What have you included in your coming season?
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Topic: What have you included in your coming season?
Posted By: red diva
Subject: What have you included in your coming season?
Date Posted: 5/18/07 at 2:47pm
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I know we all work on different calendars, but a lot of us are announcing our 2007-2008 in the next month or so. I thought it would be interesting to hear what you all have planned for your upcoming season.
Ours includes:
An Evening of Old Time Radio Plays
The Curious Savage
Little Shop of Horrors
Dearly Beloved
Annie Get Your Gun
Death and the Maiden
The Best Man
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Posted By: DWolfman
Date Posted: 5/18/07 at 9:44pm
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The theatre I work with will present: Grease
Earth and Sky
Dear Santa
Moonlight and Magnolias
MASH
Dearly Departed
Sweeney Todd ------------- Even a man who is pure of heart... |
Posted By: EddyZ
Date Posted: 5/18/07 at 10:26pm
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Being a new group with limited resources (got any old lights/paint/curtains/folding chairs/etc you don't want? PLEASE send them our way! :) ) presenting our first season, we've decided to go with shows that can be presented in fairly simple surroundings, without many costly technical requirements, but were still enjoyable and entertaining. They are: The Ransom of Red Chief Faith County The Dining Room The Fantasticks We're exploring an off-season Christmas show, and at least one dinner theatre event with a local restaurant, too, but nothing is set in stone there. ------------- EddyZ http://webpages.atlanticbb.net/~ezahurak/ - http://webpages.atlanticbb.net/~ezahurak/ http://www.nailsouptheatre.com - www.nailsouptheatre.com/ |
Posted By: eveharrington
Date Posted: 5/19/07 at 1:34am
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Going To See The Elephant
a write your own improv The Foreigner Honk ------------- "If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights." |
Posted By: B-M-D
Date Posted: 5/19/07 at 8:34am
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We're doing:
Dearly Beloved
The Graduate
The Violet Hour (which I'm directing!)
Godspell
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Posted By: Nanette
Date Posted: 5/19/07 at 10:50am
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We base all of our productions of children's literature ... Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas
Little Women
Secret Garden ------------- In a world of margarine, be butter! |
Posted By: GoldCanyonLady
Date Posted: 5/19/07 at 11:32am
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Red Diva, Where did you get the scripts from old radio shows? That sounds interesting. Are you doing them as radio programs (people in front of a microphone) ? Barb ------------- Barb Hofmeister, MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona. |
Posted By: trutter
Date Posted: 5/19/07 at 7:12pm
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Our 2007-2008 Season is: High School Musical Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol Who's On First Doubt Leader of the Pack http://www.actorsinc.org/next_season.html - Season Announcement ------------- ------ Troy A. Rutter Author, "Kids in the Biz: A Hollywood Handbook for Parents" http://www.kidsinthebiz.com/ - http://www.kidsinthebiz.com/ A Heinemann Drama Publication |
Posted By: red diva
Date Posted: 5/21/07 at 12:09pm
Hi, Gold! (Red and Gold....isn't that cute?) My husband got the scripts off the internet, and they are all public domain, non-royalty scripts, so it will be a cheap evening for the Playhouse. I'm not sure what the website is, but I know it was discussed in an earlier thread, which I will try to find later this afternoon and post it for you. Yes, we are doing the show in front of mikes, before a live audience, and are working with the local radio station to either broadcast it live or tape it for later broadcast (which is more likely, as we're competing with Cleveland Indians broadcasts at this time of year). We're trying to recreate the way the old-timey radio shows were done, but on a bare-bones budget. We won't be wearing period costumes, but will have an appropriate "radio studio" set, with a sound man doing all the sound effects live like they used to do. My husband and I have done this several times before, but with another near-by theatre, and they were real audience pleasers! Back later with the website or previous thread. ------------- "I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!" |
Posted By: red diva
Date Posted: 5/21/07 at 1:02pm
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Okay, Gold Canyon Lady: two websites are: www.genericradio.com and www.simplyscripts.com. The former is the one that my husband got all the scripts from for this show. The thread in which this topic was discussed before was Producing Theatre: Directing: topic - radio drama. It dates back to about Sept. of last year. Have fun! And play nice! ------------- "I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!" |
Posted By: 75director
Date Posted: 5/21/07 at 5:11pm
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Our Mainstage season is:
I Love You Because
It's A Wonderful Life
South Pacific
Over the Tavern
Tons of Money
Our readers theatre series is:
Fools
Stupid Kids
The Boys Next Door
Wit
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Posted By: teridtiger
Date Posted: 5/21/07 at 7:21pm
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OUR REGULAR SEASON
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)"
"How I Learned to Drive"
"The Night of the Iguana"
"Ordinary People"
"Bleacher Bums"
"Groucho: A Life in Revue"
EXTRAS (in between regular season shows)
In October, we kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a staged reading of Susan Miller's "My Left Breat". All proceeds will go to a local organization to benefit breast cancer research.
December will bring a staged reading (done radio broadcast style) of "A Christmas Story".
And in February/March, we will also present a special two-night staged reading of "The Vagina Monologues" as a community fundraiser to helps stop domestic abuse. This will be our third year in a row!
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Posted By: whitebat
Date Posted: 8/13/07 at 12:30am
| Ah, gee. New Year's Eve we are doing an Interactive Murder Mystery/New Year's Cocktail party set in the mid 1920's. So our group is writing it, and it won't be very scripted. Our town's centennial is coming up next summer, and the museum has asked us to repeat a show from 1958 called "Land of Northern Mystery" and written by a local woman. And if we ever have enough budget, someday we'll do another musical. |
Posted By: AngelSong76
Date Posted: 9/12/07 at 10:02pm
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We finally announced our 2008 lineup a couple of weeks ago:
Misery
Dearly Departed
A Trip to Bountiful
Quilters
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Posted By: Thespian_4_ever
Date Posted: 9/13/07 at 8:12am
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We have 2 theatres in our Building, a 300 Seat Dinner Theatre for our mainstage shows, and a 150 seat Theatre for our Academy and Studio Series. The Academy produces shows performed by 6-18 year olds, and the Studio Series are shows that are too mature for regular audience, most of them are new cutting edge type shows. We also perform an improv show on the Mainstage 16 times a year along with a Senior improv show in the smaller theatre, as well as a Radio Show 8 times a year.
Mainstage:
Brighton Beach Memiors - September 2007
Misery - October 2007
Scrooge! - December 2007
Red Herring - January 2008
Cabaret - March 2008
Macbeth - April 2008
Noises Off! - June 2008
The Secret Garden - July 2008
Studio Series:
Tuesdays with Morrie - November 2007
The Women of Lockerbie - April 2008
Urinetown - May 2008
Academy Series:
The Ghost of Canterville Hall - October 2007
Scrooge! - December 2007
The Jellybean Conspiracy - February 2008
The Somewhat True Tales of Robin Hood - July 2008
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL - August 2008
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Posted By: Linda S
Date Posted: 9/13/07 at 9:33am
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The 3 three theaters I work for have announced their seasons. 1.
Glass Menagerie
Almost Maine
Secret Garden
Fuddy Meers
Pirates Of Penzance
1776
2.
Glass Menagerie
Almost Maine
I Hate Hamlet
3.
Wait Until Dark
Little Women
A Children's Theater show
A Senior Player's show
Into The Woods
It is odd about the first two starting with the same two shows. They are over 50 miles apart. I am halfway between both of them. I am directing Almost Maine at the first theater, and Into the Woods for the third theater. I opted not to direct at the second theater, as I am directing the last show of their current season. Most of you "from away" probably have not heard of Almost Maine, but it is a wonderful, sweet, very funny play about the people in a small town in Northern Maine. It had a short off broadway run a couple of years ago. Check out the website http://www.almostmaine.com/ - http://www.almostmaine.com/
Linda
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Posted By: AngelSong76
Date Posted: 9/13/07 at 2:50pm
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Linda,
My theatre just did Fuddy Meers this year and it was so much fun! I was Heidi.
Here are some production photos: http://anitahavelsblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/fuddy-meers-in-pictures.html - http://anitahavelsblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/fuddy-meers-in-pictures.html
And here's the poster: http://anitahavelsblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/crazy-poster.html - http://anitahavelsblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/crazy-poster.html
Just in case you wanted to look at them, lol!
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