Overview & Schedule

2014  SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, October 31

4:00p - Service Building
     Registration

6:00p - Menke House Dining Room

     Dinner

7:30p - Edith Bates Old Chapel

     Lecture: Felicia Londré
     The Enchanted Years of the Stage:  American Voices 1870-1930

Saturday, November 1

8:00a - Menke House Dining Room

     Breakfast for overnight guests

8:30a - Menke House Porch

     Morning walk with Ann Thompson

9:00a - 

     Registration for Saturday-only Attendees

9:30a - Concert Hall and Library

     Conversation:   Lamar Lentz and Kate Pogue: 
     Eugene O’Neill at Festival Hill  

10:30a - Concert Hall Stage

     Talk: Ann Thompson

     The Golden West: Opera in the New World

12p - Menke Gardens

     Open-air Lunch

1:30p - Edit Bates Old Chapel
     Lecture-Demo: Vern Sutton

     Forgotten Genres:  Revue, Burlesque, Melodrama, and Olios

                       

3:00p -  Concert Hall Stage

     Anecdotes and Memorabilia: Tom Foral       

     The Musical in Miniature:   
     P.G.Wodehouse, Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton and the Princess Musicals     

4:00p - Concert Hall

     Tour of the building

4-5:30 p.m. Store open at rear of Concert Hall

6:30p - Menke House Parlors

     Reception for full-weekenders in Menke House Parlour

7:00p - Menke House Dining Room

     Dinner for full-weekenders in Menke House Dining Room

     Formal dress encouraged

8:30p - Concert Hall Stage

     Concert:  Sonja Bruzauskas with Nancy Bailey

     Ira and George: Extraordinary Brothers

9:30p - Lower Chapel

     Informal get-together in Kafe Kaffeine

Sunday, November 2

8:00a - Menke House Dining Room

     Breakfast for overnight guests

8:30a - Menke House Porch

     Morning walk with Ann Thompson

10:00a  - Concert Hall Stage

     Performance:  Chesley Krohn directs O’Neill

     “Ah, Wilderness."  A Reader’s Theatre Performance of the last act of Eugene O’Neill’s nostalgic comedy