Cast List
Henry Lee as Bob
Atira Crouch as Laetitia
Sally Cross as Ms. Todd
Keyerra Chadwick as Ms. Pinkerton
Lee Brown as Bob
Emily Boadi as Laetitia
Xhia Williams as Ms. Todd
Emma Steffek as Ms. Pinkerton
The show is double cast since it is so small and there is no chorus.
Each cast will perform twice.
Atira Crouch as Laetitia
Sally Cross as Ms. Todd
Keyerra Chadwick as Ms. Pinkerton
Lee Brown as Bob
Emily Boadi as Laetitia
Xhia Williams as Ms. Todd
Emma Steffek as Ms. Pinkerton
The show is double cast since it is so small and there is no chorus.
Each cast will perform twice.
Costume Design
Set Design
It's a three room interior.
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Production Meeting Notes
Oct. 5 This opera was written to be performed as a radio play which is why Mandy picked it. Mandy has decided that we will plan on fully staging the opera at this point, although that may change due to the pandemic. Mandy needs the overcoat for Ms. Pinkerton to start rehearsing in. She has to take it off when she comes in and hang it on the coat rack.
Nov. 2 Mandy needs Bob's costume soon because they have to rehearse undressing him to music.
Feb. 9: Mandy now wants Mrs. Todd to also have a coat and that both Mrs. Todd and Letita have trench coats to wear while robbing the liquor store. Bob needs a robe.
Nov. 2 Mandy needs Bob's costume soon because they have to rehearse undressing him to music.
Feb. 9: Mandy now wants Mrs. Todd to also have a coat and that both Mrs. Todd and Letita have trench coats to wear while robbing the liquor store. Bob needs a robe.
Fittings
1-28-21 I ordered all the costumes last weekend and they all arrived within a week. Everyone came in for fittings this week except KIki and Xhia who are both quarantined at home.
Extras
I ordered flesh colored masks for the cast as two more coats for the Mrs. Todds.The masks cost $55.78 and the two coats cost $55.99 and $70.97.
Production Photos: Thursday Cast
Production Photos: Sunday Cast
Waco stages have active weekend
Carl Hoover Mar 24, 2021
An unexpected stranger upsets the lives of two gossips and their maid in McLennan Opera's production "The Old Maid and the Thief" Thursday through Sunday at McLennan Community College's Ball Performing Arts Center. Photo Rod Aydelotte,
Waco stages that have been quiet for much of a year will find music and action this weekend while others will continue projecting their onscreen action to audiences online.
McLennan Community College’s Ball Performing Arts Center will host two live productions this week, starting with McLennan Opera’s “The Old Maid and the Thief” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by the Waco Jazz Orchestra and its tribute to Sammy Nestico at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
MCC assistant professor of music and opera Mandy Morrison said the Gian Carlo Menotti opera, written in 1939 for radio broadcast, offered a smaller scale that allowed double casting and other COVID-19 rehearsal protocols. The story concerns an elderly gossip whose life gets disrupted when a handsome man shows up at her door asking for shelter. Hearing that he may be an escaped prisoner, she and her maid shelter him instead, stealing and robbing to keep him in the house.
Her efforts backfire, however, and the would-be thief and her maid turn the tables on her instead.
While Morrison’s singers rehearsed in masks, they’ll perform without them, with negative COVID-19 tests required in the days before the performances. Sharon Lavery will conduct a small orchestra of strings, piano and percussion, with student players paired with professionals, to back the singers.
Audience members will be masked and distanced. Tickets are available by calling 299-8200.
Waco stages that have been quiet for much of a year will find music and action this weekend while others will continue projecting their onscreen action to audiences online.
McLennan Community College’s Ball Performing Arts Center will host two live productions this week, starting with McLennan Opera’s “The Old Maid and the Thief” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by the Waco Jazz Orchestra and its tribute to Sammy Nestico at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
MCC assistant professor of music and opera Mandy Morrison said the Gian Carlo Menotti opera, written in 1939 for radio broadcast, offered a smaller scale that allowed double casting and other COVID-19 rehearsal protocols. The story concerns an elderly gossip whose life gets disrupted when a handsome man shows up at her door asking for shelter. Hearing that he may be an escaped prisoner, she and her maid shelter him instead, stealing and robbing to keep him in the house.
Her efforts backfire, however, and the would-be thief and her maid turn the tables on her instead.
While Morrison’s singers rehearsed in masks, they’ll perform without them, with negative COVID-19 tests required in the days before the performances. Sharon Lavery will conduct a small orchestra of strings, piano and percussion, with student players paired with professionals, to back the singers.
Audience members will be masked and distanced. Tickets are available by calling 299-8200.