Cornerstone Theatre decided to put on a fall mash-up of performances. Usually they just perform a play in the spring and put on a winter spectacular during the Dickens Festival; but, this year they decided to put on a series of comedy skits, which they titled "And Now For Something Completely Different" since they have never done this style of show before.
"It's something different than we've ever done," explained Don Carter, a member of Cornerstone Theatre, "April we usually put on a play and in December we always hold something for Dickens, so we figured we would do something different."
The show was put on both Friday, Oct. 19, and Saturday, Oct. 20. Beginning at 8 p.m. the very talented performers put on quite the show. Tears falling and sides hurting people laughed and even snorted their way through the performance.
The main body of Cornerstone Theatre's performance consisted of their attempts at setting up a series of blind dates. Laughs were had as characters were paired up including a mime, a kleptomaniac offended by the accusation of stealing, and many more memorable characters. A couple even found each other as they flee their own blind dates.
"It's best explained as dating gone wrong. If say match.com, or any number of those sites, and the computer sorting people was taken over by a virus," Carter said.
Many have put their ideas forward to Dianne Twietmeyer who has written a variety of shows for Cornerstone Theatre including much of the performance on both Friday and Saturday nights.
Interspersed throughout the evening included a variety of songs and short skits. The songs included an Irish drinking song, various country tunes, and a love song. All had certain flourishes making the crowd howl in laughter.
Various other skits included a witty conversation concerning Harry Potter and pop culture references. Four old men discussed their extreme hard times as youth; including ones father having to get up in the morning to clean the lake they lived in. The finale was well received. A piece from Nunsense had Michele Amy, who played the Mother Superior, begin laughing which made the entire crowd laugh hysterically.
Performing in the comedy spectacular were a number of extremely talented performers. Michele Amy, Lori Brown, Don Carter, Linda Coffey, Colleen Easton, Lane Easton, Liam Easton, Garth Herman, James Herman, Bertha Isleifson, Fred Perry, Craig Saville, Denise Singleton, David Slykhuis, Samantha Twietmeyer, Jesse Twietmeyer, Naomi Twietmeyer, and Kristy Wempe.
Behind the scenes help came from Doug Walder, Connie Pelletier, Paul Twietmeyer, Shannon Klatt, Marylin Carter, Brenda Beaver, Dean Albano, Marion Biram, Joan Bue, and Emily Klatt.
Though this performance was planned and practiced, sort of, last minute, the group has already begun practice for Dickens. Tickets for the Dickens performance have in fact already gone on sale and if any are left will be available at their box office, Cornerstone Shoes.
