Monday, August 10, 2009
It was a Highway 57 Paradise!!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Another one of many fun traditions!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Thursday night's raffle winner!!!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Dinette in Training!!!
OK. Not really. But one of our many traditions (you develop of lot of those in 20 years) is that every night, some lucky audience member gets to join us on stage for a photo op. Well, at last night's dress rehearsal (because she was the only one in the audience!), Karen's (Prudie's) daughter Elizabeth was our lucky volunteer! We call her our "Dinette in training!"
(Photo by Rhetta. Note to self - need to get closer.)
Love y'all! Hope to see y'all this weekend!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
PB&D - Then and Now!!
Now, let's see how much we've changed!
Jim (aka Reid)
Jackson (aka Kevin)
Kevin is a partner/programmer in the Indy-based software development firm Silicon Prairie Ventures (http://www.spvi.com/) and is a part owner and programmer in a company with Reid Miller (Jim), Cemetery Data Corporation. During the sane years between “episodes” of “Pump Boys” Kevin plays music with Dave Newman (L.M.) in the popular local band “Audio Diner” and with local singing sensation Michelle Haddix in the duet “Dual Nature.” Kevin’s favorite role has been being father to his daughter Colleen, a Humanities and Theater major at Broad Ripple High School.
Kevin wishes to dedicate his work in this production to the wonderful memories of Denny Yount and Bill “Uncle Bill” Hall. Thanks so much to both of you for taking a chance on me. I will always be grateful.
L.M. (aka Dave)
An ‘avid’ accordion player and even better tap dancer – skills he only acquired to do Pump Boys & Dinettes, Dave is very pleased to be reprising his role as LM for the millionth time. His long list of former stage credits includes Pump Boys & Dinettes, 1991; Pump Boys & Dinettes, 1994; Pump Boys & Dinettes, 2000; Pump Boys & Dinettes, 2003, Pump Boys and Dinettes 2007, (you get the picture)… He and his wife Tricia live just north of Irvington, where they enjoy landscaping and screening their phone calls. On a serious note, Dave is privileged to have been chosen to play LM with this amazing cast of characters. They are wonderful people and great friends. Thanks for the opportunity to share the stage with you. PB&D, one more time!!!
Eddie (aka Joe)
Prudie Cup (aka Karen)
By day, Karen is the marketing director for Dance Kaleidoscope, Indiana's premier professional contemporary dance company and the proud mom of Sam (12) and Elizabeth (10). Karen (a former ‘pageant girl’ herself) is a former board member of the Miss Indianapolis Scholarship Pageant and of Theatre on the Square. She is also a costume designer and owned and operated local costume house Costumes by Margie for many years. She sends many thanks to a very tolerant, theatre-widower husband, Bryan!
Rhetta Cupp (aka Marni)
Monday, July 6, 2009
No need to worry 'bout peakin' too soon!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Tickets are now onsale,Y'all!!
Tickets are now onsale for our final reunion and farewell engagement! Three performances only:
Thursday August 6th at 7 p.m.
Friday and Saturday August 7 & 8 at 8 p.m.
(The ad to the right is wrong about the time of the Thursday night performance. But it's a really cute ad and poster, isn't it??)
Call 923-4597 for tickets or reserve them online at http://www.civictheatre.org/!!
Only 20 bucks. And all proceeds help keep Civic in business, and providing fun folks like us opportunities to do great the-ay-ter!!
See y'all there!!
A few historical photos . . .
Some pics thru the years that we've recently turned up. This was during our original run at Civic in 1989.
Doing an exciting publicity appearance on a Saturday afternoon at the lovely Washington Square Mall, back in 1989.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
On Hwy 57 - Somewhere between Frog Level and . . .
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
And then, in 1991, there was a NEW LM in town!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Remember when some of us had big hair? And some of us just HAD hair??
A Brief History . . .
So this was sent to me by my Dinette sister Prudie (Karen). For those who have wondered when and where we've produced this thing in the past, here goes:
Indy’s Own “Pump Boys & Dinettes”
Our History
“All of us have been doing theatre or performing for a very long time,” says cast member Karen Frye Knotts, “but this type of experience has been totally unique. We have become like family and easily fall back into the same crazy routines – onstage and off – every time we get back together. In fact, that’s a large part of the reason we have continued to perform the show again and again over the past eighteen years”
The group first performed together in the Indianapolis premiere of “Pump Boys & Dinettes” at the Indianapolis Civic Theatre in 1989. The production was very well received and the group enjoyed working together so much so that they reunited to mount the production independently at the IRT Cabaret two years later. And so a tradition, or obsession, was born. Although each cast and staff member pursues other professions and performing opportunities, the group has had only one cast member change (for the second performance) and has now performed at nine different venues throughout Indiana and one run in North Carolina.
Civic Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, March 1989
Indiana Repertory Theatre Cabaret, Indianapolis, IN, July 1991
Theatre on the Square, Indianapolis, IN, August 1994
Elks Lodge (BPOE), Frankfort, IN, November 1994
Shawnee Playhouse, Bloomfield, IN, July 2000
Buck Creek Players, Acton, IN, October 2000
Seven Lakes Country Club, West End, NC, July 2003
The Artists’ Studio, Fishers, IN, August 2003
Oaklandon Civic Theatre, Oaklandon, IN, April 2007
Oh - and, of course, Indianapolis Civic Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, August 2009.
Ten productions in 20 years, finishing back where we started. Has a nice symmetry, doesn't it??
Love y'all,
Rhetta
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Where's Jackson?
Well, anyway, when we last did the show two years ago, we all agreed that we were going back to Civic to try and arrange one final, farewell, reunion, sex, love and rock and roll tour (OK - that last part's an exaggeration), as a 20th anniversary farewell, and then we'd retire.
Well guess what? It's going to happen!!! So save these dates: August 6th, 7th and 8th, 2009, at Indianapolis Civic Theatre, located at Marian College.
So we had our first, official cast meeting tonight, to begin organizing rehearsals, photo shoots, marketing and promotions, etc. And in spite of about 75 e-mails between all of us in the last few weeks, Jackson (aka Kevin Friedly) was a no-show. And while this was somewhat of a disappointment, it also felt a little like going back home. Because if anybody's gonna forget our first meeting, it would be Kevin. We love you, Jackson!!
But have no fear -- we'll wrangle him, and he'll be there in August! He always is.
So anyway, we've started this blog, because no matter how down home we may seem, PB&D09 has embraced the new millenium! So pay attention to this space over the next couple of months, and we'll share funny stories, thoughts, memories, photos, and maybe even a few videos from past productions and rehearsals for our new production!!
So just in case you don't know who we are, here's us:
The Pump Boys:
Jim - Reid Miller
LM - Dave Newman
Jackson - Kevin Friedly
Eddie - Joe Traynor
The Dinettes:
Rhetta Cupp - Marni Lemons
Prudie Cupp - Karen Frye
The Crew:
Props/Stage Manager - Janet "Olga" Sutton
Producer/Sound Design/Tech Director - Michael J. Lasley
And we do this all in memory and honor of our beloved director, Bill Hall, and music director, Denny Yount.
Drop us a line! Send a note! Forward to your friends. But, most of all, come see our show in August!
Love y'all,
Rhetta