Presenting
The Cast and Crew of
Nunsense
Orcas Center, Eastsound
Orcas Island, Washington
June, 2000
Directed by Deborah Sparks
(left). Music Director, Mary Meyer (right)
Photographs by Carol Wright (see notes below.)
Website for original "Nunsense"
Most photos shot in the dressing
room, with a few photographed on stage after the performance.
Dawn Nevinsky (Sister Robert Anne)
adjusts veil. Susan Osborn (Rev. Mother Superior)
Abby Rueb (Sister Mary Amnesia), with
her collection basket. Holly Nichols (Sister Leo, the dancing novice).
Heaven help us! Sister Mary John (Ridella),
our sax player. Sister Mary James (Jim Schaffer-Bauck)
our drummer.
Judith Owens-Lancaster (Sister Mary Hubert).
Yikes, that's ME! (Sister Mary Carol, the pageturning
nun.)
Photo of me by Abby Rueb. Thanks, Abby!
Dawn, always in motion. We'll see if she sits still on
my second roll of film.
Susan Osborn. She looks pensive here, but ya shoulda
seen her onstage.
She was the first to crack up, especially at Abby's innocently
blank expression and Robert Anne's Wicked Witch exercycle. Susan's the
world's only Mother Superior with a Minnesotan Brogue.
Monique, our prop-nun. Can'tch
tell, she is the biggest character of all!
Judith Owens-Lancaster, former prof.
opera singer, coming out of "retirement" to sing Sr. Hubert.
Linda Trethaway, on-stage
stagemanaging nun (shoulda seen her headset over the veil!)
and designated, pinch-hitting alto. She also repaired
the rosaries. Slapstick and rosaries do not mix!
Sparks and Mary Meyer share a laugh onstage after the
show.
Sister Mary Mary. I turned pages for this gal...what
a talent, what a pianist!
She transposed keys to fit each performer...and undoubtedly
could play the whole show by ear.
Abby Amnesia trying to forget her lines.
Sister Mary Mary...I swear the original print has stars in her eyes!