Bay Village Community Theater Blog

We are going to try and simplify the website for our little theater group. The Wordpress system of the original is rather hard to manipulate for the admins and hard to navigate for the reader.  This Blogger version will have one page only, a blog, chronologically laid out. If possible, we will move some of the old content to this page. If not, we won't. In which case, this will be Year Zero. Of course, we have been and will continue to be a presence on Facebook no matter what happens on this page. The previous post (below) was simply an after-the-fact test of whether or not content is transferable from the old site to this one. If you read it, consider it simply a trip down memory lane. 

While live performances have been put on hold, at Bay Village Community Theater, the show must go on! Via the technological magic of Zoom, the group will present a free reading of “The Big Sister,” a Dragnet radio script from 1955  Saturday June 20 at 7 pm and Sunday June 21 at 3 pm.  “I was disappointed that we had to cancel our spring production of Bleacher Bums,” said board president John Hnat. “But we realized that our staged reading series was perfect for this new medium.” The cast has been rehearsing via Zoom from their own homes. Director Judith Mazur noted, “There are different considerations to take into account when performing on Zoom instead of live, so we did a test run with a limited audience last week, so we could get some constructive feedback.” The cast features Ben Saylor as Joe Friday. Other cast members include Hnat, Tim Jones, Barbara Wysocki, and Margaret Hnat. The performance also will include sound effects just like an old-time radio show. “While we can’...