Events – AT THE GUILD

Stage and Shop In the Clubroom, A Little Night Music Director Harold Jurkiewicz restaged the Armfeldt dining room scene. He basically “opened it up” by creating wider spaces between the players. In the scene, the principal characters sit at a dining room table facing upstage (away from

  I discovered another spelling error in cast names. It’s Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm not Malcom. Ah, well. “Every Day a Little Death.” On April 3, the Players gathered at the Guild to rehearse the music in A Little Night Music. Under Music Director Paul Abbott of Livonia,

  From L to R: Lindsey MacDonald as Anne Egerman, Tom Murphy as Fredrik, and Sally Goodman as Desireé Well, I discovered that I was spelling Egerman wrong. There is only one “g.” I think I’ve been spelling it with two because of the way Brett Reynolds,

rom the Top With nearly a full cast, save for those few on Spring Break, we started “from the top” and were pleased to see that most of the cast have put down their scripts. Some of the players were a bit tentative, but that’s to be

  During the first couple of weeks, rehearsals for A Little Night Music at the Players Guild of Dearborn were devoted to staging or blocking the show. Rehearsals at the Players Guild usually take place in the Clubroom as set construction is taking place on the stage.

The Production Team It takes a lot of people to get a show like A Little Night Music on the stage. At the Players Guild of Dearborn, those people are collectively know as “The Production Team.” The pieces that go together to make up a production team

  The idea behind a “Build Blitz” is to get as much done on a show set as possible in one weekend. Members of the stage committee and the other Guild members try to give as much time as possible to the Build Blitz over the blitz

  Dave Wood, Stage Governor at the Players Guild of Dearborn, likes to say, “There’s always something to do at the Guild.” It seems that’s true as our seasons wend away. There is either a set in place on stage that needs to be checked before each

  Two days after A Little Night Music was cast, Director Harold Jurkiewicz called for a read-through rehearsal. The cast assembled in the Guild’s Clubroom and were greeted by John Sczomak, President of the Guild. John introduced the producers, Frann Stempek and Jeff Bartos, and the various

At the Players Guild of Dearborn, casting falls to, what else, the Casting Committee led by Bob Jones, the Casting Governor. About a month before the audition dates, an audition notice for the show is distributed by email to more than 800 theatre people in southeast Michigan. The