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Page 2 Medway & Millis Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com October 2018 THEATRE continued from page 1 Prokes has directed four other shows, including The Memorandum, about Vaclav Havel, back at Emmanuel College, musical Precious Bane, in Needham last year, and this past January, Assassins, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim based on a book by John Weidman. Following Theatre Group of Millis’ The Odd Couple, Prokes will also direct Dracula, The Bloody Truth, at the Milford Performing Arts Center in December. Bobby McCall, of Burlington, who will play “Felix,” met director Mark Prokes when they were both students at Emmanuel College. He has been acting his whole life, but really became serious in high school and college. “I like playing annoying characters,” says McCall, who played in two productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as lead Chip Talantino both times and has worked with the Theatre Group of Millis once, last year, for a production of Almost Maine. “I like being the high strung one and getting to do the silly stuff that makes people laugh.” Peter Themistocles, of Millis, who will play Oscar in the production, is excited about the role, specifically, he says, “Because Oscar is completely opposite of who I am. I am Felix Unger,” he laughs, “so, Oscar, for me, is a huge acting challenge. It’s going to be hard for me to litter the stage and throw those cigarette butts down!” Themistocles began acting back at Framingham South High School, and he credits his two daughters, Olivia and Emily with leading his way back to the world of theatre as an adult. “I wanted to get invested back in theatre with my daughters – they were trying for Wizard of Oz – so I did, and (the theatre group) took a big risk and gave me the Tin Man, and I got hooked.” A year later, Themistocles would land a role as the mute king, Sextimus, in Millis’ production of Once upon a Mattress, and later, as Harry McAphee in Bye Bye, Birdie with the group. Breaking out, Themistocles took on a role as “Schmendiman” in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, with The Center for the Arts in Natick (TCAN), and a couple months ago, he played “Mr. Kirby” in a Milford Theatre production of You Can’t Cast members have a blast rehearsing some of Simon’s comedic scenes. Take it with You. The play will also feature Milford husband-wife team as Terry and Brendan Boelke as Speed and Murray, Ben Kern, of Framingham, as Roy, J.J. Lopes, Tara Levasque, from Millis, as Gwendolyn Pigeon, and Jade Ansell, of Whitinsville, as Cecoly Pigeon. The Theater Group of Millis drew actors from neighboring towns by advertising on local casting sites, including Your Theatre 411. This November’s production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, again, on November 2nd & 3rd, will take place at the Millis High School auditorium, 245 Plain Street, Millis. Tickets are $15 for adults, and $10 for seniors and students. For more information, please visit www.millistheatre.org. GRAND OPENING Oct 15 th Shop local, buy local and save Big…with My FM Big Deals! An online store where you can save money on gift certificates to local businesses every day, all year long! We have secured gift certificates to dozens of local businesses, at discounted prices… up to 40% off the retail price! Simply go our new website, MyFM1013.com and click on Big Deals. Hurry, quantities are limited. Local Live & Lovin It
October 2018 Medway & Millis Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com Page 3 Dedication and Innovation Make Quality Cleaners Top Notch By Dave Pasquantonio Quality Cleaners, located at 969 Main Street in the heart of Millis, has been a mainstay in town for decades. Quay Vuong bought the business in spring of 2017 and has grown to love the community as much as the community loves his service. Drop-off is easy. When customers bring in their clothes, the team affixes a tiny bar-code sticker to each garment in an inconspicuous place. The team tracks each item during its stay and assembles it along with all of the other items in the customer’s order for pickup. Customers even get an automated text letting them know that their items are ready. Technology is key at Quality Cleaners. After the drop-off, the team sorts the garments. Those to be dry cleaned go in one spot, items to be hand washed go in another, and so on. Even “bleeders”—usually the pieces of clothing that are red—are separated. Rush jobs and items that can wait a few extra days get their own spots, too. Quay and his team look to the garment’s care tag for the initial sort. “I don’t like to go rogue,” he says. But sometimes consumers remove the tags—or, as Quay has found a few times, sometimes the care tags are incorrect—and that’s where experience kicks in. Knowing how fabrics react to his machines, his additives, and his processes is another reason why customers trust their items with Quay Vuong takes pride in his business, Quality Cleaners, located in Millis, and enjoys providing cutting-edge, detail-oriented service to a community he has grown to love. Quay and his team. Dry cleaning isn’t done dry— clothes are soaked in a solvent instead of in water. It’s the best way to get rid of oils, plus some garments can be harmed by cleaning them water. At Quality Cleaners, the days of using perchloroethylene—“perc”—for dry cleaning are long gone. Instead, Quay uses hydrocarbon, a leading-edge additive that’s safe, good for delicate items, and excellent at removing oils and stains. However, it also increases the need for pre-spotting—treating spots and stains before the cleaning. Quay has a dozen or so bottles of pre-cleaning stain removal formulations to treat even the harshest of stains—we’re talking things difficult stains like salad oil, grease, and tar. “Take a coffee stain,” Quay QUALITY continued on page 5
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