2013-2014 Theatre Season, Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander

(Way Off Broadway Community Players, Building 4 at 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road)

 

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Auditions in Leander for Shootout at Hole in the Wall, the annual melodrama at Way Off Broadway Community Players, June 10, 2013

Way Off Broadway Community Players will be holding open auditions on Monday, June 10, 2013 at 7 p.m. for our 12th Annual Melodrama and Fundraiser, Shoot Out at Hole in the Wall by Shubert Fendrich, and is being directed by Karen Miller. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. There are roles for 5 women and 5 men, age range from mid teens – mid 60’s. All interested parties are encouraged to audition.

This fresh approach to the ever-popular western comedy takes place at the turn of the century in Wyoming’s notorious Hole-in-the-Wall country. When the good and honest Ma and Pa Fritter set up shop in the midst of this den of rustlers and outlaws and a wagon load of ladies takes refuge there from attacking Indians, problems erupt all over the place. One rollicking scene follows another ’til Horace, our brave but occasionally clumsy good guy, and Slick Mason, the scoundrel, meet in the final, hilarious show-down and shoot-out... at Hole-in-the-Wall. Add to this a wagon load of ladies taking refuge from attacking Indians and the swaggering Cattle Kate and it’s an evening of western fun and frolic.

Auditions are open to the public and will be held at Way Off Broadway Community Players’ theater, located in the 2243 Business Park at 11880 West FM 2243, Leander, 1 mile west of Hwy 183, just east of Bagdad Road. Performances will be: July 26, 27; August 2, 3; 9, 10, 2013 at 8pm and a Sunday Matinee August 4, 2013 at 3pm. 
 
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Auditions in Leander for Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig, Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander, March 4, 2013

Way Off Broadway Community Players will be holding open auditions on Monday, March 4, 2013 at 7pm for the farcical comedy Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig, which is being directed by Debbie Bishop. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. There are roles for 3 women and 3 men. A tribute from Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor, Leading Ladies, Moon Over Buffalo) to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, The Fox On the Fairway takes audiences on a romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club, including the heated rivalry between the heads of the Quail Valley Club, and the Crouching Squirrel Golf and Racquet Club, who are fighting over a golfer they both want to make them the winner in the annual golf tournament. 

Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with… golf. This is a wonderfully manic satire not just of the golf world, but of human nature…full of the idiosyncrasies that are hidden, just barely, inside us all. 

“A belly laugh marathon! An amazingly ingenious satirical farce.”− Showbizradio.net
The Characters:

• Justin - 20’s - 30’s: Nice guy, a little nervous and awkward

• Louise - 20’s - 30’s: . Your typical ditzy knock out

• Bingham - 30’s - 50’s: Likes to put on airs, but is a likable and fun fellow

• Pamela - 30’s - 50’s: A "cougar“, but smart with a dry wit.

• Dickie - 30’s - 50’s: A snake in the grass, womanizer who is always scheming

• Muriel - 30’s - 50’s:. A forceful woman, bit of a "hen pecker"

Performances will be April 19,20; 26,27; May 3,4; 10,11, 2013 at 8 pm and a Sunday Matinee April 28 at 3 pm.  Auditions are open to the public and will be held at Way Off Broadway Community Player's theater, located in the 2243 Business Park at 11880 West FM 2243, Leander, 1 mile west of Hwy 183, just east of Bagdad Road. (click for map) All interested parties are encouraged to audition.

Way Off Broadway Community Players is continually searching for performers, technicians, and other volunteers of every experience level. Additional information is available at our website, http://www.wobcp.org .

GETTING SARA MARRIED by Sam Bobrick, Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander, March 1 - 23, 2013

(Way Off Broadway Community Players, Building 4 at 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road)

presents


Getting Sara Married
by Sam Bobrick
directed by Jo Rake.

Performances will run Fridays and Saturdays from March 1 through March 23, 2013 at 8 PM, and a Sunday Matinee at 3pm on March 10, 2013.
 
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students (with ID), seniors (60 Plus) Military (with ID), and $10 for children (6 and younger). While tickets will be sold at the door, reservations are encouraged.
To reserve tickets, call (512) 259-5878 or visit http://www.wobcp.org.
Sara Hastings is an unmarried lawyer in her mid-thirties, much too busy to get involved in any romance. Her Aunt Martha has decided to take matters into her own hands and find her a husband. Unfortunately, Aunt Martha’s method of doing it amounts to having the prospective groom bopped over the head and brought to Sara’s apartment. Aunt Martha’s choice is Brandon Cates, a young man who handles her finances. Although Brandon is already engaged to be married, this does not deter Aunt Martha. After being bopped on the head a few times, having a temporary loss of memory and experiencing several instances of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and a confrontation with a very angry fiancé, Brandon slowly comes to realize that Sara is really the girl for him

The Cast Includes:
Marci Journey as Sara
Konrad Zappler as Brandon
Misty Barham as Heather
Susan McWilliams as Aunt Martha
Russ Jernigan as Noogie
Ed Trujillo as The Chiropractor


The Crew Includes:
Director – Jo Rake
Assistant Director/Stage Manager – Geoff Rake
Lights – Ron Revell
Sound – Nona Whittington
Backstage Crew – Bridget Plaster
Backstage Crew – Lora Plaster
Way Off Broadway Community Players theater is located in building 4 of the 2243 Business Park at 11880 West FM 2243 in Leander, 1 mile west of Hwy. 183, just east of Bagdad Road.

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Opening This Week in Central Texas, January 6 - 11, 2013

Opening This Week

in the Austin - (*) San Antonio region

January 6 - 11, 2013

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Opening in Austin . . .
 

Georgetown Palace Theatre, January 11 - February 3

(poster design: JennyMarie Jemison)

Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander, January 11 -February 2

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(Nothing announced in SAN ANTONIO)
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MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE COUCH by Jack Sharkey, Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander, January 11 - February 2, 2013

(Way Off Broadway Community Players, Building 4 at 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road)

presents


Meanwhile, Back on the Couch

by Jack Sharkey
directed by Tracy Cathey
Performances will run Fridays and Saturdays from January 11, 2013 through February 2, 2013 at 8 p.m., and a Sunday Matinee at 3 p.m. on January 20, 2013.

Way Off Broadway Community Players' theater is located in building 4 of the 2243 Business Park at 11880 West FM 2243 in Leander, 1 mile west of Hwy. 183, just east of Bagdad Road (click for map).
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students (with ID), seniors (60 Plus) Military (with ID), and $10 for children (6 and younger). While tickets will be sold at the door, reservations are encouraged.
To reserve tickets, call (512) 259-5878 or visit http://www.wobcp.org.
You may also reply to this note with your reservation request.

Psychiatrist Victor is financially pressed between the rental of his posh office apartment and his fiancée’s expensive tastes. A colleague has written a best-selling case history book and is now rolling in royalties. Good friend Parker has rejected Victor's similar work because the public is tired of such things preferring torrid fiction. Needing cash, Victor reluctantly takes on a new patient who, due to love frustrations, is grinding out a rip roaring sex life. By mistake, Victor’s nurse gives the patient's manuscript to Parker, believing it to be Victor's work. Suddenly Victor has an enormous advance royalty check, a Book of the Month Club selection and a potential Pulitzer prize. When he discovers it’s his patient's confidences and not his casebook that has saved the day, Victor determines to keep his patient crazy until he dreams up the final chapter. Another uproarious comedy by the author of Your Flake or Mine.
The cast Includes:
Rick White as Victor
Gary Dean Hamilton as Albert
Kirsten Schulte as Gabrielle
Sandy Smith as Charlotte
Nguyen Stanton as Parker
Shelly Kelly as Dorothea
Allen Gilbert at Roy
Jackie Clapp as Jingle

The crew Includes:
Director – Tracy Cathey
Assistant Director – Howard Gentry
Stage Manager – Melinda Szabo
Lights and Sound – Jeremy Mielens


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Auditions in Leander for Getting Sara Married, Way Off Broadway Community Players, January 14

 
Auditions at WOBCP, Leander, January 14 at 7 p.m. for Getting Sara Married, directed by Jo Rake.


Sara Hastings is an unmarried lawyer in her mid-thirties, much too busy to get involved in any romance. Her Aunt Martha has decided to take matters into her own hands and find her a husband. Unfortunately, Aunt Martha’s method of doing it amounts to having the prospective groom bopped over the head and brought to Sara’s apartment. Aunt Martha’s choice is Brandon Cates, a young man who handles her finances. Although Brandon is already engaged to be married, this does not deter Aunt Martha. After being bopped on the head a few times, having a temporary loss of memory and experiencing several instances of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and a confrontation with a very angry fiancé, Brandon slowly comes to realize that Sara is really the girl for him.

WOBCP is at Building 4 at 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road (click for map).

Auditions in Leander for Meanwhile Back on the Couch by Jack Sharkey, November 5

Way Off Broadway Community Players will be holding open auditions on Monday, November 5, 2012 at 7pm for the zany, fast-paced farcical comedy, Meanwhile Back on the Couch by Jack Sharkey, which is being directed by Tracy Cathey. 

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. There are roles for 4 women and 4 men. We will schedule rehearsals around actors’ holiday plans as much as possible.

Auditions are open to the public and will be held at Way Off Broadway Community Player's theater, located in the 2243 Business Park at 11880 West FM 2243, Leander, 1 mile west of Hwy. 183, just east of Bagdad Road (click for map). All interested parties are encouraged to audition.

Psychiatrist Victor is financially pressed between the rental of his posh office apartment and his fiancée’s expensive tastes. A colleague has written a best-selling case history book and is now rolling in royalties. Good friend Parker has rejected Victor's similar work because the public is tired of such things preferring torrid fiction. Needing cash, Victor reluctantly takes on a new patient who, due to love frustrations, is grinding out a rip roaring sex life. By mistake, Victor’s nurse gives the patient's manuscript to Parker, believing it to be Victor's work. Suddenly Victor has an enormous advance royalty check, a Book of the Month Club selection and a potential Pulitzer prize. When he discovers it’s his patient's confidences and not his casebook that has saved the day, Victor determines to keep his patient crazy until he dreams up the final chapter. Another uproarious comedy by the author of Your Flake or Mine.

Performances will be:January 11,12; 18,19; 25,26; February 1,2, 2013 at 8:00 pm and a Sunday Matinee on January 20, 2013 at 3:00 pm.

The Characters:

Gabrielle – a talented interior decorator

Roy – an affably unpleasant psychiatrist

Charlotte – nurse/receptionist to Victor

Victor – psychiatrist and would-be novelist

Parker – publisher and friend of Victor’s

Albert – a young man with an old problem

Dorothea – a disgruntled client of Roy’s

Jingle – Victor’s next door neighbor

Way Off Broadway Community Players is continually searching for performers, technicians, and other volunteers of every experience level. Additional information is available at our website, http://www.wobcp.org .

Upcoming: First Things First by Derek Benfield, Way Off Broadway Community Players, November 2 - 24

Way Off Broadway Community Players proudly presents the first farce of its 16th season,

  




November 2 - 24

The hilarious comedy will be presented at 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays from Nov 2 through Nov 24 with a 3 pm matinee added on Sunday, Nov 11. Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors, students, and military. Our home is located in Building 4 at 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road. For more information and reservations, please visit the web site at www.wobcp.org.

Pete and George are old friends. In fact, such good old friends that George has been Pete’s best man at both of his weddings. Pete, now happily married to Sarah, is appalled when George arrives with the news that his first wife Jessica was not killed in a climbing accident as they had thought but is alive and well and keen to resume her life with Pete! This unexpected revelation leads to a series of hilarious situations as Peter and George try to find a way out of this desperate plight without upsetting either of Pete’s wives or his second wife’s powerful mother.
Another riotous comedy from the author of Beyond a Joke, Look Who’s Talking and Bedside Manners.

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Upcoming: The Tender Trap, Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander, March 9 - 31

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directed by Tracy Cathey

March 9 - 31, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.

Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. on March 18

Adults-$20, Seniors/Students-$15, Children-$15 - Click Here to make Reservations

Way Off Broadway Community Players, Building 4 at 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road, (click for map)

Charlie, a bachelor in New York, lives the ideal life. Charlie has a great apartment, a good job, and millions of beautiful ladies—all eager to bring him food, clean his apartment and fall in with his every wish. Joe, an old friend from Indianapolis, who has come to New York because he thinks he's discovered a cure for the common cold, is very much taken with Charlie’s life style and more than somewhat envious. He finds himself becoming interested in Sylvia, the nicest of the ladies, while Charlie finds himself getting more and more involved with Julie, a luscious morsel just out of college. Julie is in love with Charlie, but she's determined he's going to do things the way she wants them done. Charlie juggles the ladies till one frantic evening he finds himself engaged to both Julie and Sylvia, and one amusing scene after another results until he finally manages to get rid of the wrong young lady and marry the right one.

"…a skillfully contrived and very enjoyable farce…it has enough funny situations, and something even better—humor." —NY News.

Upcoming: Sin, Sex and the CIA, Way Off Broadway Community Players,

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Sin, Sex and the CIA

by Michael and Susan Parker
directed by Susan Snow
June 3 - 25, Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.
WOBCP Theatre, Building 4 at 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road (click for map)


Huge oil reserves have been discovered in The Chagos Islands and O.P.E.C. is pressuring the Chagosians to join the cartel. During a torrential storm, an inept CIA agent - who gets caught in all his own booby traps and security measures, and an under Secretary of State - whose life appears to be run by her libido, are sent to a safe house in the mountains of Virginia to begin negotiations for the U.S. to place the Chagos Islands under their protection. Unfortunately, no one knows who the islands' representative really is. Could it be the stranded televangelist, his innocent secretary, the ex-marine caretaker or the mysterious neighbor? To further complicate the negotiations, there are multiple misunderstandings, missed cues and unwanted romantic attentions. Added together you have a complex, laugh out loud farce that will keep you chuckling long after the evening is done!

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