P.O. Box 691 Sebring Florida USA 33871 Tel: 863-382-2525
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P.O. Box 691 Sebring Florida USA 33871 Tel: 863-382-2525 |
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Dick Boyce - Stage Dad By: Roy Riedy |
Dick Boyce's name turned up for the first time in the April, 1999 program for the Children's Academy of Theatre, Inc. (CAT) production of the musical fairy tale The Available Left-Footed Princess, in which his then 4th grade daughter Ashley, was playing a member of the "Kingdom Children."
Exactly a year later he was Stage Manager for Sue McCollum's musical Bye Bye, Birdie in April, 2000, which included his daughters Ashley and Heather in the cast and his wife Nancy backstage. In August, 2000, his name resurfaced in the HLT program for Melanie Boulay's handsome production of the musical Oliver! as a member of the Set Construction Team. It should come as no surprise that both of his daughters, Ashley, and Heather, were playing parts as "Fagin's Boys" in the show. Two months later, in the program for the Fifteenth Annual Zenon Awards, Dick's name was included in the list of people who were nominated for Board Service Awards, he was being nominated for his work on Shop Improvements.
The next season, the Twenty-seventh, was involved with two main stage plays. In January, 2001, he was again a member of the Set Construction Team for Frank Oberhausen's blockbuster musical The King and I; and in August his name was numbered among those on the Gourmet Staff as a member of the Kitchen Line Staff. At the Sixteenth Annual Zenon Awards in October his name appeared again on the list of those nominated for a Board Service Award, this time for Shop Reorganization and Safety.
By the Twenty-eighth season Dick Boyce was a familiar face both back stage and on it. Dick debuted as one of the Gamblers in Frank Oberhausen's season opener West Side Story; he was back on the Kitchen Line Staff during Peter Pollard's excellent Foxfire; he was the Stage Manager of Joe Willis epic Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in March; he returned to the kitchen during Mike Logsdon's wacky Move Over Mrs. Markham and Melanie Boulay's soaring Peter Pan. Dick was awarded his first Zenon at the Seventeenth Annual Zenon Awards in October for the Best Stage Manager of the Season for his excellent job with Joe Willis' kaleidoscopic Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a play that, at the moment, holds the third place in HLT history as being its most decorated show. Most recently Dick has returned to the kitchen to work on the line during Frank Oberhausen's stunning presentation of The Man of La Mancha. By the Twenty-eighth season Dick Boyce was a familiar face both back stage and on it. He debuted as an actor as one of the Gamblers in Frank Oberhausen's season opener Guys and Dolls. In March he was the Stage Manager of Joe Willis' epic Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which earned him his first Zenon at the Seventeenth Annual Zenon Awards in October, 2002.
Since then Mr. Boyce has been Jennifer Westergom's Assistant Stage Manager for her Zenon winning musical The Scarlet Pimpernel in March 2004. During the Thirty-first season Dick worked in HLT's Gourmet Division and as the Chairman of the Shop Committee. At the Twentieth Anniversary Zenon Awards Celebration, he received his second Zenon as Best Stage Manager of the Thirty-first Season for his service as Stage Manager of the record breaking musical Cabaret. Congratulations Dick on a job well done.
