{"id":97401,"date":"2018-11-04T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=97401"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:27:14","slug":"97401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=97401","title":{"rendered":"OPL Players perform \u2018Armistice: A Pageant in Voices\u2019\u00a0at the Mansion House Nov. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"OPL Players perform \u2018Armistice: A Pageant in Voices\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>at the Mansion House Nov. 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the centenary of the Armistice that ended World War I, Oneida Public Library in collaboration with the Oneida Community Mansion House will present\u00a0 a readers theater production with music of \u201cArmistice: A Pageant in Voices,\u201d\u00a0Nov. 11, 2018, at 2 p.m. in the Big Hall of the Mansion House.<\/p>\n

The play, a readers theater piece composed of contemporary newspaper reports and letters connected by a narrative, tells the tales of actual Madison County people swept up in the American war effort of 1917-18. \u201cArmistice\u201d also presents the popular music of the time, including songs composed as morale boosters for the folks at home and the soldiers at the Western Front.<\/p>\n

The cast features Adam Chandler, Ken Drake and Virginia Drake portraying various characters, both civilian and military, while Tom Murray acts as narrator. Soprano Sarah Davies Hasegawa and pianist Melinda Phoenix-Heart will perform in a prelude to the play a sampling of the popular songs of the World War I period. Songs also act as commentaries and interludes during the play, and Chandler and Virginia Drake will lend their voices to the performance.<\/p>\n

The script is by Tom Murray, using research compiled by Madison County Historian Matthew Urtz, archive material from the Madison County Historical Society and resources in the OPL\u2019s Local History Collection. The music has been arranged by Melinda Phoenix-Heart.<\/p>\n

Adam Chandler, a 2011 graduate from Vernon Verona Sherrill High School, currently teaches music at VVS after earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education at the Crane School of Music. He also advises the VVS High School Drama Club and directs the spring high-school musical.<\/p>\n

Virginia and Ken Drake return to the stage after their last foray directing and acting in the OPL Players 2017 production of \u201cThe Game of Life,\u201d a comic take on the Upstate Women\u2019s Rights Movement in the form of the first all girls baseball team established in Peterboro in 1868. Both Drakes have long been involved in student dramatic and musical productions in Oneida and at VVS.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hasegawa, a former Madison County Historian, has frequently appeared at the OPL to conduct special children\u2019s programs and to perform in concerts and theatrical productions, such as \u201cChristmas by Injunction\u201d in 2011 and \u201cThe Game of Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hasegawa has been a member of the Syracuse Opera Chorus for several years and regularly performs in its productions, most recently in the 2018 production of Verdi\u2019s \u201cMacbeth.\u201d She has also appeared in several roles for the Oswego Opera Theater, including a spirit in Mozart\u2019s \u201cThe Magic Flute,\u201d Grisette in Lehar\u2019s \u201cThe Merry Widow\u201d and Katisha in Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s \u201cThe Mikado.\u201d Over the years, Hasegawa has sung many Gilbert and Sullivan roles, most recently the Duchess in \u201cThe Gondoliers\u201d performed at the Earlville Opera House.<\/p>\n

Melinda Phoenix-Heart, a graduate of the Crane School of Music, currently teaches music at Otto Shortell Middle School in the Oneida City School District. In addition to giving private lessons in voice and piano, she is active in student choral work and other community musical projects. She is the choral and music director at the First Presbyterian Church in Oneida.<\/p>\n

For the past 17 years, the OPL\u2019s Assistant Director Tom Murray has created and produced dramatic works for both adults and children for the radio and the stage. He has produced and written or adapted several children\u2019s theater plays, adult readers\u2019 theater pieces and radio plays with both adults and young people. In 2017, to mark the centenary of women\u2019s suffrage in New York State, he wrote and produced \u201cThe Game of Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Admission at the Mansion House for the performance of \u201cArmistice\u201d is $5.00 per adult. Admission for children is free. The production is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and administered by CNY Arts.<\/p>\n

For further information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call (315) 363-3050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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