Tag: Columbia Theatre Players

• Poor Directions to The Great White Way

  What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail. For most of the first 25 years of my life I wanted to be an attorney. My career path seemed to be set in stone, as from an early age, I remember my father saying someday I would make a great lawyer. When…

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  October 10, 2025

  Essay

  Button Button, Carmen Miranda, Columbia Theatre Players, community theatre, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2086, Hamlet, Lady Bracknell, LSAT, LSU Law School, paralegal, Richard Matheson, teacher, The Importance of Being Earnest, theatre

• Book Review: Death on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood

  In Death on the Marlow Belle (Poisoned Pen Press, September, 2025) this fourth installment of The Marlow Murder Club, a cozy murder mystery series, author Robert Thorogood has returned us to Marlow, a very real town located on the Thames River thirty miles from London. This is brilliant news for all of Thorogood’s fans, as…

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  June 16, 2025

  books

  Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, book-review, books, British, Columbia Theatre Players, community theatre, cozy mystery, death, Death Comes to Marlow, Death in Paradise, Death on the Marlow Belle, Downton Abbey, England, English, fiction, Goodreads, James Bond, Kindle, Lady Rosalind, London, Lord Grantham, Marlow, Miss Moneypenny, mystery, NetGalley, novel, Oscar Wilde, PBS Masterpiece, Poisoned Pen Press, reading, Richard Osman, River Thames, Samantha Bond, Ten Little Indians, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Marlow Murder Club, The Queen of Poisons, The Thursday Murder Club, theater, theatre, writer, writing

• The Sun Came Out This Weekend – Again

  The Broadway smash hit musical Annie has a special place in my heart. In the summer of 1987, I met my husband while playing the role of Mrs. Greer in a summer stock production of Annie, working backstage also as assistant director/stage manager. We began dating during that production and after twenty-eight years, it’s safe…

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  April 24, 2016

  Essay

  Annie, Annie Jr., Broadway, Columbia Theatre Players, Frau Schmidt, High School Musical, It’s Raining Men, Lady Bracknell, language arts, middle school, Miss Hannigan, Ms. Darbus, Ms. Stellar, Rooster, Scharmal Schrock, Sound of Music, Steven Daigle, summer stock, teaching, The Importance of Being Earnest, theater, theatre

• The Fatal Bite

  I didn’t go looking for drama; it came to me. In early 1984, I was at a very low and dark point in my personal and professional life. I went to work, came home, went to bed, got up, and repeated that process for weeks-no, months-on end. My only foray out of my apartment was…

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  May 31, 2015

  Essay

  auditioning, Columbia Theatre Players, Hammond, language arts, Louisiana, marching band, music, musicals, Phi Mu, plays, South Pacific, Southeastern Louisiana University, teaching, theater, theatre