Past Drama/Comedy:
Kentwood Players presents
The Wake
by Steve Allen
Directed by Sheldon Metz
Assistant Director Jennifer Fox
Produced by Calia Mintzer
January 12 – February 17, 2007
Steve Allen was a natural. His mother was the popular vaudevillian, Belle Montrose. As a boy he would usually wind up in Chicago, home of his mother’s Irish-Catholic, lower-middle-class family whose humor he described as “sarcastic, volatile, sometimes disparaging, but very funny.” – This semi-autobiographical drama based upon reminiscences of his early childhood, is a bittersweet familial “love story,” provoking memories of anyone from large or small families as it delves into the very soul of the family, filled with the warmth, humor, anguish, rage, resentments and love.
CAST
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Josephine Scanlon
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Valerie Ruel
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Margaret Scanlon
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Susie McCarthy
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John O'Toole
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Tim Forsyth
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Tommy Monaghan
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Jeffrey Culp
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David Considine
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Elliot Kang
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Mike Scanlon
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Ted Pitsis
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Mary McCaffrey
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Christy Lee Engels
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Sarah McCaffrey
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Barbara Haberman
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Rose Scanlon O'Brien
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Maria Pavone
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Father Morrisey
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Daniel Farber
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Jack Scanlon
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Joseph Buttler
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Belle Scanlon Considine
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Davina Turnbull
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Nellie Riley
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Jenny Boone
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Frank Riley, Jr. (first 3 weeks)
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Jonathan Retzack
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Frank Riley, Jr. (last 3 weeks)
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Christoper Retzack
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Theresa Riley
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Ritsa Gountoumas
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CAST PICTURES
at the Wake for the Scanlon Family Matriarch.
Brothers Mike (Ted Pitsis) and Jack (Joseph Buttler) toast to the good old days with their long-time friends John (Tim Forsyth) and Tommy (Jeffrey Culp)