Auditions in San Antonio for 'Into The Woods' by Sondheim and Lapine, Woodlawn Theatre, September 14, 2013

 




Auditions will be held for Into the Woods at the Woodlawn Theatre on Saturday, September 14, 2013, 10 am-1 pm, 1920 Fredericksburg Rd, San Antonio -- click for map. 

Please bring headshot and resume if you have one. Please prepare 16-32 bars (verse and chorus) with sheet music. Please note that these auditions are for adults 18 and up.

Click to go to AustinLiveTheatre.com for a list of characters with descriptions and vocal ranges required.

(*) 2013-2014 Theatre Season at Woodlawn Theatre, San Antonio

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INTO THE WOODS fundraiser, KidsActing at Center Stage, February 22, 2013

Into the Woods

fundraiser
music by Steven Sondheim
February 22, 2013
Center Stage, 2826 Real Street (click for map)

Into the Woods intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales and follows them to explore the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Rapunzel", and "Cinderella", as well as several others. The musical is tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family, and their interaction with a Witch and her curse on them.

Join us for these amazing tales performed by kidsActing's advanced students.

-Benefit Reception at 6pm.
-Curtain at 7pm.

$100 Premium seating ($75 is tax-deductible): Includes Premium reserved parking; Premium reserved center section seating; Champagne & Hors d'oeuvres served to you during intermission in your seat.

$45 Couple Standard seating ($15 tax-deductible)
$25 Adult Standard seating ($10 tax-deductible)
$18 Student (under 18)

Purchase tickets here, under News and Events: http://www.centerstagetexas.com/

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

Upcoming: Into The Woods by Sondheim and Lapine, Texas State University, November 12 - 18

presents

Into the Woods

Texas State

Book by James Lapine
 Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Michael Costello
November 13 – 18 @ 7:30pm and November 18 @ 2:00pm
November 12 @ 7:30pm - $5.00 preview  

An ambivalent Cinderella? A blood-thirsty Little Red Ridinghood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? A Witch...who raps? They're among the cockeyed characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's fractured fairy tale. When a Baker and his Wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone's wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later. What begins as a lively irreverent fantasy becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

Upcoming: Into The Woods by Steven Sondheim and James Lapine, Hill Country Community Theatre, July 17 - 29

Hill Country Community Theatre near Marble Falls

presents

Into The Woods

by Steven Sondheim and James Lapine

July 17 - 29

Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2:15 p.m.

Hill Country Community Theatre, 2003 W. FM 2147, Cottonwood Shores near Marble Falls (click for map)

Adults $20.00, Children/Students $9.00 - General Admission

Info Phone: 830-798-8944

An ambivalent Cinderella? A blood-thirsty Little Red Riding Hood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? A Witch...who raps? They are all among the cockeyed characters in this fractured fairy tale that won three Tony Awards. When a baker and his wife learn they have been cursed with childlessness by the witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell. A lively irreverent fantasy for adults and children told in the style of "Shrek" and "The Princess Bride".

Auditions near Marble Falls for Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, Hill Country Community Theatre, April 30

Hill Country Community Theatre is pleased to announce auditions for Into The Woods directed by Jenny Lavery, taking place Monday, April 30 & Tuesday, May 1, 6 - 9 p.m. at Hill Country Community Theatre, 4003 W FM 2147 Horseshoe Bay, TX near Marble Falls (click for map). All roles are open. Singers and actors ages 13 years to adult) are welcome.

Please prepare 16-32 bars of any musical theatre song. Sides will be provided.

About Into The Woods: An ambivalent Cinderella? A blood-thirsty Little Red Riding Hood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? A Witch...who raps? They're all among the cockeyed characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's fractured fairy tale. When a Baker and his Wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone's wish is granted at the end of Act One, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results. What begins a lively irreverent fantasy in the style of The Princess Bride becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children. One of Sondheim's most popular works, INTO THE WOODS is a timeless yet relevant piece and a rare modern classic.

Click to view the list of characters at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim, Southwestern University, March 2-6

Via www.AustinOnStage.com:

Southwestern University Goes

Into the Woods

directed by Rod Caspers - musical direction by Oliver Worthington

March 2 Through 6

Wednesday & Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m.

3 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday

Tickets $12 to $18 -- reservations at (512) 863-1378 or on-line

Jones Theatre, Southwestern University, 1001 East University Avenue, Georgetown

(click for Citysearch map) (click for campus map - see #13)

The Southwestern University Department of Theatre treads Into the Woods for one weekend with Stephen Sondheim's most popular and successful musical. Putting beloved fairy tale characters in a new light, the family-friendly production runs March 2nd through 6th

at Jones Theatre in Georgetown.

As the tale begins with "Once upon time, in a far-off kingdom, lived a fair young maiden, a sad young lad and a childless baker and his wife…," the musical tells the story of a baker and his wife who journey into the woods on a quest to lift a witch's curse. On the way, they cross paths with Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella and a menagerie of other fairy tale characters.

Each character pursues individual wishes until the stories become entangled in unexpected ways - revealing what happens after "happily ever after." With a book by by James Lapine - inspired by Bruno Bettelheim's 1976 book The Uses of Enchantment - the musical portrays the complications of modern society and the difficulties encountered on the paths of life.

Sondheim's witty score includes enchanting musical theatre gems, including "Children Will Listen," "Giants in the Sky" and "No One Is Alone." From part of the musical team that created legendary works such as West Side Story, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods remains one of Sondheim's most-produced works. It won three Tony Awards in 1988.

Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lepine, City Theatre, August 19 - September 17

This energetic and clever staging of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods confirms for me once again my belief that Austin's City Theatre offers the best entertainment value for money available in the area today.

Ours is an age of disclaimers, so let me be explicit, with a "claimer": I have been a fan of the City Theatre for more than two years. Andy Berkovsky and the artists working with him at the tidy little 85-seat theatre behind the Shell station at Airport Road and 38 1/2 street offer a season that is unmatched for its scope, variety and prices. The City Theatre offers a nine-play season ticket for two for only $150. You couldn't go to the movies for that.

I had acquired the CD of the 1987 original Broadway cast recording of Into The Woods, but this past weekend at the City Theatre I realized that only through performance can one appreciate the richness and complexity of the piece. The City's space gives Into The Woods the cozy intimacy appropriate for a work written as a chamber musical. Come early, so as to secure your seat in the closer rows, or pay a couple of dollars extra to reserve at second-row, center. You will be delighted by the proximity and vivid action.

The 18-member cast features both faces well known in regional musical theatre and newcomers. In Act I they weave for us a tapestry drawn from the familiar tales of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Little Red Ridinghood. Librettist James Lapine uses the additional characters of a childless baker and his wife, figures drawn directly from the tradition of German folktales or Märchen, to bring all those stories together in the magic space of "the woods," where each is bent on an individual quest. They carom off one another in unexpected ways but by the end of Act I they've all achieved their Happily Ever Afters.

In Act II Sondheim and Lapine turn that tapestry over. Life goes on, to the characters' consternation. They face discoveries, unexpected consequences, delights, ennui, losses and disappointments. Fairy tale outcomes are undone, dissolved or turned rich and strange.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .