Encore!

MOSES LAKE — The tunes that made Broadway great will fill the air, as Basin Community Theatre presents “Encore! A Broadway Musical Review” this month.

“We've taken favorite musicals from our cast and from our director, and put a show together,” said producer Marion Wyman. “So it's going to be songs, it's going to be dances … We had (cast members) write down their suggestions, and if they wanted to sing a solo, and that’s how we put the show together.”

The show takes songs and dances, 12 of them solos, from about 30 different Broadway musicals, although Wyman said the list wasn’t yet complete as of Wednesday. The range of musicals is broad, including “Oklahoma!,” “Funny Girl,” Camelot” (and the Monty Python spoof, “Spamalot”), “The Wizard of Oz” and more.

“It wasn't just my vision, it was our whole cast,” said director Toby Black. “People were able to choose their own song and their own emotion and what they wanted to portray. The only guideline is that we wanted it to be fun and uplifting. We feel like the world has a lot of downers, and we're trying to not be the downer. We're trying to be more positive, upbeat. And music is a great way to do that.”

Some of the plays will be new to most of the audience, said Black, and even in the well-known musicals, the songs aren’t necessarily the ones everybody thinks of first.

“We've tried to do selections that aren't necessarily that popular,” Black said. “You have your five or six or eight regular shows that everybody knows, but there's so much music and there's so much theater that we tried to choose songs that come from all different areas of the history of theater.”

“We're going to open with an ensemble piece,” Wyman said. “There'll be four or five different ensemble numbers. Then the children are doing ensemble numbers from ‘Moana Jr.,’ from ‘Newsies,’ from ‘Annie.’”

The kids will also be part of the number “Godspeed Titanic,” which in the play is sung as the ship is launched, and (spoiler!) reprised as she goes down. In “Encore!,” the song segues into a string trio rendition of the hymn “Nearer my God to Thee,” which tradition holds the actual Titanic orchestra played as the ship sank.

The show came about, Wyman said, because the Moses Lake High School theater was only available for a four-day window, which didn’t allow enough time to license a complete show. So “Encore!” is a Basin Community Theater original, she said.

“I'm really pleased with the talent that we have here in our community,” Black said. “We have people driving from Quincy and Othello and Royal City to be part of our show. And all of those people combined with one purpose is going to be a very uplifting and enjoyable evening.”

“Encore! A Broadway Musical Review”

June 14-1 – 7:10 p.m.

Matinee: June 17 – 2:10 p.m.

$18 pre-purchased standard seating, $20 priority seating or at the door

Tickets are available at www.basincommunitytheatre.com

Playlist

Songs (subject to change)

Song Selection (Not complete)

The Greatest Show -The Greatest Showman (Adult Ensemble)

You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile - Annie (Girls Ensemble)

Don’t Rain On My Parade - Funny Girl (Deborah Roeber)

The Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot (Brad Sorenson and Amy O'Donnell)

What Do Simple Folk Do - Camelot (Ed and Jami Backell)

Pulled - The Addams Family (Claire Smith)

Spark of Creation - Children of Eden (JoAnna Miller)

The Last Supper - Jesus Christ Superstar (Adult Ensemble)

Olim - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - (Adult Ensemble)

Sun is Gonna Shine - Bright Star (Kelsea Burton)

Cell Block Tango - Chicago (Isabel Sica, Claire Smith, Tierney Stakkeland, Shanna Stakkeland, Treva Reichert)

All er Nuthin' - Oklahoma (Toby Black, Deborah Roeber, Kelsea Burton)

Being Alive - Company (Ted Mack)

Top of the World - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - (Julia Heaps and Adult Ensemble)

She Used To Be Mine - The Waitress (Shaila Hardy)

Chips Are Down - Hadestown (Claire Crump, Claire Smith, Isabel Sica)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz (Emma Leavitt)

Godspeed Titanic - Titanic (Adult and Children Ensemble)

Masquerade - The Phantom of the Opera (Adult Ensemble)

Seize The Day - Newsies (Children Ensemble)

My New Philosophy - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Isabel Sica)

Our Children - Ragtime (Toby Black and Deborah Roeber)

You'll Be Back - Hamilton (Shanna Stakkeland))

Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot (Brad Sorenson and Amy O'Donnell)

In My Dreams - Anastasia (Claire Crump)

Sisters - White Christmas (Shanna Stakkeland and JoAnna Miller)

What I Did For Love - A Chorus Line (Daisy O'Donnell)

Everything's Coming Up Roses - Gypsy (Shanna Stakkeland)

Because I Knew You - Wicked (Kelsea Burton and Deborah Roeber)

You're Welcome - Moana (Children Ensemble)

You Can’t Stop the Beat - Hairspray (Adult Ensemble)

Production team:

Toby Black - Director

Marion Wyman - Producer

Shaila Hardy - Co-Producer

Tom Silva - Stage Manager

Katie Miller - Sound/Tech

Cast:

Aaron Valdez

Abbie Sorenson

Abigaile Gilbert

Amy O’Donnell

Brad Sorenson

Carlee Howard

Chanel DeGooyer

Ciara Quilter

Claire Crump

Claire Smith

Cole Quilter

Daisy O’Donnell

Dani Merkley

Deborah Roeber

Ed Backell

Emma Leavitt

Everleigh Suarez

Gabby Gilbert

Isabel Sica

Jami Backell

JoAnna Miller

Julia Heaps

KaLee Lincoln

Kelsea Burton

Kendyl Howard

Kristi Jenks

Lloyd Stever

Paige Perkins

Sam Roeber

Sawyer Greenfield

Sawyer Roylance

Shanna Stakkeland

Sheryl Cassella

Stacey Rippy

Sterling Hardy

Ted Mack

Tierney Stakkeland

Treva Reichert

Victor Tadema

Zeke O’Donnell