John Bapst Players prep for ‘My Fair Lady’

BANGOR – The John Bapst Players are filling the halls and auditorium with the sounds of “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “I’m Getting Married in the Morning,” and “A Little Bit of Luck” as they prepare for the upcoming production of Broadway’s “My Fair Lady.”

All-State soprano Sarah Upton as Eliza Doolitle and Graham Platner of the Grand Players of Ellsworth as Henry Higgins lead the large student cast in song and dance from Cockney streets to Ascot and the Embassy Ball.

“My Fair Lady” will be performed Thursday through Saturday, March 21-23, at the John Bapst Memorial High School auditorium at 100 Broadway. Curtain time is 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for senior citizens and students, cash or check only. Tickets are available at the door after 6 p.m.

More than a quarter of the student body is involved in the production – a cast of 77, pit band of 30, and many more in the set, stage and lighting crews.

This year’s lead cast includes Platner, Upton, Kirk Nichols as Colonel Pickering, Troy Trejo as Alfie Doolittle, Kelly Kearns as Mrs. Pearce, Kate Ostrofsky as Mrs. Higgins, Cody Holyoke as Freddy, Alex Kelly as Mrs. Eynsford Hill and Matt Jameson as Zoltan.

Other lead cast members are James Strout, Bryan Snyder, Sam Hill, Chris Leavitt, Josh Keefe, Emily Picard, James Peckenham, Henry Wooley, Bill Theriault, Josh Coffin, Krystle Melanson, Elaine Colwell, Katie Morgan, Nicole Yeo, Meghan Higgins, Kristen Steller, Emily Colwell, Elizabeth Lutz, Sarah Farnham, Alex Means, Katie Cassling, Eli Levenson-Falk, Wes Day, Cora Hilts, Logan Rich, Selina Hogan and Tedda Yeo.

My Fair Lady was the first play produced at John Bapst in 1977 and was performed again in 1994. Student participants as well as director Ryan Hews, producer and conductor Julie Ewing, music director Al MacIntyre, art director Melissa Avery, pianist Tom Jones and student director Meridith Perry, Class of 1999, are hoping some of the participants of the past productions will be in the audience of this year’s play.

Supporting cast members are Eoin O’Connor, Laura Porter, Lily Krichels, Stephanie Deschaine, Megan Webster, Libby Tyler, Anna Reichmann, Corey Pattison, John Malloy, Nick Ostrofsky, Tracy Haskell, Alex Rand, Emily Brown, Sean Snyder, Genna Duplisea, Rick Hathaway, Kiara Vollick, Luke Chernosky, Brian Rand, Josie Donaher, Sarah Kingman, Meghan Lena, Elien Becque, Chelsea Atkinson, Jessica Pratt, Abbey Sawyer, Gweneth Esty-Kendall, Tyler Yeo, Kevin Trainor, Victoria Mann, Kailey Walsh, Katy Baldus, Becca Stevens, Kierstin Knopf, Nathan Gray, Mike Webster and Denise Kimball.