Catonsville Theatre Company
(A Committee of the CCBC Catonsville Alumni Association)
The Barn
Upcoming Event
Butterflies Are Free
a Comedy by
Leonard Gershe
Directed by Joey Hellman
Featured in the Cast:
Mark Macaluso as Don Baker
Kate Volpe as Jill Tanner
Gail Anderson as Mrs. Baker
John Sheldon as Ralph
Leonard Gershe's comedy Butterfiles Are Free was a long-running Broadway success that opened in 1969. It is the story of Don Baker, a young blind man who is breaking away from his mother and the security of his family home in Scarsdale.
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Don, an aspiring songwriter, has moved into a one-room apartment in Greenwich Village with a tub for a kitchen table and a locked door adjoining the neighboring apartment. His next-door neighbor, Jill Tanner, is a young actress, who within minutes of meeting Don, unlocks the door that connects their apartments and wastes no time in seducing him. In the middle of their free-spirited romp, Don's mother walks in. Mrs. Baker's intervention drives Jill away, perhaps sooner than she would have abandoned Don herself.
The playwright points out that Don's mother, by never paying attention to what he says, is deaf to his emotional needs. Jill's inability to maintain a committed relationship shows her as emotionally handicapped. Both of these physically whole people are far more challenged by their problems than Don by his sightlessness.
Leonard Gershe based Butterflies Are Free on real-life blind attorney, Harold Krents. The film version stars Edward Albert as Don Baker and Goldie Hawn as Jill.
All performances are held in
the Barn Theatre (B-Building)
Click here for directions
CCBC Catonsville Campus
800 South Rolling Road
Catonsville, Maryland 21228
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Performances
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Date
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Time
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Friday
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October 31, 2008
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8:00 p.m.
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Saturday
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November 1, 2008
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8:00 p.m.
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Friday
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November 7, 2008
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8:00 p.m.
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Saturday
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November 8, 2008
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8:00 p.m.
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Sunday
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November 9, 2008
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday
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November 14, 2008
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8:00 p.m.
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Saturday
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November 15, 2008
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8:00 p.m.
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TICKET PRICES
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General Admission:
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$18.00
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Students, Seniors over 60, and Alumni:
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$15.00
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Children 12 and Under:
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$12.00
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All proceeds benefit CCBC Catonsville Alumni Association scholarships, programs, and activities.
Special rates for groups of 20 or more!!!
Catonsville Theatre Company is also looking for any volunteers to help with any aspect of working on the show. If you have an interest in working on sets, building and painting, working lights, sound, or ushering, please call our theatre line at 443-840-4400.
Past Productions
CTC's Past Production:
Rounding Third - Fall 2007
Past productions have included:
Driving Miss Daisy - Spring 2007
Real Women Have Curves - Fall 2006
I Do! I Do! - Spring 2006
Diversions: Staged Readings of Eight Plays in Eight Days - Fall 2005
Barefoot In The Park - Spring 2005
The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd - Fall 2004
Jerry's Girls - Spring 2004
Steel Magnolias - Fall 2003
A Grand Night for Singing - Spring 2003
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - Fall 2002
Godspell - Spring 2002
The Diary of Anne Frank - Fall 2001
History of the Catonsville Theatre Company
In the late 1980's, a group of then-Catonsville Community College alumni and former Barnstormers (the campus theatrical club) first talked about a stage production as a Barnstormer reunion. By the mid-1990's and after a year's research of all the muscials ever performed on campus, they approached the then-CCC Alumni Association with a proposal for creating a retrospective show. This coincided with the planning of the Alumni Association's 30th Anniversary celebration and seemed a perfect anniversary event. The reunion show gave rise to the Alumni Theatre Company as a committee of the Alumni Association, and the Lloyd Goren Memorial and Scholarship Fund in memory of a departed friend, former classmate and Barnstormer.
The reunion show, Barn Yesterday, premiered in September of 1995. It brought back alumni from Maryland, Florida, Ohio and New York and featured students and community members, as well, to showcase over thirty musicals. Barn Yesterday was nominated for a CASE Award. Among the other audience-pleasing shows produced by ATC are Nunsence, The Cemetery Club, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Godspell, Frankly Sinatra, Steel Magnolias and The Diary of Anne Frank.
The ATC has always been open to participation by any alumni, CCBC students, faculty and community members who have an interest in theater arts. To better reflect that openness and to further link the theater to the community, ATC recently changed its name, though not its mission, to the Catonsville Theatre Company. With proceeds from box office sales, fund raising events, donations, and the generous support of the CCBC Catonsville Alumni Association and the College, CTC has raised over $30,000 to date. Monies from this fund are earmarked for scholarships, improvements and maintenance of the theater, and to fund future CTC productions.
For information about becoming a member of the CTC committee, participating in our shows, and applying for or donating to the scholarship fund, please call us at 443-840-4400.
Contact the Catonsville Theatre Company:
For information, reservations, or to sign-up on our email list, call the CTC Information Line at 443-840-4400 or email
catheatrecompany@ccbcmd.edu.
