author: Leonard Taube
Somebody hold me too close. Somebody hurt me too deep. Somebody sit in my chair and ruin my sleep and make me aware of being alive. That’s the plea of protagonist Bobby in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company (book by George Furth) which is being produced by community theatre group Players On Air and gracing the stage of the Coppermine Pantherplex in Hampstead, MD. Originally produced in 1970 Company was nominated for 14 Tony Awards and won six.
I have confidence in musicals! I have confidence in rain. I have confidence that September Song will get to play again! And play again they did (despite the rain’s best efforts!) after a live-theatre hiatus, September Song Musical Theatre has returned to the stage their much-anticipated production of Rogers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. And no storm or last minute venue-change is going to hold them back. Directed by Stephen Strosnider with Musical Direction by Kelly Stoneberger and Choreography by Amy Appleby,
Close your eyes, draw back the curtain, and you will see for certain what you thought you knew. And what you thought you knew was that September Song, a dedicated summertime community theatre in Carroll County entering its 42nd year of producing a mainstage musical, is doing impressive work on its stage. You were right to think so as the company proves their worth as a community staple and heartfelt institution with this year’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph &