- Maestro De Fesi during the Overture...
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- NCE UPON A TIME, in
a little cottage at the edge of a very dark forest, there lived
a poor broommaker with his wife and their two children, Hansel
and Gretel ...
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- The set for Act I by Nino Novellino
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- Tired of chores, Hansel (Mariella Nocetti)
and Gretel (Kathleen Corke) while away the time until
supper in a mock battle of the brooms...
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- Gretel (Kathleen Corke) attempts to teach
her less graceful brother, Hansel (Mariella Nocetti),
to dance...
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- In a moment of passion and frustration, a jug
containing the milk for supper, is broken. After sending the
children into the woods to find some wild strawberries, Gertrude,
their mother (Lisa Smith) bemoans their poverty and the
loss of the milk.
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- Peter, the father (Peter Clark) explains that
there is an evil witch who lives in the wood and lures unsuspecting
young children to her house with the promise of food then turns
them into gingerbread to eat them!
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- “The Witches’ Ride”
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- Lost at night in the woods, Hansel (Mariella Nocetti)
& Gretel (Kathleen Corke) begin to imagine horrible
things around them.
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- The next morning, the extraordinarily cheerful Dew
Fairy (Bonnie Draina) awakens the forest and the sleeping
children...
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- Awaking in the woods, the children find a magnificent,
candy-encrusted cottage overlooked in the gloom of the evening
before...
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- Hansel (Mariella Nocetti) explains to Gretel
(Kathleen Corke) that the cottage must belong to the angels
who watched over them the previous evening...
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- Hansel (Mariella Nocetti) and Gretel (Kathleen
Corke) enjoy a moment of intense gustatory delight, while
the gingerbread-starved Witch (Janean Sherwin) steps out
of her domestic confection...
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- Caught nibbling by the Witch (Janean Sherwin),
Hansel (Mariella Nocetti) and Gretel (Kathleen Corke)
are stunned indeed. She is definitely not the expected
inhabitant of the house!
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- Under the spell of the Witch (Janean Sherwin),
the promises all manner of delicious foods begins to sound pretty
good to Hansel (Mariella Nocetti), but Gretel (Kathleen
Corke) is not so sure...
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- “Now Gretel, be obedient and wise, while Hansel’s
getting fat and nize,” the Witch (Janean Sherwin)
admonishes Gretel (Kathleen Corke)...
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- “...you’re so tender, plump and good, just
the thing for witch’s food!” daydreams the Witch (Janean
Sherwin)...
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- “So hop, hop, hop, gallop, gallop, My broomsitck
nag, come do not lag,” sings the Witch (Janean Sherwin)...
- [One more step, Janean, and I think you’ll
have it!]
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“That’s right, just bend over and
peek in the oven to see if it’s hot enough yet...”
says the Witch (Janean Sherwin) to Gretel...
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- Pushing the Witch into her own oven breaks her spell,
and all the gingerbread cookies turn back into boys and girls.
Finally, the happy pair are once again reunited with their parents...
- Peter (Peter Clark), Hansel (Mariella Nocetti),
Gretel (Kathleen Corke) and Gertrude (Lisa Smith)
are in the front.
- (At the back: Dr. Mary Naddeo, Max Jefferson,
Elridge Bracey and Granville Green)
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- Peter (Peter Clark) explains that justice
has been accomplished — the evil Witch has been caught in
her own trap. Hansel (Mariella Nocetti), Gretel (Kathleen
Corke), Gertrude (Lisa Smith) and a couple of former
gingerbread cookies (Granville Green, at back and Elridge
Bracy at right) echo his sentiments...
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- Curtain call from the wings...
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- The Cast
- BACK ROW: Ron De Fesi,
Gladys Santiago, Peter Clark
- MIDDLE ROW: Janean Sherwin,
Kiara Moore, Omar Henry, Courtney Jones, Linden P. Jones, Saniyyah
Williams,
- Quiana Moses, Kanifa Hicks, Lisa Smith,
- Elridge Bracey, Dr. Mary Naddeo, Bonnie Draina
- FRONT ROW: Veronica Blanco,
Max Jefferson, Sky-Lyn Pesante, Ashley Bracey, Mariella Nocetti,
Paul Duncan,
- Kathleen Corke, Bernard Hill, Jr., Granville Green
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