Janet Tripper
03-11-2004, 02:10 AM
Hey! Someone super cool gave us this super info on Joyce and M4cong found this great articles! She is currently doing a play in Canada! call Remember Me!!!:D
Hope you'll enjoy the articles!!!
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http://www.stagewestcalgary.com/remember_me.gif
There’s plenty of blithe nonsense in the spirited little romantic comedy currently playing at Stage West.
Remember Me? by Sam Bobrick is essentially a one-joke comedy, but it is such a winning joke handled with such flare by director Martin Fishman that it easily amuses for its 90 minute running time.
It helps immensely that Fishman and Bobrick have Joyce DeWitt in the central role.
As she demonstrated for eight seasons on the classic ’70s TV farce Three’s Company, DeWitt has impeccable comic timing.
She knows how to punctuate a laugh-line with a gesture to make it even funnier.
She also is a master of the double-take.
Her expressions bewilderment, shock and mischievous cunning are a constant delight.
She is an energetic pixie who bounces around the stage with boundless energy.
DeWitt is Mary Hanson, a happily married Manhattan interior designer.
Or at least she thinks she is until she is visited one morning by Peter Lawrence (Kent Allen), a boyfriend who dumped her 30 years earlier in college.
Much to her surprise and her husband Brian’s devastation, Peter ignites dormant passions in the
complacent Mary.
The resulting mayhem is pure formula comedy.
Brian (Duval Lang), tries to make her jealous by hiring a bubbly young actress (Brieanna Moench) but there are surprises in store for everyone including the audience when the plan backfires.
The fun bounces along because the actors interact with clock work precision.
They know they are dealing with pure fluff but they have the intuition and talent to make it seem fresher and funnier than it really is.
Remember Me? is ideal dinner theatre fair.
It is a little comic bon bon that provides a delicious end to a night of dining and theatre.
http://www.calgarysun.com/perl-bin/niveau2.cgi?s=arts&p=82117.html&a=1
ARTICLE 2! (JOYCE TALKS ABOUT JOHN)
As the headliner of Stage West's romantic comedy Remember Me?, Joyce DeWitt is feeling a bit nostalgic and a bit impish.
"Do you think anyone will remember me," she says with a mischievous lilt in her voice.
Audiences around the world affectionately remember DeWitt as Janet Wood, the most level-headed of the three roommates in the TV's Three's Company. In its seven seasons, Three's Company paired DeWitt with John Ritter and Suzanne Somers.
"He was simply the best, the best, the best," says DeWitt of Ritter, who died suddenly last year at age 54.
"John and I had that rare ability to communicate without words. We'd feel what the other person was going to say and do. It's something that happens only a few times in the career of an actor. You are communicating on every possible level. He was one of the most dear people I've ever met and a special friend."
The fact she found a kindred spirit in Ritter was rare, but even more astonishing was that it was in her first TV series.
DeWitt, 54, who was born in West Virginia, but raised in Indiana nabbed the role that would define her as a comedian and celebrity within months of her first major audition.
"I'd done a guest spot on Baretta which is what got me my first agent," recalls DeWitt.
That agent quickly got his client an audition for the role of The Fonz's girlfriend on Happy Days. "I didn't get the part, but ABC called to say they would pay me not to take another series until they found something for me."
The series ABC found for her was Three's Company, a show DeWitt says fit her like a glove. "I was a stage actor and Three's Company was shot with a live audience as if each episode was a one-act play, so it was really comfortable for me."
It was also demanding.
"It was literally like being shot out of a cannon each episode. They wouldn't stop shooting unless there was a costume or set change that demanded a stop."
Starring in Remember Me, which is currently running, has also jogged DeWitt's memories of Calgary and Stage West.
She appeared in the Canadian premiere of the comedy Daylight Savings Time at Stage West in 1991.
"It was a whole lot smaller," she says of Calgary.
"I remember that when I'd drive from my (downtown) suite to the theatre, I'd drive through a lot of open space. Not so anymore. The city is huge."
DeWitt is looking forward to her days off, hoping to repeat the pattern she established during her first visit.
"After the Sunday evening performance, I'd get into my car and drive to Banff or Lake Louise and not return to Calgary until Tuesday afternoons."
DeWitt says after her first Calgary show, she decided to take some time off and went into semi-retirement in New Mexico.
"I think it's time to start working again. I have a second place in Santa Barbara, so I can work in L.A. and I've begun putting out serious feelers.
"It's been gratifying because there is a lot of interest."
http://www.calgarysun.com/perl-bin/niveau2.cgi?s=arts&p=81988.html&a=1
:wave:
THX MEL FOR FINDING THIS GREAT ARTICLES!!!!:D!!!
Hope you'll enjoy the articles!!!
:wave:
http://www.stagewestcalgary.com/remember_me.gif
There’s plenty of blithe nonsense in the spirited little romantic comedy currently playing at Stage West.
Remember Me? by Sam Bobrick is essentially a one-joke comedy, but it is such a winning joke handled with such flare by director Martin Fishman that it easily amuses for its 90 minute running time.
It helps immensely that Fishman and Bobrick have Joyce DeWitt in the central role.
As she demonstrated for eight seasons on the classic ’70s TV farce Three’s Company, DeWitt has impeccable comic timing.
She knows how to punctuate a laugh-line with a gesture to make it even funnier.
She also is a master of the double-take.
Her expressions bewilderment, shock and mischievous cunning are a constant delight.
She is an energetic pixie who bounces around the stage with boundless energy.
DeWitt is Mary Hanson, a happily married Manhattan interior designer.
Or at least she thinks she is until she is visited one morning by Peter Lawrence (Kent Allen), a boyfriend who dumped her 30 years earlier in college.
Much to her surprise and her husband Brian’s devastation, Peter ignites dormant passions in the
complacent Mary.
The resulting mayhem is pure formula comedy.
Brian (Duval Lang), tries to make her jealous by hiring a bubbly young actress (Brieanna Moench) but there are surprises in store for everyone including the audience when the plan backfires.
The fun bounces along because the actors interact with clock work precision.
They know they are dealing with pure fluff but they have the intuition and talent to make it seem fresher and funnier than it really is.
Remember Me? is ideal dinner theatre fair.
It is a little comic bon bon that provides a delicious end to a night of dining and theatre.
http://www.calgarysun.com/perl-bin/niveau2.cgi?s=arts&p=82117.html&a=1
ARTICLE 2! (JOYCE TALKS ABOUT JOHN)
As the headliner of Stage West's romantic comedy Remember Me?, Joyce DeWitt is feeling a bit nostalgic and a bit impish.
"Do you think anyone will remember me," she says with a mischievous lilt in her voice.
Audiences around the world affectionately remember DeWitt as Janet Wood, the most level-headed of the three roommates in the TV's Three's Company. In its seven seasons, Three's Company paired DeWitt with John Ritter and Suzanne Somers.
"He was simply the best, the best, the best," says DeWitt of Ritter, who died suddenly last year at age 54.
"John and I had that rare ability to communicate without words. We'd feel what the other person was going to say and do. It's something that happens only a few times in the career of an actor. You are communicating on every possible level. He was one of the most dear people I've ever met and a special friend."
The fact she found a kindred spirit in Ritter was rare, but even more astonishing was that it was in her first TV series.
DeWitt, 54, who was born in West Virginia, but raised in Indiana nabbed the role that would define her as a comedian and celebrity within months of her first major audition.
"I'd done a guest spot on Baretta which is what got me my first agent," recalls DeWitt.
That agent quickly got his client an audition for the role of The Fonz's girlfriend on Happy Days. "I didn't get the part, but ABC called to say they would pay me not to take another series until they found something for me."
The series ABC found for her was Three's Company, a show DeWitt says fit her like a glove. "I was a stage actor and Three's Company was shot with a live audience as if each episode was a one-act play, so it was really comfortable for me."
It was also demanding.
"It was literally like being shot out of a cannon each episode. They wouldn't stop shooting unless there was a costume or set change that demanded a stop."
Starring in Remember Me, which is currently running, has also jogged DeWitt's memories of Calgary and Stage West.
She appeared in the Canadian premiere of the comedy Daylight Savings Time at Stage West in 1991.
"It was a whole lot smaller," she says of Calgary.
"I remember that when I'd drive from my (downtown) suite to the theatre, I'd drive through a lot of open space. Not so anymore. The city is huge."
DeWitt is looking forward to her days off, hoping to repeat the pattern she established during her first visit.
"After the Sunday evening performance, I'd get into my car and drive to Banff or Lake Louise and not return to Calgary until Tuesday afternoons."
DeWitt says after her first Calgary show, she decided to take some time off and went into semi-retirement in New Mexico.
"I think it's time to start working again. I have a second place in Santa Barbara, so I can work in L.A. and I've begun putting out serious feelers.
"It's been gratifying because there is a lot of interest."
http://www.calgarysun.com/perl-bin/niveau2.cgi?s=arts&p=81988.html&a=1
:wave:
THX MEL FOR FINDING THIS GREAT ARTICLES!!!!:D!!!