After last Sunday’s performance I took the archive photos for the Ferndale Repertory Theatre’s production of Man of La Mancha. The set, designed by Daniel C. Nyiri, is one of the best that I’ve seen at the Rep, and makes great use of the limited space on their stage.

The costumes, some of which were designed and constructed by my wife Lori, were also excellent. (Yep, totally unbiased review)

You have one more weekend to catch this entertaining musical. The songs brought back a lot of memories of my dad singing them. Man of La Mancha was one of my parents favorite musicals, and I grew up listening to my dad dreaming the impossible dream.

Photos from Man of La Mancha can be ordered from our web site.

This weekend the Ferndale Rep closed out their production of Jekyll & Hyde. We caught the performance earlier and it was marred by a microphone that was being very ill behaved. Unfortunately, the crackle from the mike was so loud and distracting that I found myself taken out of the story and I left at intermission.

When I went back Friday night to take photos for the production, I was pleasantly surprised that even though I was busy taking the photos, I enjoyed the production quite a bit.

Of course the best part was the costumes, since Lori was the designer for several of the women’s outfits.

Picture of the Month – March 2002

Opening this month at the Ferndale Repertory Theatre is a musical, Suds. The leader of the band, and playing guitar is Sean. He came in for the lobby portrait wearing the shades and leather jacket and asked whether we should take it over the top. I kind of thought we should.