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June 24, 2013 · 9:01 am

FLI Announces Auditions for ANYTHING GOES

FLI_logoThe Footlighters, Inc. is excited to announce auditions for the first show of our 50th anniversary season, ANYTHING GOES!

Director: Dennis Murphy
Producer: Freida Houck
Vocal Director: Missy Whitis

Audition Dates:
July 8, 9, at 7:00 p.m.
Call backs on July 10 (if needed)

At the Stained Glass Theater
8th and York Streets, Newport, KY

Audition details:

  • No appointment necessary. First come-first served!
  • Please bring a photo and resume.
  • Please prepare 32 bars of a Broadway, George Gershwin or Cole Porter standard (not from the show). Bring a song that you enjoy and feel comfortable singing. We’re seeking confident, positive performers.
  • Bring music in the proper key and marked with your cuts. An accompanist will be provided.
  • Be prepared to dance. Bring tap shoes if you have them. (Not everyone in the cast needs to be able to tap.) 

Rehearsals will begin August 4.

Performances are September 26 – October 12, 2013.

Please contact the producer, Freida Houck, with any questions or for additional information (ptrolley@fuse.net).

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May 9, 2013 · 10:33 am

FLI Announces 50th Anniversary Season

FLI_logoWe are excited to announce Footlighters’ 2013-2014 50th Anniversary Season:

ANYTHING GOES
Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2013

NUNSENSE JAMBOREE
Nov. 21 – Dec. 7, 2013

GODSPELL
Feb. 13 – Mar. 1, 2014

9 TO 5
May 1 – May 17, 2014

For more information visit www.footlighters.org.

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May 6, 2013 · 3:17 pm

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS Runs June 6-16

FLI_Brighton BeachBRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
Presented by Footlighters Inc.
June 6-16
Newport

Directed by Jerry Wiesenhahn

Cast: Noah Lentini as Eugene Jerome, Joel Lind as Jack Jerome, Cathy Ross as Kate Jerome, Blake Gehring as Stanley Jerome, Mary Ann Smith as Blanche Morton, Morgan Carter Woodring as Nora Morton & Melody Lindsey as Laurie Morton

Neil Simon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is widely regarded as one of America’s funniest stage authors. Brighton Beach Memoirs, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story, has been called “his funniest, richest and consequently the most affecting of his plays” by the New York Daily News. It’s 1937 and 15-year old Eugene Morris Jerome lives with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche and her two young (but rapidly developing) daughters and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style.

  • Thu-Fri, June 6-7 at 8pm
  • Sat, June 8 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, June 9 at 2pm
  • Wed-Fri, June 12-14 at 8pm
  • Sat, June 15 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, June 16 at 2pm

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March 23, 2013 · 4:20 pm

SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK LIVE! Runs April 18-May 4

FLI_School House Rock LiveSCHOOL HOUSE ROCK LIVE!
Presented by Footlighters Inc.
April 18-May 4
Newport

Directed by John Langley

Cast: Zachary Huffman as Tom, Caitlin Ingram as Shulie, D’Andre Smith as Joe, Michelle Hanson as Dori, Tom Bush as George & Marie DeGreen as Dina

A pop culture phenomenon takes the stage! The Emmy Award winning Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science and politics through clever, tuneful songs is now a stage musical. Tom, a nerve-wracked school teacher, tries to relax by watching TV when various characters emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music. Includes beloved “Schoolhouse Rock” songs as “Just A Bill,” “Unpack Your Adjectives,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly,” “Conjunction Junction,” “Interjections” and more!

  • Thu-Sat, April 18-20 at 8pm
  • Sun, April 21 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, April 25-27 at 8pm
  • Sun, April 28 at 2pm
  • Wed-Sat, May 1-4 at 8pm

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March 5, 2013 · 7:38 pm

FLI Presents TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

FLI_Tuesdays with MorrieFootlighter’s Inc Presents
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
Thursday, March 7 – Sunday, March 17, 2013

Performances
The Footlighters, Inc. presents the funny and touching play TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE at The Footlighters’ Stained Glass Theater, located at 8th & York Streets in Newport, Kentucky.

Performances begin Thursday, March 7th and run through Sunday, March 17th. Thursday through Saturday performances begin at 8PM; there are matinee performances at 2PM on Saturdays and Sundays. The last weekend includes an extra Wednesday night performance, March 13th. All tickets are $20. Group rates available for 10 or more.

For information and/or to purchase tickets, please call 859.652.3849 or buy online at www.footlighters.org. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
By Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom
Based on the book by Mitch Albom

Directed by Dennis Murphy

Tuesdays with Morrie is the comedic and touching autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie’s appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life.

Footlighters, Inc.
Footlighters, Inc. has presented performances in the Greater Cincinnati area over the past 49 years. The group is noted for producing quality community theatre productions of primarily musical comedies and bought its own facility in 1987. The Stained Glass Theatre, a former church, is on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated a Kentucky landmark.

Join us for the rest of our 2012/2013 Season which includes School House Rock Live and Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Learn more at our website http://www.footlighters.org or become a friend on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Footlighters-Inc/287519888305.

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