Rogue Playhouse News
-Sue Swan
April 24, 2024
Rogue Playhouse News
‘Honest Labor & Friends’ concert
Jet boat race weekend
In just two weeks and two days from now “Honest Labor & Friends” will perform in concert on The Rogue Playhouse stage. They’ll bring a mix of sounds from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and into the 80’s featuring country, bluegrass and rock ‘n roll. This all happens the 2nd week of the jet boat races, Friday night, May 10, starting at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available at outlets Jerry’s Rogue Jets Museum & Gift Shop and Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery, and also at the door. The whole community is invited to attend along with boat racers and their entourage. You’re in for a rousing evening of music when these 7 talented musicians take the stage.
‘Pathbreakers: Heroines of Oregon Suffrage’
Coming this July, it’s an original scripted musical celebrating the women of Oregon’s struggle for the right to vote. Originally thwarted by the Covid pandemic in 2020, it seemed fitting to bring it to the stage now during this election year. The following piece comes from director/playwright, Anne Tlaker-Hall.
Celebrating 100 years of
women’s right to vote
“Pathbreakers: Heroines of Oregon Suffrage” is an original musical written to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of women obtaining the Right to Vote. In 2020 we were excited to be able to bring to The Rogue Playhouse stage a historic, purely Oregon statement of determination and the power of an individual, with fun song and dance numbers. We had a cast of 25+ motivated actors. Rehearsals looked wonderful, and then we were cancelled due to Covid! It seems perfect to resurrect this production during an election year. I think the fight to just be able to vote as an American citizen should never be minimized. This show highlights and personalizes this struggle for Oregon women.
A musical, both fun and educational
The play centers on Abigail Dunniway, a suffragette who changed Oregon and the nation. An exciting speaker and writer, she toured the West with Susan B Anthony, started the New Northwest Newspaper and energized the movement. It highlights the remarkable Hattie Redmond, an African American woman who was part of the Oregon caucus and President of the “Colored Women’s Equal Suffrage Association” at a time when Oregon had the infamous “Exclusion Act.” Elizabeth Stanton, Ester Pohl, Mary Lambert…these are names lost but resurrected in our production. We meet the Oregon Congressmen who voted 6 times, more than any other state, until giving women the Right to Vote in 1912. Full of historical references with some familiar tunes. To Suffrage songs from the 1800’s add some familiar hits from the 1980’s, and we have a musical that is both fun and educational! Join our cast and celebrate our remarkable history! Contact/Text Anne if interested in being a
Suffragette or Congressman (541) 373-1630.
Anne’s talents bring a stage
production to life once again
Ellensburg Theater is honored to have this performance at The Rogue Playhouse. And greatly appreciates Anne’s lending her talents to writing and producing a stage production again like she has a number of times in the past. Performances will be the first three weekends of July. We encourage all to contact Anne for a part in this marvelous play.
Redfish Music Festival (RMF) concert
Thursday, August 1 at 2:00 p.m.
Redfish Music Festival will be back in Gold Beach this summer with a concert to support their mission statement “To bring high quality classical music to the wider public and offer specialized educational programs to teach and inspire the next generation of performing artists. To promote classical music not as a single defined narrow genre, but as a living art that encompasses the pursuits of talented, dedicated and inspired performing artists around the globe.”
Put this wonderful concert on your calendar for August 1 at 2:00 p.m. at The Rogue Playhouse. ‘The Outsider’
Director Debbie Roush has found another gem in this take on political nonsense, coming to the stage in September. Just right for an election year. This hilarious send-up of the political process will perform over three weekends in September, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, September 13-15, 20-22 and 27-29.
First Saturday cleanups at theater
What started out as first Saturday work days each month to re-organize all areas of theater, especially the downstairs, has become a once a month Saturday work party. Our new board is fired up to update our theater, clean up, organize and inventory all to keep everything running smoothly for productions. We will soon have our new Square set up for patrons wishing to use their credit and debit cards. Theater moves into the 21st century.