More than 40 kids participated in this year’s Summer Arts Safari, a week filled with drama-related activities led by a touring troupe of young adult thespians that culminated in a nearly full-house performance of the musical, “Winnie the Pooh,” on Saturday in Kiehle Auditorium on the University of Minnesota, Crookston campus. Crookston Community Theatre and American Legion Post 20 co-sponsor the workshop and production, the 10th year in Crookston.
SAS has two troupes that travel throughout northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota communities during the summer. The Crookston performance was the final one on SAS’s summer 2010 schedule; the other troupe spent the week in Warren, Minn., which ended with the performance of “Schoolhouse Rock” on Friday. The troupe that visited Crookston consisted of Cory Carivau, Erin O’Neil, Michon Prichett and Alyce Stokke, all from the East Grand Forks/Grand Forks area, where SAS is based out of.
The cast of the play, based on the stories of A.A. Milne:
Winnie – Ciara Goering
Christopher Robin – Keaton Lindgren
Eeyore – Cyrina Ostgaard
Tigger – Elise Tangquist
Rabbit – Madison Crane
Piglet – Ariel LaPlante
Kanga – Allison Reinhart
Roo – Sophia Steiner
Owl – Arlie Rudnik
Friend – Ella Weber
Relation – Kathryn Halos
Butterfly – Kelly Bertils
Squirrels – Macy Larson, Megan Frisk
Raccoons – Gia Bingham, Jenna Porter
Skunks – Mercades Haglund, Callie Boucher
Bears – Lukas Andringa, Mohammad Kasmouz, Aleece Durbin, Amy Follette, Kate MacGregor, Karlie Brekken, Grace Steiner, Trinity Froehler, Averi Thompson, Alex MacGregor
Pigs – Gabriela Ostgaard, Eliza Meyer, Emma Boerger, Jenna Sufka, Eden Haller, Zoe Everett, Hannah LaPlante, Gretchen Theis, Katherine Geist
Rabbits – Joey Wagner, Andrew MacGregor, Linnea French, Hana Kazmouz, Emma Borowicz, Madeline Everett, Sarah Ryan, Thea Oman
