YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Footlighters, Inc.
Sept. 14-Oct. 1
Stained Glass Theatre [Newport]
Directed by John Siedenberg II
Produced by Arlene Balczo and Katey Blood
Cast: Robert Breslin IV as Frederick Frankenstein, Royce Louden as Igor, Sarah Gidley as Inga, Chuck Ingram as The Monster, Scout Grass as Elizabeth, Mary Vosseberg as Frau Blucher, Evan Blanton as Kemp/Hermit, Jonah Human as Ziggy & Trey Finkenstead as Victor
Ensemble: Kimmie Anne Thierauf, Elizabeth Travnik, Cassidy Perme, Erin Speno-Stout, Rachel Scardina, Brett Price, Tony Nguyen & Joe George
Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein inherits his family’s estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. “It’s alive!” he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather’s. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds. This electrifying musical adaptation of Mel Brooks’ monstrously funny film will leave you in stitches!
- Thu-Sat, Sept. 14-16 at 7:30pm
- Sun, Sept. 17 at 2pm
- Thu-Sat, Sept. 21-23 at 7:30pm
- Sun, Sept. 24 at 2pm
- Thu-Sat, Sept. 28-30 at 7:30pm
- Sun, Oct. 1 at 2pm
The Footlighters, Inc. announces auditions Murder on the Orient Express, Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
MSJ Theatre Arts is proud to announce the 2023-2024 season. Our season is a tale of identity, coming-of-age, and self-realization. In today’s society there are swaths of our world asking us to ignore our past mistakes and histories that make up so much of our country’s patchwork. These missteps if not taught and examined are destined to be repeated, but let’s challenge ourselves to look at them through a different lens. This season we look backwards…quite a bit. We hope that you will join us as we explore the trials that we go through personally, professionally, physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Shirley Lauro’s authentic look at the women who served in the Vietnam war is a heartfelt exploration of feminism in action with her courageous play, A PIECE OF MY HEART. This is a true tale of six women sent to Vietnam and their struggle to make sense of a war that irrevocable changed them and a nation that shunned them, a work with the music and soul of a tumultuous era in our history. Overall, more than 265,000 women served in the military during Vietnam — and approximately 10,000 military women served in-country during the conflict. Only 8 are memorialized on the Vietnam War Memorial. Six different points of view from six different routes that all happen to parallel and intersect at a variety of points and interludes.
In the spring, we will explore what it means to be female amidst the backdrop of medieval Nottingham with Adam Symkowicz’s MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD. A gender-bending, patriarchy-smashing, hilarious new take of the classic tale. Robin Hood is (and has always been) Maid Marian in disguise, and leads of motley group of Merry Men (few of whom are actually me) against greedy Prince John. As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, who will stand for the vulnerable if not Robin? What is the cost of revealing your true self in a time of trouble? Modern concerns and romantic entanglements clash on the battlefield and on the ramparts of Nottingham Castle in this play about selfishness, selflessness, love deferred and the fight. Always the fight. The fight must go on.
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