2011-2012 Theatre Produtions

2011-2012 Productions title

Haunted Halloween Show

October 29-30, 2011

Music, dancing, tales of terror for the Halloween Season. Come see student created scenes of terror that will leave you chilled to the bone.

Cast List

Actors.................................................Jessica Yoesle*#

Rachel Hettrick

Zach Buckley #

Zach Scarbrough*

Andes Darm

Maddie Hubbard #

Gerard Beach

David Zallis

Yessenia Nunez

Megan Norlin

Karen Leifheit*

Jeremy Close

Erich Jauch*

Gabriella Dhesse*

Yvette Lucas*

Ariel Rose*

Sami Sekula*

Andrew Loebach*#

Domnic Passini #

Elizabeth Voitik

Kellsie Edgcomb

Kevin Alleman*#

Show Choir.........................................Jordan Hall

Coryssa Pelszynk

Richie Eccles

Hannah Monroe

Mary Haywood

Justine Patterson

Pumpkin Chorus..................................Erin Perry

Shelby Wroczynski

Stage Manager....................................Samantha Milton

Tech Crew..........................................Gwen Hanford

Kyle Russell

Devin Greathouse

Stitcher.................................................Jessica Richardson

*denotes also in Show Choir, # denotes also in Pumpkin Chorus

1920's Review: Remembering when LaSalle roared!

April 14, 2012

Step into the 20's for an evening filled with music by the Johnie Kaye Orchestra and a live radio stage show by the IVCC Theatre Department. This is an historic evening to preserve two historic threasures of LaSalle, The Hegeler Carus Mansion & The Julius W. Hegeler I Home.

Cast List

Guests...................................................Gwen Hanford

Jessica Yoesle

Andes Darm

Kyle Russell

Adrienne Van Horn

Elizabeth Voitik

Samantha Milton

Broadway Actors..................................Gabriella Dhesse

Andrew Loebach

Mary Haywood

Erich Jauch

Karen Leifheit

Sami Sekula

Kellsie Edgcomb

Nickel and Dimed

May 4 & 5, 2012

"…undeniably provocative…One can't see this stage version without questioning an economy in which poor people subsidize the lifestyle of the middle and upper classes." —Variety. "Daring…attacks the privileges of 90% of the people who will see it…Ehrenreich's irrepressible sense of humor admirably

Inquirer. "Penetrating clarity and sharp, illuminating humor…succeeds beautifully in creating the wearying reality of dead-end jobs and the people trapped in them." —San Francisco Chronicle. "A rare example of theater that tries to open people's eyes to the way life is lived in the real world—and maybe even rouse them to action." —Time Magazine.

THE STORY: Can a middle-aged, middle-class woman survive, when she suddenly has to make beds all day in a hotel and live on $7 an hour? Maybe. But one $7-an-hour job won't pay the rent: she'll have to do back-to-back shifts, as a chambermaid and a waitress. This isn't the first surprise for acclaimed author Barbara, who set out to research low-wage life firsthand, confident she was prepared for the worst. Barbara Ehrenreich's best-seller about her odyssey is vivid and witty, yet always deeply sobering. Joan Holden's stage adaptation is a focused comic epic shadowed with tragedy. Barbara is prepared for hard work but not, at 55, for double shifts and nonstop aches and pains; for having to share tiny rooms, live on fast food because she has no place to cook, beg from food pantries, gulp handfuls of Ibuprofen because she can't afford a doctor; for failing, after all that, to make ends meet; or for constantly having to swallow humiliation. The worst, she learns, is not what happens to the back or the knees: it's the damage to the heart. The bright glimpses of Barbara's co-workers that enliven the book become indelible portraits: Gail, the star waitress pushing fifty who can no longer outrun her troubles; Carlie, the hotel maid whose rage has burned down to disgust; Pete, the nursing home cook who retreats into fantasy; Holly, terrified her pregnancy will end her job as Team Leader at Magic Maids, and with it her 50-cent raise. These characters wage their life struggles with a gallantry that humbles Barbara, and the audience. The play shows us the life a third of working Americans now lead, and makes us angry that anyone should have to live it.

Cast List

Karen Leifheit.......................................Barbara

Kim Herout..........................................Gail/Marge

Yessenia Nunez....................................Maddy/Kimberly/Teenager

Jessica Yoesle......................................Joan/Holly

Sami Sekula.........................................Woman/Daughter/Rich Lady/

Resident/Melissa/Carlie

Rachel Hettrick....................................Cashier/Nita

Alicia Briddick.....................................Nanny/Resident/Social Worker

Jeremy Close.......................................George/Ted/Howard

Johnathan Eppard...............................Hector/Winn Dixie Manager

Erich Jauch..........................................Philip/Editor