Meet the Cast - Sarah Christie as Rachel the bride

Sarah Christie-Petrovich will be playing Rachel in our upcoming performance of 'Perfect Wedding" Check out her bio below!

"My name is Sarah Christie-Petrovich, and I will be playing the role of Rachel, Bill’s fierce fiancée, in “Perfect Wedding”!
I became involved in Paper Bay Players on a whim 3 years ago, when my principal was casting for a play. She asked if I was interested in acting and I said, “Yes. Sure. Why not?” though I admit that I had always shied away from public speaking growing up. Very quickly, I found myself cast in the role of Alice in “The Drowning Girls”. I have been hooked ever since. I played Audrey, a bored and baffled actress in “the Farndale Murder Mystery” and Sheila, another fierce fiancée, in last year’s “Wrong Chimney”.

Off-stage, I spend my days nerding out as a middle-years teacher, binge-watching shows on Netflix with my dude-spouse, and feeding and caring for three ridiculous cats. I’m also an avid reader and writer.

I’m looking forward to our Yorkton performances of “Perfect Wedding”. Hope to see you there!"

That's it for our cast spotlights.

Meet the Cast - Kris Gendall as Tom the Best Man

Kris Gendall will be playing Tom in our upcoming performance of 'Perfect Wedding" Check out his bio below!

"My name is Kris Gendall aka 'Krust Grundell'. You may have seen me in past PBP productions such Cocktails at Pam's, Farndale Murder Mystery, and Sorry! Wrong Chimney. I like McDonalds but haven't always liked McDonalds. Its just really tasty. I like playing Nintendo, specifically Dr. Mario and Tetris, also TMNT.

Mondays are my favorite day of the week and winter is the best because no bugs. My parents are from the Prince Albert region. My grandma's from St. Louis. I am excited to share this world with my life-companion and my two cute (biased) offspring."

Meet the Cast - Bailey Lemcke as Julie

Bailey Lemcke will be playing Julie in our upcoming performance of 'Perfect Wedding" Check out her bio below! 

"This is Bailey Lemcke. She has always been an actress at heart. When she isn't at home playing with her fur babies or at the gym workin' on her fitness, she is performing with The Paper Bag Players. She has only been in a few productions with the PBP. The productions include The Farndale Murder Mystery as Audrey, Willabella Witch's Last Spell as Princess Rapunzel, The Sword in the Stone as Princess Guenever and is currently playing Julie the Chambermaid in Perfect Wedding."

Meet The Cast - Ginnett Beattie as Daphne, Mother of the Bride

Ginnett Beattie will be playing Daphne, the Mother of the Bride in our upcoming Dinner Theatre December 1st, 2nd & 3rd. Check out her bio below!

"I am Ginnett Beattie, and my role in “Perfect Wedding” is Daphne, the emotional Mother of the Bride who is determined, no matter the circumstances, that a perfect wedding will take place. This is my second play with Yorkton Paper Bag Players and I have played a character named Daphne in both, with my previous character as Thelma/Daphne in “Murder and Checkmate Manor”. I grew up in Yorkton and I work as a manager at Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation in Melville, SK. I was always dramatic as a kid and it easily transitioned to stage in school at the Yorkton Regional High School and a few film and videos at the University of Regina many years ago. I have always enjoyed the fun and excitement of theatre and the Yorkton Paper Bag Players group is, by far, the most fun I have had acting."

Meet The Cast - Pamela Milani as Judy

Pam Milani, will be playing Judy in the upcoming Christmas Production. Check out her picture and bio below!

"Hi! I'm a long time member of Paper Bag Players. You may remember me from such roles as Betsy in "And the Winner is", Holly in "Kiss the Moon Kiss the Sun", Queenie in "You Can't get There from Here", Rosalie in "Myrtle and Rosalie", Maude in "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking", Thelma /Scrooge in "Farndale Christmas Carol", Gwendolyn in "The Importance of Being Ernest", Abby in "The Long Weekend", Hypolita in "A Midsummer's Night Dream", Sis in "Queen of Bingo", Pam in "Every Christmas Story ever told", Pam in "Cocktails at Pam's", Bessie in "The Drowning Girls", Thelma/Daphne in "A Farndale Murder Mystery", Samantha in " Sorry Wrong Chimney ", Erika in "Hold Please", and if you don't then you will definitely remember me in my current role as Judy in "Perfect Wedding" playing Dec 1,2,3 at St Gerard's Hall. Get your tickets at paperbagplayers.com Hope to see you there!"

Meet the Cast - Mike Thompson as Bill the Groom

Hello my name is Mike Thompson, and I will be portraying Bill, the harried groom in the upcoming performance of "Perfect Wedding".

I have been living in Yorkton for six years and work as an accountant with Collins Barrow PQ LLP.

This is my first play with the Yorkton Paper Bag Players, and unless you count my fourth grade school Christmas concert, it is my first time acting. I did do a pretty impressive Bob Saget in that though.

I wanted to try something new and so far it has been a lot of fun. Hope to see you out at the show!"

The show must go on...

An action packed week for the cast and crew and here is a sample of what we accomplished. 

Huge thanks have to go to the Holiday Inn Express in Yorkton, for giving us a room to make our little promo video! 

With no real place to call home, we are rehearsing in the Grace Presbyterian Church basement. It's an older building and the space is used by other groups, so there is no chance to put the set up and actually work with it. Our only option is to take advantage of the Ebenezer Community Centre 15 km north of Yorkton on the #9 highway.

We rent one of the old classrooms to store our sets and props...among lots of other things. The gym is available to rent, so when we have the chance...and the funds...we take advantage of it. This time, however, we had to do a split rental. We only had the weekend to build, set up, rehearse, tear down and put it all back in our storage.

The cast had to deal with a half painted set that was cobbled together, no real furniture to sit/lay on, but by golly, the doors all worked. This was really the most important part of the setup, since taped door frames on the walls of the church basement just don't work the best for timing...especially in a farce.

We also had a change in our cast, with Alicia Yashcheshen having to bow out due to work commitments. Stepping into the breech...as she had done on more than a couple of occasions...is our Madam President, Pamela Milani. She now has to move out of her assistant director chair and shift to taking some of her own medicine on stage. We are confident that she will fit into the part and make it her own...as she always does.

The cast bios will be covered in the next few blog entries and with the creative cast that we have, they are bound to be entertaining.

The play's the thing...

Our production for this year's dinner theatre, presented by special arrangements with Samuel French, is as follows. 

Perfect Wedding by Robin Hawdon, according to the synopsis is...an appalling situation. 

A bridegroom wakes on his wedding morning in his own bridal suite, with his bride-to-be about to arrive any moment, and finds a strange girl in bed beside him. What's more an extremely attractive girl whom, in the depths of his post stag-night hangover, he can't remotely remember even having been introduced to. Worse - during the ensuing panic to get the stranger dressed and out of the way, the bride arrives and the girl is trapped in the bathroom. The only way out of the dilemma is to persuade the best man to pretend that the hidden girl is his girl friend. Then the problem is that the best man’s real girl friend has to be kept ignorant of the fact. By the time the bride's parents and half the hotel staff get in on the act, the chaos reaches nuclear proportions!

We will be featuring each cast and crew member in future posts.

RACHEL - the bride  ~  Alicia Yashcheshen
BILL - the groom  ~  Mike Thompson
TOM - the best man  ~  Kris Gendall
JUDY - a girl  ~  Sarah Christie
JULIE - a chambermaid  ~  Bailey Lenmcke
DAPHNE - the bride's mother  ~  Ginnett Beattie

Doesn't it make you want to dig out a classic(if that is ever a word to use)bridesmaid dress or tux?

Rehearsal, rehearsals, rehearsals...

Welcome to Paper Bag Players Blog! 

We hope to keep you informed of all the "behind the scenes" activities that are taking place as we ramp up to our annual holiday dinner theatre. 

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online here. If you haven't already checked out the website, here is a poster with all the info for the production. 


We will also be taking this production on the road with a performance in Buchanan on November 26 and Esterhazy on December 7...so we will be getting around.

Stay tuned to find out about our upcoming production and the fabulous cast!