Mimi Mitchell and the
Performing Arts Center
Construction for the Mitchell Performing Arts Center
is now well under way, with completion scheduled for September 2001.
We particularly want to recognize Mimi Mitchell, for whom the Center is named. She has had a lifetime of involvment in the theatrical
arts, including many years with BAct as director, actor, and president. It's due
to her untiring efforts, over many years, that the Performing Arts Center
is now, at long last, about to become a reality. Thank you, Mimi, for all you do.
Spotlight on Christine TaylorBorn in England and raised in Australia, Christine participated in theater at her high school and later was an active member of the University of Adelaide's "Student Theatre Group." It was during one of her performances with this group (acting the part of "Maid") that Christine's future husband, Douglas Taylor, first set eyes on her. (He, too, was a performer with the University's Theatre Group.) Doug and Christine married, and their five children remember childhood as sprinkled with puppet plays, reenactments of nursery rhymes, family skits, and a huge dress-up box.
When the children began to leave the nest, Christine returned to the theater with a lead in BACT's first production, Arsenic and Old Lace. Other parts included Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank, First Witch in Macbeth, a chorus member in H.M.S. Pinafore, and, most recently, Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals. She was also in the special performance of The Still Alarm put on for the 1996 General Church Assembly. Christine is currently the secretary for BACT.
In addition to having been part of BACT from the very beginning, Christine taught drama and directed ten 8th grade plays, each becoming more elaborate than the one before. It is especially appropriate that we "spotlight" Christine during a musical, since music is one of her great loves. In the past few years she has been working with the Office of Education to create and distribute religious music for young children. Thank you, Christine, for all you have done through the years for the performing arts in Bryn Athyn.