Theatre scene evolves in Central Oregon

Actor and singer Christie Capucci has lived in Terrebonne for many years, but her story began in Los Angeles where her dad, Joe Ramirez, recently passed, worked as a professional musician. He toured the world and played the house band in Caesars Palace in the 1970s.

"I don't remember ever not wanting to be on the stage," Capucci says. Yet she left the West Coast's hotspot of acting in 1992 and moved to a small city called Bend, Oregon, which was then unknown to most people outside the state.

Here she captured plum roles such as Spider Woman in "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Recently she relished...