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| Photo by Joe Giardella. 2012 Theater Camp Performance of Oklahoma! |
August 14, 2012
by Wendy Bogart
photos by Joe Giardella
On Thursday, August 9, 2012, the Cornwall Recreation Department Summer Theater Camp presented Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, directed by Blake McGready.
The Summer Theater Camp created everything from sets, props, and costumes to program art for their annual show. The show ran out of programs, possibly due to the included artwork featuring five works of art by the actors. The program cover was designed by Abigail Schewtschenko. A note in the program reminded people to “silence their cell phones and noise-making devices, seeing as they did not have these in early twentieth-century Oklahoma.”
I caught up with some of the cast right before the show for a quick chat to find out what they liked about theater camp and what made them want to sign up for it. Maia Tice, who is part of the Can’t Say No Ensemble, told me she signed up because it’s “awesome,” and the reason she joined was because she heard that the director Blake McGready was “amazing.” Skylar Strauss and Jessica Eng, also of the Can’t Say No Ensemble and fellow middle-schoolers, giggled and twirled their pigtails as she said this. Katherine Braccia, a fourth-grader standing in the midst of the giggles and excitement, said “I didn’t know what Oklahoma! was, I just love acting!”
Well, Oklahoma!, a love story which takes place in the early 1900's in Oklahoma Territory, is a story about two cowboys who fall in love with the same girl. The love story seemed to have affected the audience, as I spotted two couples holding hands, a family of three huddled together, and a daughter resting her head on her mother’s shoulder while watching the show.
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