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By JOHN HENDLER

Editor-in-Chief

Great Escape Stage

Company, a 501(c)(3)

not-for-profit, tax-exempt

Great Escape looks forward to welcoming audiences back in 2022

organization, is a small

professional flexible black-

box theater on Michigan

Avenue in downtown

Marshall. Owner Randy

Lake said the theater

exists to bring “innovative,

worthwhile, life-affirming

and affordable” theatrical

productions to its

community and surrounding

areas.

Great Escape was

launched by Lake in 2010

and today is also the

theater’s artistic director.

Great Escape is overseen

by a Board of Directors

established in 2014. Since

the company’s inception,

Lake and his crews have

produced from eight

to 10 shows annually,

in addition to special

events, staged readings

and novelty acts. Main-

stage offerings range from

cabaret-style productions to

contemporary and classic

dramas and comedies

to both big and intimate

Broadway musicals.

The Great Escape

Board of Directors consist

of Tony Barroso, Box

Office & Marketing;

Cathy Bovitz, Patron &

Franke Center Liaison;

Nate Cox, President; Anne

Crandall, Treasurer; Debbie

Culver, Secretary; Cameron.

Lake, IT & Technical;

Randall E. Lake, Artistic

Director; Tim Lake, Satellite

Advisory Council;

Charles Lang, Regulatory

Compliance; Hon. Gary

K. Reed (ret.), Advisor

to the Board; Gayland

Spaulding, Past President;

and Sarah Stiner, Marshall

Civic Players Liaison.

Lake was born and

raised in Marshall. The first

theatrical experience he

can remember was when

he would go to the Wilder

Creek Schoolhouse to

take part in a spring fling

performance.

“I remember performing

with my two brothers as a

trio singing about a grey

horse named ‘Poppy-check’

or something,” said Lake.

“That was my first on-stage

experience.”

Lake added that he

used to write plays when he

was in middle school, but it

wasn’t until he got to high

school that he got involved

with an actual theater

program.

“And I’ve kind of done

it ever since,” he said.

Lake said in 2010,

the Marshall Community

Foundation initially funded

Great Escape’s collaboration

with the Franke Center

for the Arts on a series of

staged play readings and

a Children’s Theatre Arts

workshop.

After two summers of

readers theater productions,

in October of 2011, GESC

produced its first fully-stage

production (Ken Ludwig’s

“Lend Me a Tenor”) in the

lower level of the Franke

with the support of Tom

Franke himself and, later

that year, Great Escape

moved into a rented

storefront at the intersection

of Michigan Avenue and

Eagle Street – the former

Heritage Cleaners building.

That small building

with very limited seating

and space would be the

Continued

page 11

The Great Escape Stage Company has been
located at its current location – 110 E. Michigan
Avenue since July 2017.

Past show posters over the past decade are on

display inside the lobby of the Great Escape Stage

Company.

American Legion Post 298

228 No. 20th. Street Battle Creek, MI. 49037

TEA PARTY MEETING

THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 2022 • 6:00 TO 8:30PM

FREE PIZZA & POLITICS

Featured Speakers: Tony Zammit & Diana Prichard from Americans For Prosperity

Jeannie Burchfield Chairperson Calhoun County Republican Party

We all know how important this November’s elections are. It’s

imperative that we citizens replace these leftist office holding

politicians at all levels, local, state and federal, with

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Meeting begins at 6:30 PIZZA served at 6:00 PM

Meeting is free and open to the public