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Annual Holiday Program
Written By: Adair Simon - Highlands Cashiers Players | Issue: 2018/11 - November
Let it snow or rain, let the winds blow. It will not deter the Highlands Cashiers Players and the Performing Arts Center from presenting their annual free Holiday Program on Thursday, December 13 at 7:00 P.M. at the Highlands Performing Arts Center.
Once again, The Mountain Voices and HCP actors will be singing and reading. This year will feature short stories by a number of local writers. Susan Clearman will play her accordion and Betty Holt has written an original Christmas song, “Highlands Christmas,” that Lori Bee will sing. HCP actor Lynleigh McLain, last seen in “Some Enchanted Evening,” the HCP’s Rodgers and Hammerstein Revue, and her dad Greg will also sing.
Vangie Rich, the director of the show said, “It is a lot of work, but also a lot of fun being involved in a project that brings people throughout our community, including Cashiers and Franklin, together to share stories, poetry, and music relating to the holidays and the Christmas season, as a free gift to everyone in the community.”
HCP will then take the show to the Cashiers Library on the next Monday, December 17, at 7:00 P.M. for the enjoyment of that community.
Something else that is a lot of work but will also be a lot of fun are the auditions for “Calendar Girls” coming up January 13 at 3:00 P.M. and January 14 at 5:00 P.M. at PAC in 2019. There are 10 parts for women and four for men. Tim Firth’s hilarious play is based on the true story of 11 Women’s Institute members who famously posed semi-nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund in 1999.
It’s a story of love, friendship and ingenuity and will have the audience laughing and crying tears of joy. It’s Directed by Ricky Siegel, a veteran HCP actor and director, who says that this is, “a great play about the courage to step out of one’s comfort zone.”
Plan to audition for the show, which will open May 23. Rehearsals will start in
early April.
