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Verona Area Community Theater, Inc. offers the Verona, Wisconsin area community opportunities to participate in and enjoy all facets of community theater. The mission for VACT, Inc. is to support productions and projects that augment and enhance the artistic experience for all who participate whether on stage, behind the scenes or in the audience. These productions are understood to be occasions to refine skills, learn new ones, and have fun. It is an organization goal to offer affordable access to theater to the wider community and to provide educational activities for Verona area residents in all aspects of staging theatrical productions. |
Our number one priority is to have fun!
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Verona Area Community Theater presents 
June 18-26, 2010
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| VACT News .... | 
On Stage this Summer |
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July 29, 2010 --
Some VACT members are busy this summer in upcoming productions. Oregon Straw Hat Players
are presenting Meredith Wilson's The Music Man, directed by Wendy Jones Hill (Laurie in VACT's
Oklahoma!). Also performing are Amanda Moschea (Lucy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown),
Dennis Reichhold (Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Sami Elmer (Snake and Storyteller in Children
of Eden), and Roberta Riportella (in Smokey Joe's Cafe). Performances are
Saturday, July 31st at 8:00 PM, Sunday, August 1st at 2:00 PM, and next Thursday, Friday and Saturday
at 8:00 PM, with a matinee, Saturday, August 7th at 2:00 PM. Tickets can be purchased
online at oshponline.tix.com/.
Rich Novotney (director of Earnest, Forum, Harvey and Mortimer in Arsenic) is directing Middleton Players Theatre's production of Stephen Sondheim's Company. Also involved are Marsha Pauly (Cory in Barefoot in the Park) doing choreography, and in the cast are Jerry Pero (Storyteller in Children of Eden) and Ben Johnson (Father in Children of Eden). Performances are August 13, 14, 19 20 and 21 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, August 21 at 2:00 PM at the Middleton Performing Arts Center. Tickets can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com or at the door. Appearing in Four Seasons Theatre's production of South Pacific alongside Lodi's Tom Wopat and Verona's Ali Foss, are: Steve Nibbe (VAHS PAC manager, last seen in VACT's Annie), Tom Hensen (Telephone Guy in Barefoot), Rick Henslin (Gaston in Beauty), Dennis Reichhold (see above), Samantha Bock (Eve in Children of Eden), Kate Ewings (Guenevere in Camelot), Jenny Marsland and Sierra Nibbe (Storytellers in Children of Eden). Shows are August 20 & 21 at 7:30 PM and August 22 at 2:00 PM, at the Wisconsin Union Theater | ||||||||||||
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VACT 2010-2011 Schedule | ||||||||||||
July 28, 2010 --
Verona Area Community Theater is pleased to announce the schedule for its 20th season,
2010-2011. Watch for more information including the VACT Children's Theater
schedule and audition information to be posted here.
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Children's Production | ||||||||||||
| July 19, 2010 -- The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2011 VACT Children's Theater production is August 1st. Send proposals to the VACT board in care of Katie Monk. | ||||||||||||
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Production Selection for 2012 | ||||||||||||
| June 12, 2010 -- The VACT Production Selection Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 6th at 7:00 PM in the VACT building music room. The purpose of the Selection Committee is to present nominations for the 2012 winter and summer shows to be voted on at the annual membership meeting in September. At the first meeting we will "brain-storm" and create a list of 10-15 shows to read over the summer. In August the list will be pared down to two winter shows and two summer shows which will be submitted to the board for approval and then to the general membership for voting. All VACT members are invited to participate in the committee. For more information contact Selection Committee chair, Marie Kyle. | ||||||||||||
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Fall 2010 Production | ||||||||||||
| January 12, 2010 -- The VACT Board of Directors has chosen Irving Berlin’s White Christmas for the Fall 2010 production. Missy Holcomb will direct. Some lead roles will be pre-cast. Watch the website for audition information around August. | ||||||||||||
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VACT Board | ||||||||||||
The VACT Board of Directors meets monthly. Members are always welcome to attend.
The next meeting is Monday, August 9, at 7:00 PM at the
VACT Building, 405 Bruce Street.
MEMBERSHIP| Become a member of VACT! Membership entitles you to vote at the annual meeting for the new
Board of Directors and for the Winter and Summer productions (see article elsewhere). There
are only two requirements for membership. First you have to have been involved, in some way,
in a VACT production in the previous year and, second, you have to be 17 or older. Students
16 years and younger can be "apprentice members" and attend meetings and serve on committees,
but are not entitled to vote. Membership dues are $5 for an individual and $10 for a family.
Family membership entitles all qualified members (17 and older and in a previous year
production) to vote. If you are not able to come to the annual meeting, but would like to
be a member, you can download the handy membership form.
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