Murder At Crooked House
A two-act musical comedy mystery
Book by Tim Kelly Music and lyrics by Bill Francoeur

November 5th @ the Fruitvale Community Hall (tickets at Fruitvale Hometown Video)

November 12th @ the Rossland Miner’s Hall (tickets at RossVegas and Rossland Pro Hardware)

$35.00/person for Dinner and Show.  Catering by The Harvest Table.  

Doors open 6:00pm, dinner 6:30pm, show 7:30pm

Spooky, suspenseful, but mostly funny. This kinky spoof of TV’s “Private Eye” shows of the fifties features Hercules Porridge, the famous Hoboken detective. Whodunit? Was it Jeebes, the butler? Anguish Crispie, the mystery writer? Rebecca Fitzwilliam, the landlady of Crooked House? Ore one of the other oddball house-guests? Lots of zany action as the eccentric Colonel Chutney keeps attacking the house with his “Victorian Regiment.” 

Directed by Julie Crispin

(posted Oct 27th, 2011)

Here are some updates from this year’s AGM, for those that couldn’t attend.

Executive

We have two new additions to our Executive: Jeannie Tellier and Cathy Brodie! Thanks so much to Heather Cameron and Janis Anderson for their commitment to running this organization. Janis has stepped down from the Executive but has signed up to help Patricia with the costume department rentals over the summer. Sue Buckley assumed the remainder of Janis‘ term.

Please keep in mind that next year we will potentially need to replace 8 members of our Executive. Most of us will finish our terms next year. We will need a new President, First and Second Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and Directors. Some current Exec may choose to stay on, but my time as President will be done as I will have served for 4 years. Naturally, I will stay on as Past President (in an advisory capacity) So, keep that in mind over the next year.

iiiIf you have any interest in joining the Executive, please contact me and I can let you know what these positions require of you. Let me say that it is worth the effort we put in to see this place continue to be so successful! The Kootenays needs us!

The AGM

As a society, we are required to keep a current Membership List. One of the issues we continually run into is that pesky Quorum count. According to our Bylaws, we require 25% of the membership at the AGM to hold elections, vote on Bylaws etc.. Your Executive has reviewed our Bylaws and has decided to better define what constitutes a voting member. This will greatly reduce the stress that arises each year, when we wonder if we will make quorum.

Currently we have “ordinary members” and “active members”. Being an “active member” means that you have participated in some RLOP event at some point during the past two years. This would give you voting rights, if you are over 16 years of age. The title “ordinary member” applies to someone who has been involved in RLOP events in the past two years, but has no intention of ever attending an AGM. This could apply if you were a parent who brought their child to rehearsals or a friend who just came one show to sling a paintbrush.

Basically, if you wish to be considered an “active member”, we are looking for a willingness to attend the AGM, even if you can’t make it one year. We currently have 84 “active members” but this includes everyone. We would like to know from you, if you wish to maintain your voting rights.

Keep in mind that we do need people to attend the AGM; it is a vital part of maintaining this organization. But if you never plan to come to an AGM, it will help us reduce the “active membership” list, so quorum numbers aren’t such a source of frustration. I have attached sent out the current membership list. It tells you how many years you have left as a voting member, as of this year’s AGM. Editor’s note: if you didn’t get a membership list and want one, contact Dawn!

If you do not want voting rights, please let me know. If I missed your name, I apologize. Please let me know that too. Or if you only have one year left, but feel you were involved this year, let me know that too. We plan on keeping membership attendance lists, like they used to on past Executives. If you come to the Fall Fair, bake cookies, sing at Christmas or get involved on stage, your membership will be updated.

Fall Show

We are excited to announce that Julie Crispin has decided to direct her first show! She has chosen a musical, murder mystery called “Murder At Crooked House”. We will start auditions in the Fall, with the show being performed at the beginning of November. Please note that we have also been asked to perform this show for the Castlegar Rotary in January for one night. So, whoever is involved in the Fall Show will be needed that one night in January as well.

Mainstage 2012

We are thrilled to announce that we are planning to produce “Pride and Prejudice” for our Mainstage Show. This is a musical version of the beloved Jane Austen classic. Erica Charette has chosen this show to direct and Lorren Culley has agreed to be our Musical Director again this year! We have many backstage roles to fill, so if you have any aspirations to help out with sound, producing, publicity, sets, costumes, etc… please contact Erica. We are still working out royalty details and dates so stay tuned!

Hall Cleanup

We will begin our hall overhaul (nice play on words there!) in the summer. Please let me know if you would be available. We plan on renting a large dumpster to take away unusable things and we would also like to do a weinie roast at the same time.

Summer Singing Engagement

Diane Williamson has asked for members of the RLOP come together for an event for the Order of the Eastern Star, who are celebrating 100 years of service in BC and the Yukon. It will happen on July 9th around 6:00pm at the Cominco Arena. We would sing for about 15-30 minutes, doing songs we know already like those from Oklahoma, Brigadoon, South Pacific etc. We would need to meet a couple of times before hand to rehearse. Please let me know if you can come.

I can organize us but I can’t play to piano for rehearsals, so someone with the ability to read and play music for our rehearsals would be great! We won’t need to worry about doing 4 part harmonies and we will most likely be singing a capella for the event. Please let me know if you can attend a couple of rehearsals along with the event; I would hold them on Sundays for a couple of hours.

That’s it for now! Thanks for your hard work, everyone! We’re looking forward to another fantastic year!!!

Dawn

Friday night I went to the Rossland Light Opera’s performance of The Wizard of Oz… and was I ever impressed! They did a terrific job and as I was sitting enjoying the live orchestra and watching the many talented actors, I found myself vowing to not miss any of these live shows ever again.

I loved every second from the music, to the acting, to the set design and set changes, to the general ambience of being out on a friday night!

It’s amazing to me that so many of these talented actors are just regular people from right here in our community. I’ve seen many of them ramdomly around town, but I had no idea they were singers, or actors, or musicians.

To find show times in Trail or Castlegar, go to: rlop.ca

Thanks RLOP for a Great show… yet again!

Wayne

Thanks, Wayne, for your kind words. We look forward to seeing you again next year… maybe in the men’s chorus?

An original Dinner Theatre Production

Plenty of Nothin’

Songs From Shows We’ll Never (?) Do

Nov 6^th – Rossland Miner’s Hall

~Tickets at RossVegas Boardshop and Pro Hardware ~

Catering by Brad and Kim, Dessert by Sweet Dreams Cakery

Nov. 13^th – Warfield Community Hall

~Tickets  at Cornerstone Café and Warfield Recreation Office ~

Catering by Cornerstone Café

Doors open at 6:00pm. Dinner at 6:30pm. Show at 7:30pm.

Dinner and Show $30 Advance ticket sales only.

A portion of Warfield show proceeds will go to the Canadian Cancer Society

Hey everyone!

The Golden City Days/Fall Fair was an fantastic event! We made just shy of $400 on the Tea Garden and our float was a great crowd pleaser. We sang “We’re Off To See The Wizard” while handing out pamphlets. I’m thrilled to say that we had a huge membership turnout for this event; more people than can be named, so a huge thanks and great work to those who attended or baked!

Auditions are done for the Fall Show and we now have a great cast. We will still need support on the show nights (Nov. 6th and 13th) to help with the bartending etc. Let me know how you can help!

Mainstage Audition reminder: The read thrus are this week; the auditions are next week. You do not have to attend the read thrus to get the chance to audition. The read thrus are there to help you decide if you want to be a part of this version of WoZ; it’s different than the Judy Garland version.

The Shows

We’ve built a page for every show we’ve ever done at rlop.ca/shows, sorted by decade—starting in the 1950s with The Pirates of Penzance. Each show includes a link to the show before and after it, a synopsis, and links to other years RLOP has played that show.

Do you have more info on a show? We would love to have more scanned programs, photos, newspaper clippings, background information—anything! Get in touch with us; we’ll figure out how to get your information included on the website.

Faces of the RLOP

Over the course of our history, RLOP has had many amazing people taking part. From amazing singers, dancers and musicians; to brilliant props and set creators; to talented organisers and promoters; the people associated with RLOP have been incredibly talented, creative and dedicated. We’d like to showcase them.

Is there someone in the RLOP (past or present) that you know quite a bit about? Write a few paragraphs about him or her! We want to showcase as many of our past and present members as possible.

Like the shows, we also want photos, newspaper clippings, bio, and whatever other information you have (or can create) about these amazing people.

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Do you use Facebook? Join our Facebook group!

Like something you see on the site? Look for the Facebook  button on each page and post.

Use Twitter? Follow @RLOPlayers on Twitter.

Members: Help us help you participate!

Are you already a member or adherent of RLOP? Have you given us your information yet? Fill out our membership form, and let us know what areas of the organisation interest you. We always need lots of help in lots of areas: on and offstage, sets, costumes, hall maintenance, leadership and planning, and much more!

What’s Missing?

What do you need to know? What would you like to see here at rlop.ca? What would you like to be able to do here? Discussion boards? More pictures? Videos? Let us know what you want. And remember if you have photos or videos or anything, let us know that too!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled web browsing.

The Wizard of Oz Call for Auditions Poster

Our Mainstage 2011 Spring show will be “The Wizard of Oz”

Directors: Tanya LaFond and Adam Sander. Musical Director: Lorren Culley.  Producer:  Dawn Graham

Read thru dates:Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 @ 7:00pm and Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 @ 2:00pm

Auditions: Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 @ 7:00pm and Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 @ 7:00pm

This is an open casting call for all parts and all ages are welcome.

Be prepared to sing O Canada or Happy Birthday.

Anyone interested in a lead vocal role such as Dorothy, The Tin Man, The Scarecrow and The Cowardly Lion must also be prepared to sing a song of their choosing. ( to be sung a capella or with your own CD accompaniment.)

Auditions are held at the RLOP Hall; 2054 Washington St.  Rossland, BC

More info: Dawn 304-2948

RLOP in the News

RLOP opens auditions for play: BCLocalNews.com

See rlop.ca/2010/09/mainstage-2011-audition-posting/