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Cast:

Norman Thayer – Evan Faris
Ethel Thayer – Mary Margaret Pyeatt
Charlie Martin – Jake Shanahan
Chelsea Thayer Wayne – Dayna Fries
Billy Ray – Wyatt Hartz
Bill Ray – Ehren Hartz

Creative Team:

Director – Michael Serrecchia
Stage Manager – Cathy Parks Bardin
Lighting Designer – Elizabeth Ross
Scenic Designer/Set Dresser – Joseph Cummings
Master Carpenter – Ellie Wyatt
Sound Designer – Rich Frohlich
Costume Designer - Michael A. Robinson/Dallas Costume Shoppe
Admin producer/Properties Designer – Jill Stephens
Sound Operator – Tully Hall
Light Board Operator – Eric Ryan
Tech producer – Rob Stephens

Additional creative team members to be announced!

On Golden Pond

May 3-18, 2024 at Irving Arts Center

By Ernest Thompson

Directed by Michael Serrecchia

The love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. Laugh and cry with Norman and Ethel Thayer on their journey through the timeless bonds of love and family