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2008 Board of Directors Nominations

Nominations are now being accepted for the following positions on the Board of Directors of TownSquare Players:
Vice President (2-year term)
Secretary (2-year term)
Director-At-Large (3-year term)
Election to these positions will be at the TSP Annual Meeting in June, 2008. Please contact Nominating Committee chairman Dan Kreisman or Vice President Regina Belt if you are interested in running for any of these Board positions. Additionally, at the Annual Meeting we will be voting on approval to retain Deb Spitzbart as Director-At-Large for the remaining year of a three-year term. Deb was appointed last summer to replace Regina Belt at the time Regina was appointed to serve the final year of Paul Lockwood's Vice President term after Paul Lockwood was elected President at last June's annual meeting.
Eligibility for Office:
  1. Must be an Active Member.
To attain Active membership in TownSquare Players, Inc. the minimum annual requirements shall be the following:
Payment of all yearly dues as established by the Board of Directors, payment of all outstanding money owed to the corporation to date, plus one of the following:
  1. Service on the Board of Directors;
  2. Service as Officer;
  3. Service on any standing committee;
  4. Service on any Production Staff;
  5. Participation in the cast or crew of one scheduled major production each year;
  6. Participation as an usher for six (6) or more TSP performances;
  7. Service as a director of a TSP production or instructor of a TSP sponsored workshop as categorized in Article I, Section 3;
  8. Service in any special activities requested by the Board of Directors, Officers, or Producer.
B. Must belong to the organization for a minimum of six (6) months prior to the start of the fiscal year in which he or she would take office if elected (i.e., by January 1 of the year in which the election occurs).

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2008-2009 Season Announced

Harvey - November 7-23, 2008

When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn't so bad after all.

The Musical of Musicals - (The Musical!) - March 6 - 22, 2009

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is a musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. The basic plot: June is an ingenue who can't pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? The variations are: a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, set in Kansas in August, complete with a dream ballet; a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work; a Jerry Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from Puccini; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speakeasy in Chicago. This comic valentine to musical theatre was the longest running show in the York Theatre Company's 35-year history before moving to Off-Broadway.

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July 9, 2007 -
* The TSP board, at its July 5 board meeting, voted to appoint Regina Belt to fill the Vice President vacancy created when Paul Lockwood was elected president. The TSP board then voted to appoint Deb Spitzbart to fill the Director-at-Large vacancy created by Regina becoming Vice President. At next June's annual meeting, the membership will be asked to affirm Deb as Director-at-Large for the last year of the three- year term (at this point, Regina has served one of the three years of her 2006-2009 term).

The Annual Meeting of TownsSquare Players, Inc. was held on June 20, 2007, at 7:00pm.
Election results are as follows:

President: Paul Lockwood
Treasurer: Lynne Kreisman
Secretary: Gina Micci
Director At Large: Dan Kreisman

As Paul was elected President, effective July 1, 2007, his position of Vice President is vacant as of that date. At the July Board of Directors meeting, the board will appoint a person to fill this vacancy, by an affirmative majority vote as per our By-Laws. In the event that this leaves another position on the Board vacant, the Board will appoint a person to fill that term from the current membership. At the next Annual Meeting in June 2008, the term of the Vice President will be up for election, and any other board appointments would need to be ratified by the majority of the members in attendance. *

AMMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS were voted on and both ammendments were approved:
Amendment 1
Change the title of Article VI from "Officers" to "Officers and Directors-At-Large" and change the title of Section 1 from "Officers" to "Officers and Directors-At-Large".
Add a paragraph at the end of Section 1:
"Directors-At-Large serve three year terms".

Amendment 2
Change Article VI, Section 2, Eligibility, Item B from "must belong to the organization for a minimum of one (1) year" to "must belong to the organization for a minimum of six (6) months prior to the start of the fiscal year in which he or she would take office if elected (i.e. by January 1 of the year in which the election occurs)".

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In Other News -
Both TownSquare Players and Woodstock Musical Theatre Company have made the decision to reduce the cost of tickets slightly for the upcoming season (2007-2008). They will be as follows:
Adults: $23.00
Seniors and Students: $20.00
There will no longer be "A" and "B" seating. All seats are the same price.

Receptions on Opening Night will be reinstated by TownSquare Players. Receptions will take place in the Community Room immediately following the performance.

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Remembering our dear friend, Adrian Watts

Click here to read more about a very special man


TownSquare Players Community Involvement

Each year, TSP donates tickets to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) fundraiser. This is done in cooperation with Wall-Mart, one of the leading sponsors of CMN. Children's Miracle Network is a sponsored community service campaign including media initiatives, fundraising and special events which benefit the 170-member Children's Hospitals across the United States and Canada.

In it’s efforts to continually promote and sponsor all forms of the Performing Arts, TSP has made monetary contributions to several organizations over the years.

TSP has sponsored both the McHenry County Talent Fair and Woodstock Summer Theatre for several years.

TSP also donated to the Theatre Boosters Thespian Scholarship The scholarship is awarded to a person involved on the Technical staff in the Woodstock High School Theatre Program. The purpose is to facilitate the recipient in attending college and pursue the technical aspect of theatre. The 2003 recipient was Billy Seger.

The 2002 recipient of the Al Smith Memorial Scholarship was David Reis. The scholarship fund was set up for young people to pursue performing arts.

As part of the 2002 Woodstock Sesquincentennial Celebration, TSP donated to the children’s events that were hosted during the festivities. TSP purchased a Silver Sponsorship as well as a brick, with TSP’s logo, for the yet to be constructed, Sesquincentennial Park.

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As appeared in the March 5, 2003 edition of the Woodstock Independent:

Local treasures
To the editor:

Sometimes it is good to be reminded of something many of us already know - TownSquare Players and the Woodstock Musical Theatre Company are outstanding local treasures.

I was able to see the last two productions at the Woodstock Opera House, "Foreigner," - presented by the TownSquare Players; and "Moon Over Buffalo," presented by the Woodstock Musical Theatre Company. Both were very well done and highly entertaining.

The two production companies are a credit to their elegant venue, the Opera House.

It was gratifying to hear the comment of a woman from Batavia seated near me, "I come to the plays in Woodstock because it is easier than going to Chicago."

Margaret Phillips Steinam
Woodstock

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