Auditions in Wimberley for Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, by Ed Graczyk, February 6, 8 and 9, 2014

The Wimberley Players are holding auditions for "Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean", a comedy-drama by Ed Graczyk, produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

"Come Back..." takes place in 1975 as a group of women, quirky high school friends, who honor their promise to reunite 20 years after the death of their idol, Jimmy Dean in their hometown of McCarthy, Texas, a dustbowl remnant of days gone by. Their reunion reveals not only the depth of their friendships, but reveals the secrets they have guarded and built their lives around. Funny, intimate, dramatic... a great show for audiences and the ensemble cast of five women, ages 35-40 years.


Auditions will be scene readings from the play at these date/time/locations:

February 6th, Thursday, from 7-9PM, Room 206 at the Theater Building of Texas State University, 601 University Drive, San Marcos. The Theater Building is a round red brick building located at the corner of University Drive and Moon Street.

February 8th, Saturday from 2-4PM, at the Wimberley Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley; and

February 9th, Sunday from 7-9PM, at the Wimberley Playhouse


You are invited and encouraged to attend!


Show Dates: April 11, 2014 – May 4, 2014, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:30 pm

Long time Wimberley Player David Bisett is directing. His directing credits include: Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart, Leading Ladies, Divorce Southern Style, Da, All the Way Home, Marvin's Room, and Blythe Spirit. For questions about the play, contact David Bisett at 4davbis@gmail.com
 

Contact Adam Witko for info about scripts (512) 632-7638 or Adam@AdamWitko.com


Click to view cast list and descriptions at CTXLT.com

DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller, Wimberley Players, February 8 - March 3, 2013

(450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley, TX -- click for map)

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Leading Ladies, Wimberley Players, April 17 - May 10

Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig has all the big-footed clowning of a British pantomime, that venerable, wheezy holiday art form in which the British public hoots and chortles at manly men dressing up as women. Dame Edna is the royalty of that genre, but every middle- and lower-class family wants to attend the local "panto" in December, and British TV comedy sketches will inevitably get around to putting a male comedian into something frilly, and preferably topping him with a hat.

The show is set in 1958. I was surprised when a little research turned up the fact that Ludwig's piece premiered at the Alley Theatre in Houston only five years ago. It has fallen into the warm embrace of community theatres since then. I missed the recent staging in Leander by the Way Off Broadway Community Players, but made up for it this past weekend with the Wimberley Players, at their handsome, intimate playhouse on Old Kyle Road.

Leading Ladies is a goofy masquerade. Two down-on-their-luck British actors of mediocre talent, on a whistle-stop tour of small town Moose Lodges and Elks Clubs, discover in a newspaper left on a train that a $3 million inheritance will soon be available to a young lady and two long-lost cousins, absent for many years in England. Aha! What better scheme for our wayward Brit showmen than to imitate those inheritors? Problem: a closer reading reveals that the lost are women, not men!

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