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P.O. Box 691 Sebring Florida USA 33871 Tel: 863-382-2525 |
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Phil McClintock - An exemplary member By: Roy Riedy |
Phil's first part at HLT was the role of Dr. Carrasco in Dick Oehring's production of Man of La Mancha in November, 1988, the first play of the Fifteenth Season. In December he was a caroler in Paul Roberts and Denise Blondin's Christmas Show, The Sound of Christmas. Four months later he played the part of The Kralahome in Frank Oberhausen's The King and I. In June, 1989, the Fifteenth Anniversary of the founding of HLT, Phil worked as a House Manager during Peter Pollard's Neil Simon musical, Sweet Charity. Janelou Buck directed a reprise of Mister Roberts in August, 1989, in which Phil played the part of Doc. Phil had been with the Little Theatre less than a year and had already played three large parts. At the Fourth Annual Zenon Awards held in late September, Phil received a nomination for his role as The Kralahome in The King and I.
The following season, The Sixteenth, opened with Marian Dunham's musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown, once again Pill worked as a House manager during the run of the show. In January, 1990, Peter Pollard brought On Golden Pond to HLT, and Phil's name appeared on the program as a member of the Set Construction Crew. My Fair Lady was reprised by Frank Oberhausen for the April show and Phil was his Assistant Director and also played the part of Harry, the third Cockney. In June, Janelou Buck directed the musical Hello Dolly and chose Phil to play the key role of Horace Vandegelder. That season's last play was Tena Pollard's revival of Woody Allen's comedy Don't Drink The Water. Phil served as a House Manager during the play's duration. The Fifth Annual Zenon Awards were held the first week in October and Phil received his second Zenon nomination for his role of Horace in Hello Dolly.
HLT's Seventeenth Season opened with Jet Hansen's production of the musical Oklahoma! with Phil playing the role of Ali Hakim. It was followed in January by Peter Pollard's Steel Magnolias with Phil as his Assistant Director and Stage Manager. In March Frank Oberhausen directed The Music Man with Phil playing the role of Oliver Hix. In the June program for Tena Conyer's Little Shop of Horrors, Phil's name appeared as a newly elected Director on the HLT governing board and also as one of the lighting technicians of Walter Zelenenki's comedy, The Seven Year Itch, with Phil and Frank Oberhausen supplying the Lighting Design. At the October Zenons Phil received two nominations, one for a Best Supporting Role as Ali Hakim in Oklahoma! and the second for Best Stage Manager for his work with Steel Magnolias.
The Eighteenth Season opened in November with Jet Hansen's production of Mame and Phil playing Lindsay Woolsey. In December he was member of the chorus in Carol Thurow's Christmas program A Christmas Salute to the 40's. In January, 1992, he was the Lighting Designer for Pete Pollard's They're Playing Our Song; and in April he was content to just be a member of the Board of Directors. In June, he worked on the Set Construction Crew for Janelou Buck's courtroom drama, Inherit the Wind, and in August he was back on stage as Colonel Purdy, III, in Marian Dunham's reprise of The Teahouse of the August Moon.
November, 1992, brought in the Nineteenth Season at HLT and Tena Pollard's Nunsense ushered it in while Phil acted as a House Manager, as he was during Walter Zelenenki's January comedy-drama Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. In April Phil played Sir Dinadan in Frank Oberhausen's reprise of Camelot and in June, during Marian Dunham's Philadelphia Story Phil began his long relationship with the Gourmet Staff as a member of the Kitchen Staff. In August Jet Hansen presented Show Boat and Phil returned to his station with the Kitchen Staff of Gourmet.
During the five shows of the Twentieth Season, Phil was on constant duty in HLT's kitchen and/or Anthony's Lounge. He stayed at these posts during the first two shows of the Twenty-first Season but returned to the stage in March, 1995, to play Richard Henry Lee in Frank Oberhausen's stellar production of 1776. In June he returned to his kitchen and lounge duties during Tena Conyer and Andy Conyer's comedy Same Time Next Year, and Marian Dunham's August musical, Gigi. At the Tenth Annual Zenon Awards Ceremony in October, Phil won his first Zenon, a Board Service Award, for his work for Gourmet and Anthony's Lounge.
Phil was either in the kitchen or the lounge during the five plays of the Twenty-first Season as he was during the Twenty-second, a loyalty and fidelity that rewarded him with a nomination for another Board Service Zenon at the Twelfth Annual Zenon Ceremony in October, 1997.
The Twenty-third Season was Phil's last season with HLT. His name appeared it the season's first three playbills, Sue McCollum's Godspell, in November; Peter Pollard's My Favorite Year, in January; and Frank Oberhausen's reprise of Annie in April, 1998. In all three programs Phil's name was associated with Gourmet and Anthony's Lounge. Annie opened on April 3rd, and Phil died on April 4th. A memorial service was held for him on April 26 at the Highlands Little Theatre, a place that had become his second home.
During his ten years with HLT Phil was associated with 49 plays, just 4 short of half of all the plays the theater had done up to that time. He had been mentioned in 6 Zenon programs, received one Board Service Zenon and had been nominated for five other awards. He was seen in two Christmas Programs and was mentioned in 31 HLT Newsletters and also 31 local news articles for a total of 119 Citations. His contribution to the theatre is impossible to evaluate, but it is known that Highlands Little Theatre and its members lost a great asset when they lost Phil.
