ACT is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). State government funding to the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance.
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The Robber Bridegroom
Book and Lyrics by Alfred Uhry
Music by Robert Waldman
 “The Robber Bridegroom” was developed in 1975 by The Acting Company, a touring group of acting students at Juilliard, and opened on Broadway a year later. It launched the careers of Barry Bostwick, who won a Tony for Leading Actor in a Musical, Kevin Kline and Patti Lupone. Bookwriter and lyricist Alfred Uhry later went on to write the award-winning play and film “Driving Miss Daisy.”
Michelle McGowan and Dawn Bonghi, both of Altoona, co-directed the play for ACT. McGowan has previously directed the one-act “The Patient” for the troupe and is its Wardrobe Supervisor, having designed costumes for several shows. She has performed in several ACT shows, most memorably as The Witch in “Into the Woods” and Sister Hubert in “Nunsense.” She also costumes and performs at Cresson Lake Playhouse and directs the annual Madrigal Dinner at Mount Aloysius College. Bonghi has concentrated her ACT involvement working on backstage crews, such as wardrobe, props and other areas. She also serves on the group’s Fundraising Committee and volunteers in the ACT administrative office. Musical Director will be Michael Busija of Indiana.
“The Robber Bridegroom” is presented in a theatrical style in which the cast is largely on stage for the entire show and often plays props and set pieces in addition to various characters. The primary roles are: Jamie Lockhart, a gentleman robber, very charming and devious; Clemment Musgrove, a wealthy planter, good at heart and a little too trusting, who adores his daughter; Rosamund, Musgrove’s beautiful daughter; Salome, Mugrove’s second-wife, an ugly, scrawny woman anxious to get rid of her stepdaughter; Little Harp & Big Harp, two thieves, one not very bright and the other, only a head in a box, who’s the brains of the operation; Goat – a boy who’s a simpleton.
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PERFORMANCES
Thursday, September 22 @ 8:00 p.m.
Friday, September 23 @ 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 24 @ 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 25 @ 2:00 p.m.
CAST LIST
PRODUCTION TEAM
MUSICAL NUMBERS
| Once Upon the Natchez Trace |
| Two Heads Are Better than One |
| Steal with Style |
| Rosamund's Dream |
| The Pricklepear Bloom |
| Nothin' Up |
| Deeper in the Woods |
| Marriage is Riches |
| Little Piece of Sugar Cane |
| Love Stolen |
| Poor Tied Up Darlin' |
| Goodbye Salome |
| Sleepy Man |
| Where Oh Where is My Baby Darlin'? |
| Finale |
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