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Towle provides 'The Fix'
By Walter Skiba, The Times, July 9, 2008, nwi.com
The lights come up on a Presidential candidate having sex with his mistress and dying suddenly from a heart attack. He gets up to sing the after death vaudeville number "Let the Games Begin," and the plot sprints ahead.

The candidate's widow joins with his polio-challenged older brother, who would like to have his moment in the spotlight, to groom her son Cal for the Presidency.

Fun, witty, poignant 'Jeffery'
By Tim Shellberg, The Times, June 7, 2008, nwi.com
John Glover, director of Hammond's Towle Community Theater's production of "Jeffery," thinks viewers will be able to identify with the emotions the characters in the play exhibit regardless of their sexual preference.

"There are universal themes that I think play out really well in the show," he said. "There's friendship, there's romance, there's coming of age and there's the idea of not giving up that I think applies to a lot of people."

Towle knows how to treat 'Lady'
By Tim Shellberg, The Times, May 16, 2008, nwi.com
Jeff Casey knows some people can be taken aback when learning the basic premise of the play "No Way to Treat a Lady."

"When you tell people that it's a musical about a serial killer, some people are put off by that immediately," said Casey, director of "No Way to Treat a Lady" at Hammond's Towle Community Theater. "It's not your typical musical theater fare, but it's really a lot of fun and has a lot of great humor."

Come to the cabaret -- in Hammond
By Carol Moore, The Times, Apr. 27, 2008, nwi.com
Lauren Molina and Benjamin Magnuson who star as Johanna and Anthony in the 2005 Broadway revival of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," will perform in a cabaret-style concert at the Towle Community Theater Monday.

On a rare night off, Molina and Magnuson, in Chicago with the national tour of "Sweeney Todd," will perform an eclectic mix of rarely heard covers...

Lynette Louise mixes humor and serious topics in one woman show
By Tim Shellberg, The Times, Mar.28, 2008, nwi.com
Entertainer and autism therapist Lynette Louise laughs when recalling one of the more memorable compliments she has received for her one-woman show, "From Thing to Thing to Thing." My ex-husband said 'You're really funny. That was really good,'" she said. "I thought 'Yeah. And you never noticed until now.'"




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