage Th eatre pro-
duction and was handling her
daughter’s theatre commit-
ments as well.
“Originally, I’d been all
pumped to write an original
musical and I got it in my
Mandeville-Schulz got to
work on what would become
three separate vignettes detail-
ing the history of some of the
more notable people and plac-
es in Cottage Grove’s history.
“Gold, Grit and Guns: Lo-
cals who Left a Mark,” will be-
gin with the story of Bohemia
Sharp and how the name be-
came associated with so many
areas and organizations in
Cottage Grove.
It will then work its way
through David Mosby’s his-
toric ties to the city and fi nish
its 35-minute runtime with
the trial over sheep and cattle
grazing that christened what’s
known today as Row River.
“It’s a 20-year feud between
two families that were relat-
ed through marriage,” Man-
deville-Schulz said. “It was
ruthless and it culminated
brain as I was working with
several people this year,” she
said. “Th ese everyday people
were saying they wrote a play
or wrote a musical or wrote a
book and I thought, ‘Ok, this
can be doable.”
BMD had been hoping to
fi nd a director but when Man-
deville-Schulz met with Weel-
dreyer, there was nothing to
direct.
“Th ey said
(the script)
wasn’t quite written yet,” Man-
deville-Schulz said. In actuali-
ty, no script had been started.
Th at didn’t deter Man-
deville-Schulz.
"How delighted I was when
Jennifer walked in the door
and said she'd like to accept
the challenge,” Weeldreyer
said.
Armed with the festival’s
theme, “Every trail has a tale,”
in people being killed. It an-
swers the question about why
we pronounced it ‘row’ as in a
fi ght instead of ‘row’ as in row
a boat.”
Writing the play, according
to Mandeville-Schulz, was
more research then writing.
BMD provided her with piles
of old fi les and facts as well as
a suggestion to visit the county
for more information.
“I went to the basement at
the county and found micro-
fi che written in old-style cur-
sive of the transcript of the
trial,” she said. “I could barely
read it but it was the only way I
could fi nd out what happened
and who was involved.”
BMD will welcome back live
theatre beginning on Th urs-
day, July 19 at 6 p.m. in what
Mande-ville-Schulz calls “the
last dress rehearsal.” And af-
ter several script re-writes
and actors dropping out, she
will perform several cameos
throughout the play that she
hopes to iron out during those
rehearsals.
“Th e play, you can go in, get
your history lesson, get en-
tertainment and still ride the
amusement rides and not miss
anything else at the festival,”
she said.
Bohemia Mining Days will
run from July 19 through July
21, signaling the fi rst time in
its nearly 60-year history that
it won’t see all four days of ac-
tivities.
Th e play is scheduled for 6
p.m. on Th ursday, July 19 and
two performances, one at 3
p.m. and one at 6 p.m. on Fri-
day and Saturday in Bohemia
City.
Th ere is no admission cost.
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Cottage Village Coalition
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