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6/16/2008
Opera
House Happenings - "Let's Vent!"
The House
Committee has been working on ways to get the air moving
in the Opera House
during those hot summer days and nights!
“This great old building was designed with passive ventilation in
mind,”
said John Dunn of
working on ways to get the most out of that design, as well as ways
where we can be more aggressive in getting the air moving!” Screens
have been installed on the
side doors, which should provide ventilation
during intermission. What’s more, the balcony windows have
been made
functional again, by installing screens and removing balcony seats
where
necessary to allow the windows to open. By using those windows again,
the
hot air that rises to the balcony will be allowed to escape!
Strategically placed floor fans and
tower fans should help to move
the air around and make performances (and
rehearsals) cooler!
More
ventilation plans are being mulled over, including setting the attic
fans on
timers to draw more cool air in at
night.
2008 Sigrid Bronner Memorial Scholarships Announced
LCP is proud
to announce that Courtney DeRienzo of Stowe and
Danielle Carrier of
Memorial Scholarship.
LCP renamed our scholarship in honor of Sigrid, who lost
her life in
2006. Sigrid was an active member
of the Lamoille County Players’
family. She was a part of several shows, and
served on LCP’s Board of Directors
as our Student Representative. She will always be remembered as a
treasured
part of the LCP family.
Courtney
DeRienzo graduated this year from
LCP’s Annie
Get Your Gun in 2006 and has worked on the Board of Directors for
the
last year and a half. She also
served on the Outreach Committee, working
on ways to involve more people
with LCP. She will be attending
Hartt School of
Music, part of the
with a vocal emphasis, “because it combines my passions in working
with children and
in music,” she says. “Working with LCP gave me a great
understanding of all the hard work
that goes on ‘behind the
scenes.’
Danielle
Carrier graduated from
has appeared on stage many
times, from Louisa in The Sound Of Music
to Rizzo
in this summer’s Grease! She’s worked on stage crews as
well. She leaves in
the fall
for
and talented people at LCP,” she says, “many of them becoming some
of
my closest friends.”
7/10/2007
2007
Sigrid Bronner Memorial Scholarships Announced
LCP is proud to announce
that Lydia Bickford of Morrisville and
Kathleen Buckley of Cambridge are
this year’s recipients of the
Sigrid Bronner Memorial
Scholarship. Lydia Bickford graduated this year from
Peoples
Academy, where she was active in their Drama Club. She was in the cast
of LCP’s production of Wind in the Willows in 2004. Lydia
will be attending Roanoke
College in Virginia in the fall. Kathleen
Buckley graduated from Lamoille Union
High School this spring.
Kathleen, frequently seen on the LUHS stage, joined
LCP in 2006 with the
production of Annie Get Your Gun. She can also be seen
this
summer in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying in the
supporting role of Smitty. Kathleen will be attending the University
of
Toronto in the fall.
7/4/2006
2006 Sigrid
Bronner Memorial Scholarship
Announced
LCP is proud to
announce that Katie Spalding, of Morrisville, is this year's recipient
of
the Sigrid Bronner Memorial Scholarship. We renamed our scholarship
in honor
of Sigrid, who lost her life earlier this year. Sigrid was an active
member
of the Lamoille County Players' family. She was a part of several shows,
and
for the past two years, Sigrid had also served on LCP's Board of Directors
as our Student Representative. She will always be remembered as a treasured
part of the LCP family.
Katie will be attending the University of Vermont
in the fall and thanks LCP
for the scholarship which, as Katie says, "could
not be named for a more
incredible, beautiful and talented person who I am
proud to say was
my friend. I am completely honored to be a recipient of
this scholarship
in her name. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for
helping Sigrid's
> memory live on forever through this
scholarship."
9/22/2005
New Seats at Opera
House
Usually, there is some debate as to the "best seats in
the house" at the Hyde Park Opera House. Some say the best seats are right up
close to the stage. Others say they're in one of the back, raised rows. Well,
these days, there is no debate: the best seats in the house are now up in the
historic theater's balcony! Seventy-three of the balcony seats have been
reupholstered. This is another step in the Lamoille County Players' Opera House
Restoration project. Thanks to the work of LCP's House Committee and Fundraising
Committee, and the generous contributions of individuals and groups, including
the support of the Freeman Foundation and Preservation Trust, the Opera House
balcony has been restored and improved. According to John Dunn, House Committee
Chairman, the project started in January. The seats were pulled out and
refurbished by St. Albans Upholstery. With the seats removed, the balcony floor
could be worked on. A new wood floor was laid down. Mike Brown, of Colonial
Floors, came in and finished and sanded the new floor. The restored seats have
historic significance. "I believe they were salvaged from the original opera
house building that burned in Hyde Park's big fire of 1910," said Dunn. Some of
the wood on the old seats was refinished and some chairs had padding replaced.
All 73 had their leather pads removed and replaced with fabric.Dunn said that
refurbishing the remaining seats will have to wait until phase II of the capital
campaign. While LCP has been making significant headway on the reservation of
the historic building, having spent between $10,000 and $20,000 per year on
building renovations over the past six years, its wish list is still long. At
the top of that list is a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. The
long term goal, once the renovation projects are complete, is to "switch to more
of a maintenance mode," says Dunn. He hopes to establish an endowment for
ongoing building maintenance
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