COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2019 | 5A
Art Walk set for this Friday in The Grove
Take a walk on the “art
side” during the Cottage
Grove Art Walk, which
features a chance to meet
artists and crafters, live
demonstrations, buskers,
evening shopping, fine din-
ing and more.
Among the many stops
for this Friday’s Art Walk:
• Opal Whiteley Park:
Ebu Marbling Technique
demonstrations with Chris
Woods and Rachel Kyle.
• Kalapuya: Amanda M.
Wilcox — “Thoughts of
Fluidity” meditative land-
scapes in oil. In addition,
Sharleen Nelson is a lo-
cal published author and
award-winning photogra-
pher, who is excited to pres-
ent her first novel “Time
Tourists” at this coming Art
Walk.
• The Crafty Mercantile:
Kenneth “Dustin” Kim-
ball — Handmade leather
goods, carved, stitched,
dyed and finished by hand.
• The Bookmine: Kar-
ma diBella — An eclectic
mix of beautiful handmade
lovelies.
• Coast Fork Willamette
Watershed: Angie Yates
Pet Tips
‘n’ Tales
• Imagine it Framed:
Pam Dennis
Sponsors include: Five
Flying Monkeys, Main
Street Galleria, Salon 14,
Delight, Rural Organizing
Project, Ambrose Collect-
ibles, The Bank Building,
Apple Pie Antiques, Cot-
tage Moon and Soleful
Massage.
By Mary Ellen
“Angel Scribe”
Ben’s Toy Box
Cottage Theatre announces line-up for 2020
Cottage Theatre has just
announced its 2020 season,
which will include both
blockbuster titles and new
shows, including one West
Coast premiere.
“In choosing each year’s
programming, we seek to
include a wide range of
material that will appeal
to a broad audience,” said
executive director Susan
Goes. “Our 2020 season
was selected based on di-
rector submissions: we had
proposals for more than
30 plays from 14 different
directors. Finding the six
shows that will fit best to-
gether is always a bit like
putting together a jigsaw
puzzle.”
Cottage Theatre opens
its 38th season in January
2020 with “Arsenic and Old
Lace,” a 1939 play by Joseph
Kesselring, which still ranks
as one of the best-selling
Broadway plays of all time.
This tale of merry mayhem
and murderous aunts runs
from Jan. 31 through Feb.
15, 2020, and will be direct-
ed by Keith Kessler.
Next in the 2020 season
will be the seductively fun
musical sensation, “Mam-
ma Mia!” Told through a
collection of ABBA’s great-
est hits, this story of an
unforgettable Greek island
wedding (complete with
three fathers-of-the bride)
will be on stage from April
3-26. This musical will be
directed by Tony Rust.
Following on the suc-
cess of the theatre’s 2018
World Premiere of “Tree-
house,” Cottage Theatre
will continue to spotlight
new works in 2020 with
the West Coast Premiere
of “Seeking Red” by Glenn
B. Rust. This new drama
about truth and identity is
written by a young Chica-
go playwright who grew up
at Cottage Theatre. “Seek-
ing Red,” directed by Kory
Weimer, will run for three
weekends from June 5-21,
2020.
Cottage Theatre’s August
2020 production is a pe-
rennial audience favorite:
You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown! This playful medley
of beloved comic charac-
ters, with book and music
by Clark Gesner, is based
on Charles Schulz’s endear-
ing Peanuts comic strip.
This family-friendly musi-
cal will run Aug. 14-30, di-
rected by Janet Rust.
Next in the 2020 lineup
will be “The Hunchback
of Notre Dame,” based on
the Victor Hugo novel and
songs from the Disney
film, with music by Alan
Menken, lyrics by Stephen
Schwartz and book by Pe-
ter Parnell. This powerful
musical of obsession and
redemption is playing Oct.
2-25, 2020, directed by
Tony Rust.
For the grand finale to its
2020 season, Cottage The-
atre will present “Elf — the
Musical,” based on the New
Line Cinema film by David
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pany which made those
seats went out of business
back in 1976.” Cottage
Theatre is installing new
seats in September, and will
eventually expand its audi-
torium to add 50 addition-
al seats during the second
phase of its remodel.
The next play in the 2019
season is “The Complete
Works of William Shake-
speare
(abridged)[Re-
vised],” running October
11-27. This zany, side-split-
ting romp through 37 plays
in 97 minutes is a prepos-
terous masterwork that will
appeal to both Shakespeare
lovers and haters alike.
Tickets go on sale Sept.
11.
Closing out the 2019
season will be Lionel Bart’s
Oliver!, the endearing clas-
sic musical about a lovable
orphan. Widely hailed as
a theatrical masterpiece,
and featuring a large inter-
generational cast, “Oliver!”
will be on stage Dec. 6-22.
Tickets for this holiday sea-
son production are on sale
starting Nov. 6.
Once on sale, Cottage
Theatre tickets are avail-
able for purchase online at
www.cottagetheatre.org,
by phone at 541-942-8001,
or in person at the Cot-
tage Theatre Box Office,
700 Village Drive, Cottage
Grove.
All seating is reserved
and advance purchase is
recommended.
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Berenbaum, with book by
Thomas Meehan and Bob
Martin, music by Matthew
Sklar and lyrics by Chad
Beguelin. This holiday jin-
gle is a hilarious fish-out-
of-water comedy that fol-
lows “Buddy the Elf ” in his
quest to find his true identi-
ty. This holiday production
will be directed by Keith
Kessler and run for three
weekends from December
4-20, 2020.
Season tickets to Cottage
Theatre’s 2020 season go
on sale Nov. 1, with cur-
rent season ticket holders
having the option to renew
their seats beginning Oct. 1.
Season tickets, which
represent a savings of up to
30 percent over individual
tickets, range in price from
$126 to $84 depending
upon the package chosen.
Single tickets to individ-
ual shows go on sale one
month prior to each show’s
opening night and are $25
for adults and $15 for youth
(age 6-18).
Meanwhile, Cottage The-
atre has two productions
remaining in its current
2019 season. The theatre
will reopen in October fol-
lowing a brief closure this
summer for the first phase
of a remodeling project.
“This summer we said
goodbye to our old blue
seats,” said Goes, “and we’ve
just learned that they were
even older than we thought.
Our new seating manufac-
turer told us that the com-
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• Now that the Lane
County Commissioners
have approved the Terri-
torial Road Project, the
work will begin on Stoney
Point next May or June
2020. For more informa-
tion, contact Becky Tay-
lor, Senior Transportation
Planner, at either 541-682-
6932 or email her at Becky.
taylor@cp.lane.or.us. This
has been a development
over many years and lots
of meetings. It will mean
safety for all who live and
travel in Lorane.
• Summer seems to be
closing with very warm
temperatures. Please re-
member fire danger is
high, so use extreme cau-
tion as everything is very
dry.
• CAL School District
classes begin on Tuesday,
Sept. 3, at the usual time.
For more information, call
the district office at 541-
935-2100.
• Lorane Grange meets
on Thursday, Sept. 5, be-
ginning at 7 p.m. with pot-
luck snacks.
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He loves his toy chest and so do I. It matches my de-
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The chest is both fun and useful. Sonja instructs
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home and eventually finds a treat inside his toy chest.
When her grown son Rocky visits, he and Ben play
hide-and-seek; Rocky puts Ben outside and then
hides. Sonja lets an eager Ben in with the cue, “Find
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On Rocky’s last visit, he hid in the closet beside her
front door and across the threshold from Ben’s toy
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“I let Ben in and told him, ‘Find Rocky,’” said Son-
ja. “Ben searched three bedrooms, the office, both
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Twice Rocky whistled for Ben, who would come
running back to recheck the living room, but no
Rocky. “I could see his doggy wheels turning. Ben
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“He was sure Rocky was in there. But no! So, Ben
continued searching. Three times he went back to
the toy chest, nosed it open, peered in fully expect-
ing to see Rocky. The stunned look on his face was
hilarious.”
Finally, Rocky revealed his whereabouts to Ben
when he burst out laughing. “It is a great family
memory and we still chuckle about it to this day,”
Sonja said.
Although Ben was unable to find Rocky, he at-
tunes himself to our environment and has become a
hunting dog in other areas. “I routinely set my phone
timer on a “Quack-Quack” ring to alert me to the
running water sprinklers, laundry, mail arrival, bak-
ing cookies, et cetera. Ben quickly picked up on what
the ring meant. So, when the phone starts quacking,
he comes to me which is doubly handy. If I can’t find
my phone, he helps me track it down. He is so smart
that sometimes I forget he is, well, a dog.”
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