A few fun local articles

[Max Magee]

Hi all,

I was looking back to see if I could locate the article that I saw (a decade ago) that first brought the Notorious Canary Trainers to my attention, and I think I did. Since then, I've always wondered about those days, and since I had a few minutes to spare (or maybe more like an hour or two of combing through archives) today, I found a couple of other fun way-back items that I wanted to share.

I believe this is the 1979 article and quiz in the State Journal that I stumbled across that made me look the club up to see if it still existed:

Meeting article:

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-times-nct-1979-page-1/191226663/

Last page:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-times-nct-1979-page-2/191226787/

Tom Drucker's Quiz:

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-times-nct-1979-page-1-tom/191226694/

Of interest is that the meeting took place on Monroe Street in an old mansion called Newport Galleries-Plough Inn Antiques (Rita W.'s gallery off Monroe St). I saw many newspaper invitations for meetings in the 70's there and at the Religious Education Bookstore (the one-time Holy Redeemer School, now wedding venue on Johnson St.)

Here's one talking about Susan Flaherty, Diane Judd, and Kent Stephenson and the Bagatelle Card Club of Milwaukee from 1989:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-waukesha-county-freeman-nct-1989-k/191229837/

And an early one (1970) I hadn't spotted before (under Amateur Mendicant Society):

https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-nct-apr-28-1970/191231455/

and the club's letter to the editor in response!

https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-nct-1970-amate/191231298/

One more interesting one was off the AP wire in 1984, and mentions a few folks that I have gotten to meet and to know from my trips to New York:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-bsi-1984/191231767/

Hopefully those links open for everyone!

Max "Magic Jezail Bullet" Magee (he/him)

Notorious Canary-Trainer of Madison Wisconsin

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Etc.

[robin stubbs]

oh just saw this: 

Maybe if you missed the audition you can get in on it anyway. I'm sure 

a lot of you would want to have a Sherlockian stage experience. 

https://facebook.com/events/s/auditions-baskerville-a-sherlo/1337952148103309/

[Kevin Hendryx]

O man -- I wanna play the Hound so bad!!!  I can bark...

Dang, the last auditions are tonight, at 10 PM?  Downtown?  I guess I don't want it that bad.  But I hope some of the NCTs get involved! 

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[robin stubbs]

You know I dont know that the hound is an actual character because this play only requires 5 actors specified as 

"

• CAST SIZE

  1w, 4m " 
  
  

https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/57235/ken-ludwigs-baskerville-a-sherlock-holmes-mystery

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Get your deerstalker cap on – the play’s afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Watch as our intrepid investigators try to escape a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Can our heroes discover the truth in time? Join the fun and see how far from elementary the truth can be."

[joh...@comicsworthreading.com]

I saw Ludwig’s Moriarty, which was similarly a five-person, 40-role production, and one of the roles was a cat, so… 

Johanna Draper Carlson
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[Jeff]

If you can bark . . . 

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[Tom Smith]

We saw Ludwig’s Baskerville in Door County in ‘23. It was a very enjoyable evening of theater. 

Tom and Cherry

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