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June 21, 2016 · 6:40 am

Auditions Announced for CRIMES OF THE HEART at Lebanon Theatre Company

LTC_logoLebanon Theatre Company will be holding auditions for their fall production, CRIMES OF THE HEART. The show will be directed by Cherie Cooper-Darragh and produced by Jessica Tucker, Performances will be September 16-18 & 23-25.

Auditions will be held at our Mechanic St. Theatre on:

  • Sunday June 26, 7pm
  • Monday June 27, 7pm

The audition will involve cold readings from the script; actors do not have to have a prepared monologue. As the play is set in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, in 1974, actors should have a deep Mississippi/southern accent.

Performance dates are Sept. 17-25

Synopsis
Three sisters have gathered in their small Mississippi hometown awaiting news of their grandfather who is dying in a local hospital: Lenny, unmarried, Meg, a failed singer and Babe, on bail having shot her husband. Their troubles, which are grave yet somehow hilarious, are highlighted by their cousin Chick, Doc Porter and Babe’s lawyer who is trying to keep her out of jail while waging a personal vendetta against her husband. But the play ends on a joyful note with the three sisters re-united celebrating Lenny’s birthday.

Cast – 4 Women, 2 Men

  • LENNY – The eldest sister is facing her 30th birthday amidst the scandal of her youngest sister being charged with shooting her husband and the hospitalization of her grandfather who has been in her care. She is sensitive, a caretaker, responsible, and yearns for love in her life.
  • MEG – The middle sister, 27, has left her childhood home— and her boyfriend— behind to pursue a singing career. Branded the wild child, Meg uses her bravado to cover the intense pain of her childhood. She is brash, expressive, sarcastic, and a truth-teller.
  • BABE –  The youngest sister just shot her husband “because she just didn’t like his looks.” At 24, she is still the baby of the family, a bit naive, and sweet. She is innocent, inspires others to take care of her, and is nearly childlike in her view of the world.
  • CHICK – The cousin next door, 30-ish, is the relative everyone has and no one wants around. She is judgmental, a social climber, and meddles in family.
  • DOC PORTER – Meg’s former love, now married, walks with a limp. Sensitive, strong, and just a little vulnerable, Doc, 27-30-ish, is a friend to the family.
  • BARNETTE LOYD – A young lawyer, 26-30-ish, is determined to represent Babe. He is driven, quiet, young, and tender with Babe.

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May 15, 2016 · 8:09 am

Auditions for PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE​ at Lebanon Theatre Company

LTC_logoWe are holding auditions for our summer production, Steve Martin’s PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE, on May 27 at 6pm and May 28th at 2pm. Auditions will consist of cold reads of selections from the script. No special preparation required. We are particularly interested in casting performers ages 16-25. LTC prides itself on making auditions a fun, inclusive, and non-intimidating process for all involved.

PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE is the first in LTC’s annual Summer Theatre series, designed to provide performance opportunities to our area’s young adult performers ages 16-25. We hope to showcase some of the best young talent from around the region while giving students the chance to develop their theatrical skills and perform for the broader community.

The production will be directed by Kurt Percy. Performances will be July 22-24 and 29-31 (8pm Friday and Saturday performances; 2pm Sunday performances; no dinner or brunch theatre for this production). The play is set in a bar, and therefore contains the appearance of alcohol use and some humor that may be inappropriate for young children. The production is recommended for audiences age 13 and older.

Synopsis
This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, Steve Martin plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness.

Bystanders, including Picasso’ agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendimen, and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark haired singer time warped in from a later era.

This show is the first in LTCs annual Summer Theatre series, designed to provide performance opportunities to our area’s young adult performers ages 16-25. We hope to showcase some of the best young talent from around the region while giving students the chance to develop their theatrical skills and perform for the broader community.

Cast – 7 men, 4 women

  • FREDDY – the owner and bartender of the Lapin Agile
  • GASTON – an older man
  • GERMAINE – waitress and Freddy’s girlfriend
  • ALBERT EINSTEIN – age twenty-five
  • SUZANNE = age nineteen
  • SAGOT – Picasso’s art dealer
  • PABLO PICASSO – age twenty-three
  • CHARLES DABERNOW SCHMENDIMAN – a young man
  • THE COUNTESS
  • A FEMALE ADMIRER
  • A VISITOR

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April 15, 2016 · 6:28 am

MURDERED TO DEATH Runs May 13-22

LTC_Murdered to Death logoMURDERED TO DEATH
Lebanon Theatre Company
May 13-22
Lebanon Theatre Company

Cast:  Carol Rickey as Mildred, Elyssa Carmony as Dorothy, Glenn McAndrews as Bunting, Jay Fultz as Colonel Charles Craddock, Sarah Grater as Margaret Craddock, Cindy Wilmes as Elizabeth Hartley-Trumpington, Melanie Highland as Pierre Marceu, Karen Oehler as Joan Maple, Patrik Longfellow as Constable Thomkins & Trevor Darmour as Inspector Pratt

MURDERED TO DEATH introduces the inept and bungling Inspector Pratt, who battles against the odds and his own incompetence to solve the murder of the house’s owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet. Will the miscreant be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom or will the audience die laughing first?

  • Fri, May 13 at 6pm (Opening night dinner)
  • Sat, May 14 at 8pm
  • Sun, May 15 at 12:30pm (Sunday brunch)
  • Fri-Sat, May 20-21 at 8pm
  • Sun, May 22 at 2pm

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March 12, 2016 · 12:23 pm

Auditions Announced for MURDERED TO DEATH at Lebanon Theatre Company

LTC_logoAuditions for LTC’s spring show, Murdered to Death, will take place Tuesday March 22, and Thursday March 24, at 7 p.m. at the Mechanic Street Playhouse in Lebanon. Actors will be asked to read from provided cuttings. No prepared readings necessary.  The show will run May 12-22, 2016. (5 men, 5 women)

This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight—Bunting, the butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling local inspector and a well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes—they’re all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house’s owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked before all else have met their doom, or will  audiences die laughing first?

Roles:

  • MILDRED – Late fifties. Moderately wealthy owner of Bagshot House.
  • DOROTHY – Mildred’s niece. Late twenties and rather plain.
  • BUNTING – The butler. Sixties. Pedantic and rather creepy.
  • COLONEL CHARLES CRADDOCK – Early sixties. Dresses in tweeds. Confident but blustering.
  • MARGARET CRADDOCK – The long-suffering but acerbic wife of Charles.
  • ELIZABETH HARTLEY-TRUMPINGTON – Mid twenties. Attractive and stunningly dressed. Very high society.
  • PIERRE MARCEU – A french art dealer in his early thirties. An exaggerated french accent.
  • JOAN MAPLE – A spinster in her sixties. Amateur sleuth.
  • CONSTABLE THOMKINS – Young, bright uniformed village policeman.
  • INSPECTOR PRATT – Inept, posing and clumsy.

For more information visit http://www.ltcplays.com/.

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February 11, 2016 · 6:52 am

THE WILLOW AND I Runs March 11-20

LTC_The Willow and I promoTHE WILLOW AND I
Lebanon Theatre Company
March 11-20
Lebanon

Directed by Karen Oehler
Produced by Alisa Russell

THE WILLOW AND I tells the story of two sisters in 1900, that are in love with the same tall, young man. One of the sisters is frail and gentle. The other robust and assertive. It is the gentle girl that the young man loves but never marries because the other sister threatens to kill herself just before the wedding. The bride’s mind recoils, and for forty years the girl lives in her clock-stopped mind on her summer wedding day. And then, she awakens. ​Her lover married her sister; they had a son who is very like the father. You may guess whose face she first sees and what it does to her.

  • Fri, March 11 at 6:30pm (Opening night gala)
  • Sat, March 12 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 13 at 2pm
  • Fri-Sat, March 18-19 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 20 at 2pm

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