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2002 Holiday Production This Year is
“The Snow Queen”
The Watertown Players, in conjunction with the Watertown Historical
Society, will present an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fable,
"The Snow Queen" as this year's annual holiday production.
The show will be performed at the famed Octagon House
Museum, 919 Charles St., on Nov. 29 and 30 and Dec. 1, 7 and 8.
Performances are planned each day from
The show is double cast, so there are plenty of good roles
to go around. Boys are needed for the role of Kay, and adult women are needed
for the roles of the Snow Queen and the Lapp and Finn women.
The story focuses on two children, Gerda,
a strong minded little girl, and her playmate, Kay. They are visited by the
evil Snow Queen one night and she takes Kay away with her. Gerda
sets out to rescue her friend and along the way is beset by trials and
tribulations. Among the unusual characters that she encounters are a robber,
the Lapp and Finn women.
The show is under the direction of Bill Jannke, who has
adapted the story for the Watertown Players.
Link to FULL TEXT (unabridged) of
“The Snow Queen.”
Founded in 1988, the Watertown
Players is the oldest theater company in Watertown. It produces the annual holiday shows which
have become a Christmas tradition.
Editor, Daily Times:
On behalf of the Watertown
Historical Society, allow me to take this opportunity to thank the Watertown
theater-going public for their support of our annual holiday play. This year's production, produced as always by
the Watertown Players, which was an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's
classic "The Snow Queen,” was witnessed by nearly 600 and everyone
expressed their pleasure, both with the show and with the lovely setting of the
Octagon House.
But these shows are not done without
the help of many, many individuals, and I would like to pay homage to these talented
folks here. The Watertown Historical Society would like to thank: Wal-Mart,
Garden Path Florist and the Flower Box for their support.
We would like to thank the following
for their assistance in the tour center for baking cookies (which the actors
certainly enjoyed!), their aid in decorating the house, and for their time in
presenting craft demonstrations: Linda Werth, Joan
Ebert, Betty Huebner, Mildred Hensel, Mary Noon,
Lucille Huber, Judy Harrington, Sandi Haseleu, Dorothy Kraemer, Betty Roeseler, Judy Quam, Debra
Morales, Jill Lapinski, Lori Krause, Kathy Nelson,
Pat Klepke, Pat Hilts and our wonderful caretakers, John
and Rebekah Kotlar.
The choral entertainers who spread
the joy of holiday music were Lana Anhalt, Becky
Olson and her group, the Christmas Belles, the Euterpe
Club, St. Mark's Choir and Robert and Diane Lund and their family.
To anyone we may have overlooked, we
owe you grateful thanks for your help and support.
Then there are the actors who
performed so well over the course of five days of the show. The highest
compliment that could be paid to them would have to have been that they did
their roles so well that people actually thought they were their characters.
They were wonderful real troupers. The actors were: Estell
Wiesmann, Lee Lawler, Lisa Steffl, Jim Steffl, the
lovely Anne Penfield, Olivia Wetzel, Elizabeth Smith, Krystal
Voight, Johanna Crass, Justin Pratt, Gaige Kerr, A. J. Neils, Caleb Wohlust, Jonathan Means, Jacob Voight,
the wonderful Pat Groth Diana Bessel, Sue Trepte, Theresa Smith, Pam Voight
and Alexandra Chworowsky. You all did very well!
So on behalf of the Watertown
Historical Society, allow me to wish everyone in Watertown a very merry holiday
season and remind you all to visit us in the spring when the museum opens
again.
William F. Jannke III
President
Watertown Historical
Society