by Ernest Thompson Directed by Jan Futhey Produced by Gary Marton Stage Managed by Karen Johnston |
The Cast
Vince Delcalzo as Norman Thayer
Deb Sweat as Ethel Thayer
Mike Yonkura as Charlie Martin
Beth Lee as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
Manny Liotta as Billy Ray
Marc Dusini as Bill Ray
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman
Thayer, who are returning to their summer
home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth
year. He is a retired professor, nearing
eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing
memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant
and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years
younger, and the perfect foil for Norman,
delights in all the small things that have
enriched and continue to enrich their long life
together.
They are visited by their divorced, middle-
aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who
then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage
son behind for the summer. The boy quickly
becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple
have longed for, and as Norman revels in
taking his ward fishing and thrusting good
books at him, he also learns some lessons
about modern teenage awareness—and
slang—in return. In the end, as the summer
wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the
final, deeply moving moments of the play,
Norman and Ethel are brought even closer
together by the incidence of a mild heart
attack.
Time, they know, is now against them, but the
years have been good and, perhaps, another
summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
Fans of the 1981 movie staring Henry Fonda
and Katherine Hepburn are sure to love the
Spotlights' intimate production.
Script Reviews:
Vince Delcalzo as Norman Thayer
Deb Sweat as Ethel Thayer
Mike Yonkura as Charlie Martin
Beth Lee as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
Manny Liotta as Billy Ray
Marc Dusini as Bill Ray
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman
Thayer, who are returning to their summer
home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth
year. He is a retired professor, nearing
eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing
memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant
and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years
younger, and the perfect foil for Norman,
delights in all the small things that have
enriched and continue to enrich their long life
together.
They are visited by their divorced, middle-
aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who
then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage
son behind for the summer. The boy quickly
becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple
have longed for, and as Norman revels in
taking his ward fishing and thrusting good
books at him, he also learns some lessons
about modern teenage awareness—and
slang—in return. In the end, as the summer
wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the
final, deeply moving moments of the play,
Norman and Ethel are brought even closer
together by the incidence of a mild heart
attack.
Time, they know, is now against them, but the
years have been good and, perhaps, another
summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
Fans of the 1981 movie staring Henry Fonda
and Katherine Hepburn are sure to love the
Spotlights' intimate production.
Script Reviews:
- ". . . a work of rare simplicity and
beauty, and in Thompson our theatre
has found a fresh new voice."
- "…a rare and memorable theatrical
experience…"
- "What courage it must have taken for
Mr. Thompson in the 1970s to write a
play with so much affection in it!"
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| Click to buy tickets for the performance you wish to attend: Friday, May 7 @7:30PM Saturday, May 8 @7:30PM Friday, May 14 @7:30PM Saturday, May 15 @7:30PM Sunday, May 16 @3:00PM Friday, May 21 @7:30PM Saturday, May 22 @7:30PM |
| Please note that all evening performances of On Golden Pond will begin at 7:30PM. |
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