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“Prunella” runs through August 24

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Brush Creek’s annual summer melodrama, Prunella in the Springs, continues to serve up the wild doings at the Marquam Saloon and Gamboling House through Sunday August 24.

Performances are 7 pm on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 pm on Sundays. Tickets are $10 each ($8 for seniors 60 and over, children under 12, and students with ID) and can be purchased in advance at Runaway Art & Craft Studio on Commercial Street in downtown Salem or at Books-N-Time on Water Street in downtown Silverton. They also are available at the door beginning 30 minutes before each performance.

And hey, Brush Creek now has A/C! Come check it out!

Contact Michael Wood at 503-508-3682 for more information.

“Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will?” Runs Thru Sunday, June 22

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Brush Creek brings 1980s Broadway comedy to the local stage

Del Shores quirky family comedy, Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will? opened at Brush Creek Playhouse Friday, June 6 and will run until Sunday, June 22, with three performances each weekend.

The occasionally off-color comedy explores the relationships among a family that has grown apart but is brought together – in more ways than one – by the approaching death of the family patriarch. The various members of the Turnover family wants their father’s love – but they’ll settle for his money. The original play inspired a 1990 movie starring Beau Bridges, Tess Harper and Judge Reinhold, among others.

Brush Creek’s production is directed by BCP veteran Linda Zellner, who completed the children & youth production of The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty a few months ago. “Directing adults is a bit different from directing children,” she said. Her cast – like Brush Creek’s recent production of the female version of The Odd Couple, includes a mix of Brush Creek veterans and newcomers. Zellner loves the play’s humor, although she cautions that some of the language may be off-putting for parents of younger children.

The performances will be at 7 pm Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 pm Sundays. Tickets — $10 for adults and $8 for children, seniors and students with ID – will be available at Brush Creek’s two ticket locations: Books-N-Time on Water Street in downtown Silverton and Runaway Art & Craft Studio on Commercial Street in downtown Salem. They also can be purchased at the door 30 minutes before each performance. More information is also available by calling Michael Wood at 503-508-3682.

The playhouse is located at 11535 Silverton Road, the intersection of Silverton and Brush Creek Roads, between Silverton and Salem. In spite of the Silverton Road address, the theater’s parking lot is entered from Brush Creek Road.

The cast of the show is listed below:

Thia Evans                                           Sara Lee Turnover

Kim Garibay                                        Lurlene Turnover Rogers

Christine Stimson                                Mama Wheelis

Suzy Wilder                                         Evalita Turnover

Steven Falkenstein                              Harmony Rhodes

John Sams (June 6, 7, 8, 20, 21, 22)    Buford “Daddy” Turnover Michael Wood (June 13, 14, 15)

Richard Stimson                                  Orville Turnover

Kassandra Perkins                               Marlene Turnover

Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple – the Female Version comes to Brush Creek’s stage April 11-27

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Neil Simon’s 1980s reworking of his own classic play, The Odd Couple—the Female Version, provides will open at Brush Creek Playhouse beginning Friday, April 11 and run until Sunday, April 27, with three performances each weekend.

Norman Gouveia, Jr. directs the play, the third time the veteran director has put the show on during his decades long history with Brush Creek. Gouveia is excited by the cast he has assembled for this production, which he describes as a “wonderful mix” of talented newcomers and Brush Creek veterans. Gouveia notes that several of the cast are parents of young Brush Creek actors who appeared in the recent children & youth production of The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty.

“This play has been one of my favorites over the last 25 years,” Gouveia said, and he hopes to share that enjoyment with those who come to see the show.  “Neil Simon has had a golden touch with comedies. These six ladies and two men mine that gold throughout the play.”

The performances will be at 7 pm Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 pm Sundays. Tickets — $10 for adults and $8 for children, seniors and students with ID – will be available at Brush Creek’s two ticket locations: Books-N-Time on Water Street in downtown Silverton and Runaway Art & Craft Studio on Commercial Street in downtown Salem. They also can be purchased at the door 30 minutes before each performance. More information is also available by calling Michael Wood at 503-508-3682.

The playhouse is located at 11535 Silverton Road, the intersection of Silverton and Brush Creek Roads, between Silverton and Salem. In spite of the Silverton Road address, the parking lot is entered from Brush Creek Road. 

CAST LIST

Thia Evans                               Sylvie

Sharon Jensen-Messman        Vera

Raenna O’Connor                   Renee

Kelly Lazar                               Florence

Kassandra Perkins                   Olive

Shannon Copeland                  Manolo

Tavis Evans                              Jesus

Gwen Bergenstock                  Mickey

“The Time Traveler” opens November 8th

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Brush Creek Players bring a tale of time travel, suspense and romance to the stage with the opening of The Time Traveler on Friday, November 8. The annual teen/young adult show offers a fresh look at a timeless topic that has invited the attention of creative spirits from H.G. Wells to the team behind the BBC’s Doctor Who.

“The show is a touch of science fiction, a dollop of history, and a good bit of romance. At its heart, it is a love story that crosses the ages,” said Michael Wood, who directs the show he and his daughter Emily wrote. “The time traveler is a very serious-minded Englishwoman from the early 20st century who becomes the first to travel through the pages of history – she is joined on her travels by an exuberant 21st century American. And then she falls in love.”

Wood is directing his third teen and young adult show at Brush Creek. “This one offers some special challenges,” he said. “The last two years we put on a show that required only a single set. But when you travel from ancient Rome to Elizabethan England to the American Civil War, to name a few, both the set and the costumes demand a bit of extra creativity.”

The cast includes several young veterans of the Brush Creek stage. “I know we’ll have a great show,” Wood said. “I have watched some of these young people deliver on our stage in the children’s show again and again. And they are definitely up for the challenge!”

The show will open November 8 and run three weekends to close on November 24, with evening performances at 7 pm on Fridays and Saturdays, as well as 2 pm matinees on Sundays.

Tickets are $10 general admission, with discounted tickets available for students ($8) and children under 12 ($7) and seniors 60 and older ($7).  They can be purchased in advance at the following locations:

Books-N-Time                                                   Runaway Art & Craft Studio

210 N Water St. Suite B, Silverton 97381        311 Commercial Street NE, Salem 97301

(503) 874-4311                                                 (503) 881-6270

For further information, contact Michael Wood at 503-508-3682. You also can find “Brush Creek Playhouse” on Facebook.
Cast of The Time Traveler (in order of historical appearance)
at Brush Creek Playhouse, November 2013

Julia Caesaris Maria, played by Taylor Fisher

Aurelia Cotta, played by Lily Ark

Cleopatra VII Ptolemy, played by Taylor Fisher

Arsinoe (Cleopatra’s servant), played by Lily Ark

William Shakespeare, played by Matthew Biggs

Corporal Orville Gibbons, U.S. Cavalry, played by Teddy Biggs

Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Cavalry, played by Matthew Biggs

Edward Andrews, played by Matthew Biggs

Mrs. Foster (his landlady and housekeeper), played by Sarah Allanach

Katharine Andrews (his young daughter), played by Lily Ark

Katharine Andrews (as an adult), played by Emily Wood

Gerhardt Schmidt, played by Teddy Biggs

Peter Kinder, played by Sebastian Ward

Jessie Collins, played by Kate Allanach

Andy Collins, played by Taylor Fisher

Alex Christopher, played by Sarah Allanach

Schoolmarm’s Inn Trouble opens September 27th

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Performances Sept. 27 – Oct 13
Friday & Saturday evenings at 7PM
Sunday afternoon matinees at 2 PM

Into the small western town of Frittergulch comes Gentle, Young schoolmarm Molly Dewdrop. She finds herself at the Frittergulch Inn, owned and operated by lovable Betty Baxter and Betty’s brother, handsome hero Biff. All is idyllic until Molly wins the British Isles Sweepstakes. With the money, she intends to build the finest school the prairie has ever seen. She fears the sudden fortune will force her dark secret into the light. Enter, from the darkest corner of Molly’s past, the villainous Blacky LaRoach.

Will Blacky ruin Molly’s chance for happiness with Biff? Or will he destroy the dreams of the people of Frittergulch, who only desire to have the finest school in the territory? Or, will Biff be able to stop him before it’s too late? Because the “School Marm’s Inn Trouble”!!!

Cast of Characters
Molly Dewdrop                        Kassandra Perkins
Biff Baxter                               Cody Worley
Betty Baxter                             Cynthia Evans
Hyram Slugabed                      Karyl Carlson, David Stockman, & Alex Asher
Blacky LaRoach                       Alex Asher
Mysterious Persons                 Karyl Carlson & David Stockman
Telegram Man                          David Stockman

My Three Angels Opens May 17, 2013

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My Three Angels a play written by Samuel and Bella Spewak runs May 17 through June 2. Brush Creek Players presents a funny and engaging production directed by Norman Gouveia and produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas day the temperature has graciously dropped to 104 degrees. Three convicts are employed as roofers by a family whose roof is in desperate need of maintenance. On the way from France is an evil-minded cousin, to oust the father of the family from his business, and his cold-blooded nephew, who is jilting the father’s daughter for an heiress. The three convicts—two of them murderers, the third a swindler—take the visitors on. All three have warm hearts and are passionate believers in true justice. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters right and in doing so redeem themselves as real life angels to the grateful family.”

Please join us in supporting the hard-working cast of characters putting on this Spring Production!