Russell Community Theatre is on the World Wide Web and we are excited. Visit us at http://www.media-net.net/rct and sign our Guest Book. Tell your friends.

At our site Season Information for RCT’s coming attractions and area theatres are listed. We provide show names, dates and theatres. Around the Area includes Hays, Great Bend, and Salina.

Also listed is RCT’s Season Ticket and Gift Program information. If you have wondered about the names listed on the backs of each of our show programs, please view our site, review our Gift Program and consider joining it today.

In addition, read our current newsletter, Behind the Scenes, on-line and find out what’s happening at RCT.

Next, read About Us which includes RCT History and the people that keep us going. This includes the elected Officers and Board of Directors of Russell Community Theatre, Inc. and the Theatre Guild, the working force of the theatre.

Finally, links to the Russell, Kansas Home Page as well as special links to other theatre sites are at your avail. To our theatre cohorts, this includes AACT, Theatre Central, Dramatists Play Service and Samuel French.

We’re excited about being on the Web. Visit our site, tell your friends, and we think you’ll be glad you did.

This drama will be performed at Ruppenthal Middle School Auditorium April 28 - 30, and May 1 and 2. Curtain is at 8:00 P.M. Admission is by season ticket or $6.00 per person at the door.

The play is composed of numerous vignettes, all concerning the central character of Richard Cory. He is rich., handsome, sophisticated and respected. He is everything people want to be. And yet...

A. R. Gurney has written a play for the mature, sensitive theatergoer. Your attendance is requested.

Not as often as we would like, someone shows up to work in our theatre and becomes an integral part of its success. Barry and Renelle Mooney have done just that. A couple of years ago Renelle showed up at auditions. She didn’t get the part but she was gracious enough to assist in other ways. Before long Barry came along to help. Both have headed our properties crew for shows. Barry is excellent help on set construction. Renelle was on-stage in Smoke On The Mountain and Barry now has the lead in Richard Cory. And, whenever there’s a work day at our facility on Main Street, Barry and Renelle are most always there. If we had six more couples like the Mooneys we’d be in heaven

When our theatre started over twenty years ago under the auspices of the Russell Arts Council, we had to borrow every single item used in every play. What a lot of work that was. So much stuff. All borrowed. Every time.

As the years passed, we acquired things at garage sales, auctions or by gift. All kinds of things. Sometimes things we thought we could use in a current or future show. Sometimes things which were just unusual. And sometimes things that people just wanted to get rid of.

Today, we have two warehouses stuffed with stuff--chairs, sofas, dressers, lighting fixtures, pictures, vases, dishes, sinks, counters, fireplaces, carpets and bric-a-brac of every conceivable kind.

So now when we do a show, we have a lot of the things we need.

But, we’ve never done a show, and probably never will, for which we don’t have to borrow something.

So, occasionally, you might be asked to loan something for a show. If you are, rest assured that if we really didn’t need it, we wouldn’t be asking and that it will contribute to the show.

Some borrowed items are needed even during rehearsal but most aren’t brought on stage until the final few days. We know that you value the item we borrow or you wouldn’t have it in the first place. We also know that sometimes the things we borrow have real financial value as well. That’s why we always treat borrowed items better than we treat our own.

Nevertheless, there’s always a chance that an item might be damaged. While we recognize that many items loaned cannot be replaced because of sentimental value, we do maintain insurance to cover damage or loss of borrowed items. We will be responsible for any damage occasioned.

Your item will be returned immediately after the show closes--usually the Sunday after curtain on Saturday night. We will make arrangements with you for the return as well as the pickup.

If an item is a family heirloom or has great sentimental value, you should tell us and, perhaps, it should not be loaned at all.

In short, if you are kind enough to lend us something, we will do our very best to take care of it and return it in the same condition as we received it