Meet the Cast

 Amber is pleased to be returning to Cornwell's stage after just completing a run of The Dixie Swim Club. Amber currently resides in Chicago with her dog, Oxford, and hopes to perform in all fifty states before retirement. Her favorite roles here at Cornwell's were Woman #1 in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, and Sister Amnesia in Nunsense II. In her spare time Amber enjoys knitting, running, training her dog, and reading. 

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 Madeline is thrilled to be here in Michigan for her first show at Cornwell's. She is a recent graduate of New York University's Steinhardt School where she studied Vocal Performance in Musical Theatre. Theatre credits include Tours: The Sound of Music (Liesl - Asian Tour), New York: 4@15: Highschool Sucks, York Theatre (Brianna), 110 in the Shade (Snookie); The Golden Apple; On My Way: The Laramie Project. Regional: The Music Man; The Wizard of Oz; Sleeping Beauty (Aurora); South Pacific (Nellie Forbush); Anything Goes (Hope Harcourt); Pirates Abound (Mabel). So much love to good friends, wonderful teachers and my fabulous family.

David is very happy to make his Cornwells debut with Ring of Fire.  A long time musician, David has performed in many theatres all around the country.  Most recently at the Crown Uptown in Wichita Kansas.

Benjamin is happy to be returning to Cornwell's after performing in Top Hat's production of Run for your Wife, Forever Plaid, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Twas the Night Before Christmas. Other credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Forever Plaid, My Way, Once Upon a Mattress, A Midsummer's Night Dream and many more. Benjamin makes his home in Atlanta, GA but always enjoys entertaining his Yankee friends in Michigan!  

Molly is excited to spend the summer at Cornwell's.  Most recently, she was seen at the Old Creamery Theatre in Amana, IA, playing Belle, Snow White and Tigger in I'm All Ears: Songs of Disney. She played Signe in Church Basement Ladies and Lucille/Mom in Junie B. Jones last Spring at Circa 21 in Illinois and performed in Christmas in the Smokies at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN.  She also starred in the original cast of the Broadway bound musical, White Noise, in New York and the new musical, Choking Out the Kudzu.  She was recently on MTV's The College Humor Show.  She toured with New York Stage Originals in Scrooge: the Musical.  Favorite roles include Tillie in the Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-the-Moon Marigolds, and Cassandra in Agamemnon.  Molly majored in drama at the University of California at Irvine.

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"Tim Leonard is returning to Cornwell's for his second season. Excited and enthusiastic for 2010, he will be performing in "Ring of Fire", as well as "Smoke on the Mountain". You might recall Mr. Leonard from last season's performance of "Oklahoma!". Tim has been playing guitar since he was 16, and soon after began playing banjo and mandolin. When asked about the upcoming 2010 season, he commented, "Great music and great food...feels almost like a concert - except we don't sell our own t-shirts." Tim would like to thank Dennis and Susan for making his year even better than the last."

Kenneth joins us from Boston.  Where had has played guitar for many years in a group called "fourth wall ficition".  He enjoys theatre was well.  Having just finished a production of "Hair" and "Les Miserable"  Ken first started theatre at the age of 4 playing tiny Tim.  He has found a new found love in JC, (johnny Cash).  He wants to say" thanks mom with you i would not be here" and yes the last name does look formiliar.  Thanks Dad.

Returning for the tenth anniversary of her first season as Musical Director, Denise is happy to "walk the line" this summer at Cornwell's.  Originally from the Buckeye state, Denise spent nearly a thousand years as a public school and community college educator in Battle Creek, MI before retreating to Arizona, where she now resides [except when it is 100 degrees].  Among her TopHat directing credits are Singin' in the Rain, I Love You -You're Perfect -Now Change, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, Forever Plaid, Damn Yankees, He Keeps Me Singing, several renditions of Church Basement Ladies, Nunsense, and Patsy Cline, and various opuses of Christmas shows too numerous to mention. Denise actually has college degrees, and has also afflicted other theatres with her directorial and pianistic endeavors, including Arizona's Broadway Palm West, Greasepaint Youtheatre, Childsplay Academy, and Indiana's Amish Acres...'I've Been [almost] Everywhere, Man'.  Thanks to old and new friends with a sense of humor!

Scott is very happy to return to the stage with Top Hat.  He was last seen on stage playing drummers during Always Patsy Cline.  Scott continues to play is guitar in local restaurants and other places Mr Cash would be proud, we hope.  Scott wishes to thank his wife Janice for all the support she gives him and bless her for continuing to put up with him.