Caldwell's Bomb
a dark comedy by
Bill Rogers
In the long, hot summer of 2010, a small Missouri town is dying.
Jobs are fleeing, and so are people. The local militia vows to fight
back. When they order easygoing, slow-witted Caldwell to join
their campaign of unspeakable terror, he must decide what he values and
if anything is worth a fight.
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Scott Cordes*
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Richard Alan Nichols*
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Cheryl Weaver* |
Matthew Melson
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All performances will be at the Unicorn Theatre: Main Stage
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07/22 8:00 Friday
07/24 5:00 Sunday
07/25 8:00 Monday $10 plus a Fringe Festival button
07/27 8:00 Wednesday Click here to buy tickets (or get them at the door).
07/29 6:30 Friday
07/30 9:30 Saturday Rate this show on KC Stage: Click here
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Scott Cordes* (Earl)
KC Rep: A Flea in Her Ear (Ferraillon), To Kill a Mockingbird (Bob Ewell), New Theatre: The Foreigner (Owen Musser), Harvey (Wilson), My Three Angels (Paul), KCAT: Glengarry Glen Ross (Richard Roma) Fifth of July (Ron), Heart of America Shakespeare: Hamlet (Gravedigger), Richard III (Brackenbery), The Tempest (Trinculo), Unicorn Theatre: Exonerated (Gary Gauger), Closer (Dan), Orphans (Phillip), Take Me Out (Skipper), The Living Room: Blackbird (Ray), Arizona Theatre Co: To Kill a Mockinbird (Bob Ewell), MET: One Flea Space (Kabe), Time of Your Life (Nick)
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Richard Alan Nichols* (Jimbo)
Unicorn Theatre: Proof (Dad), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune (Frankie), The Normal Heart (Ben), An American Daughter (Senator Alan Hughes), A Walk in the Woods (John). American Heartland: Tuesdays with Morrie (Morrie). MET: A View from the Bridge (Alfieri). Acting coach at Actor's Craft Studio, Kansas City, MO.
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Cheryl Weaver* (Deena)
KC Rep: Christmas
Carol (Charwoman), Bus Stop (Grace), A Flea In Her Ear (Eugenie), The Trip to Bountiful (Jesse Mae), The Voysey
Inheritance (Honor), Living Out (Wallace) Previous Regional:
American Conservatory Theater (The
Voysey Inheritance), Dallas Shakespeare
Festival (Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew),
Purple Rose Theater (More Fun Than Bowling), StageWest (King Lear) Other Area Theaters: KC Actors Theater (Boston Marriage), Unicorn (9 Parts of Desire, Frozen, Closer, Side
Man), Heart of America
Shakespeare (Loves Labors Lost, Measure
for Measure), New Theatre (Rumors),
American Heartland (Dixie
Swim Club), Coterie Theater (Little
House on the Prairie), Musical Theater Heritage (1776)
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Matthew Melson (Caldwell)
Matthew is an undergraduate sophomore studying acting at UMKC. He has played Socks's Assistant in Shoot Horses, Phillip in The Shape of Things, Biff in Death of a Salesman and Minionotti in The King Stag so far at UMKC. He is making his debut appearance outside academic theatre with Caldwell's Bomb.
*Actor appears courtesy Actors Equity Association, the union for professional stage actors and stage managers. 
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Herman Johansen
Director
Man of La Mancha, Our Town (Great Plains Theatre); Sweet Metigoshe (Black Hills Playhouse); My Name is Rachel Corrie (MTP); Agnes of God, Home Safe, The CASA Project (Vandivort Theatre/Good Theatre Co/ MTP) |
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Diane Bulan
Assistant Director/ Prop Design
As actor: Musical Theatre Heritage (1776);Great Plains Theatre (Harvey and Our Town); Black Hills Playhouse (Sugar Bean Sisters); MET (Galileo)
As director: Death and the Publican (KC Fringe/Tara Lane Prod); Art (MTP)
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| Martin Tanner Productions |
Engage. Explore. Enjoy.
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| If you'd like to help support this production with a donation, mail a check payable to Martin Tanner Productions, 4426 Jarboe Street # 3 Kansas City MO 64111. At this time, Martin Tanner Productions is NOT a 501c3 organization. |
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To attend shows at the Kansas City Fringe Festival you first buy a $5 Fringe button; then pay the ticket price for each show you wish to see. The $5 button supports the cost of producing the festival. Caldwell's Bomb is $10, general admission only. This money goes to help defray the expenses of this particular production and to the venue in which it is performed. | | |
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Bill Rogers: the playwright
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Since Bill began writing plays in 2001, six of his works have been produced in Kansas City including Broken Strings, one of five finalists in the 2003 Beverly Hills Theatre Guild-Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition, Breaking the Trust, winner of the Rockhurst Plays in Progress contest in the fall of 2008, Death and the Publican, and Collisions, KC STAGE'S top rated show of 2008.
Bill
lives with his wife, Janet, in Blue Springs. He has taught history at
Johnson County Community College and several other area colleges.
Bill is a
member of the Dramatist Guild of America, Inc., the Professional Association of American Playwrights.
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Caldwell's Bomb: Kansas City Fringe Festival
