From Jennifer Day
Community theatre friends, our dear friend Jim Percival passed away last week. Over several decades, Jim volunteered his time styling wigs and hair for local community theatre groups in this area. He won Orchid Awards many times over for his work. He was talented and wickedly funny and kind and generous. And many other positive adjectives. Please keep his husband Scott in your hearts.
Visitation and funeral arrangements are available here.
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Footlighters, Inc., is proud to announce auditions for THE WIZARD OF OZ
Directed & Choreographed by Zac Holman
Produced by Cathy Lutts & Michelle Burdett
Auditions:
Location: Stained Glass Theatre – 802 York Street, Newport, KY 41071
Click here to sign up for an audition slot: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0448AEAE2BABFC1-56196733-footlighters/57163230#/
Audition Materials:
Kids: Please prepare the provided music cut from THE WIZARD OF OZ: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jT3dE84pWYH5i8Lry6WtHlySa8Wvy-7L
The song with vocals can be found on most streaming platforms. At the audition, be prepared to participate in a small movement and acting exercise.
Adults: Please prepare a 16- to 32-bar cut of a musical song in the style of the show. The dance tutorial video as well as the script of the show can be seen here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qie_3cMDQVeCJYWTK6CuirJDzU7fibcO.
We will have someone at the audition review the dance with you. Bring a headshot, resume, and all rehearsal conflicts to the audition with you.
Virtual: Please email headshot, resume, and a vocal/dance reel to holmanzac@gmail.com.
Performances: September 4 – September 21, 2025
Rehearsals:
*Rehearsals will start the week of July 21st.
Kids: Monday nights 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (Closer to performances, kids will be asked to attend every rehearsal.)
Adults: Sundays 4 p.m. – 8 p.m., Tuesdays 6:30 p.m. – 10 p.m., Thursdays 6:30 p.m.– 10 p.m.
Tech Week (full cast and crew, no absences):
Saturday, August 23 – Thursday, August 28 and September 2 – 3 from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. (Kids Ensemble dismissed when finished with “Munchkinland.”)
Characters:
***Some actors may be playing multiple roles in the show***
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DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
Footlighters, Inc.
May 1-18
Stained Glass Theatre [Newport]
Directed by Jerry Wiesenhahn
Music Direction by Charlie Wilhelm
Vocal Direction by Greg Dastillung
Choreography by Jerry Wiesenhahn
Produced by George Fee and Kristen Vincenty
Cast: Wayne Wright as Lawrence Jameson, Robert Breslin as Freddy Benson, Rebecca Wall as Christine Colgate, Robert Workley as Andre Thibault, Jen Drake as Muriel Eubanks & Laura Petracco as Jolene Oakes
Ensemble: Jules Breslin, Joey Domhoff, Kyle Fisher, Sarah Gidley, Matthew O’Brien, Alexis Pinto, Kevin Rutkowski, Josh Stothfang, Caitlyn Thiel, Aimée Ward, Anna Wesselman & Jonathan White
Lawrence Jameson makes his lavish living by charming wealthy women out of their money. Freddy Benson swindles much humbler amounts from sympathetic women with fabricated stories about his grandmother’s failing health. After a chance meeting on a train, they attempt to work together—only to find that this small French town isn’t big enough for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: The first one to extract $50,000 from heiress Christine Colgate wins, and the other must leave town. But who’s really conning who?
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NEWPORT, KY — The Footlighters, Inc., is ecstatic to present the fourth and final show of their 2024–2025 season, a side-splitting comedy based on the 1988 Steve Martin and Michael Caine movie of the same name, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Lawrence Jameson makes his lavish living by charming wealthy women out of their money. Freddy Benson swindles much humbler amounts from sympathetic women with fabricated stories about his grandmother’s failing health. After a chance meeting on a train, the men attempt to work together—only to find that this small French town isn’t big enough for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: The first one to extract $50,000 from heiress Christine Colgate wins, and the other must leave town. But who’s really conning who?
After bringing the house down night after night as UPS delivery man Kyle in last year’s Legally Blonde, longtime community theater stalwart and accomplished performer Rob Workley graces the Footlighters stage once again as French inspector Andre Thibault. After catching the theater bug watching a close friend perform in Chess, Rob made his community theater debut in Cincinnati Music Theatre’s La Cage aux Folles in 2006. He has been an onstage fixture at numerous groups over the last 19 years, including Cincinnati Music Theatre, Mariemont Players, Loveland Stage Company, and Footlighters. Just as capable offstage as onstage, Rob serves on Cincinnati Music Theatre’s Board of Directors as their Aronoff liaison, and he can often be found working behind the scenes—whether running the Aronoff’s fly rail, working as master carpenter to build sets, or serving on various committees. He’ll add another line to his already impressive resume as he puts his design skills to work as set designer and master carpenter of Cincinnati Music Theatre’s fall show, A Christmas Story.
Performances:
Tickets: $25 each and available online at footlighters.org/tickets or by contacting the box office via text or phone call at (859) 652-3849 or FootlightersTickets@gmail.com.
The Footlighters, Inc., has been producing quality community theater shows in Greater Cincinnati for over 60 years. The group was established in 1963 by a small group of volunteers who wanted to bring theater opportunities to the west side of Cincinnati.
In 1987, the group bought the Salem United Methodist Church in Newport and transformed it into The Stained Glass Theatre. The theater is on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated a Kentucky landmark. In September of 2021, Footlighters completed the third and final phase of their accessibility project by adding ADA-compliant seating in their theater to complement the ADA ramp and elevator installed in 2017 and 2018, allowing access for all patrons with limited mobility.
For more information, please visit footlighters.org or like The Footlighters, Inc., on Facebook.
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Filed under Press Releases
Footlighters, Inc. is proud to announce our 2025-2026 season
THE WIZARD OF OZ
Directed by Zac Holman
September 4-21, 2025
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Directed by Aubrey E. Wilson
November 6-23, 2025
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Directed by Jerry Wiesenhahn
January 29-February 15, 2026
GUYS AND DOLLS
Directed by Jennifer Day
April 16-May 3, 2026
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