BACKSTAGE
With the Chatham Community Players
April 2002

Special Fantasy Theater Performance a Success
Approximately $1,300 has been donated to the David Johnston Memorial Fund for the education of his children, representing the proceeds of one extra performance of The Hobbit. Dave was an active member of Players who died suddenly last spring.

Newly Arrived
Our co-chairs of Jersey Voices, Jeff and Lisa Streger, are celebrating the recent birth of daughter Nicole Marie.

On March 26, Ed and Lisa Zaleski became proud parents again when Delia Brynn was born; the couple was last seen on our stage in Man of La Mancha and are currently living in Rhode Island with son Noah.

Bruce Gandy (A Christmas Carol, The Crucible, A Funny Thing...) became a grandfather when his daughter, Meredith, and husband Michael, welcomed Maelana Lee Urban on March 24.

Congratulations to all!

Here and There
Meghan Luckey recently appeared as Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest, Franklin Villagers, Somerset, along with Barbara Neff as Lady Bracknell.

Christine Furlong played La La in Last Night at Ballyhoo, also at Villagers, in company with Nancy Jean McBride and Catherine Rowe, our elegant Ruth in last fall's Blithe Spirit, who is heading next for Villagers' Fiddler on the Roof.

Voltaire Balderama, seen as Christmas Present in this past year's Carol, is currently appearing in A New Brain at 4th Wall Musical Theater, Morristown, along with Bruce McCandless (...Night Music), and Maryann Post (...Superstar, Guys & Dolls).

Paul Rivers just played Ray Dooley in Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Barn Theater.

Laura Oseland (Carol)is featured on a new CD, Made in America: Vaudeville Songs 1900-1926, and also just played Marta in the Oak Knoll High School production of The Sound of Music; she has been invited to perform in Paper Mill Playhouse's 2002 gala, The World's Our Stage, in May.

Sarah Kotsoulis (Carol) recently was the leading lady in Westfield's Jerry's Girls.

Jeff Maschi (The Desperate Hours) will be seen in What Exit?'s Don't Dress for Dinner.

Robyn Yakaitis (...Night Music) will play the role of Rizzo in Cranford Repertory Theater's Grease.

Esther Cohen (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and Jeff Dopson (...Night Music) are currently working on The Most Happy Fella at the Barn Theater.

Performing outside the Chatham Playhouse? Let us know!

Improved Seating!
Comments have been enthusiastic about our new chairs, and we have been thanked by the Straight and Narrow group for donating our old chairs to them. They are one of our regular Outreach groups.

In Memoriam

Martha M. Warner, 84
Seen in Barefoot in the Park, Showboat, Picnic, Harvey

Gifts in her memory may be made to
Chatham Community Players
PO Box 234
Chatham, NJ 07928

Read our previous Newsletters:
January 2002
November 2001
September 2001