About Last Year's Performers
The Acting Company • Neil
Thorson Productions • Galena Street East
• Ponderosa Theater Company • Marysville
Charter Academy for the Arts • FCS Players
• Jacque's Dance Expressions •
Michael R. J. Campbell • Bob Hechtman (a.k.a. Bob Hackman) • Andrew Smith • Paul Smith •
The Acting Company
A non-profit community theatre committed to sharing the magic of live theatre with the region. All productions are created through the efforts of 100% volunteer work and community support. By making theater with and for people of many ages, cultures and levels of theatrical experience, The Acting Company builds bridges between and within our diverse home couties of Yuba and Sutter. The Acting Company has garnered many Elly Award nominations and Elly Awards over the years — and this year won an Elly for Best Set Design for Escanaba In Da Moonlight. TAC is located at 815 B Street, Yuba City, For more information go to www.actingcompany.org.
 Neil
Thorson Productions
Neil Thorson has received numerous Elly nominations for his original productions of local dinner theater, including one for Felony at the Feast: The Case of the Saigon Violets. Thorson has also produced Love Letters by David Guerney, an original one-man show of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and original musical revues including The Greatest Love Songs of the Past 100 Years and Cole Slaw: The Music of Cole Porter. Neil is currently employed as a director at Garbeau’s Dinner Theater in Rancho Cordova. He recently won two Elly’s for his 2005 production of Funny Money.
 Galena
Street East: A Dream Becomes a Reality...
Galena Street East is a non-profit organization established in 1972 to develop young artists by giving them the opportunity to perform and use their talents to enrich their lives and those of the community. Galena’s professionally-trained artists perform for conventions, schools, and social organizations. Each year, Galena Street East Touring Company represents Sacramento as Performing Ambassadors on a people-to-people goodwill performing tour.
In addition to touring in countries closer to home, such as Mexico and the Caribbean, the group has performed at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii, for the Washington D.C. Bicentennial, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.
Ponderosa Theater Company
This popular foothill theater company is known for its sold-out performances. Established in 1993 under the leadership of stage and television actor, Bob Hechtman and a dozen dedicated board members. The Company has produced more than 65 productions, including in recent years: 4th of July Brass Band: The songs of John Phillip Souza; A Tribute to George Gershwin and The Christian Music Festival. PTC’s well known musical productions include: The Music Man, Gypsy, Oliver, Once Upon A Mattress, The Sound of Music, Nunsense, Hello Dolly and You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. (530) 675-1220.
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Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts (MCAA)
The Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts (MCAA) coordinates theatrical plays, music programs and stage performances at the Marysville Community Auditorium. The five-year-old 7th through 12th grade school focuses on the performing and visual arts and has produced some of Broadway's most beloved musicals including: Kilroy Was Here, Carnival, The Boyfriend and West Side Story. For upcoming performance information please call (530) 749-6157. MCAA recently joined the Sacramento Area Theater Alliance and was nominated for two prestigious Elly awards and has won one.
Who Are the FCS Players?
Founded just over 13 years ago under the artistic direction of Paul DeMeritt, the FCS Players -- the theatre arts department of Faith Christian High School in Yuba City -- have become one of the most widely known and highly regarded young people's theatre programs in Northern California. Lauded publicly and critically for their long-standing tradition of excellence, the FCS Players mount three major productions each year highlighting well-known comedies, tragedies, classical theatre, musicals and the region's most highly successful children's summer theatre camp. The FCS Players have been recognized with over 40 "Elly" award nominations from the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance and have received 8 of the prestigious "Ellys." Their repertoire has included such favorites as Oliver, Fiddler on the Roof, Brigadoon, Annie Get Your Gun, The Wizard of Oz, and many more. The FCS Players were selected to be among the first youth theatres in the nation to present Les Miserables and Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
 Jacque's Dance Expressions
Watch carefully at any musical or talent show, and many recitals in Yuba-Sutter and you are likey to see the strong influence of Jacque Dake's dance stylings displayed. The Jacque's Dance Expressions studio currently has about 450 tap, jazz, ballet and hip-hop hopefuls on its student rosters. Dancers range in age from three to 65. Out of this group of dancers, Jacque's Dance Expressions assembles a crack team of competition dancers. The team travels frequently to regional and West Coast dance competitions and conventions, and scores very high. In 2004, Jacque's took first place at the huge "Spotlight" dance competition in Las Vegas and brought back top trophies from California State Dance Competition.
Michael R. J. Campbell
 Michael was first seen on the Magic Circle Theatre's stage as Mr. Bumble in the Master Workshop production of Oliver in 1998. Since then he has played Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods, and appeared in The Melody Lingers On: The Irving Berlin Story. Michael has been acting non-stop for the past 13 years, and has appeared on numerous stages in the Northern California area. Other performances include Goneril in Cinderella (Sacramento Theatre Company), Dick Deadeye in HMS Pinafore (The Mondavi Center), Matt in The Fantasticks (Garbeau's Dinner Theatre), Snoopy in Snoopy! The Musical at The Acting Company (for which he received an Elly Award). And the Prince in Cinderella at The Acting Company. In a rare Elly moment when a tie occurred, Michael recently won in the category of Best Set Design in a Comedy for his work at Garbeau's Dinner Theater designing the set of Funny Money.
Bob Hechtman (a.k.a. Bob Hackman)
Bob is a veteran actor (AKA Robert Hackman) in television, stage and motion pictures. Bob retired to Brownsville with his lovely wife Bettie after a career in which he starred with such notables as Burt Reynolds, Bob Urich, Anthony Hopkins, Cyd Charise and Richard Chamberlain. He has appeared in over 300 commercials and toured on stage in musicals and comedies all over the world. As a director, he found his greatest love and enjoys sharing it with the community.
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith is a Galena Street East Alumni performing all over the world. He is currently a student at Yuba College and a local dance instructor/choreorapher. He recently choreographed West Side Story at MCAA (which garnered him an Elly nomination), and The Acting Company's Cinderella. Also with The Acting Company, he choreographed and played "Tin Man" in The Wiz. He is currently choreographing MCAA's Singin' in the Rain.
Paul Smith
Paul Smith is a student at MCAA, involved in many of the school's productions. In the spring he will play the part of Don Lockwood in MCAA's production of Singin' in the Rain. He's currently a tour member of Galena Street East and has performed in the Acting Company's Cinderella and The Wiz.
Candee Jensen-Parker
Lucas Ledbetter
Foster Campbell-McManus
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