Andy Price as Tony Wendice

Katie Whalen as Margot Wendice

(evening performances)

Taylor Raucher as Margot Wendice

(matinee performances)

David Martin as Max Halliday

Brad Shepard as Inspector Hubbard

Nathan Medlock as Captain Lesgate

Ben Bump as the offstage voices

Director - Stuart W. Gamble
Stage Manager - Karolina Kopczynski
Set Construction - David Carlson
Costumes -

Karolina Kopczynski & Stuart W. Gamble

DIAL M FOR MURDER

February 28, March 1 & 2, 2025
March 7, 8 & 9, 2025

Thornton W. Burgess School
85 Wilbraham Road Hampden, MA

THE WISDOM OF EVE

March 20, 21 & 22, 2026
March 27, 28 & 29, 2026

Thornton W. Burgess School
85 Wilbraham Road Hampden, MA

GYPSY

October 2026

Thornton W. Burgess School
85 Wilbraham Road Hampden, MA

2025-2026 season

LOST IN YONKERS

November 7, 8 & 9, 2025
November 14, 15 & 16, 2025

Thornton W. Burgess School
85 Wilbraham Road Hampden, MA

CAST

Heath Verrill as Tally-Ho Thompson
Nathan Alvarez as Harvey
Allison Reardon as Eve
Amanda Emet as Vera Franklin
Andy Price as Bert Hinkle
Andrea Stolar as Leila
Tim Symington as Lloyd
Jeannie Wysocki as Margo
Margie Secora as Karen
Phil Godeck as Clement

Director - Mark Giza
Stage Manager - Gail Weber

CAST

Adapted from the story by Mary Orr, on which the film All About Eve and the hit musical Applause were based. An engrossing and revealing “inside” story of life in New York’s theatre world, told in terms of an unscrupulous ingenue’s rise to Broadway stardom. When we first meet Eve Harrington, she is standing in the rain by the stage door of the theatre in which the renowned Margo Crane is starring in her latest long-run hit. Waiting for a glimpse of her professed idol, she accosts Karen Roberts, Margo’s good friend and the wife of the playwright, Lloyd Roberts, and inveigles an invitation to meet the great actress herself. The meeting leads to unexpected opportunity as Margo, struck with Eve’s “sincerity,” takes her on as a personal secretary. Before long Eve has done such a fine job of straightening out the clutter of Margo’s personal affairs that Margo, while she had always jealously resisted the engagement of an understudy for her own role, allows Eve to have the assignment. Then Eve begins to move ahead in earnest, her true character emerging as she lies, cheats and blackmails her way to Broadway stardom—and then a Hollywood career—leaving the wreckage of her friends’ trust behind her. As the play ends there are rumors that Eve has found a new “friend,” this time a movie tycoon, so it appears that perhaps we have not, for the moment, heard all there is to tell about Eve.

Josh Barry as Jay
Aiden Quinn as Arty
Nathan Alvarez as Louie
Trish Neild Barry as Grandma Kurnitz
David Martin as Eddie
Khara Hoyer as Bella
Gail Weber as Gert

Director - Rick Rubin

Stage Manager - Steve Weber

A musical review of songs from classic Jerry Herman musicals.

Becca Greene-Van Horn
Katie Johnson
Kathy Renaud
Dr. Andrea Stolar
Robyn Scott
Dina Del Buono
Margie Secora
Jessica Glasser
Amanda Emet

Director - Mark Giza
Music Director - Parker Eastman

Stage Manager - Gail Weber

Tony and Margot Wendice have had a fractious marriage for many years, resulting in Margo’s affair with Max Halliday, an American crime writer. However, when the affair ended and Tony retired from his professional tennis career, the couple reunited and rekindled their love...or have they? In this well-known suspense thriller, Tony pursues the perfect crime. He married Margot for her money and now, after finding out about her affair, he plans to murder her for exactly the same reason. Although he initially thinks about killing her himself, Tony decides to hire an old university acquaintance and cunning criminal, Captain Lesgate, to do the dirty work for him. Despite Tony’s meticulous planning, the attempted murder goes awry and Lesgate is killed, while Margot survives. With a little quick-thinking and a lot of deceit, Tony manipulates Scotland Yard into believing that his wife was being blackmailed by Lesgate and killed him to protect her reputation. However, thanks to the determination of Max Halliday to prove his ex-lover’s innocence and the experience of Inspector Hubbard, Tony soon becomes wrapped up in his own web of lies and his guilt is exposed.

Lost in Yonkers is a coming-of-age story set in Yonkers, New York. Simon's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play centers around two brothers, Arty and Jay, who live with their grandmother and their mentally challenged Aunt Bella, while their father travels, desperately trying to scrape enough money together while working as a salesman to pay off his debts to a loan shark, and their mother has died of cancer. Over the course of the play, the young boys learn lessons about love, responsibility and the importance of family that will

carry them into adulthood.

JERRY'S GIRLS

April 25, 26 & 27, 2025
May 2, 3 & 4, 2025

Hampden Senior Center
104 Allen Street Hampden, MA

Speculated by many (including NY Times critic Ben Brantley) to be the greatest of all American musicals, Gypsy tells the story of the dreams and efforts of one hungry, powerhouse of a woman to get her two daughters into show business. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoir of famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, entitled Gypsy: Memoirs of America’s Most Celebrated Stripper. The memoir and the musical focus on the story of Gypsy Rose Lee’s mother, Rose, and earned Rose a place in the theatrical and literary canon as the quintessential, archetypal “Stage Mother.” The musical features songs that have become standards of the musical theatre canon, including “Some People,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “Rose’s Turn,” and the show-stopping “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”. Gypsy is famous for helping launch lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s career, and features a book by Arthur Laurents that is widely considered to be one of the classic examples of a traditional “book musical.” At the heart of the musical is the gregarious Rose, whose journey made critic Frank Rich call Gypsy, “Broadway’s own brassy, unlikely answer to King Lear.”

Director - Mark Giza