Auditions in Lockhart for Divas III: Broadway Babes, Gaslight Baker Theatre, February 2, 3 and 10, 2013

Auditions for Divas III: Broadway Babes

Sunday Feb 2 from 4- 6PM, Monday Feb 3 @ 7PM and Sun Feb 10 @ 2 at the Gaslight-Baker Theatre, 216 S Main St, Lockhart, Texas (click for map). 

This all-female revue, directed by the GBT’s Artistic Director Tysha Calhoun, seeks triple threat performers: women who can sing, act and dance. Please prepare two stylistically different pieces of music and bring your own backing track. Thumb drives or CD’s are appropriate. No backup accompaniment will be provided and a capella auditions will be at the discretion of the director. Dress comfortably as you will be required to learn a few basic choreography steps to the chorus of “Cell Block Tango" from Chicago.

Contact the director Tysha Calhoun at 512-426-1059 for more specific information

Auditions for Happy Birthday, Wimberley Players, November 28 and 29

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Audition Notice for Happy Birthday, a comedy by Marc Camoletti; adapted from the French by Beverly Cross; directed by Tysha Calhoun

Monday, November 28, 7 p.m., Tuesday, November 29, 7 p.m.
Wimberley Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley, Texas (click for map)
Performance dates: February 3 - February 26, 2012, Friday and Saturday Evenings 8 p.m., Sunday Matinees 2:30 p.m.

Cast:
3 Women: Jacqueline - the wife; Brigit - the mistress, Brigit - the maid
2 Men: Bernard - the husband; Robert - the friend
Contact: Contact Adam Witko @ 512-632-7638 or e-mail adam@adamwitko.com
Website: www.wimberleyplayers.org

Happy Birthday is a comedy for two men and three women. Bernard has somewhat foolhardily asked his mistress, Brigit, to his home on her birthday despite the fact that his wife Jacqueline is present. To lull Jacqueline's suspicions he has also invited his oldest friend, Robert, and asks him to complete the cover-up by pretending that Brigit is his own mistress. Robert refuses, since he has been having an affair with Jacqueline, but Bernard involves him by low cunning. By chance, a temporary maid Jacqueline has engaged for the evening arrives when Jacqueline and Bernard are out and, her name also being Brigit, Robert mistakes her for Bernard's girl friend. Thus are laid the foundations for a shaky edifice of frantic complications, in which identities, plots and counterplots—and bedrooms—are changed round with ever increasing confusion until an unexpected ending is reached which leaves everyone happy—not least the "temporary" Brigit who has acquired a mink coat and a wad of cash.

Upcoming: The Cover of Life, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, July 29 - August 13

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presents

THE COVER OF LIFE
A Dramatic Comedy

by R.T. Robinson
directed by David Schneider

EVENINGS - Fridays and Saturdays
July 29 - August 13 at 8pm

SNEAK PEEK - Thursday July 28 at 8pm
MATINEES - Sunday August 7 & Saturday August 13, 2011 at 2pm
Regular Adult Tickets $12, Senior & Children Tickets $10

Cast: Terri Bennett, Tysha Calhoun, Candice Carr, Lori Cordova, Ellen Massey, Francine Olguin and Chris Scheibel

Tood, Weetsie and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover Life Magazine and assigns Kate Miller to the story. She has been covering the war in Europe and, though she views doing a "women's piece" as a career set back, she accepts because it will be her first cover story. Kate spends a week with the Cliffert women and her haughty urban attitude gives way to sympathy as she begins to understand them while coming face to face with her own powerlessness in a man's world. Filled with charm and fun, The Cover of Life is a deeply affecting story about the struggle for self worth.

Think "Steel Magnolias" set in 1942

"The kind of roles actresses' dream of. Robinson's writing has a warm, rural flavor and [the] conflicts are laced with a poignant urgency." - Variety

"Stirring and funny." - Teaneck Daily Record.

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Upcoming: Don't Dress for Dinner, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, March 11 - 26

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DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER
A Comedy/Farce By Marc Camoletti/Adapted by Robin Hawdon

Directed by Tysha Calhoun

March 11 - 26

Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm
MATINEES - Sun Mar. 20 & Sat Mar. 26, 2011 at 2 pm
Regular Adult Tickets $12, Senior & Children Tickets $10

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Bernard is planning a weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in a French farmhouse. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, is packing his wife Jacqueline off to her mother's and has even invited his best friend to provide an alibi. It's foolproof; what could possibly go wrong? Suppose Robert turns up not knowing why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers? What happens if the cook is mistaken for the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? An evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed.

"Hurtling along at the speed of light, [this] breathtaking farce is a near faultless piece of theatrical invention." - Guardian

Ongoing: Social Security, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, April 23 - May 9

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The Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart presents

Social Security

A comedy by Andrew Bergman
April 23 - May 8, Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m.

matinees on Sunday, May 2 and Saturday, May 8 at 2 p.m.

$12 general admission, $10 for seniors and students

The domestic tranquility of married art dealers is shattered upon the arrival of the wife's goody goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband and her Archetypal Jewish Mother. They leave Mother behind and take off to try and save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when Mother hits it off with an elderly minimalist artist who also happens to be the art dealer's best client!

Read more and view image at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Divas! musicale, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, March 12 - 27

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Divas: An Evening of Music!

A Gaslight-Baker Original Production
Fridays and Saturdays, March 12-27, 8 p.m.
Special Matinee Performances Sunday, March 21 and Saturday, March 27, 2 p.m.
Admission is $12/ general, $10/student and seniors, available on-line

We are excited to be present the first musical review put on by the Gaslight Baker Theatre! Christy Smith and Tysha Calhoun have taken on the task of creating Divas: An Evening of Music performed by 11 of the most talented female artists that Central Texas has to offer.

The program will showcase tunes from the early 1920's to present day, from show tunes to pop music. The Gaslight-Baker is thrilled to have all these talented DIVAS together together on stage to deliver an exciting, enjoyable night of song and dance.


The cast features Lauren Allen, Amber Bhatnagar, Brandi Brown, Tysha Calhoun, Carla Daws, Jennie LaBuhn, Merrari Martinez, Kristie "Kirby" Mattos, Melanie Salyers, Christy Smith, Sandy Zellers Tolson. [Photo: Eric Marsh]

Directed by Tysha Calhoun with choreography by Christy Smith, this production is a new venture for the theatre, with memorable performances by both individual "divas" as well as light and fun group numbers. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "I Will Survive," "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Bushel and a Peck" and "Memory "are an example of the numbers which will be performed.

For more information, check our website at www.gaslightbakertheatre.org or leave a message at 512- 376-5653.

Wait Until Dark, Gaslight Baker Theatre, October 30 - November 14

Harry Roat is a really, really mean guy. In this Gaslight Baker Theatre production of Wait Until Dark, David Young plays Roat with alarming, menacing stillness as he snares two minor ex-cons into the hunt for a lost shipment of heroin, setting them up as potential fall guys for a murder that Roat himself has just committed.

Yes, this is the one about Suzy, the blind woman that the bad guys are trying to confuse and to push into turning over the McGuffin of the piece, a doll that is packed with the purest smack going.

Suzy's husband, nice-guy former Marine Steve agreed to carry the doll from the Montreal airport to New York as a favor to an unknown woman. We're talking 1966 here, when folks were a lot more trusting and Halloween hadn't yet been tarnished by tales of poisoned candy.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Wait Until Dark, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, October 30 -November 14

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, November 11

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presents

Wait Until Dark
by Frederick Knott
Directed by Todd Martin

October 30-31, November 6-7, and November 13-14 at 8 p.m.
November 7 will also feature a matinee beginning at 2 p.m.

Are You Afraid of The Dark?

A sinister con-man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, have traced the location of a mysterious and valuable doll to the apartment of photographer Sam Hendrix and his recently blinded wife, Susy. After Sam is unexpectedly called away to a photo shoot, the three criminals engage in an elaborately designed charade to take advantage of Susy’s blindness and trick her into revealing the location of the doll. With the help of the young neighbor girl Gloria, Susy matches wits with the cons. But is she clever and skillful enough to save her own life? The result is a thrilling and horrifying final confrontation that audiences will never forget.

Featuring: Polaris Banks, Tysha Calhoun, Steve Lawson, Mark McDade, Cruz Thomas, Drew Vero, Bevra Williams and David Young

No one will be allowed to enter the theatre during the last 10 minutes of the show!

Purchase Tickets Here.

The Hand That Cradles the Rock, Gaslight Baker Theatre, March 27 - April 11

Billy Alexander is beleaguered and bemused throughout this cheery piece of Canadian froth, now playing at the Gaslight Baker Theatre in Lockhart.

As the stay-at-home writer Ross Cameron, he's a Mr. Mom surrounded by women: his wife the successful industrial designer, the friendly home care nurse Miss Bricker from the Canadian public health service, and his flighty mother-in-law Beattie, still a dish after all these years. Oh, and his infant daughter, offstage. We never see her but she does generate comic demands on her dad, who is slowly going diaper-pail pablum stir-crazy in their house out in the remote Canadian woods.

The plot is a little bit color-by-the-numbers. Writer Warren Graves piles on top of the gender role reversal a series of funny bits about the frustration of Cameron's libido, and then introduces that wide-eyed pretty nurse just as Cameron's wife Alexandra is back from three weeks of travel and crashing on an important design project (above) . Mom-in-law Beattie and her droll companion George swing by regularly for comic relief and a tipple.

Inevitably, when Alexandra travels for a presentation, bad weather and good luck bring that cute Miss Bricker into Cameron's house. An aspiring author of romance fiction, she has lent Cameron the draft of her first novel, written in hot pink prose.

Will they or won't they? And what will be the consequences?

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Upcoming: The Hand That Cradles the Rock, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, March 26 - April 11

Received March 22 from the Gaslight Baker Theatre in Lockhart:

The Hand that Cradles the Rock

A hilarious comedy by Warren Graves, directed by Tysha Calhoun (who bought us 2008’s hit dramedy, “Amateurs”)


Take a young woman’s overnight success, add her new baby, mix with a young husband who is suddenly in charge of that baby, sprinkle with grandmother, her frisky boyfriend, spice it up with an unexpected visitor…and you have a recipe for a belly full of laughs.

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