4 * Herald & Lantern 21 November '84

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By E.J. Duffy COURT HOUSE - Middle Township gains what Cape May loses — a theater group. " 'A Christmas Carol,' for the first time in three years, will not be done in Cape May," announced Adriana Warner, artistic director for the Jersey Cape Performing Arts Guild (JCPAG) Sandpiper Players. Lacking a permanent playhouse in Cape May, the regional repertory company put out anxious feeler in September for a suitable place in the resort to stage what have become the Sandpipers' traditional holiday performances of Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol."

"We weren't able to find anything in Cape May," Warner explained, "so we started looking up the Parkway. IN COURT HOUSE, she added, the Sandpipers found community support, and cooperation from the Middle Township School District. "We're going to be doing 'A Christmas Carol' in Elementary School No. 3," the director continued. Rehearsals began last week in the temporary site on Route 9. But there's even better news for the Sandpipers, she said. "There's a good chance that we might be able to find a good home up there," the director noted from her West Cape May home. "But I can't say anything about it until

I everything's solidified." According to Warner, the theater group has been "offered a couple of alternatives" for renting a permanent playhouse in and around Court House but she "can't say anything I definite yet. I " ... it seems like Cape May Court House ... might be a much more receptive place," she reflected, i citing its year-'round population that's "recep- ... five to theater." | THE SANDPIPER ' Players have performed in I Cape May's Welcome Center and Pete's Tavern on Lafayette Street and, for the past year a half, in the City Hall auditorium. They had to move out of there in late summer while the auditorium was being overhauled and found temporary quarters, first in the resort's Franklin Street gymnasium then in the Lafayette Street elementary school. So far, each location has had its theatrical drawbacks for the 10-year-old, 100-member JCPAG, particularly with stage scenery. As Warner observed: "You had to put it up and take it down , put it up and take it down." When they left City Hall, the Sandpipers, assisted by Cape May's guest home operators, began searching for someplace to rent in the resort, large enough and cheap enough so this year's production of "A Christmas Carol" wouldn't become "The Ghost of Christmas Past." "They tried to keep us in Cape May," the director said of guest home owners and city officials, "but there's just no building available." Washbaskets Of Cookies Pennsylvania Dutch housewives baked Christmas cookies by the washbasketful. Some of the cookies •were: rabbits, fish, horseback riders, men smoking pipes, hatchetbearing Indians, dolls, stars, as well as all the characters of the Nativity scene.

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