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Photos from the musical Curtains
at the Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse

These photos are from the musical production of "Curtains" at the Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse during February and March of 2010. This was the third musical production of their 20th season. The show ran for a total of five weekends. It was my fifth show at the Playhouse and it was a wonderful experience! I would most definitely do it again (if I could commit the time). If you have some photos of this production that you would like me to put on this website, just email me! I know Facebook is a wildly popular way to share photos, but not everyone I know is on Facebook. Plus I own this leucht.com website and like to maintain full control of the content that I post. The downside is that I don't have tagging or commenting capabilities here. If you really really want to tag yourself in a photo that I took, feel free to snag my photo from here and upload it to your own Facebook album. If you really really want to comment on a photo that I took, go ahead and email me the comment and I'll be happy to post it next to the photo and give you credit for the post.

Production Staff Artistic Director & Producer ............................ Anastacia Hawkins-Smith Co-Artistic Director & Choreographer ............................ Pamela Larson Music Director & Conductor ............................ Daniel Klintworth Lighting Design, Scenic Design ............................ Ian Cook Associate Lighting & Scenic Design ............................ Jeremy Phelps Costume Designer ............................ Daniel Hill Sound Design & Operation ............................ Jason Cook, Gavin Little Dance Captain ............................ Natalie McKnight Visual Artwork ............................ Sheryl Koby Assisted by ............................ Dustin Coleman, Jonathan Cox, Liz Greer, Kurt Leucht, Dawn Murden, Jeremy Phelps, Katie Wolf Set Construction ............................ Jay Bleakney Assisted by ............................ Ian Cook, Jonathan Cox, Don Cross, Tim Legg, Jeremy Phelps, Wes Watkins Fly Operators ............................ Jonathan Cox, Don Griffin, Robert Hill, Tim Legg Followspot Operators ............................ Trent Chamberlain, Chase Giammanco, Katlynn Guyre, Christina Villars Backstage Management ............................ Susan Mead Assisted by ............................ George Franzini Wigs, Hats, Hair & Make-Up ............................ Sharon Metz Assisted by ............................ Hallie Moore, Louise Vine Costume Assistants ............................ Sharon Fox, Jason Bush Sewing ............................ Colin Blackman, Madison Blackman, Jason Bush, Zoe Conover, Carol Cox, Leann Cross, Margaret Cross, Norma Davis, Machelle Deruelle, Sharon Fox, Gladys Goodis, Katlynn Guyre, Nancy Henderson, Joyce Herschelman, Debbie Jensen, Deb Kelley, Sammie Martin, Deborah McCaffrey, Pam McClarin, Beverly McNally, Hallie Moore, Jessica Neuman, Patricia Patnaude, Rachel Richter, Barbara Seipt, Janet Simmons, Staci Spinelli, Cass Stark Marketing Artwork ............................ Benjamin Cox Volunteer Technical Support ............................ Kurt Leucht Stage Properties ............................ Steve Davis "Flying By Foy" Flying Director ............................ R.J. Scala Security ............................ Bob Beasley, Scott Chamberlain, John Moore Orchestra Conductor ............................ Daniel Klintworth Keyboard ............................ J. Thomas Black, Jr. Flute/Picc. ............................ Alice Reshel Flute/Clarinet/Bs. Clarinet/Alto Sax ............................ Art Martin Clarinet/Tenor Sax ............................ Art Dimino Clarinet/Soprano Sax/Alto Sax ............................ Dave Tweed Horn ............................ Stephen Klintworth Trumpet ............................ William Brown, Rene Hulsker Trombone ............................ Don Staples, William H. Yoh, Jr. Drum Set ............................ Sasha Molledo Auxiliary Percussion ............................ Chris Shepard Guitar/Banjo ............................ Sidney Horne Bass Guitar ............................ Wayne Weeks Woodwind Sub ............................ Dave Melchor Cast of Characters Principals: Lieutenant Frank Cioffi ............................ Keith Larson Carmen Bernstein ............................ Tracey Thompson Niki Harris ............................ Jennifer Laurel Fague Georgia Hendricks ............................ Natalie McKnight Aaron Fox ............................ Michael Delk Bobby Pepper ............................ Brian Smith Bambi Bernet ............................ Michaela Vine Christopher Belling ............................ Rick Roach Sidney Bernstein ............................ Kurt Leucht Oscar Shapiro ............................ Don Cross Daryl Grady ............................ Alan LaDuke Jessica Cranshaw ............................ Leeann Cross Johnny Harmon ............................ Gene Hayes Randy Dexter ............................ Kyle Rappe Harv Fremont ............................ Benjamin Cox Detective O'Farrell ............................ Robert Hill Sasha ............................ Daniel Klintworth Mona Lisa ............................ Wendy Bernier Roberta Fremont ............................ Kari Ryan Furr Ensemble: Teryn Borger Deborah Miller Jason Bush Lindsey Miner Eli Chamberlain Gloria Palermo TJ Clark Joe Phillips Terry Clowney Erica Presley Amy Grandey Jeanette Roach Jeff Hudson Mark Smith Sarah Kelley Tim Smolinski Rachael Levy Chris Waterman Nicole McKnight

Just click on this image to view a larger version of it! Photo Credit: Goforth Photography

Just click on these images to view larger versions of them! Pam gives Rick some direction. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Robert and I think Tim are carefully flying me up and down in this show. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Me in the middle of one of my scenes as Sid. This was taken during rehearsals, so we weren't all fully in costumes yet. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Wide Open Spaces number at the beginning of the show. I helped sing this song from the wings. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography What Kind of Man number right after they find that one favorable review in all the newspapers. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography The Woman's Dead number when the cast finds out their star has died. Another song I sang from the wings. At the end of this song we get to meet Lieutenant Cioffi. He swings the rear stage door open and stands there for a moment in sharp silouette and smoke effect. Cool entrance. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Critically acclaimed director Christopher Belling introducing himself to Inspector Frank Cioffi. Rick played the director role beautifully. It was a laugh a minute. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Show People number starring the whole cast. The audience ate this one up. I also belted this one from the wings. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography This was my first scene in the show. Here I am being mean to Johnny the stage manager. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography And here I am being mean to Daryl Grady, the newspaper critic in a later scene. I wonder why all the characters in this show hated me so much. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography In the Same Boat number. Cioffi thinks it's kind of lackluster. It lacks ... luster. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Can-Can dancers warm up the audience for the Act 1 finale ... the big saloon scene and the Thataway musical number. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography And here is the Thataway number getting set up for some good old fashioned western musical dancing. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Love Jeannette's expression in this photo. The whole cast gets gaught trying to grab the briefcase that has some very compromising evidence against someone. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography And here is the real Act 1 finale ... Sid getting "accidentally" hanged while the curtain comes down. Flying by a wire was a real trip. I'm glad the audience appreciated the humor in this bit. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography And this is how Act 1 ended. You can see the wire hooked to the middle of my back. The rope was all just for show. The flying harness was actually around my waist and thighs. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Here is the He Did It musical number. Everyone was in pajamas for this scene. Kyle had bunny slippers and Chris had on an adult onesie and a little teddy bear in his arms. Very funny stuff. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Here is the It's A Business number. I sang this song from the wings too. 2nd Tenor part. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Bambi gets to show off her dancing in the big Kansasland number. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Niki finds a gun and almost kills Leiutenant Cioffi with it. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography This is the dream sequence where Cioffi and Niki dream that they are starring in a big dance number. The audience loved this scene ... and I think the dancers enjoyed it too. The song was A Tough Act To Follow. I was backstage moving big set pieces around during most of the second act. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Doesn't that look fun!?! Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Are you thinkin what I'm thinkin? I sure think I am! Come on gang! Photo Credit: Goforth Photography This was our cast cat. I think it's real name is Princess, but her stage name was Ophelia. She helped us scare the stage manager Johnny ... right before he got killed. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography This short scene may be my favorite in the show. It's a fly loft set and the actors are actually up about 8 feet above the stage floor. Later in the scene, Cioffi leans over to look at a set piece and is hit by a falling sandbag and falls down to the stage floor on wires, but he's hidden by an 8 foot tall black curtain so the audience thinks he has fallen like 20 or 30 feet to the stage floor. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Then a few minutes into the next scene Cioffi comes down on a set piece and the audience realizes that he's been hanging on to this set piece up in the fly gallery for the past few minutes. It's a pretty cool bit. Not real easy to pull off, though. After he fell to the stage in the prior scene, the 8 foot black curtain had to be raised while Cioffi was also raised up into the fly gallery and then he was set down onto this globe set piece up there out of sight of the audience. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Cioffi saves the production by greatly improving the In The Same Boat number. And greatly improving the chance that Christopher Belling will take credit for it. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography Tracy and Rick and Keith have a little scene in front of the curtain while the company gets set up on stage for the finale. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography And here is the finale. Photo Credit: Goforth Photography

Just click on these images to view larger versions of them! Cast and crew members relaxing before a performance. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Our wonderful stage manager, Susan. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Pam giving last minute choreography directions to TJ and Tim. Either that or she's giving them driving directions. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Jeremy closes the curtain so they can open the doors and let in another sold out crowd! Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Chris's teddy bear. Of course it's just a prop, but we think he grew quite attached to this little guy by the end of the run. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Mark sports a new hairstyle for the final performance. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht This was Joe's first musical. He's now hooked. See you in Ragtime, Joe! Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Chris and Tim putting on their stage makeup. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Geno and Brian and George hanging out before a performance. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht The star dressing room about half hour before curtain. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Rachel and Sasha hanging out backstage before curtain. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Dan and TJ also hanging out before curtain. Getting into character, I suppose. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Hair and makeup is sometimes a group effort. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Rick and Jeanette getting into character before curtain. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht I found Teryn's secret little hideout in the corner of the shop. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Chris and Robert and the little teddy bear hanging out in the basement, which doubled as the men's dressing room. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Write your own caption: Have you seen my horse? It was about this big. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht There's a new sheriff in town. This photo brings to mind a funny scene from Blazing Saddles. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Jason applies his stage makeup. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Little did the set designers know that they had started a new crew exercise craze. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Sam relaxes before the show starts. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Intermission was basically a big pajama party backstage. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Here is a shot of some of our Curtains set pieces set and ready to be pulled onstage. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Don and others relaxing before curtain. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Gavin our awesome sound man mic'ing Rick. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht The cast of Curtains warming up before a show. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht This was taken at imtermission of our final performance. It was my last fly. It took me the whole first weekend to realize that I could control which direction I was facing during the flying sequence. The rest of the run was spent trying to die facing the left hand side of the audience so that when the cable unwould slowly while I was motionless I would pan slowly from that position to the right hand side of the audience and not spin completely around and have my back towards the audience. I got it right about half of the time. Oh well. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht I have no idea why Chris was dressed like this during intermission of our final performance. Maybe just to entertain us? Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Jennifer and Chris and Rick have a monent together during intermission. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Wendy helps Amy with her hair during intermission. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht The cast of Curtains greets the audience members out in front of the theatre after the show. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Our final circle after the closing performance. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Staci, the director, shows off the awesome collectible posters that Ben made for the cast and crew. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Our final circle after the closing performance. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Orchestra members are recognized during the final circle. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Tech crew members are recognized during the final circle. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Our final circle after the closing performance. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Costumes and sewing team members are recognized during the final circle. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Keith and Tracy, our two co-leads are recognized during the final circle. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Staci is presented with a beautiful cast photo montage which will be hung permanently in the playhouse. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Our final circle breaks up and people head off to the cast party. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Lots of great food at the cast party. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht There was also lots of wine. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Cast party fun. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Cast party fun. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Cast party fun. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Cast party fun. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht I bought a pinata and dressed it up with construction paper to make it look like my character, Sid. The only "human shaped" pinata I could find was Elmo, though. Sorry Elmo! It went over very well, though. The cast members had fun whacking dead Sid. Chris actually gave me the idea, since he always teased me during the performances telling me that he was going to start hitting me with a stick when he saw me hanging there at the end of Act 1. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht He's behind you, Natalie! Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht The audience being entertained by the dead Sid pinata fun. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Even little Matthew got into it. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Michaela takes a crack at the dead Sid pinata. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht The dead Sid pinata separated from his head and candy and Ricola throat losenges spilled out. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht I don't know what Terry was doing here, but it was funny whatever it was. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Cast party fun. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Cast party fun. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Cast party fun. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht Of course thespians can't gather without doing a little kareoke. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht And a small audience gathers to watch the kareoke entertainment. Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht And then things got a little out of hand! :-) Photo Credit: Kurt Leucht

Videos

		Slideshow (coming soon!): Curtains (courtesy of Cocoa Village Playhouse)

Photos taken by others

Some of these online Curtains photo albums may not be visible by the public. PUBLICITY Curtains newspaper publicity photos. Album Credit: Goforth Photography PRODUCTION (1 of 2) Photos taken during rehearsals and also during the actual production. Album Credit: Goforth Photography PRODUCTION (2 of 2) Photos taken during rehearsals and also during the actual production. Album Credit: Goforth Photography BACKSTAGE Photos taken of cast and crew backstage. Album Credit: Natalie McKnight BEHIND THE SCENES Photos taken of cast and crew during rehearsals and backstage. Album Credit: Sheryl Koby DRESS REHEARSALS Photos taken of cast and crew during dress rehearsals. Album Credit: Sheryl Koby CAST PARTY Photos taken of cast and crew during the cast party. Album Credit: Sheryl Koby PRODUCTION AND FINAL CIRCLE Photos taken of cast and crew during the production and in our final circle after the show closed. Album Credit: Joe R. Phillips

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