CMPerformingArts on September 15, 2015 at 2:41 pm

Currently playing, we have Bonnie And Clyde, America’s Most Wanted Musical.

Opening Season 37, The CM Performing Arts Center is proud to present: Bonnie and Clyde, running from September 11 to September 27 at The Noel S. Ruiz Theatre.

Director/Choreographer – Patrick Grossman Musical Director – Matthew Surico Stage Manager – Barbara Tiernan

Bonnie Parker : Emily Dowdell
Clyde Barrow : Bobby Peterson
Young Bonnie : Victoria Tiernan
Young Clyde : Kiernan Urso
Marvin “Buck” Barrow : Briggs Houston
Blanche Barrow : Shannon Cunningham
Emma Parker : Jill Cohen- Wilson
Cumie Barrow/ Governor Ferguson : Debbie Linneman
Henry Barrow/ Detective Frank Hamer : Barry Johnson
Preacher/ Bob Alcorn : Carl Tese

Deputy Ted Hinton : Mikey Marmann Sherriff Smoot Schmid: Humberto Diaz John/ Deputy Bud Russell/ Teller/ Guard #1 : Brendan Noble Cop/ Joe/ Deputy Johnson/ Shopkeeper : Joseph Bebry Minister/ Judge/ Guard #2 : John Passadino

Ladies:
Eleanor/ Charlie : Kristen Digilio
Trish : M.E. Junge
Stella : Debbie Hecht

Pit Orchestra:
Musical Director/Conductor/Piano – MATTHEW W. SURICO

Bass – CHRISTIAN WERN
Drums – MICHAEL VILLARICA
Guitar 1 – DIANA FULLER
Guitar 2/Banjo/Pedal Steel – LAUREN CARROLL
Synthesizer – KEVIN MERKEL
Violin – JOHN DUMLAO
Woodwinds – ERIC ALBINDER, ANDREW LENAHAN

For tickets and show dates/times,
Call our Box Office at 631-218-2810
or visit www.CMPAC.com

BonnieAndClyde #AmericasMostWantedMusical

robboehm on December 21, 2018 at 8:56 pm

The performance space is known at the Noel S. Ruiz Theatre at CM Performance Arts Center. As part of an article on handicap accessibility the December 16, 2018 LI Life Section of Newsday had a picture of the interior of the theater. Traditional theater seats (probably the original) are on the left side. The balance of the space is cabaret style, hence, readily accessible.

robboehm on October 22, 2020 at 11:03 am

Although still known at the CM Performance Arts Center the facade of the building shows the Noel S. Ruiz identity. Also under the CM banner is the Onyx Theatre which I believe is just the name of a performing group. Uploaded a picture of the new exterior.

MovieGuy1969 on February 26, 2024 at 7:00 pm

It’s wonderful that this theater is still in operation but it should really be listed on here as the Oakdale Theater proper because the new playhouse has never shown a film except for a few while semi-closed during the pandemic. I grew up in Oakdale and as a kid in the 70’s, I saw a lot of Disney movies there with my parents, but most of my memories of that place are from my teens in the mid-80’s when I was old enough to walk there with my neighborhood friends. It was a pretty cool shopping center with a bowling alley, a KFC, a dime store where I’d get candy cigarettes and Mad/Cracked magazines and for a brief time, a small arcade down a basement stairwell on the side of the building. The single-screen theater was fairly large and cozy and they showed new releases well into the 80’s. There were more state-of-the-art theaters in the shopping malls but we still went there often, mainly for the cheap double-feature matinees. The marquee said 80 cents for the 80’s! They must have had their own library of film prints because they would routinely re-run classics like Airplane, 1941, Grease, Midnight Express, the Smokey And The Bandit and Cannonball Run movies, Time Bandits, Clash Of The Titans, Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger, American Werewolf In London, The Black Stallion, My Bodyguard, A Soldier’s Story, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, The Muppet Movie… and I sort of remember seeing Disney’s Fantasia viewed with the enhancement of various substances. Towards the end, my buddy and I were usually the only ones in the theater and one sunny afternoon, a film reel jammed-up and couldn’t be fixed. After a long and frustrating wait, the projectionist gave us the bad news and as we exited, he came out to apologize and talked to us for a bit. He told us that they were closing and that was our last visit there, but that old theater managed to hang on for a surprising amount of time despite the opening of the Patchogue 13. I remember passing by and seeing Time Bandits and Clash Of The Titans relentlessly posted on the marquee but at that point I’d seen them so many times, VHS rental stores were the new thing and everybody had a cable box by then, so who knew we would miss it?

robboehm on August 2, 2026 at 5:18 pm

I would have thought that this theatre was part of the Prudential circuit. Brandt was more NYC oriented.