ANNE FRANK AND ME--A production for all generations

To say that I am excited about opening night of Anne Frank and Me tomorrow night would be an understatement.   I am thrilled.  One of our biggest challenges every season is locating scripts that will challenge and excite our students and this one certainly fits the bill.  I am always amazed...and actually saddened when I hear students complaining about having to study history at school as they find it so boring.   I love history.   I think it is one of the reasons that a lot of us at LAMB love acting as it gives us that chance to live lives that are so unlike our own.  So it is gratifying to see these young people embracing the events surrounding our play.  That is what is so great about either acting or viewing live theatre......the wonderful opportunity to share with each other dramatic or comic events in the lives of interesting people and times.   This particular show will be an excellent production for discussion among a student's family and friends of different generations.   I would love to see grandparents taking their grandchildren to this show.   As the young actors in this production said early on, "Looking at history this way is so different from reading about it in a book.   I feel for what these people went through."    Yup.....theatre is a great teacher.    I hope that we will have many, many people decide to "use" theatre for what it can do.....excite a young person to want to learn more about a time in history, to help a young person to develop empathy and understanding of others in difficult challenges and to perhaps think at length about how they themselves would respond in such a situation. 

I salute the cast as they are giving this production their all.    It will be one you will talk about for a LONG time.   Hope to see you there.   (Check the performance information at www.lambtheatre.com)  

THE CAST of ANNE FRANK AND ME

Nicole Burns/Nicole Bernhardt: Grace Beumler-9th grade Heelan
Little Bit Burns/Liz-Bette Bernhardt: Melody Rain Beaulieu- 6th grade Dakota Valley
Renee Zooms/Renee Bernhardt: Geana Schneider-LAMB Theatre adult actress
Mimi Baker/Mimi Poulin: Bronny Ohl- 11th grade East High
Marvin Burns: Kent Behr- LAMB Theatre adult actor
Anne Frank: Kate Kaplan- 10th grade North High
Suzanne Lee/Suzanne LeBeau: Grace Rants-12th grade East High
Chrissy Gullet/Christina Goule: Aubrie Wauhob-11th grade Dakota Valley
John Urkin/Jean Bernhardt: Nolley Vereen/ Matt Rixner LAMB Theatre adult actors
Jack Polin/Jacques Poulin: David Meis-12th grade East High
David Berg/David Ginsberg: Ben Wigton-8th grade North Middle
Eddie Valley/Edouard Vallee: Michael Danner-9th grade Heelan

Student Technicians: Abby Peterson-12th grade East High
Hillary Ping-8th grade Sergeant Bluff-Luton
Lydia Prior-8th grade Lawton-Bronson

Directed by Diana Wooley
Set and Lighting Design by Russell Wooley
Costume Design by Karen Sowienski
Art and Graphic by Jessica Wheeler

Recommended for children 9 years old and older. Some scenes may be disturbing for sensitive students and will require parental post show discussion.
Diana Guhin Wooley 
CEO LAMB Arts Ltd
417 Market Street
Sioux City, IA 51103
712-293-0930
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