Dinner theatre reservations and advanced tickets for Northland Pioneer College Performing Arts Department’s fall play production of The Spiral Staircase are now available at the NPC Performing Arts Center Box Office in Snowflake and online.
Dinner theatre performances at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, and Thursday, Nov. 17, include a three-course meal, catered by RC’s catering of Heber/Overgaard.
Reservations are required, before Nov. 4, and cost $22 per person, with no discounts or refunds offered.
Veterans will be admitted free to the show-only performance at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11. Other show-only performances are scheduled at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18, and at 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19. Advance tickets are $6, or $8 at the door. Senior citizens and NPC students and staff receive a $1 discount on show-only admission.
For dinner theatre reservations or advance tickets, call the Performing Arts Center Box Office at (928) 536-6250 or order online at www.npc.edu/tickets.
Director Dr. Michael Solomonson and Emmy award-winning lighting designer Patrick Day have created a memorable theatrical environment for the NPC production.
The Spiral Staircase has proven a popular mystery thriller as it has entertained audiences as a novel, radio drama, stage play and film, all adapted from Ethel Lina White’s 1933 novel Some Must Watch. Helen Hayes starred in the radio drama. Mel Dinelli wrote the screenplay used for the 1946 film, which starred Dorothy McGuire and Ethel Barrymore. The screenplay was adapted for the stage production by F. Andrew Leslie.
Solomonson has double-cast the roles, giving more students an opportunity to add stage appearances to their performance résumés. Starring in the leading role of Helen are KayBree Raisor and Cassie Spaulding. Charlotte Skousen and Holly Whitmire will be portraying Mrs. Oates. Ethan Jackson and Josh Raisor are cast as the Constable. Alex Brown will be Dr. Parry.
Chandon Fish and David Messer will be Professor Warren, with Holly Hatch and Kysee Weatherford as Mrs. Warren. Nurse Barker will be portrayed by Ashley Nudson and Brandi Perkins. Mitchell Armer and Jacob Shriver are cast as Stephen Rice.
Raisa Beltran is the Stage Manager, with Teresa Wise as her assistant and handling sound and off-stage operator’s voice duties.
According to Dramatists Play Service: “As thunder and rain echo offstage, the town Constable arrives at the isolated Warren household to report another in the series of apparently unprovoked murders that have shocked and terrified the village. Without exception the victims have been young girls–and all with a noticeable defect or imperfection of some kind. Because of this, there is fear for the safety of Helen, companion of the bedridden Mrs. Warren, who has been unable to speak since undergoing the shock of witnessing her parents’ horrible death some years before.
“Warning everyone to stay behind locked doors, the Constable goes back into the storm leaving Helen to the care of the others. One by one, however, her protectors leave–or seem to–and as Helen’s isolation grows, so does the threat of the killer’s visit–leading to a denouement of chilling intensity.”
