NORTH MANCHESTER - Manchester College students are updating Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" romantic comedy to the hippy days of the post-Vietnam War for their spring play today through Saturday.Members of the dramatics honorary Alpha Psi Omega will direct and perform the play. The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. each evening in Wampler Auditorium. Admission is $1 or a canned good for a local food bank. Reservations are not necessary.
Principal actors are junior Joel Waggy of Goshen, first-year student Jay Barot-Spencer of England, senior Laura Beutler of Roann, and junior Ben Martin of Myersville, Md.
Also in the 20-character cast: Nick Kauffman of Goshen; Jesse Reid of Richmond; Pete Dobberstein of Brookville, Ohio; Ryan Deeter of South Bend; Cierra Kindy of Fort Wayne; Megan Frick of Wawaka; Katie McCann of Homewood, Ill.; Kacie Gauby; Rebecca Oren of Vandalia, Ohio; Mikele Nicolazzo of Warminster, Pa.; Amanda Patch of Otterbein; Stacy Carmichael of South Bend; Heather Hostetler of Napanee; Alicia Smith of Rochester; Krystal Poe of Warsaw; and Amanda Degman of North Manchester.
