The second annual “No Film Film Festival”, sponsored by Fact 8 TV in Bellows Falls, will be showing all of the films submitted to the festival this Saturday at the Bellows Falls Opera House, beginning at 6pm. The theme this year were “80s Movie Remakes” and in keeping with that theme, a genuine 80s hair band, Intercept, will be playing at the show! There are 16 short films to be viewed, all taking a well known 80s movie and remaking it into a 7-15 minute film, each with a different genre to incorporate. Team “Not Your Father’s Moustache 2”, with many team members from The Players (Ray Boas, Tom Durnford, Tara Sad, Sarah Manning, Carolyn Norback, Kathy Reilly, Joan Balla, Becky Pearson and Fran
Kemp), are starring in the film “White Man’s Overbite” a remake of the movie Amadeus as a romance. Tickets are available on the Fact 8 website or they can be bought at the door at the opera house. Last year our team won 3 awards at this festival, “Best Acting”, “Audience Choice” and “Best Picture”, and we feel this year’s entry is even better. We’d love to share it with you all!! — From Gail !!!

If you would like to see the video that Jake made of TOURISTS ACCOMMODATED it is on-line in the Media Library of Fact8TV.  Click on the link below, and scroll down the page until you see (currently on the right) The Walpole Players TOURISTS ACCOMMODATED, an then enjoy.

http://www.fact8.com/e107_plugins/media_library/media_library.php?allvids

I also have DVD’s available for cast members, enjoy and thanks for your help, yours, RAY

UPSTAGED – A LOCALLY CREATED TELEVISION SITCOM

Did you miss the world premier last month at the Bellows Falls Opera House of UPSTAGED created by Walpole resident Gail Golec and filmed by Jacob Stradling and edited by Alex Stradling?   Requested by many, a second showing will be held at the Walpole Town Hall on Wednesday, May 22^nd.  Doors will open at 7 PM and the film will begin at 7:20.  Admission is FREE.

The story follows the exploits of a failed theater actor/director/producer from NYC (Harold Howard-Hartwell) who, after his last show flops, decides to leave the city behind and settle in a small farming town in New Hampshire. His ultimate plan is to make the town over into an artists’ colony, garnering him the fame and respect he so desperately desires. But first he needs to get the town on board with his plan. To that end, he decides he needs to produce a play, casting the townspeople to show them that theater can be a great experience. Here in his new town, Harold believes he will finally be a big fish in a small pond, however he soon learns that the pond is more like a fish bowl and he realizes as auditions for the play get underway, he is unprepared to deal with the variety of personalities in this small town.

UPSTAGED was filmed over the course of 10 months, using locations in Walpole (town hall), Acworth (Acworth Store) and Saxton River, VT (Pleasant Valley Brewery) and starring local actors from the Walpole Players (Mike Wright, Sarah Manning, Ray Boas, Fran Kemp, Carolyn Norback, Tara Sad, Jean Kobeski, Kathy Reilly, John Luther, Jim Baucom, Tom Winmill, Peter Eisenstadter, Jordan Mitchell-Love, Seth Lauritsen, Gwen Edson and Gail Golec).

For more information call 603 756-4545 or 603 756-3790.

Here you will find about 200 images taken by Walpole Player Jan Kobeski, who is quite a professional not only with his camera but in crafting our fabulous posters.  In addition he does the layout and design work for THE WALPOLE CLARION.  If you need any quality design work, do contact Jan at LABYRINTH COMMUNICATIONS, INC. right here in Walpole.  Have fun viewing these, and enjoy, yours, RAY

SCENE ONE

SCENE TWO

SCENE THREE

SCENE FOUR

SCENE FIVE

SCENE SIX

Just over 200 people were entertained by The Walpole Players last week by their performance of TOURISTS ACCOMMODATED by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.  Rave reviews and lots of laughs were received as those in attendance followed the plights of the Lymans hosting automobile tourists at their Vermont farmhouse in 1930.  If you ever entertained the idea of opening a bed and breakfast, the tourists you meet at the Lyman’s home will convince you otherwise.

The final performances will be Friday and Saturday May 10 and 11 at 8PM at the Helen Miller Theater at the Walpole (NH) Town Hall, and a Matinee at 2PM on Sunday May 12^th.  Directed by Ray Boas the cast includes 31 including a number of The Walpole Junior Players.  Tickets, which are $10 for adults and $5 for under 12, are available at Galloway Real Estate; Real to Reel; Murray’s and Costume Ladies in Walpole; and at Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls.  Tickets will be available at the door.  For more information (or to reserve a ticket), call (603) 756-4545 Please visit https://thewalpoleplayers.org/ for more information and pictures.

The Lyman Ladies.

The first tourists to arrive. Will it get better or worse?

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST WITH YOUR FRIENDS — See you soon, RAY

And here are a few images from this weeks dress rehearsal.  Please join us at the Helen Miller Theater, Walpole Town Hall on May 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 or 12.  You will enjoy this rare play.

The first tourists to arrive. Will it get better or worse?

The Lyman Ladies.

A match for the Lymans. Make sure you meet Complacent, Silly and Pretentious.

A language barrier in Vermont??

Phillip learns a great deal from the Artist.

The Bride and Groom are the last tourists for the season at the Lyman farm.

This afternoon I took 74 images, and narrowed them down to 12 to show you here.  I need to submit images to a newspaper tomorrow to go with our press release for the show.  Please email me your favorites in order (just mention number from 1 at top down to 12) to rayboas@comcast.net   —   Thanks, RAY

A note from Gail:

I just wanted to take a minute to thank you all for coming out last night to the show. It was a fabulous night, with a turn out from the community and cast and crew of about 200 people. I was going to be happy if 50 people turned out. Everything went very well with the showing but I was hoping to go through and talk about each of your performances, what you brought to it and how what you did made the script even better. I got to Fran and then got cut off, but each of you did such a wonderful job and seeing your performances was humbling for me, to take the words I gave you and see you turn each character into a person that, no matter how silly or crazy, was ultimately a believable,  likable character. You were all so encouraging, helpful, supportive and excited about this project, those of you who acted and those who came out last night to see the final product. This morning, looking back on this thing that we created together, I am in awe of how it all happened – how many things had to work and be in place to pull it off and it never would have been possible without all of you. Last night was for all of you but you deserve so much more. Thank you all so, so much 🙂

With love-
Gail

For Immediate Release:                                                                                            April 7, 2013

THE WALPOLE PLAYERS PRESENT

TOURISTS ACCOMMODATED

            Did you ever want to know what it was like to run a bed and breakfast, and have unique guests?  The Walpole Players will show you at 8PM on Thursday May 2^nd, Friday May 3^rd and 10^th, Saturday May 4^th, and 11^th and at a 2PM matinee on Sunday the 12^th of May when the curtain rises on TOURISTS ACCOMMODATED at the Helen Miller Theater at the Walpole Town Hall.

This is a gentle comedy in which we find a Vermont family taking in summer tourists in the early 1930s to raise money to send their daughter to teaching college. Wryly drawn from observing the “ways of travelers” and the “absurdities of city life” you will meet a host of characters familiar to us all when eight completely different groups of tourists stay with the Lyman family at their Vermont farmstead.

Written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, it was on a cold January day in 1930 that Dorothy and her friends in Arlington, Vermont, were sewing a baby outfit for a neighbor and talking and laughing a great deal.  Several of the families had in recent years begun taking in summer automobile tourists, who were finding their way north, providing them with beds for the night and meals.  This was a new and strange experience for these strong minded New England mountain folk, and the women soon started sharing stories about the strange ways of these travelers.  One funny story followed another with each hilarious incident being true.  Finally one of the group said, “We ought to make a play out of all this.”  Dorothy, a best-selling author who was also named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in America for her work in bringing the Montessori School movement to the US, took up the challenge.  This seldom seen side-tickling play was the result.

Directed by Ray Boas, the cast includes: Jean Jobeski; Whit Aldrich; Gail Golec; Carolyn Norback; Fran Kemp; Dave Adams; Tom Durnford; Joan Balla, Sarah Manning; Kathy Reilly; Jim Baucom; Laurel Perron; Tara Sad; Stacey Allen; Deb Robarge; Becky Pearson; Mike Delaney; Gail Connelly; Anna Kendall; and, Cameron Tollett.  A number of the Walpole Junior Players are also featured: Maeve Perron; Ben Robison; Kaylie Litner; Anya Bierweiler-Franks; Sophia Bruzgis; Madeleine Manning; Kathleen Dole; Isabella Smith, Patrick Manning; and, Holden Perron. Tickets, which are $10 for adults and $5 for under 12, are available at Galloway Real Estate; Real to Reel; Murray’s and Costume Ladies in Walpole; and at Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls.  For more information, call (603) 756-4545 or visit https://thewalpoleplayers.org/

“Upstaged”: a sitcom about a small town’s newest resident

Come one, come all, to the premier of the pilot episode of the locally written, filmed and produced sitcom “Upstaged”, at the Bellows Falls Opera House, April 18, 2013. The show is free, doors opening at 7 pm, show starts at 7:20 and will conclude with a short Q & A session with the actors, writer, director, editors and videographer.

The story follows exploits of a failed theater actor/director/producer from NYC (Harold Howard-Hartwell) who, after his last show flops, decides to leave the city behind and settle in a small farming town in New Hampshire. His ultimate plan is to make the town over into an artists’ colony, garnering him the fame and respect he so desperately desires. But first he needs to get the town on board with his plan. To that end, he decides he needs to produce a play, casting the townspeople to show them that theater can be a great experience. Here in his new town, Harold believes he will finally be a big fish in a small pond, however he soon learns that the pond is more like a fish bowl and he realizes as auditions for the play get underway, he is unprepared to deal with the variety of personalities in this small town.

The show was created, written and directed by Gail Golec, filmed by Jacob Stradling and edited by Alex Stradling. It was filmed over the course of 10 months, using locations in Walpole (town hall), Acworth (Acworth Store) and Saxton River, VT (Pleasant Valley Brewery) and starring local actors from the Walpole Players (Mike Wright, Sarah Manning, Ray Boas, Fran Kemp, Carolyn Norback, Tara Sad, Jean Kobeski, Kathy Reilly, John Luther, Jim Baucom, Tom Winmill, Peter Eisenstadter, Jordan Mitchell-Love, Seth Lauritsen, Gwen Edson and Gail Golec).

If you care to see a ten minute trailer and scene clip or intro on YouTube, go to:

http://youtu.be/pUfvWjWY1sA or http://youtu.be/B1-XmJWGqLU.

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