Past Seasons of TGRC

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Grinding the Nail The Nail

A "good luck" nail has become a tradition for TGRC. It was created from two bent nails picked up from the stage during set construction for Peter Pan (1999). Historically, many actors considered a bent nail from the stage a good luck piece. The director selects a cast member to wear the charm during each show. It brings both luck and a through-line from show to show and season to season.

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Main Stage

Director "The Nail" Recipient

1989

Bye Bye Birdie Gene Saunders PRE-NAIL 

1990

Hello Dolly Gene Saunders  PRE-NAIL

1991

Pajama Game Gene Saunders PRE-NAIL 

1992

Damn Yankees Doug Jones,
Gene Saunders
PRE-NAIL 

1992/1993

Fiddler on the Roof
Anything Goes
Eddy Daniel
Gene Saunders
PRE-NAIL 

1993/1994

Oliver
The Music Man
Eddy Daniel
Gene Saunders
 PRE-NAIL

1994/1995

Annie
Barefoot in the Park
Guys and Dolls
Rose Cutuli Wray
Richard (?)
Gene Saunders
PRE-NAIL 

1995/1996

Sound of Music
Harvey
South Pacific
Gene Saunders
Eddy Daniel
Devan Ward
PRE-NAIL 

1996/1997

Wizard of Oz
To Kill a Mockingbird
Twelve Angry Jurors
Annie Get Your Gun
Gene Saunders
JoBeth Clark
Frank Carter
Gene Saunders
PRE-NAIL 

1997/1998

Cinderella
Nunsense
Camelot
Rose Cutuli Wray
Allen Wallace
Eddy Daniel
PRE-NAIL 

1998/1999

Peter Pan
The Crucible
Bye Bye Birdie
A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum
Rose Cutuli Wray
Dave Wright
Gene Saunders
Eddie Daniel
Evelyn Cummo
Joseph Self
Brooke Wiley
?

1999/2000

King and I
Diary of Anne Frank
Oklahoma
Rose Cutuli Wray
Matt Wells
Rodney Luck
Raymond Blackwell
Ken Schneidmiller
Betsy Pugh

2000/2001

Oliver
Miracle Worker
The Music Man
Pauline Cobrda
Tim Weist
Jamie Lawson
Trish Allen
Barb Young
Perry Medlin

2001/2002

Annie
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Glass Menagerie


 


Brigadoon

Rose Cutuli Wray
Tim Weist
John Collier


 


Jamie Lawson

Ashley Clymer
B.G. Ritts
Nail placed on set: on mantel under portrait of long-absent father, "Mr. Wingfield"--in reality, a decades-old photo of director, John Collier.
 

Jon Young

2002/2003

Dracula
Fiddler on the Roof
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Jamie Lawson
Rose Cutuli Wray
Rodney Luck
?
Bill Clark
Stephen Hale 

2003/2004

Dracula
Sound of Music
Big River
Jamie Lawson
John Collier
Fred Motley
Not Awarded
Carmy Price
Mike Morrison

2004/2005

Grease
It's a Wonderful Life
Cinderella
Rose Cutuli Wray
Jonathan Young
Stephen Hale
Winston Sims
Mike Morrison
Mike Morrison
2005/2006  A Christmas Carol
West Side Story
Smoke on the Mountain
 Andrew Barker
Jamie Lawson
Stephen Hale
Mike Perry 
Jeff Mericle
Amy Hewitt
 2006/2007 Our Town
Seussical
Wizard of Oz 

 Andrew Barker
Stephen Hale
Stephen Hale

 Ken Schneidmiller
Carey Anna Blackburn
Benny Goodman
2007/2008 Sanders Family Christmas
Steel Magnolias
Children of Eden
Stephen Hale
Jon Young
Pete Barr
Marcy Pyrtle
Jessica Gray
 
       

 

TGRC Children's Theatre

Director

 

2000/2001

Wizard of Oz Laura Collins Charles Crumpton

2001/2002

Babes in Toyland
Cinderella
Laura Collins
Laura Collins
 
 

2002/2003

Tom Sawyer
School House Rock
Laura Collins
Laura Collins
 
 

2003/2004

Secret Garden
Studio 10-B
Laura Collins
Laura Collins
 
 
2004/2005 Music Man Jr.
All Aboard for Broadway
Laura Collins
Laura Collins
 
 Brice Collins
2005/2006 The Enchantment of
       Beauty and the Beast
Jack Tales
A Little Princess
Rose Cutuli Wray

Deborah Davies
Susan Simmons
 Megan Mericle


Jessica Wray
 2006/2007 Pocahontas
Pied Piper
Rose Cutuli Wray
Deborah Davies
David Wood
Jasper Thomas
2007/2008 Ghost Chasers
Rumpelstiltskin
Aladdin and His Wonderful Magical Lamp
Tony Hummel
Deborah Davies
Jon Young
Megan Mericle

Emily Sizemore