Monthly Archives: August 2011

Male Actor Needed for TDW’s MOON OVER BUFFALO

The Drama Workshop is currently looking for male actors to fill the role of Richard in their upcoming production of MOON OVER BUFFALO, directed by Adam Drake. Production dates are September 30-October 8, 2011 at Westwood Town Hall and the rehearsal process is set to begin next week. Auditions will be this Thursday, August 11 at Mercy Franciscan Hospital at 3131 Queen City Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45238 in Fitness Center Room B from 7pm-8:30pm. Actors should be prepared to read from the script and bring a resume and headshot (if available).

Synopsis of the play is as follows:
Charlotte and George Hay, an acting couple not exactly the Lunts are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of CYRANO DE BERGERAC “revised, one nostril version” and Noel Coward’s PRIVATE LIVES.
This backstage farce by the author of LEND ME A TENOR
<http://www.thedramaworkshop.org/season/2009_2010/lend_tenor.html>
brought Carol Burnett back to Broadway co-starring with Philip Bosco as her megalomaniac, drunken husband and leading man. Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel epic and director Frank Capra himself is en route to Buffalo to catch their matinee performance. Will Charlotte appear or run off with their lawyer? Will George be sober enough to emote? Will Capra see Cyrano, Private Lives or a disturbing mixture of the two? Hilarious misunderstandings pile on madcap misadventures, in this valentine to Theatre Hams everywhere.

Character breakdown of Richard:
Richard: (50’s) He is George and Charlotte’s attorney, but he is in love with Charlotte–always trying to get her to leave George. He is wealthy and used to getting what he wants, and he is both amused and perplexed by the Hay family.

For more information, please contact Mary Stone (mary.stone@possibleworldwide.com
<mailto:mary.stone@possibleworldwide.com> )

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The Showboat Announces the 2012 All-American Season To Celebrate its 90th Anniversary

Come aboard the Showboat Majestic as she celebrates the 90th season in her legendary career! The summer will feature an All-American slate of musicals and comedies to please every patron – aboard America’s last showboat – a genuine National Historic Landmark!  The 2012 season line-up features:  Hollywood icons, murderously charming old ladies, a giant of the American musical theater, a couple of little league coaches teaching big league lessons and the fastest-talking traveling salesman ever to hit River City, Iowa!  Come join us for a great summer on the River!                                                                                                                                             

The Showboat Majestic 2012 Subscription Season:

  • Babes In Hollywood           May 16 – June 3, 2012
  • Arsenic and Old Lace           June 13 – July 1, 2012
  • George M!                        July 11 – July 29, 2012
  • Rounding Third                   August 8 – August 26, 2012
  • Music Man                        September 12 – 30, 2012

Subscriptions are just $75.00 for the entire Five Show Season!  Showboat Subscription performances run Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2 pm.  (The 2nd Sunday of the run there is also a 7pm performance).  Each show title runs for three weeks.  Subscribers get the best seats at the best price.

For more information on the Showboat Majestic’s 2012 Subscription Season, contact the Box Office at 513.241.6550.  Or check us out on the web at http://www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com

BABES IN HOLLYWOOD – The Music of Garland and Rooney
May 16 – June 3, 2012
Created by David Grapes

Get ready to swing, sway and swoon to over 30 of the most glorious songs of the Twentieth Century.Babes in Hollywood salutes the legendary musical careers of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. You’ll thrill to such American classics as “Over the Rainbow,” “You Made me Love You,” “Easter Parade,” “But Not for Me,” “The Man Who Got Away,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Meet Me in St. Louis,” “That’s Entertainment,” “Where or When,” “Born in a Trunk,” “Yankee Doodle Boy,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Strike up the Band,” and many more!  Come join us for a great summer on the River!

Arsenic and Old Lace
June 13 – July 1, 2012
By Joseph Kesselring 

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously “acceptable” roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; the murderous activities of the other brother while younger brother Mortimer is trying to get married to a regular girl! ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is the all-time American comedy classic!

George M!
July 11 – July 29, 2012
Music and Lyrics by George M. Cohan

GEORGE M! tells the life story of George M. Cohan, a giant of the American musical theater who gave us such songs as Yankee Doodle DandyOver ThereYou’re A Grand Old Flag, and Give My Regards to Broadway, and who transformed the Broadway variety show into a book-driven musical where song and dance advance plot. We follow him over a 60-year period from his childhood in Rhode Island on the vaudeville circuit with his parents and sister as “The Four Cohans,” to New York, where he starts his 25-year absolute reign of the Broadway stage.

Rounding Third
August 8 – August 26, 2012
By Richard Dresser

Rounding Third introduces us to two coaches — one a veteran, the other a new recruit — and their markedly different personal circumstances and philosophies about the game. Their clash of styles and wills drives this funny, acerbic and touching play through the bumpy terrain of fatherhood and baseball.

And Our 2012 Season Closer…
THE MUSIC MAN
September 12 – September 30, 2012
Book by  Meredith Willson Music by  Meredith Willson Lyrics by  Meredith Willson

Based on a story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey An affectionate paean to Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize – this despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.

Please Note:  Show titles can be subject to change due to availability.

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Beechmont Players Inc. Calls for Directors for its 2012-2013 Season

Are you interested in Directing for Beechmont Players, Inc.?  If so, please complete the  Director’s Application (http://beechmontplayers.org
/BPI_Director_Application_12-13_web.pdf
) to apply to direct for our 2012-2013 Season.  Please fill out and return this Application, along with your current theatrical resume, to Becky Krausser, VP Shows, by September 30, 2011 .  You may submit these items via mail or e-mail to the contact information on the Application.  Please indicate your availability for production dates, as well as your availability for Director Interviews on the Directing Application.

For this year’s interviews, we ask that you submit up to five plays and/or musicals that you would like to direct in BPI’s upcoming season.  If scripts for the shows you are presenting are not available at the Hamilton County Public Library, please submit a copy for the Play Reading Committee.  Please consider the group, our audience, and our theater when selecting shows to present.  For the Director Interviews, you will be asked to present up to three shows, though the Play-Reading Committee may ask you about the other two shows you submitted.  Director Interviews will take place on Monday, October 24 and Tuesday, October 25, in half-hour intervals beginning at 6:30pm.

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Extras Needed for Feature Film Being Shot in Cincinnati

A STRANGE BRAND OF HAPPY is a romantic comedy being shot here in Cincinnati – August 15-September 12. This movie will be starring Academy Award Winner Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry, The Partridge Family), Grammy Award Winner Rebecca St. James, veteran comedic actor Marty Ingels (I’m Dickens He’s Fenster), Joe Boyd (Hitting The Nuts), Joe Stevens (True Grit), Venida Evans (The Adjustment Bureau) and Ashley Palmer (Paranormal Activity).

Extras and assistance with craft services are still needed. Visit http://astrangebrandofhappy.com/ for more information or to sign up as an extra you can visit -http://signupgenius.com/go/strange.

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GOD OF CARNAGE runs Sept. 8-25

Collage by Marsha Pippenger.

GOD OF CARNAGE
Presented by Human Race Theatre Company
Sept. 8-25
Dayton

Dayton City Paper review | Dayton Most Metro review |

Anyone who is a parent, or who had parents, will recognize the carnage of this 2009 Tony® Award winner for Best Play. The mayhem starts innocently enough, as two couples get together to discuss their 11-year-old sons’ schoolyard scuffle, but that just sets off the ever-shifting battles and what The New York Times called “laughter that comes from the gut.” USA Today said it’s “scabrously funny.”

  • Thu, Sept. 8 at 8pm (preview)
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 9-10 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 11 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue, Sept. 13 at 7pm
  • Wed-Sat, Sept. 14-17 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 18 at 2pm
  • Wed-Sat, Sept. 21-24 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 25 at 2pm

Official page with cast list |

Dayton Most Metro article |

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