CCPA benefit concert Sept. 30

Wes Morton, Nevada High School music instructor, will direct the benefit concert the Community Council on the Performing Arts Community Singers are putting on Sept. 30. The benefit is to raise funds to build a green room for the performers, who currently have no place backstage to change clothes and wait for their entrances.

By Steve Moyer

Nevada Daily Mail

Linda Dorsey is heading up an effort to get every available dollar of a $15,000 matching grant for the Community Council on the Performing Arts, and she's enlisted the help of some community favorites to help her.

Saturday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m., the doors of the Fox Playhouse will open for a benefit concert to raise the remaining money -- approximately $1,000 -- to match the grant.

"We decided to get together and do this without spending any money, so every penny would go to the fund for the green room," Dorsey said. "We've had nearly a year to raise the money. We have until Oct. 31, and we want to get the rest of the money raised."

Wes Morton will be directing the concert which will feature Rhonda Leonard accompanying the CCPA Community Singers. Much of the music will be '60s and '70s rock and rol tunes.

"We'll have songs like 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and 'Operator,'" Dorsey said. "Wes will have a solo. Tim and Sonja Wells will sing 'When I Fall In Love'."

The concert will showcase the talents of several of the CCPA's local crowd pleasers; Tim Wilson, Jan and Paul Davis, Tim and Sonja Wells, Julie Wilson, Rhonda Leonard and Wes Morton.

"These are all people that care about the CCPA and want to do what they can to help out," Dorsey said.

All of the money raised will go to the fund dedicated to building a green room for the Fox Playhouse.

Kim Bessey, director of the recent production 'Proof' spoke of the need for the green room while preparing for that play.

"We have been needing this for quite awhile," Bessey said. "There have been times when performers have had to dress in the doughnut shop and walk to the theater. We need some place where performers can get ready and wait for their entrance."