Showing posts with label McCallum Fine Arts Academy. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

CHILDREN OF THE SUN by Henry Mollicone, Texas State Opera and McCallum Fine Arts Academy, November 15 - 17, 2013



Children of the Sun Henry Mollicone McCallum Fine Arts Austin TX

Texas State Opera Theatre announces a joint endeavor with the McCallum Fine Arts Academy in Austin for the World Premiere of Henry Mollicone’s Children of the Sun, an opera about the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Performances will take place on Friday and Saturday, November 15th and 16th at 7 p.m., and again on Sunday November 17th at 2 p.m. at the McCallum Arts Center Theatre on the McCallum High School campus at 5600 Sunshine Dr, Austin, TX.

FREE ADMISSION, SO RESERVE YOUR TICKETS TODAY!
TO RESERVE TICKETS, PLEASE CALL MCCALLUM ACADEMY AT 512-414-2519.
LIMIT 6 tickets per caller.

Henry Mollicone, Composer
William Luce, Lyricist
Dr. Samuel Mungo, Director - Texas State Opera
Kristin Roach, Conductor - Texas State Opera
Helen Miers, Director of Choirs - McCallum Fine Arts Academy
Ricky Pringle, Director of Orchestras - McCallum Fine Arts Academy

CAST (in order of appearance):
Jordan Van de Vere - Captain De Vaca/Uncle
Jessica Blau - Mother Superior
Albert Garcia - Lord Bishop Zumaraga
Spencer Reichman - Juan Diego
Jennifer Garza - Our Lady of Guadalupe

Friday, July 26, 2013

BONNIE AND CLYDE, musical McCallum Fine Arts Academy, September 18 - 22, 2013



McCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX







[5600 Sunshine Drive -- click for map]
Bonnie and Clyde musical McCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX

presents
BONNIE & CLYDE: A NEW MUSICAL

TEXAS PREMIERE!

Music by Frank Wildhorn, Lyrics by Don Black, Book by Ivan Menchell
September 18th-21st at 7 p.m. Sunday 22nd at 2 p.m.
McCallum Arts Center Mainstage
Tickets $6 students, $10 seniors, $15 adults
click to purchase on-line 

MacTheatre is proud to announce that we are one of only a handful of theatre companies across the nation to be granted special permission to produce this thrilling new show before it goes on national tour! Direct from Broadway BONNIE AND CLYDE is a thrilling, edgy, biographical musical account of Texas’ most infamous couple.

At the height of the Great Depression two small-town nobodies in West Texas become America’s most renowned folk heroes and the Texas law enforcement’s worst nightmares. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, their electrifying story of love, adventure and crime captured the excited attention of an entire country. Now, the most notorious couple of the twentieth century takes on a whole new adventure: the stage.



 


When BONNIE AND CLYDE meet, their mutual cravings for excitement and fame immediately set them on a mission to chase their dreams. Their bold and reckless behavior turns the young lovers’ thrilling adventure into a downward spiral, putting themselves and their loved ones in trouble with the law. Forced to stay on the run from every southern state’s police force, the lovers resort to robbery and murder to survive. As the infamous duo’s fame grows bigger, their inevitable end draws nearer.

 


BONNIE AND CLYDE is an exciting, cutting-edge musical with a non-traditional score, combining blues, gospel, bluegrass and rockabilly music. Our production will feature a large ensemble cast, spectacular scenic design, rocking live orchestra, and a recreation of the infamous Bonnie & Clyde 1934 Ford V8 death car! Please be advised that this production, based on true events, does depict some instances of violence.

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)


Friday, June 14, 2013

Sunday, June 9, 2013

2013-2014 MacTheatre Season, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, Austin, TX

McCallum Fine Arts Academy Theatre Austin TX

2013-2014 60th Anniversary Season


BONNIE &CLYDE

September 19-22 McCallum Arts Center Mainstage


Fearless, shameless, and alluring, their electrifying story of love, adventure and crime captured the excited attention of an entire country. Now, the most notorious couple of the twentieth century takes on a whole new adventure: the stage.
BONNIE AND CLYDE is an exciting, cutting-edge musical with a non-traditional score, combining blues, gospel, bluegrass and rockabilly music. Our production will feature a large ensemble cast, spectacular scenic design, rocking live orchestra, and a recreation of the infamous Bonnie & Clyde 1934 Ford V8 death car!








TRENCHCOAT IN COMMON:
A BLOG TURNED INTO A PLAY 

November 6th-10th 
Fine Arts Theatre

A teenage girl, too smart and inquisitive for her own good, starts to publish a blog about her new tenant-in-common apartment building. Living in the cottage with her dad in the back, she enjoys a clear view of the building’s rear windows. From her room, she captures her neighbors’ private moments on her cell phone and publishes them online, with commentary. At first, she thinks she’s just writing for herself — but when strange, menacing events begin to take place at her home, it becomes evident that her journal isn’t going unnoticed. Someone is reading, someone is watching, and everyone is in danger.






LES MISERABLES

February 26th-March 2nd
McCallum Arts Center Mainstage


Broadway’s legendary musical has been specially adapted to meet the needs of young performers. This author-approved edition has been abridged to a running time of just over two hours, while carefully maintaining the integrity of one the greatest musicals ever written. *Special Saturday Gala performance celebrating the 60th Anniversary of McCallum Fine Arts Academy.







IS HE DEAD?
April 3rd-6th
Fine Arts Theatre

Jean-Francois Millet, a young painter of genius, is in love with Marie Leroux but in debt to a villainous picture-dealer, Bastien Andre. Andre forecloses on Millet, threatening debtor’s prison unless Marie marries him. Millet realizes that the only way he can pay his debts and keep Marie from marrying Andre is to die, as it is only dead painters who achieve fame and fortune. Millet fakes his death and prospers, all the while passing himself off as his own sister, the Widow Tillou. Now a rich “widow,” he must find a way to get out of a dress, return to life, and marry Marie.
An elaborate madcap comedy that registers high on the mirth meter and reaches especially giddy comic heights!




THE 39 STEPS
May 15th-18th
Fine Arts Theatre

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4? 8? 10? 12?), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance!

A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure pleasure! The 39 Steps was Broadway’s longest running comedy, and played its 500th performance on Broadway, May 19th, 2009!






THE REP:
STUDENT-DIRECTED SERIES
April 25th & 26th

Black Box Theatre

Tuesday, October 9, 2012




McCallum Austin TX






THE SECRET GARDEN, 
McCallum Fine Arts Academy, 
November 8-11

McCallum Austin TX Secret Garden


From the McCallum FANLetter:
Living in a lonely manor house in 1906 England, Archibald Craven yearns for his beautiful, late wife. He blames his crippled son, Colin, for his wife’s death and has left him neglected and isolated. Their quiet routine is turned upside down when young Mary Lennox, a rich, spoiled child, is sent to live with them following the death of her parents by cholera in India. While living at the manor house, Mary discovers a secret walled garden hidden in the grounds and releases the magic and adventures locked inside, changing their lives forever. A truly haunting musical with a lush Broadway score.
(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)


Upcoming: Harlequinade, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, October 25 - 28





MCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX








HARLEQUINADE, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, October 25 - 28
Performances at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday with 2 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday


Harlequinade McCallum Austin TX

From the McCallum FANLetter:

This is a play in one act and concerns a professional theatre company presenting Romeo and Juliet. The opening night is in the town of Brackley in the English Midlands. The principal characters are Arthur and his wife Edna (who play Romeo and Juliet) and the stage manager Jack. Arthur is horrified to be confronted by his grown up daughter (Muriel) and grandchild, of neither of whose existences he had been aware. To discover that he’s a grandfather just before playing Romeo is too much for him. They later learn that he’s still married to Muriel’s mother (Flossie) and that he is bigamously married to Edna. There are a number of other threads running through this play, such as Jack’s attempts to leave the theatre and do a ‘real job’ and the humdrum world of bit players and the attempts in post war Britain to bring culture to the masses. It is a funny farce which has a strong satirical element to it.
(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

HARLEQUINADE, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, October 25 - 28

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Profile of Joshua Denning: Defying Labels by Christian Carbone, L Style G Style Magazine, Austin


L Style G Style magazine logo





Defying Labels
by Christian Carbone


Joshua Denning (image via McCallum Fine Arts Academy)When Joshua Denning was earning his stripes as a young actor at Jeffersonville High School in Indiana, he was the lead in many productions—Peter Pan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Fame—but the production of a show with a message of inclusivity, called School Colors, was by far his favorite.
The premise was straightforward, yet rather groundbreaking: Each actor improvised scenes out of his or her own experiences on the topic of racism. His vignette—at that time, his knowledge about his ancestors was not what it is now—involved the sketches of his Uncle Preston, an artist whom his relatives said he resembled.

“People think that a mixed-race person needs to choose sides or needs to connect with their White side or represent themselves as culturally Black, and my whole scene was about how I’m mixed,” said Denning. “I claim both and I’m just as White as I am Black—and that’s how it is and you need to deal with it.”

The production resonated because the cast members were honestly invoking their ancestors: In fact, they were later invited to perform at various corporate diversity seminars. “Everything about it was real,” he added. “It wasn’t staged or canned or prerecorded.”

As a child in southern Indiana, Denning would follow his older sister, who took dance classes, and hang out backstage when she performed. He developed a fascination with the mystery of theatrical spaces, with their spiral staircases, weird sets, and nooks and crannies. His parents allowed his burgeoning creativity to flourish, encouraging him to take things apart, paint them and even construct an actual theater, complete with lights and orchestra pit, in their garage. Was he more driven than the average theater-loving child? Most definitely: voice lessons, dance classes, and performing in every single play he could squeeze into his schedule.

“You come up on all these different styles with these roles, and they really make you self-reflect. That part was difficult for me, to be taken apart and prodded,” said Denning. “What are you? Who are you? Especially when you’re young and you don’t know all the answers to those questions yet.”

After earning his BFA on a full scholarship to Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, Denning moved to New York City, where he lived and worked in his field both inside the city and abroad. He appeared in many shows, including a German production of Disney’s The Lion King, in which he played Simba for two years in Hamburg.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Upcoming: Disney's Beauty and the Beast, MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, September 6 - 9




McCallum Theatre, 5600 Sunshine Drive, presents
Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast Disney McCallum






 Step into the enchanted world of Broadway’s modern classic, Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Become transported to the heart of provincial life in a lovely French town. When Maurice becomes lost in the woods on the way to the fair, he seeks shelter in an old castle, but the master of the castle is a horrible beast that takes him captive. Maurice’s daughter, Belle, must then give up her freedom to save his life.
Beauty and the Beast McCallum Theatre

Beauty and the Beast MacTheatre McCallum



Belle’s taming of the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation back into a handsome prince enthralled Broadway audiences for over 13 years. This “tale as old as time” is filled with spectacular costumes and sets and brings the entire community together for family theatre at its best.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

2012 - 2013 Theatre Season at MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy


McCallum Fine Arts Academy MacTheatre 2012-2013 season
(www.mactheatre.com)

2012-2013 Season

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - SEPTEMBER 6-9, Fine Arts Theatre

Step into the enchanted world of Broadway’s modern classic, Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Become transported to the heart of provincial life in a lovely French town. When Maurice becomes lost in the woods on the way to the fair, he seeks shelter in an old castle, but the master of the castle is a horrible beast that takes him captive. Maurice’s daughter, Belle, must then give up her freedom to save his life.

Belle’s taming of the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation back into a handsome prince enthralled Broadway audiences for over 13 years. This “tale as old as time” is filled with spectacular costumes and sets and brings the entire community together for family theatre at its best.


HARLEQUINADE - OCTOBER 25-28, Black Box Theatre

This is a play in one act and concerns a professional theatre company presenting Romeo and Juliet. The opening night is in the town of Brackley in the English Midlands. The principal characters are Arthur and his wife Edna (who play Romeo and Juliet) and the stage manager Jack. Arthur is horrified to be confronted by his grown up daughter (Muriel) and grandchild, of neither of whose existences he had been aware. To discover that he’s a grandfather just before playing Romeo is too much for him. They later learn that he’s still married to Muriel’s mother (Flossie) and that he is bigamously married to Edna. There are a number of other threads running through this play, such as Jack’s attempts to leave the theatre and do a ‘real job’ and the humdrum world of bit players and the attempts in post war Britain to bring culture to the masses. It is a funny farce which has a strong satirical element to it.

THE SECRET GARDEN - NOVEMBER 8-11, McCallum Arts Center Mainstage

Living in a lonely manor house in 1906 England, Archibald Craven yearns for his beautiful, late wife. He blames his crippled son, Colin, for his wife’s death and has left him neglected and isolated. Their quiet routine is turned upside down when young Mary Lennox, a rich, spoiled child, is sent to live with them following the death of her parents by cholera in India. While living at the manor house, Mary discovers a secret walled garden hidden in the grounds and releases the magic and adventures locked inside, changing their lives forever. A truly haunting musical with a lush broadway score.

OKLAHOMA! - FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 3, McCallum Arts Center Mainstage

Inspired by the toughness of the prairie, MacTheatre sets this production in the robust world of territory life filled with a dynamic cast as rich and complex as the great tapestry of America itself. With Rodgers and Hammerstein’s timeless music, Oklahoma! celebrates the vigor of America’s pioneering spirit with athletic dance and boot-stomping energy. Chock full of classic tunes such as “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” and “People will Say We’re in Love,” this muscular production will thrill audiences young and old. Join us for our Saturday Evening Gala performance that celebrates the talent of each strand at McCallum Fine Arts Academy in a Texas-sized production with a cast and crew from each MFAA major as well as faculty, & alumni!
ROMEO AND JULIET - MARCH 21-24, Fine Arts Theatre

Two star-crossed lovers with feuding families will cross bitter divides and risk everything to be together, as a new generation strains against the limits of a world their parents have defined. Directed by Louisville native Joshua Denning, this swift, traditional staging of Shakespeare’s masterpiece brings to life one of the most famous love stories ever written with all of the immediacy, danger and romance that have made it endure for centuries.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

McCallum Fine Arts Academy Announces 2012-2013 MacTheatre Season


McCallum Fine Arts Academy MacTheatre Austin TXWe are very proud to announce our 2012-2013 season of shows.

In August: Our co-production with award-winning Tutto Theatre of
The Twelfth Labor, a new play.

In September:
Beauty and the Beast goes on tour across town, across the state and hopefully across the continent.

In October: Faculty Emeritus William Staples directs
Harlequinade

In November:
The Secret Garden takes the stage as our fall musical.

In December:
Whatcrackah?! 2.0 leaps into your life with our fresh take on the classic ballet.

In February: 53 years ago the Royal Court Players produced the largest high school musical ever seen in Texas. This year we will remount
Oklahoma! And it's going to be just as big!

In March: Shakespeare's immortal love story
Romeo and Juliet comes to McCallum.

In April: Student directed 10-minute plays will take over the program.


In May: The boy who never grew up has an origin story all his own in
Peter and the Starcatcher.

Keep an eye open for all these and so much more, season tickets, and a few extra surprises.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Upcoming: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, McCallum Fine Arts Theatre, May 19


McCallum MacTheatre Austin TX





presents
Dr. Horrible McCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX

DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG

by Josh Whedon, Zach Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen

directed by M. Scott Tatum 

McCallum Fine Arts Academy, 5600 Sunshine (click for map)

May 17 - 19 at 7 p.m. AND 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 20 at 2 p.m. AND 3:30 p.m.

Tickets $6 students, $10 seniors, $12 adults (click to purchase online via www.mactheatre.com)

Dr. Horrible, an aspiring super-villain with his own video blog, is attempting to join the prestigious Evil League of Evil (led by the legendary “thoroughbred of sin”, Bad Horse), but his plans are usually foiled by the egotistical superhero Captain Hammer. Horrible’s life is thrown for a loop when he falls in love with Penny, a beautiful and optimistic advocate for the homeless he meets at the laundromat, a situation which complicates itself even further when Penny begins dating the boorish, oafish Hammer after he apparently saves her life. Faced with the task of impressing the League, can Horrible overcome his own incompetence to ruin the day, kill the hero, and still get the girl? Rated PG


Sunday, April 1, 2012

McCallum Appoints Joshua Denning as Director of Performance Theatre


From McCallum Fine Arts Academy:


McCallum Fan Letter




Joshua Dennning (via McCallum Fine Arts Academy)April 1

The Fine Arts Academy welcomes Mr. Joshua Denning as our new Director of Performance Theatre. After a national search for a new director, the committee selected Mr. Denning. You may remember him as Jim Conley in the Royal Court Players fall production of Parade or as Seaweek Stubbs in Hairspray at ZACH. As a director and choreographer Mr. Denning has staged 19 productions including more than a dozen theatre for youth productions at ZACH Theatre and Center Stage Texas and a fully staged production of the musical Jon & Jen. He has international credits, including Simba in The Lion King in Hamburg, Germany. His BFA is in Musical Theatre from Wright State University.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Images by John Gusky: MacTheatre's Rumors by Neil Simon, March 22 - 25


Some images from a portfolio by John Gusky for


McCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX

and

Rumors

by Neil Simon

March 22 - 24 at 7 p.m., March 25 at 2 p.m.

MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy 5600 Sunshine Drive


Rumors Neil Simon MacTheatre McCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX


Directed by Guest Director Beryl Knifton. Affluent couples gather in the posh residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their hosts’ tenth anniversary. When they arrive, they discover there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the host – the deputy mayor of New York City - has shot himself through the earlobe. Complications arise when, given everyone’s upper class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening’s events from the local police and the media. Rated PG. RSVP on Facebook

Click to purchase tickets on-line

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Click 'Read more' to view additional photos by John Gusky for MacTheatre's Rumors . . . .

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Upcoming: Rumors by Neil Simon, Royal Court Players, MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, March 22 - 25


McCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX






presentsRumors Neil Simon McCallum Fine Arts Academy

Rumors

by Neil Simon

March 22 - 24 at 7 p.m., March 25 at 2 p.m.

MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy 5600 Sunshine Drive

Directed by Guest Director Beryl Knifton. Affluent couples gather in the posh residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their hosts’ tenth anniversary. When they arrive, they discover there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the host – the deputy mayor of New York City - has shot himself through the earlobe. Complications arise when, given everyone’s upper class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening’s events from the local police and the media. Rated PG. RSVP on Facebook

Click to get your seats today!

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Reviews from Elsewhere: Cabaret, MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, February 23 - March 4, reviewed by David Glen Robinson


Review published by David Glen Robinson at the Tutto Theatre blog, March 8:

Cabaret, McCallum Fine Arts Academy

Macademy produced Kander and Ebb’s renowned Cabaret in their new arts center and made of it a giant party, a song festival, a design exhibition and homage to the powerful artists who staged this show in the past.

Perhaps the essential stroke of genius in this play is Kander and Ebb’s setting of it in Berlin, 1931/1932, drawn from Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories. The potential themes on which a production could touch in “Cabaret” range from libertinism, to sexual and religious liberation/oppression to the rise of fascism. Touching on too many of them, depending on one’s resources, can give a production of Cabaret the feeling of a play at war with itself (What are you, Cabaret? Are you a historical romance, an anthology piece on club life, a musical revue, a screed on Nazis or all of these?)

The Royale Court Players [of McCallum Fine Arts Academy] in their youthful enthusiasm succumbed to the play’s temptations and tried a little too much, giving us a two hour and forty minute show with one 15-minute intermission. The attempt, however, was laudable, verging on glorious. At the end, the audience was happy and cheering as it rushed out to the restrooms.

The show was well designed from top to bottom, and primary credit for its success starts with directors Courtney Wissinger and M. Scott Tatum. All of the design elements seemed well coordinated. [. . .]

The action of the play roared across this set. The story of the Kit-Kat Club on New Year’s Eve 1931 and into 1932 is familiar to theatre- and movie-goers alike. The story dances through its many themes, all in lace and feathers, and easily escapes becoming merely the story of the romance between club singer Sally Bowles, played by Annamarie Kasper, and American writer Clifford Bradshaw, played by Connor Barr.

The dynamo of the show is actually the Master of Ceremonies, played by John James Busa in the role immortalized by Joel Grey. Director Wissinger and Mr. Busa addressed the high standard and dominating image of Grey’s characterization wisely by seeking another dynamic. Their efforts were successful. Busa’s Master of Ceremonies combined the punk and goth esthetics, with a flavor of the vampiric. Busa’s Master of Ceremonies was snide, dominating, darkly threatening, seductive and sarcastic. In the end, too, he was tragic and suffering. He borrowed nothing from and owed nothing to Joel Grey. Delightful work, Mr. Busa.

[image: MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy]

Read more at the Tutto Theatre blog . . . .

Friday, February 24, 2012

Performance Images of Cabaret at MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, February 23 - March 4


Images posted at Flickr.com by

MacTheatre Austin

Cabaret McCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX

for the spring musical


Cabaret


score by Kander and Ebb

February 23 - March 4, Thursdays - Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
directed by Molly Wissinger
MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, Sunshine

Tickets $6 for students, $10 for seniors, $15 for general admission (click to purchase on-line)

(Click images to view larger versions)

Cabaret McCallum Fine Arts Academy Austin TX







Click to view additional images from McCallum's Cabaret at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Audition Workshop with Scott Tatum, Zilker Productions' Director for The Sound of Music, March 3


Zilker Theatre ProductionsLooking to find your "showmance?" Audition workshops for The Sound of Music will be held on Saturday, March 3rd.


The Sound of Music Zilker Theatre Productions 2012Join The Sound of Music Director, M. Scott Tatum, and our Creative Team for a FREE workshop to help potential auditioners and Austin area musical theatre performers. This workshop will cover vocals, dancing, and audition etiquette. Sessions will be at McCallum High School, 6500 Sunshine (click for map). Free of charge to all participants


When: Ages 7 - 14: March 3 from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. -- Ages 15 - Adult: March 3 from 12 - 2 p.m.


Registration is required to attend this event. Please contact auditions@zilker.org to register.


Stay tuned for The Sound of Music audition dates, which will be publicized soon! Know someone who may be interested in auditioning? This information will be announced via our Newsletter first, so be sure to subscribe at www.zilker.org, and then via Facebook. In the meantime, mark your calendars for the show's run dates, which will be from July 6 to August 11, with performances Thursday through Sunday evenings.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Upcoming: Cabaret, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, February 23 - March 4


Found on-line:


MacTheatre Austin

presents the spring musical

Cabaret McCallum Fine Arts Academy
Cabaret


score by Kander and Ebb

February 23 - March 4, Thursdays - Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
directed by Molly Wissinger
MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, Sunshine

Tickets $6 for students, $10 for seniors, $15 for general admission (click to purchase on-line)


Based on John Van Druten‘s 1951 play I Am a Camera. Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the 19-year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub which serves as a constant metaphor for the tenuous and threatening state of late Weimar Germany throughout the show. An experience on par with any musical we’ve ever produced is waiting when you enter the Cabaret. Rated PG-13