Year: 2011

That Schroo Cookin’ at 185 Washington Street is under new ownership and is now called What’s Cookin’.  Pictured are new owner/cook, Brian Rice, and cook Mari Martin.  Brian was most recently cooking for Common Crow, but jumped at the opportunity to schroo working for someone else and open his own establishment.  (Actually he really enjoyed cooking at Common Crow, but this was just too good an opportunity to pass up).  What’s Cookin’ opened Thursday, December 8 and will be open Monday-Friday 8:00-5:00 and Saturday 9:00-3:00, serving made from scratch soups, sandwiches, salads, baked goods and prepared meals.  Stop in and try some of Brian and Mari’s lovingly prepared food.

E.J. Lefavour

The CAT’s Out of the Bag:
Auditions for Neil Simon’s “Rumors”
Wednesday, January 4 and Thursday, January 5, 2012

The Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative invites you to audition for its March play, Neil Simon’s comedy-farce “Rumors,” Wednesday, January 4th and Thursday, January 5th from 7 pm to 9 pm at 5 Heritage Way (in the Roy Spittle Associates building) located in the Blackburn Industrial Park, Gloucester MA. Rehearsals will take place on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, 7pm to 9pm.
This full tilt farce aims for hilarity. Four high society couples gather at the home of the New York City deputy mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party is on hold though. The host has shot himself through his earlobe, his wife is missing and the cook and servant are conspicuously absent. As each couple arrives, the cover up of the shooting gets progressively more difficult to sustain. The story confounds in its growing absurdity. Oh, the scandal of it all! Doors slam and rumors abound as the couples get more and more tangled in their web of deceit. We will audition for the roles of the four couples (ages 40-50), and a policeman and policewoman (ages 30-50). “Rumors” will be performed at the Gorton Theatre (home of Gloucester Stage Co.) on March 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 and April 1.
CAT’s past productions include, “The Weir,” “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,” “Beyond Therapy,” and “Sylvia.” For further information please join the Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative on the web at http://www.CATcollaborative.org, on Facebook (you need not be Facebook member to access our page), email us at CATcollab@gmail.com or call 978.325.3153. Be a part of community theatre at its very best. We encourage you to audition for a role or to become a CAT Collaborative member working in a variety of non-acting positions.

PHOTO Credit: Lee Nadel.
Caption: (left to right) High society, high crime, high comedy, gunshots, a dinner party, no cook, no host, you are cordially invited to AUDITION! Behind the Scenes—(clockwise from left) CAT Collaborative’s Heidi Redston-Rideout (costumes), Lauren Suchecki (actor), Pat Maloney-Brown (director “Rumors”), Mary Lou Nye (publicity), Pia Nadel (sets), Pauline Miceli (director “Sylvia”), and Joey Arsenault (actor/social media) meet to kick-off the planning of Neil Simon’s rollicking farce, “Rumors.”

Behind the scenes of a Calendar Shoot.

No, it’s not one of Sharon Lowes or one of Ej Kahn’s Beautiful Calendars.

Unless they made a visit to Corisca on my Birthday.

But I’m Sure they’d make a lot of money if they did one like this with

the “Women of GMG”

GET TO WORK!

Due to the Mature subject Matter. View Discretion is Advised.

HERE AND THERE

When I was a kid, I spent my summers

near my grandfather’s farm in Port Benjamin,

in upstate New York. Port Ben wasn’t a port

anymore, not since 1900 when

the train replaced the D & H canal.

 

Anyway, the Rondout Creek ran near our house

and provided a great place to play, fish,

swim and have adventures that are with me

sharp and clear after more than sixty years.

 

To get to the creek, we had to cross a

hayfield, which, if recently mowed, was tough

on our bare feet , climb down the creek bank on

a rickety staircase and cross the muddy

bottom  land on a wobbly wooden walk.

 

Here’s the point. While walking Atlantic Street

the other day, as in a foggy dream,

I found that old boardwalk spread over the

flooded soggy salt marsh, no doubt trod by

kids with sixty years of adventures remembered.

 

Marty Luster