AUDITION NOTICE
"Over the River and Through the Woods"
Wednesday, January 13th & Thursday, January 14th
Room No. 29, Hallmark Building
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (both nights)
(Scripts available at Fulmer Library)
The Civic Theatre Guild's 2009-2010 season includes lots of comedy, some touching drama, and delightful music:
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Directed by Malcolm Wallop
Directed by Anne Quick
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Directed by Erin Butler
Over the River and Through the Woods
Directed by Gene Davis
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, all Carriage House Theatre productions begin at 7:30 weeknights and Saturdays; Sunday matinees begin at 2:00 p.m. The theatre opens one hour before curtain time. Patrons are asked to be in their seats prior to curtain time. Those arriving after the curtain rises will be seated at the next scene change.
MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS
Written by Paul Zindel
Directed by Malcolm Wallop
This is Paul Zindel’s best known play which won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1971. It is the story of an eccentric widow who is raising her two disparate daughters in an atmosphere of bitterness, hatred and over-protection that threatens their very growth and development. The younger daughter is performing a science experiment on marigolds which becomes a metaphor for her own life as she struggles to bloom in a household deadened by her mother’s alcoholism.
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Written by Billy Van Zandt
Directed by Anne Quick
Drop Dead is a hilarious murder farce about putting on a play and is set in an off, off ... off Broadway theater in New York. There is a lot of “Bad Acting” and “Murderrr” as we follow the inconveniences of a director who has big problems with his cast. Can this director, who is a legend in his own mind, mount a show with only a $35.00 budget? Possible, if he weren’t saddled with a mobster producer, egomaniacal actors and a serial killer on the loose. Things get complicated (and hilarious) when people start to Drop Dead!
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love you, you're perfect, now change
Written by Joe DePietro; music by Jimmy Roberts
Directed by Erin Butler; musical direction by Kathy McNickle
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a rollicking musical comedy about the most basic and still complex constant in everyone’s life ... the relationship. This is a hilarious review that pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, and to those who have dared to ask, “Say, what are you doing Saturday night?” This is a celebration of the mating game that takes on the truths and myths behind that often most exasperating of life’s experiences!
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over the river & through the woods
Written by Joe DePietro
Directed by Gene Davis
Over the River and Through the Woods is a recent work first performed Off Broadway in 1998 in New York. It is a witty and charming little play about two first generation immigrant families who came to America with just the clothes on their back expecting little. They worked hard and saved so that their family would turn out to be educated and successful. Which in turn created rising expectations from their offspring and when their kids did grow up …. they moved away to Florida and San Diego leaving two old couples in Brooklyn and one grandson, Nick, who stayed behind to work in NY and come to Sunday dinner faithfully.
Now Nick has been offered a promotion but will have to move to Seattle. This starts a cascading stream of events as the wily grandparents pull out all the stops to keep Nick in Brooklyn. They even fix him up with an Irish beauty to use love in addition to food and guilt to entice him to stay. Nick’s grandparents' entire reason for being alive was to create a home for their families, so they cannot understand Nick’s desire to leave and live independently. This play probes the question to what degree we, in the modern day, should arrange our lives to live close to those who love us.
There is great comic dialogue in this play but underneath the skillful interplay of characters is a rhythm of sadness because material success at times leads to familial decay. The contrast between the innocent humor of the immigrant grandparents and the third generation angst of the grandkids is the most appealing aspect of this work. Tears of laughter will be mixed with the other kind before this play is done with you.
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Cast Information: 3 men and 3 women
Young handsome marketing executive
Nick’s maternal grandfather; carpenter
Nick’s maternal grandmother; compulsive cook
Nick’s paternal grandfather; retired Ford assembly worker
Nick’s paternal grandmother; matchmaker extraordinaire
Attractive young Irish nurse *Age is estimated. You just need to look and act within the age bracket indicated. We can make you look old. | ||||||||||||
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