November 12, 2013 12:00 am
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Horace Vandergelder (Jacob Lively) refuses to give his niece Ermengarde (Tabitha Hearn) permission to marry the man of her dreams.
The ensemble, left to right, Keira Stogin, Riley Miller, Shannon Leininger, Holly Erickson, Jamie Szysplinski and Courtney Burton address the audience at the opening of a scene.
Barnaby, right, (Schroeder) tells the audience about the moral of the play while, left to right, Dolly Levi (Jessica Hatton), Horace Vandergelder (Lively), the cook (Rebecca Bennett) and the cabman (Tristan Fackler) look on.
Branaby (Tyler Schroeder, standing) and Cornelius (Mac Wright in the trap door) try to explode some tomato cans to get out of a day of work.
Students in Kelly Gregersen’s dramatic literature class have been begging him to select Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker” as an upcoming play.After a year spent rallying fellow classmates, the student-led production will open this weekend.
“A lot of the senior drama students asked for the show,” Gregersen said. “When the kids keep requesting something, it really brings a nice energy to the piece.”
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