Andover Resident Kathleen Dalton Rocks the Arsenal Stage

The Wellesley Players are currently in rehearsal for their Fall musical, A…My Name Is Alice. The Play features both new faces and seasoned Wellesley Players in this Outer Critics’ Award winner for Best Musical. Currently in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, the Players will present A…My Name Is Alice at the Black Box Theatre November 7-16, 2014. Tickets are now on sale. The Black Box Theatre is an intimate space - a perfect environment for exploring this funny, heartfelt, timeless, universally appealing musical. Please purchase tickets early. This is a must see musical this season!

A… My Name is Alice presents a kaleidoscope of contemporary women in hilarious, insightful, empathetic and at times profound experiences. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you might even learn a little something more about the women in your life. The New York Times called it “Delightful and so sophisticated…the [creators] would rather tickle a male chauvinist pig to death than hack him to pieces.”

Andover resident Kathleen Dalton is cast in this ensemble musical featuring eight women and one token male. Kathy has worked with The Wellesley Players in the past, first she served on the backstage crew for Steel Magnolias when it was presented at the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters (EMACT) Festival. Then she came to rescue during tech week to serve as a dresser for the lead character, Jo, in the musical version of Little Women. Kathy comes to A… My Name is Alice having performed in the musical 11 years ago. “It was one of my favorite theatrical experiences.”

About A… My Name is Alice Kathy says “I love working on smaller shows and getting to play many different characters. ‘All Girl Band’ is my favorite song because it celebrates the unique female voices coming together to create something wonderful. The show has a great balance of funny, clever, thoughtful and poignant.” Kathy teaches Music Together, a developmentally-based early childhood music program. She says she is lucky enough to be able to encourage parents and children to love singing and making music.

Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd conceived A… My Name is Alice as a sequence of clever and serious songs, monologues and sketches depicting the trials and tribulations of living as a woman. This bright and lively revue was created by a wide variety of comedy writers including actress Anne Meara as well as lyricists and composers such as David Zippel and Lucy Simon.

Put on your heels, grab your cell phones and rally with your BFFs for a night out to meet the women of A… My Name is Alice. Performances: Nov 7-9 and 13-16, 2014. Performances will be at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, Black Box Theatre. Tickets are now available. www.ticketstage.com/WP. Reserve your seat early!

Photo: The female ensemble of A...My Name is Alice. Photo Credit: Jon Sachs

Front: Sun-Mee Kasperl-r Middle Row: Kelly Murphy, Jennifer Bubriskil-r Back Row: Melissa Bisso, Regine Vitale, Kathleen Dalton, Jennifer Shotkin, Lara Simpson