Associate Company Manager Needed for Intergalactic Nemesis Tour, Austin

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The Intergalactic Nemesis is seeking a highly motivated, detail oriented Associate Company Manager who is based in Austin TX or its surrounding areas.
The contract dates are March 21 - June 5. Tour dates can be found at http://www.theintergalacticnemesis.com/tour-dates/
Compensation: $106.00 for all travel days and $59.00 a day per diem. Additional in-town duties will pay $15/hour. Company will provide all accommodations, air and ground transportation.
Job responsibilities:
• A responsible sense for fun and adventure
• Driving the Company between cities and between hotel and venue within cites
• Coordinating rest and meal stops on travel days
• Assisting with tour venue load in and load out
• Maintaining and organizing equipment and merchandise in the company trailer and van
• Basic vehicle maintenance (tire pressure, oil changes, etc.)
• Coordinating weekly dry cleaning while on tour
• Inventorying and selling of merchandise at every performance, plus completing any necessary paperwork associated with merchandise
• Performing related duties assigned by the company manager
• Punctuality, professionalism, team player, positive and respectful attitude
• Flexible schedule to allow for additional touring dates
Preferred Qualifications:
• Retail sales experience
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
• Previous theater experience is a plus
Position Requirements:
• Must have a clean driving record and valid license within the last three years
• Must be detail oriented
• Must be at least 25 years old (for insurance purposes) Hiring Organization: Intergalactic Nemesis

• Location: Austin
• Compensation: $165/day
• This is a contract job.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• do NOT contact us with unsolicited services or offers

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posted: 2 days ago

updated: a day ago

Robert Faires Interview: Murder Ballad Murder Mystery Saloon Tour

 



'Murder Ballad Murder Mystery'

Paper Chairs resurrects its hit musical as portable, hit-and-run bar entertainment
 
By Robert Faires, Fri., Nov. 15, 2013

Usually, when a play reaches the end of its run, it's dead, departed, gone with the wind. Once in a while, though, a show gets pulled back from oblivion, and such is the case with Murder Ballad Murder Mystery, the backwoods musical by Elizabeth Doss (book) and Mark Stewart (score) that scored critical raves and multiple awards when it premiered in 2009. Now, like the ghost-faced killers who populate its swampy setting, it once more walks among us – only this time the show won't be haunting a theatre as it did in its original co-production by Tutto Theatre and Vortex Repertory Company, and it won't be the full-length, site-specific spectacle seen before. Paper Chairs, the company that grew out of that staging, has reconceived the show as a shorter, portable production to be presented in saloons. The new incarnation will debut at three local watering holes, as well as one in New Orleans (for the New Orleans Fringe Festival), and one in Marfa. The cast has been whittled down to eight characters, and director Keri Boyd and designer Lisa Laratta have worked to make the space adaptable to any environment. Playwright/performer Doss explains the show's second life in an email exchange.

Click to read interview at the Austin Chronicle

The Book of Mormon, touring company at Bass Hall, University of Texas, October 2 - 13, 2013

by Michael Meigs


The crowd at Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas was bubbling with gleeful expectation for the opening performance in Austin of The Book of Mormon tour. They responded enthusiastically throughout the evening and went away plainly satisfied with the spectacle and the storytelling. Those South Park guys did it again, as confirmed by all those Tony awards, including the one for best musical, using their cheerful cynicism and satire to tap into the American consciousness.

Perhaps television and other media have shaped us this way, with their relentless push of events abroad so violent that they seem like cartoons and their frequent debunking of the self-important and sanctimonious.

The Book of Mormon links those spheres, parodying the requirement of Mormon practice that each maturing Mormon male depart from home into the wider world on a mission to recruit for the faith. You’ve certainly seen them, two by two, young men designated as ‘elders,’ dutifully dressed in dark trousers and white shirts with ties, making their way from door to door with an appeal to consider the religion and the Book. The exuberant opening number of this musicale is a multifold celebration of that doorbell-pushing, smiling, hopeful encounter.

Mark Evans (via austin.broadway.com)

The program has no list of musical numbers, so if like me you haven’t already absorbed the cast album, you have no idea what’s about to hit you.

The show’s a lot of fun. It’s much less about the relatively hermetic but intriguing Mormon religion than it is about teenage angst and ambition, qualities common to all males on the brink of adulthood – individuals who are eager to receive recognition as grownups (elders) but who aren’t yet at ease in their skins. There are lots of opportunities for satire here – the earnest, egotistical golden boy Elder Price (Mark Evans), the goofy sloppy dreamer second banana Elder Cunningham (Christopher John O’Neill) and the six or so other white-shirted innocents who play the missionaries in training and then the band of the bewildered boys sent to test their religious certainties upon a village of miserable, violent, oppressed and depraved Ugandan natives.

Nothing’s funnier than seeing received certainties disproved by the real world. In familiar South Park fashion the writers contrast the legends of the faith – especially those mysterious golden tablets delivered by an angel to Joseph Smith – with the brutalities of ‘real’ life: AIDS, violent oppression, parasites, murder, rape, pedophilia and the humiliation of forced sodomy. Hah! Take that, you pure of heart!

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, national tour, Bass Concert Hall, February 16

Fellowship for the Performing Arts

Presents

THE SMASH HIT PRODUCTION OF

 

Starring Max McLean as Screwtape

RETURNING TO AUSTIN ON

FEBRUARY 16

TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY!

 

“Pure Genius”

NATIONAL REVIEW

“Clever and Satirical…The Devil Has Rarely Been Given His Due More Perceptively”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A Profound Experience”

CHRISTIANITY TODAY

The performance schedule for THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS is Saturday, February 16 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $39 - $59. Special student priced tickets are available. For groups of 10 or more (including student groups) call 866.476.8707.
To purchase tickets, visit www.ScrewtapeonStage.com, call 512-477-6060 or visit the Bass Ticket Office, 23rd & Robert Dedman Drive, Mon.-Fri. between 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat. between 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and 1 hour prior to show.

 THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, the provocative and wickedly funny theatrical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel about spiritual warfare from a demon’s point of view, continues the third year of its National Tour with a return to Austin, where it played two sold out performances at Paramount Theatre in February 2010.

Click to read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
 

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Upcoming Touring Company: Billy Elliot, Bass Concert Hall, December 11 - 16

Broadway Across America - Austin and Texas Performing Arts present

Tony Award winner, 

Billy Elliot the Musical

 December 11 – 16, 2012

Tuesday–Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 1 p.m.

Bass Concert Hall | 2350 Robert Dedman Drive | Austin, TX


TICKETS: Start at $30. Tickets on sale and are available at the Bass Concert Hall box office, all Texas Box Office Outlets, by phone at (512) 477-6060 or online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/Austin. For groups of 10 or more, call toll free at (877) 275-3804 
or e-mail Austin.groups@broadwayacrossamerica.com.


Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films, Old Vic Productions and NETworks Presentations, LLC bring the multi-award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical to Austin’s Bass Concert Hall for a limited engagement December 11 – 16, 2012. 

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . 

West Side Story, Broadway touring company at Bass Hall, March 29 - April 3

A stage jammed with more than 30 trim, talented dancers, a 15-piece orchestra doing Leonard Bernstein's instantly recognizable score, a couple of memorable scenic pieces and a respectful interpretation of the 1957 reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet, tweaked only very slightly, if at all -- the touring company of West Side Story delivers exactly what the American public expects. The enterprise also provides an enlightening illustration of the difference between a film -- who hasn't seen and been impressed by the 1961 motion picture? -- and live musical theatre.

The vast spaces of the 2900-seat Bass concert hall are a challenge to any performance -- one indication is that you can rent binoculars at the concession stand before the show. Even in the mid-orchestra seats provided for press representatives, the actors in solo and duo scenes seemed alarmingly far away, as the mind's eye compared them to the vivid images of Jerome Robbins' 1961 film.

The excitement and the spectacle of the dance scenes made up for that. No film can give the scope and the dazzle of Robbins' large dance scenes, and the choreography reproduced by Joey McKneely for this staging delivers excitement, humor and far more action than your eye can follow. The show springs to life with the scene of the dance at the gym. Rival crowds, Jets and Sharks, dressed spiffy and swirly, brightly colored, challenging, teasing, frolicking and bounding with energy, contrast with one another, with the doltish adults, and eventually with the starstruck lovers Maria and Tony as they perceive one another across the full breadth of the stage.

The biggest applause came for the iconic I Like to Be in America, the teasing, stamping, celebratory number featuring the sassy, worldly Anita (Michelle Aravena, who got the most exuberant applause at the curtain call). Seven women dancers fill that broad stage with their banter and movement.

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