A little over a month before we open and we've recast Long John Silver and hired a new Stage Manager.

(Ahhhhhhhh!)

RHYDWYN DAVIES has joined the cast as Long John Silver. Rhyd Da Kid (pictured at right in a production of Henry IV, Part 1 at Shakespeare & Company's Outdoor Rose Footprint Theatre in Lenox, MA) is a professional actor in Greenville working with The Warehouse Theatre's Journeyman program. He has appeared at our school twice this year as a artist-in-residence teaching Shakespeare to J.L. Mann students. Basically, he rocks...and has agreed to take on this most ambitious role in a most ambitious play.

BRENNAN WEST who's been on board as costume designer since last fall, now adds the title (and great responsibility) of Stage Manager to her resume. Brennan is a senior at J.L. Mann. She's a terrific artist, a creative talent, and the kind of young leader we need more of. She will run the show each performance--Coach White's right-hand woman.

Think we're crazy to be switching things around so late in the game? Maybe...but we want this thing just right...the best it can possibly be. With Rhyd and Brennan in place, we're closer than ever before.