Tickets are $8/General Admission. They may be purchased at the window on performance nights and may also be purchased at the school during lunch M-W on October 1-3.
VHS's Fall Production of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker which will be performed October 4-6 each night at 7 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, October 6. We’d love to see all your faces in the crowd! Remember even if your Viper Player is not actually in (or working behind the scenes) this production we still need you to up and support the VHS Theatre Department!
he Stage Manager welcomes the audience into the theater as he introduces the people and places of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Grover’s Corners is the perfect picture of an American town before urbanization – automobiles are a novelty, everyone is up in each other's business, and milk is still delivered fresh every morning.
After that introduction to the town, the Stage Manager zeroes in on two neighboring families: the Gibbs family and the Webb family. Each household has two children (a boy and a girl). We witness some childish interactions between Emily Webb and George Gibbs. The two are friends. By the second act, three years have passed, and friendship has blossomed into love. George and Emily are about to get married. The third act takes place in the town cemetery. Emily has died in childbirth, and she joins other deceased members of Grover’s Corners. As soon as the funeral is over, Emily realizes that she can relive her life, and decides to return to the morning of her twelfth birthday – despite warnings from her fellow dead that it’s a terrible idea. Emily soon realizes that they’re correct. Death has brought Emily a heightened awareness of life; it is too painful for Emily to watch living people who take their time for granted. Emily returns to the cemetery where George is crying over her grave.
Auditions for Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Saturday, May 12 at 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 15 @ 7 pm and Wed. May 16th @ 7 pm at the Gaslight-Baker Theatre, 216 S Main Street (click for map).
Needed are 12 men 16 or older, 5 women 16 or older, 1 boy 8-12 and 1
girl 8-12. No theatre experience necessary.
Auditions will consist of
cold readings from the script. No appointment necessary. For more
info, please go to www.mygbt.org
“Dave Steakley, Artistic Director for Our Town, is requesting senior citizen aged folks (primarily men & couples) to be a part of ACT III and play dead people in the graveyard scene at the end of the play each night. What an opportunity to be on stage at ZACH Scott Theatre and star alongside Jaston Williams (star of Greater Tuna)! The volunteers wouldn’t have lines but they would have blocking to follow. Mostly they are sitting in a black folding chair and looking forward off into the distance. At one point in the play they have to stand and move their chairs to the side and be reseated, and then later in the act they put their chair back where it started and sit again and then a couple of pages later they exit with their chair. Each person will need to wear all black—something of their own for this scene. My preference would be to have 5 –10 people who might commit to do it for the whole run. They would just have to be here for the last act of each show. If no one will make a 6 week commitment then I can look at dividing it up into smaller chunks to get this accomplished. The run of Our Town starts April 15th and runs through May 23rd, Wednesdays through Sundays.”
If interested in participating, please contact: Lily Williams Interim Company Manager ZACH Theatre lwilliams@zachtheatre.org
[illustration: Heavenly Eclipse by Scott Wyant, from fineartamerica.com]
April 15 - May 23, Wednesdays - Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. , Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
Kleberg Stage , 1421 W. Riverside Dr. (corner of Riverside and South Lamar.) Tickets range from $20 to $50, with $15 tickets available to students starting 1 hour prior to curtain time. Charge tickets by phone at 476-0541, ext. 1 or visit the Zach website to purchase on-line
Zach Theatre Re-Envisions “Our Town” in Our Town with all-star, all-Austin cast starring “Greater Tuna’s” Jaston Williams as the Stage Manager
Austin’s finest actors join together to tell the intimate, heartfelt story of America’s best loved play. Zach’s contemporary interpretation transports the audience to a chapel of love that will linger in your memory. Our Town audiences will watch the story unfold in several settings, including the wedding scene, which will be fully realized in its setting, costumes, environment with music by Austin area choral choirs. Directed by Dave Steakley, ZACH’s production is more than a play: it’s an experience as unique as Austin!
Jaston Williams, star of ZACH’s The Laramie Project and Austin‘s Greater Tuna will star as the iconic Stage Manager in Grover’s Corners. ZACH’s production also stars well-known, Austin favorites Michael Amendola, Michael Bryce, Janelle Bucahanan, Barbara Chisholm, Lana Dieterich, Christian Guerra, Harvey Guion, Billy Harden, Jordan McRae, Michael Mendoza, Crystal Odom, Don Own, Marco Perella, Scotty Robertson, Donelvan Thigpen, and Evan Underbrink,
ZACH Theatre is sponsored in part by Applied Materials, Austin American-Statesman, Time Warner Cable, Austin News TV 36, The Dell Foundation, Vollmer Public Relations, SOL Marketing Concepts, IKEA, The Shubert Foundation, The City of Austinunder the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission, The Texas Commission on the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
April 2*, 3, 9, 10 at 8 p.m.; April 7 & 8 at 7 p.m. Matinees April 3, 10, 11 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $20 adults, $17 UT faculty & staff, $15 students available online at www.texasperformingarts.org or by phone at 477-6060.
Our Town portrays a town at the turn of the twentieth century. It is a picture of the common things, the moments that fill everyday lives, the rites of passage we all face, the things and words and habits that we pass from one hand to another, day to day, generation to generation, century to century. It is a picture of that which we may touch every day but may never see.
