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Brad in Stand by your Van 2012
Surfer Dude in Shakespeare (abridged) 2011
Prince John in Robin Hood 2011
Wrote & Directed "The Flying Dutchman" 2010
Buffalo Bill in Annie Get Your Gun 2010
Lawyer Craven in Sly Fox 2010
Adapted & Directed "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 2009
Lt. Shrank in West Side Story 2009
DIrected "The Outsiders" 2009
Arnolphe in The School for Wives 2007 and 2009 Actor Award SETC
Directed "The Hobbit" 2008
Ariel from Pillowman 2008
R.J. Simpson in Singin' in the Rain 2006
Brian in No Sex please, We're British 2005
Charlie in Dirty Blonde 2004
George in The Vast Difference 2003
Dan Bowman in Waverly Gallery 2003
Young Harold in Communicating Doors 2002
Old Harold in Communicating Doors in 2002
Orgon in Tartuffe - Best Actor FTC 2001
Ken De La Maize in Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 in 2001
Visitors
May Update
My first play (published 1993) Death of a Don is still being produced having just closed at The Newport Playhouse in Rhode Island. READ A REVIEW
First time ever: On May 31st. Four plays of mine will be performed on the same day, nearly at the same time, on two different continents.
The Two Gentlemen of Venice
is featured at a fundraiser at the Venice Yacht Club, May 31st
Celebrating the City of Venice 85th Anniversary with an original play by Ronald Myroup's about the lives of the first settlers and displays of ways in which pioneers lived. READ MORE
Ladies and Gentlemen ... the Beatles opens May 31st
A group of elderly women look back at their High School years fondly remembering the time they saw the Beatles at the Ed Sillivan Theatre.
New writing projects
I have been commissioned to adapt the children's classic book, Heidi at Venice Theatre
And am also writing, the Venice Island Montessori school play, entitled Life is a Highway
I just finished, The Pie Wars for the Theatrefest program.
This is a funny spoof of gangster films of the 1940s. Instead of prohibition, the judge has outlawed dessert.
Turned down a role in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, to concentrate on what I do best.
Next up after that:
2013 Sarasota County Education Outreach One Act
2013 Loveland Follies: Life and Times of Ed Sullvian
OH and ...
Old Friend, mentor, old boss or as I call him Chief, Don Walker was vacationing in the Big Apple and went to book shop and .... snapped this.
The Venice City Historic play Saturday the 14th
Venice Theatre's Playwright-in-Residence Ronald Krine Myroup
This Saturday, January 14
11:30 a.m.
Lord-Higel House - 409 Granada Ave.
As part of the City of Venice's year-long anniversary celebration, Venice Theatre was commissioned to produce a play about Venice's history.
After months of research and writing, our playwright-in-residence Ronald Krine Myroup is proud to present "The Two Gentlemen of Venice".
Myroup's two-man play introduces us to two founding fathers of Venice: Joseph H. Lord and George Higel. Venice Theatre actors Steven Flaa and Doug Landin will portray Lord and Higel respectively.
Please come out this Saturday to support your community and your theatre!
This Just In
A MainStage ComedyApril 3-22, 2012 (WORLD PREMIERE!)
By Craig Baxter and Paul BourneDirected by Paul Bourne |
(Students $12-$15; Adults $24-$27)
See a show – win a truck! This interactive play about competitive
hysteria, will-power and a pickup truck has six different endings! Its
“touch-the-truck” competition is reminiscent of the popular dance
marathons of 1930s America. Who will be the last one standing?The Witches of Blackheart Island
The Witches of Blackheart Island
a new play
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)
Artistic Director Murray Chase brought us all back together last May for a three week revival.
We made the cover of Let's Go Magazine!!!
Myroup’s new play opens at Venice Theatre
In advance of the ghostly season, local playwright Ron Myroup has penned a variation on one of the world’s classic ghost stories – “The Flying Dutchman.” It will open Sept. 23 as a Generations offering on Venice Theatre’s Pinkerton Stage where it will run Thursday-Sunday through Oct.10.
Last year Myroup embellished the story of“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by adding a romantic twist and extra characters. The show became a sell-out and had to be extended.
According to information from the theater,Myroup added “a twist of romance and a touch of the supernatural” to the story of the ghost ship that must ply the seas for eternity and its crew that can come ashore just one day per decade. This is a story that appeals to all ages, making it a perfect fit for the theater’s Generations productions. Myroup’s version explores “why” the ship was cursed and perhaps will shed some light on the eerie glow on the horizon that is so much a part of the tale.
As an opera (by Richard Wagner), “The Flying Dutchman” was produced in a recent season by Sarasota Opera. Thestory is such a classic that references are included in Disney’s“Pirates of the Caribbean” and in many other genres.
Myroup directs the multi-generational cast which includes Jake Fricke as Captain Victor Van Decker, Kenzie Balliet as Princess Regatta, Kaitlyn Terpstra as Anastasia “Queenie” DuPree, Tyler Bazenas as Scratchman/Professor Diavolo, Brandon Farlin as Maroon Muldoon, Ray Burroughs as Alder Muldoon, Michael Burke as Patrick Muldoon, Eric Schneider as Charles Finely/2ndofficer Finley, Denielle Balliet as Arabella Dain Finley, Kiah Evans as Violeta Finley, and TimPolk as Samuel/Captain Kidd. Also in the cast are Elaine Levin-Smith,Noelle Oxboel, Zack Evanicki, Cole Murray, Thomas Junker, Hunter Cross,Logan Yates and Jack Rabito (as Davey Jones). Longtime Venice Theatre folks will be pleased about the inclusion of Charles Finley in the cast.
Sets are by Donna Buckalter, costumes are by Jeanette Rybicki, lighting by Michael Newton-Brown and sound by Dorian Boyd.
Venice Theatre is at 140 W. Tampa Ave., on the island in downtown Venice. Tickets for “The Flying Dutchman” are $10for students and $15 for adults.
Performances are at 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Visit www.venicestage.com or call the box office at 941-488-1115, weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and one hour before each performance.
Photos by Mrs. Connell Oxboel
A N A S T A S I A and M A R O O N
ABOARD THE REDEMPTION
THE PIRATES
T H E I M P
T H E P R I N C E S S
T H E F L Y I N G D U T C H M A N
OPENED SEPTEMBER 23th
The Cast of The Flying Dutchman
Cast of Characters
Captain Victor Van Decker
Princess Regatta of Goodhope
Lady Anastasia “Queenie” DuPree
Maroon Muldoon
Alder Muldoon
Patrick Muldoon
Charles Finley/2nd Officer Finley
Arabella Dain Finley
Violeta Finley
Scratchman/Professor Diavolo
Captain Mary Read
Lady Calico Mae
Captain Durrant
Han
Will
Bone
Samuel/Captain Kidd
Taylor/Captain Blood
and
Davy Jones
Welcome to Sleepy Hollow
SLEEPY HOLLOW: The Curse of Headless Horseman
Find out why
The Venice Theatre on September 24th 2009
and was extended due to its popularity.
It has become the highest-grossing
Generations Theatre production in history.
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"Venice Theatre has a hit on its hands with its
Generations series production of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Jay Handelman
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
SLEEPY HOLLOW
adapted and directed by Ronald Krine Myroup
If you're not clearly seeing this trailer here try watching it on
SLEEPY HOLLOW: The Curse of the Headless Horseman
Diedrech Knickerbocker, 200 plus
Brom Bones/Andre Van Brunt, 17-21
Vicar Edwin, 17-21
The Family
Katrina Van Tassel, 17-21 (18)
Baltus Van Tassel, 40 ish
Emma Van Tassel, 40 ish
Ida Rose Van Tassel, 14
and
William Van Tassel, 17-21
Rose, the Witch of Raven Rock, died at 18
Crane’s Students
Jacob Halter, 10-17
Kaleb Ravenscroft, 10-17
The Ladies of Town
Agatha Ravenscroft, 50-60 ish
Gladys Halter, 50-60 ish
The Sleepy Hollow Boys
Wendel Van Ripper, 14-17
Ernst Vandercamp, 14-17
The Living Dead
The Dead Bride or Groom
The Witch
The Vampire Child
The Flying Dutchman/The Headless Horseman
SUMMARY
Sleepy Hollow: The Curse of the Headless Horseman
The original love triangle between Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel and Brom Bones is perfectly intact. I’ve added a second family-friendly supernatural plotline involving Katrina’s kid sister, Ida, discovering the root of the Horseman’s curse.
In a 1775 war-torn flashback we meet the horseman, WIlliam Van Tassel, his wife, Rose, and their friend Andre Van Brunt (Brom Bone’s great-grandfather) both men are AWOL Hessian soliders during the American Revolution. We witness what makes him the headless horseman.
On Halloween in1820. Ida and her schoolyard friends meet the wItch of Raven Rock who turns out to be, Rose, Ida’s great-grandmother. Because the Horseman has no head, he cannot see or hear Rose and she cannot tell him where his head is buried. It’s up to Ida to solve the mystery and reunite the Horseman with his head, thus breaking the curse, ultimately reuniting WIliam and Rose.
The entire play is humorously narrated by the very dead Diedrech Kinckerbocker who crawls out of his grave at the top of the show. Before the final curtain he reveals that in life he had been Ichabod Crane, dead now for over a hundred years, and the tale he narrated was his own history. His mysterious disappearance from Sleepy Hollow was a cagey ruse to change identities.
The play provides an evening with colorful characters, compelling language, an intriguing and not-quite-familiar story line, with enough action and a dash of humor to charm any audience.
PHOTOS
TITLE CHANGE
versions of this iconic American tale I wanted to establish that
the Headless Horseman was given his due in this version. And
that the subplot was a race to reunite the Horseman with his head.
While the original story line is intact, the addition
gives the audience a glimpse of the Headless Horseman as
a man.
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