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The trees are starting to change their color and the temperature is beginning to cool in Solano County, which means summer is out and fall is in.<\/p>\n
It also means that spooky season has arrived, and Bay Area Stage didn\u2019t miss the memo.<\/p>\n
That time leading up to Halloween night where haunted houses once again welcome visitors and horror films return to the big screen is loved by some and feared by others, but Bay Area Stage\u2019s upcoming production of \u201cWait Until Dark\u201d is for everyone, says Co-Founder Stacey Loew.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait Until Dark,\u201d was popularized through the 1967 film of the same name starring Audrey Hepburn as Susy Hendrix, a young woman who was recently blinded in a car crash. When she comes into possession of stolen goods without her knowledge, criminals break into her home in an attempt to get them back.<\/p>\n
Just a year before the blockbuster film came out, the play \u201cWait Until Dark\u201d was first performed on Broadway. Now, Bay Area Stage is putting on a slightly different rendition, which takes place in the 1940s.<\/p>\n
The cast for the show is relatively small, just six actors throughout: Sydnee Marie Ortiz as Susan (Susy) Hendrix, Bryan Pro as Mike, Craig Rekdahl as Roat, Zack Bender as Carlino, Demian Barrett as Sam Hendrix and Ellie DeClaire as Gloria.<\/p>\n
Despite the film\u2019s success and his personal love for the movie, Co-Founder and Director Jeff Lowe says that Ortiz takes the role of Susy in a new and exciting direction. \u201cShe was totally not the Audrey Hepburn type, but at the same time she has that energy I was looking for for that character,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait Until Dark,\u201d isn\u2019t a story about a woman being unjustly terrorized \u2014 at least that\u2019s not all it\u2019s about. When night falls, Susy learns to use her blindness as an advantage in a dimly lit game of cat and mouse.<\/p>\n
Complex stage directions and the fact that the main character is blind makes choreographing the movement of the play challenging,\u00a0 says Lowe. However, the cast continues to work hard at perfecting it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all great,\u201d said Lowe. \u201cThey all came in prepared to work hard and have done so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Loew says she enjoys putting on spooky Halloween-themed shows, remembering a particularly memorable production of \u201cThe Haunting of Hill House\u201d a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n
During the show, they lost power to the theater. \u201cWhat better time to have a power outage than during a scary show?\u201d she says with a laugh. The audience shined their phone flashlights onto the stage while Loew worked backstage to make sound effects. The show must go on.<\/p>\n
Although \u201cWait Until Dark\u201d has thriller elements, Lowe says it\u2019s nothing to be afraid of.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s suspenseful, it\u2019s creepy, it\u2019s got everything you would want in a Halloween horror movie,\u201d he says. There is some foul language, although minimal, and some violence particularly at the end of the play, but it is open to all ages.<\/p>\n
So, while \u201cWait Until Dark\u201d is an opportunity to get into the Halloween spirit, says Lowe, don\u2019t \u201cWait Until Dark\u201d to get tickets. Learn more at bayareastage.org<\/p>\n
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