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rts & ntertainment Bring Your Creative Side to Light
Thurmont Teens in Musical at
Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Several Thurmont-area teens Courtesy Photo Photography
will be featured in the musical
Spring Awakening, which will
be performed at the Maryland
Ensemble Theatre in Frederick,
Maryland, in August.
The show is being produced
by Catoctin Mountain Players, a
community theater group founded
by Leslie Kelly, a New York
Times and USA Today bestselling
author of romance fiction. Kelly,
who lived in the Thurmont-
Emmitsburg area for eight years Molly Cohen as Wendla and Brent Comer as Melchior in
the musical Spring Awakening.
and in Frederick County for
more than thirty years, recently
relocated to New Mexico, but came back for the summer, specifically to stage
this musical and work with local teens.
“I had such a great time working on our first production, Into The Woods,
which we produced at Catoctin High School in 2013. Live theater is a true Kylie Norwood, rising junior at Catoctin High School, captures the ireworks
passion of mine. Moving to a small town in New Mexico, where there is little over the pier at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
interest in or support for that type of art was very difficult,” said Kelly.
Fortunately, Kelly has a lot of friends and family members in the area. “My
two sisters opened their hearts and their homes for my daughter and me, and
we’ve had a great summer so far.”
Kelly is very thankful for the assistance of Thurmont resident Cody Gilliam,
who is her assistant director and costume designer. While Kelly has had to
travel back and forth between Frederick and the southwest, Gilliam has been
running rehearsals with the cast here. Thurmont resident Ethan Larsen, who
plays Hanschen, explains, “Leslie and Cody have been a great team. They each
bring something very different to the directorial process.”
Spring Awakening opens Thursday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m., at Maryland
Ensemble Theatre in downtown Frederick. With an intimate performance
space, and only four performances, Kelly fully expects the show to sell out
and urges anyone who’s interested to get tickets while they’re still available.
You can purchase your tickets through the group’s website at www.
catoctinmountainplayers.org.
Share Your Creative Side
Email to: [email protected] • Fax to: 301-447-2946 Photograph by Dick Bittner.
Mail to: 515B East Main Street, Emmitsburg, MD 21727
301-271-2247
August Special
French Manicure
$12
$2.00 off any service
13 Water Street in Thurmont
rts & ntertainment Bring Your Creative Side to Light
Thurmont Teens in Musical at
Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Several Thurmont-area teens Courtesy Photo Photography
will be featured in the musical
Spring Awakening, which will
be performed at the Maryland
Ensemble Theatre in Frederick,
Maryland, in August.
The show is being produced
by Catoctin Mountain Players, a
community theater group founded
by Leslie Kelly, a New York
Times and USA Today bestselling
author of romance fiction. Kelly,
who lived in the Thurmont-
Emmitsburg area for eight years Molly Cohen as Wendla and Brent Comer as Melchior in
the musical Spring Awakening.
and in Frederick County for
more than thirty years, recently
relocated to New Mexico, but came back for the summer, specifically to stage
this musical and work with local teens.
“I had such a great time working on our first production, Into The Woods,
which we produced at Catoctin High School in 2013. Live theater is a true Kylie Norwood, rising junior at Catoctin High School, captures the ireworks
passion of mine. Moving to a small town in New Mexico, where there is little over the pier at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
interest in or support for that type of art was very difficult,” said Kelly.
Fortunately, Kelly has a lot of friends and family members in the area. “My
two sisters opened their hearts and their homes for my daughter and me, and
we’ve had a great summer so far.”
Kelly is very thankful for the assistance of Thurmont resident Cody Gilliam,
who is her assistant director and costume designer. While Kelly has had to
travel back and forth between Frederick and the southwest, Gilliam has been
running rehearsals with the cast here. Thurmont resident Ethan Larsen, who
plays Hanschen, explains, “Leslie and Cody have been a great team. They each
bring something very different to the directorial process.”
Spring Awakening opens Thursday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m., at Maryland
Ensemble Theatre in downtown Frederick. With an intimate performance
space, and only four performances, Kelly fully expects the show to sell out
and urges anyone who’s interested to get tickets while they’re still available.
You can purchase your tickets through the group’s website at www.
catoctinmountainplayers.org.
Share Your Creative Side
Email to: [email protected] • Fax to: 301-447-2946 Photograph by Dick Bittner.
Mail to: 515B East Main Street, Emmitsburg, MD 21727
301-271-2247
August Special
French Manicure
$12
$2.00 off any service
13 Water Street in Thurmont
