
Director: Arlan Ponder
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Asst. Directors: Jennifer Ridley &
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Big Bad
provides actors and audiences of any age with a
smart and wickedly funny play that lets the audience
determine the outcome of the play! The most
notorious criminal in the fairy-tale world, Big Bad Wolf,
is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by the
countless quirky characters he has wronged. Now, the
two greatest legal minds in the Enchanted Forest —
the Evil Stepmother and the Fairy Godmother — will
clash (on live Court TV, no less, with Sydney Grimm as
commentator!) in a trial that will be remembered
forever after. As Little Red Riding Hood, her
Grandmother, the Three Little Pigs and the Shepherd in
charge of the Boy Who Cried Wolf testify, the wolf seems
deserving of all that’s coming. But, even
though the disreputable Evil Stepmother couldn’t be
less interested in pro-bono work on such an obviously
futile defense, Mr. Wolf makes a good case for himself.
Was he born a criminal, or made one? Perhaps he does
deserve compassion instead of condemnation? What
will the verdict be? Only the jury — your
audience — can decide, when the doddering old Judge
invites them to determine the outcome of the trial...
and the play! With minimal set and costume
requirements and a good balance of stage time for each
character, you’ll love the multiple endings that can
make every performance unique!
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CHARACTERS
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"CESAR GRIMM" young, flashy
reporter for a cable news channel played
by Scotty Courvoisier
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"WOODCUTTER" big, affable,
self-obsessed competitive lumberjack played
by Alan Hale
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"FAIRY GODMOTHER" self-righteous
old lawyer with a sweet facade played
by Terra Ponder
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"THE SHEPHERD" kind, elderly
shepherd played by Larry
Evans
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"RED" spoiled brat
played by Kristen
Schrader
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"BOY WHO CRIED WOLF" disrespectful
little delinquent played by Tony
Calderon
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"GRANDMOTHER HOOD" widow
longing for a pampered retirement played
by Dolly Vatikiotis
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Understudy "GRANDMOTHER
HOOD" widow longing for a pampered retirement
played by Tyler Hale
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"ONE" a very stupid pig
played by Hope Evans
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Understudy "ONE" a very
stupid pig played by Delainy
Ridley
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"TWO" slightly less stupid
pig played by Kalei
Ponder
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"EVIL STEPMOTHER" high-powered,
high-priced young lawyer played by
Becky Courvoisier
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"THREE" highly intelligent
pig played by Carson
Denney
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"MISS MUFFIT" neurotic
psychiatrist and wolf expert played
by Shara Shinabery
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BIG BAD WOLF a/k/a, Mr. Wolf played
by Jennifer Ridley
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"WISE OLD JUDGE" doddering
old fool played by Mike
Shinabery
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SHEEP played by Gavin
Ridley
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SLEEPING BEAUTY played
by Emma Ridley
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BACKSTAGE ASSISTANCE
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Makeup: Becky Courvoisier, Jennifer Ridley
& Terra Ponder
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Concessions: Mike Mishkin, Charliss
Randall
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Sets: Earl Anderton, Tony Courvoisier,
Arlan Ponder, Mike Shinabery, Bill Denney & Jubal
Hall
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Costumes: Kat Feingold, Jennifer Ridley,
Becky Courvoisier & Terra Ponder
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Sound Design: Tony Courvoisier & Arlan
Ponder
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Sound Board Operator: Tony Courvoisier
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T-Shirts: Patty Belden & Pam Pickle
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Light Board Operator: Penny Hall
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Welcome Committee: Sharon Collins
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Panhandler: George Collins
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Prompter: Pat Mishkin
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Photos - Bill Denney & Marty Ware
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OUR GREAT
T-SHIRT
SALESWOMEN
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 SETTING
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Time: Once upon a time ...
Place: A courtroom in the Enchanted
Forest.
Big Bad
provides actors and audiences of any age with a smart and
wickedly funny play that lets the audience determine the
outcome of the play! The most notorious criminal in the
fairy-tale world, Big Bad Wolf, is being slapped with a
class-action lawsuit by the countless quirky characters he
has wronged. Now, the two greatest legal minds in the
Enchanted Forest — the Evil Stepmother and the Fairy
Godmother — will clash (on live Court TV, no less, with
Cesar Grimm as commentator!) in a trial that will be
remembered forever after. As Little Red Riding Hood,
her Grandmother, the Three Little Pigs and the Shepherd in
charge of the Boy Who Cried Wolf testify, the wolf seems
deserving of all that’s coming. But, even though
the disreputable Evil Stepmother couldn’t be less
interested in pro-bono work on such an obviously futile
defense, Mr. Wolf makes a good case for himself. Was he
born a criminal, or made one? Perhaps he does deserve
compassion instead of condemnation? What will the
verdict be? Only the jury — your audience —
can decide, when the doddering old Judge invites them to
determine the outcome of the trial... and the play!
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A
LITTLE ABOUT THE CAST
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DOLLY
VATIKIOTIS (Grandmother
Hood) Dolly
and her husband, Costa,
are
a retired Naval officers and have lived in Cloudcroft
since 2012. She works
at
King's Treasures Thrift.
Store
in the Village. This is her first performance in
a
melodrama ... EVER.
TONY
CALDERON (Boy
Who Cried Wolf) is
a Crimson Scholar at NMSU-
A.
His majors are Theatre and Education. He is also employed
at Discount
Tire
in Alamogordo. He has been in CLOC almost four years and
loves it!
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BECKY
COURVOISIER (Evil
Step Mother &
Asst.
Director) and
her husband,
Tony,
and son, Scotty, joined CLOC a few years ago and became
an
instant
part of the CLOC family. Becky works as an attorney,
specializing in
civil,
civil litigation.
ALAN
HALE (Woodcutter)
is
a professor in the Physical Sciences Department
at
American Public University System. Alan is involved in
the development
of
New Mexico's commercial spaceport (Spaceport America),
the father
of
two sons who have received CLOC scholarships, the author
of two regular
newspaper
columns and he found some comet (Hale-Bopp) a while back.
He
has
been a member of CLOC since 2006.
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A
LITTLE M0RE ABOUT THE CAST
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TYLER
HALE (Grandmother
Hood - July 5&
July
12/Judge - July 20) is
a
student
at NMSU in Las Cruces and a two-time recipient of CLOC
scholarships.
Tyler
is a
talented
musician and likes Pena Coladas and getting caught
in
the rain. He is a graduate of Cloudcroft High School and
has been on the
CLOC
stage for a number of years.
SCOTTY
COURVOISIER (Cesar Grimm) is an honor student and
sophomore
at
Cloudcroft High School. He is also starting his third
semester at NMSU-
A's
dual credit program.
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KALEI
PONDER (Two)
is a seventh
grader at Cloudcroft Middle School.
She
has been on the CLOC stage since she was three, where she
played a baby
in
the 2004 version of "Po' Taters." Every since
then, she hasnt stopped
performing
- whether on stage or in the her living room.
TERRA
PONDER (Fairy
Godmother) works
at. the Holloman
High Speed
Test
Track. She is also a licensed Zumba instructor with
classes in Cloudcroft
and
Alamogordo. Terra is also serves as Mrs.
Claus during
Santa Land and is
the
treasurer of the club. CLOC is a huge part of her family
with her husband,
Arlan and
daughters, Kenzi and Kalei, all involved with our
wonderful organization.
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A
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SHARA
SHINABERY (Miss
Muffit) is
a freshman at UNM. She is a graduate
of
Cloudcroft High School and this is her first time on the
CLOC stage.
She
really isn't as neurotic as she appears.
LARRY
EVANS (The
Shepard) is
the pastor at the First Baptist Church in
Cloudcroft.
This is his first time on stage, but probably not his
last. He
and his
family
joined CLOC earlier this year.
HOPE
EVANS (One)
is
a seventh grader at Cloudcroft Middle School and
this
is her first time on the CLOC stage. Though she plays one
of the little
pigs.
I'm afraid she really is a natural little ham.
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PAT
MISHKIN (prompter)
is a retired
ER.nurse and is currently CLOC's first
lady.
She is also extremely
involved in Cloudcroft Kiwanis. Pat was a driving
force
behind CLOC's decision to begin working with the Dolly
Parton's Irnagination
Library.
ARLAN
PONDER
(Director)
has been a member
of CLOC since 2003 and
currently
serves on the board of directors. He also writes murder
mysteries and
melodramas,
when he isn't working at the 49th Wing Public Affairs at
Holloman
or
serving as secretary on the Cloudcroft School Board. This
is his second
time to do
nothing, but direct ... and he loves it. His favorite
role of all time Was
Hauncho the
Hamster ...
because it
made kids laugh.
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A
LITTLE M0RE ABOUT THE CAST
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JENNIFER
RIDLEY
(Big
Bad &
Asst
Director) owns
Giggles and Scribbles
Special
Event Child Care and is also the director of the
Cloudcroft Methodist
Preschool.
She
brought her clan from the set of Eight
Is Enough to
CLOC
last
year and immediately jumped into the mix selling
t-shirts,,helping
with
costumes
and serving as secretary for the club.
DELAINY
RIDLEY (One
- July 20) is
a second grader at Cloudcroft Elementary.
This
is her first time on the CLOC stage in a speaking role.
GAVIN
RIDLEY (Sheep)
is
a preschooler at the Cloudcroft Methodist Preschool.
He
has had many Cameos on the CLOC stage, but this is the
first
"official"
appearance. When he grows up he wants to be a fireman.
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MIKE
SHINABERY (Wise
Old Judge) is
a all-round good guy who volunteers
to
play the out of tune pianos at Cloudcroft school events.
He works at
the
New Mexico Space Museum and has a bi-weekly radio show on
KRSY.
This
is his first time on stage-but
probably not his last after his dancing
scene.
CARSON
DENNEY (Three)
is
a sixth grader at Cloudcroft and has been
singing
since birth. This is her first time acting and she loves
being a part of
CLOC.
KRISTEN
SCHRADER (Red)
is
a senior at Texas State University San
Marcos
studying theatre and dance. She is pursuing a career in
the TV and
film
industry.
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SEE YOU NEXT TIME !!!
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