Erin’s favorite roles include Mary in Americana Theatre Company’s production of It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Baker’s Wife from Into the Woods, Urleen in Footloose, Gertrude/Bird Girl in Seussical, The Queen of Hearts form Alice in Wonderland, and can’t wait to add more roles to list!Īlexa is so excited to be joining the cast of Grease for her very first show with Americana Theatre Company! She is a rising junior at Marymount Manhattan College where she studies and Acting with a minor in Musical Theatre. Erin has directed many productions including Carver High School’s production of Peter Pan in 1997, Stonehill College’s cabaret of Rent in 2001, and many performances for the children’s musical theatre ministry at Church of the Vine in Carver, including the production of Bethlehem in 2010. Erin has been a board member of ATC since 2011.
She has performed with companies such as The Round Barn Theatre, The Comtra Theatre, McKeesport Little Theatre, Gemini Children’s Theater and others. In 2002, Erin acquired a degree in Elementary Education with a focus on Fine and Theatre Arts from Stonehill College. Set designer TJ Firneno whipped up quite a stunner with the help of Susan Wardezak and painters Jacob Wadswoth, Rose-Lorene Miller and Dorothy Fallows.įor those of us who are contemporaries of the characters, Five Women trips down memory lane with uncomfortable recollections and reassuring chuckles.Erin Friday is thrilled to join the cast of Grease and to serve on Americana Theatre Company’s production team as the Director of Education. The costumes by Darlene Gavron are indeed magnificently awful, a five-times-unbecoming poufy ensemble of disco-era peach that almost but not quite avoids clashing with the pinkish hues of the set. Then, as they say, hilarity ensues, along with roller-coaster emotions and intimate woes. Elizabeth Glyptis adds a charming note of naiveté as the ugly duckling/swan Frances, and Lisa Bompiani-Smith brings spice and sympathy as the groom's sister. Sharing champagne and stories are the childhood but definitely ex-friends of the unseen bride, Trisha (Megan Elizabeth May-Mitchell) and Georgeanne (April May Ohms, whose spirited performance is damaged by distractingly bad hairpieces). The ladies of the wedding party don't particularly like the bride, so they tend to hover around the luxe bedroom of little sister/bridesmaid Meredith (lovely Elizabeth Pegg) while she progressively spazzes out. And besides the lusty tales of varying graphicness and regular f-bombs, the script seriously disrespects religiosity of the Christian variety - serendipitously a hot topic in town lately. The setting is the 1980s, when the irresistible force of the Boomers' sexual revolution met the immovable object of AIDS, the scariest (but not only) new strain of STD.
A bit of a character-driven mishmash, Five Women represents a bold choice with challenges for director Lora Oxenreiter. This 1993 comedy-drama about misbehaving bridesmaids is an early work by writer Alan Ball, who went on to award-winning success in television ( Six Feet Under) and cinema ( American Beauty). Given the success of the 2011 film Bridesmaids, it's not surprising that McKeesport Little Theater would unearth the 20-year-old Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.
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