Opportunity: Stage Manager (non-Equity) for Georgetown Palace Production of You Can't Do That, Dan Moody

A broadcast sent out by Ron Watson of the Georgetown Palace Theatre on July 23:

 

I'm looking for a Non-Equity Stage Manager for our Production of You can't Do that Dan Moody. Rehearsals start soon. It opens Sept 14th, and closes Sept 30th, 12 performances. All rehearsals and performances are in Georgetown. 

Must have experience as a Stage Manager. This is a paid position. 

Please let me know if you or anyone you know might be interested. 

Thanks, Ron

ron@georgetownpalace.com

[AustinLiveTheatre note: The production will be staged at the Williamson County Courthouse in Georgetown, in the courtroom where the events took place. This newest staging will feature video projections. Click for the ALT review of the 2009 staging in the same location, with images]

Upcoming: Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare under the Stars, EmilyAnn Theatre, Wimberley, July 30 - August 11

The EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens
presents


Shakespeare Under the Stars

Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare

Monday, July 30 - Saturday, August 11, nightly at 8:15 p.m.except Sunday

EmilyAnn Theatre and Gardens, 1101 FM 2325,Wimberley,TX 78676 (click for map)

Family Night Special - Mon. - Wed. $12.00 for adults; $6.00 for students

Regular Pricing - Thurs. - Sat. Nights Tickets $15.00 for adults; $10.00 for students;

Tickets are available at the gate or online by clicking here


Much Ado About Nothing will be presented on our outdoor mainstage. Chairs with cushions are provided or bring your own blanket for up-front seating. Accessible seating is available. Gate opens at 7:00. Please call 847-6969in advance for assistance. For more information visit www.emilyann.org.

William Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing spins the tale of young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspiring to get verbal sparring partners Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. Of course, it isn't a Shakespeare comedy without a little mischief, mistaken identity, and clown-foolery involved. Come join this rumpus event, as we enter an 1880's sideshow circus, complete with a lion tamer, tight rope walker, jugglers, a mermaid, and more brought to you by 37 Shakespeare Under the Stars students. (See more about the students' work below).

Upcoming: Cabaret by Kander & Ebb, City Theatre, August 16 - September 9

Come hear the music play!

City Theatre

presents

by John Kander and Fred Ebb

August 16 – September 9. Thursdays - Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 5:30 p.m.

The City Theatre , 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D. 78722 – east corner of Airport Blvd. and 38 ½ Street. (click for map)

For reservations and tickes, call 512-524-2870 or e-mail info@citytheatreaustin.org.

Tickets $25. Two for $40. 1st Row Reserved $30. Seniors $18. Students $15. Thursday all seats $15.

Group discounts available. http://www.citytheatreaustin.org/

This summer, City Theatre will make Austin audiences an offer they just can’t refuse – an invitation to Berlin's Kit Kat Klub, on the eve of Hitler's rise to power. Based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s legendary landmark musical depicts the interlocking stories of a cabaret singer, a writer from America, an omniscient Emcee, and the denizens of Berlin, all caught up in the swirling maelstrom of a changing society. With such memorable Broadway standards as "Mein Herr", "Maybe This Time", "The Money Song" and the title hit “Cabaret.” A divinely decadent experience!

Auditions in Lockhart for Who's on First, Gaslight Baker Theatre, July 29 & 30

AUDITIONS for Who's on First By Jack Sharkey

Sunday, July 29 at 2:00 pm, Monday, July 30 at 7:00 p.m. Directed by Lori Z. Cordova; plays October 5 - 20


Casting: 2 men and 2 women - NO prior stage experience necessary - Comedic timing and multiple accents are a plus

A zany comedy based on magic and misconceptions. Think Groundhog Day with accents. Five people are doomed to repeat the same senario multiple times, but each time has a twist - the characters are the same but in different circustances which leads to a different ending.  

Take a husband, a wife, a lover and a friend. Add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. and you have this "Nightmare Comedy." Four people find themselves relining one horrible hour over and over as themselves, as Japanese citizens, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you can think of. Is it all an accident? Or is their dilemma part of someone's fiendish plan? A labyrinth of hilarity exits builds to a shocker of an ending to this wacky, wacky show. For more info, go to http://www.mygbt.org/

Upcoming: Pure as the Driven Snow, melodrama by Way Off Broadway Community Players, July 27 - August 11

present

Pure As The Driven Snow, or The Working Girl's Secret

by Paul Loomis

directed by Suzie Redfield.

Performances will run Fridays and Saturdays from July 27th through August 11th
at 8 p.m., and on Sundays from July 29th through August 12th at 2 p.m.
Note: there are 3 Sunday performances of this show, starting at 2 p.m.

Way Off Broadway's new 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, and $15 for students (high school and younger), seniors (60 and older) and active-duty 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 .

On a dark and stormy night Purity Dean, a working girl with a secret, seeks shelter from the storm in a Central Texas Inn she’s been forced to give up her canning factory job as she can no longer endure black hearted Mortimer Frothingham's attentions. Working as a maid at the inn, owned by Jonathan and Zamah Logan, she falls in love with their nephew - the noble hero, Leander, who works in a pickle factory.
But Mortimer still pursues Purity and will win her by fair or foul means. And so he begins his campaign of villainy. He locks our hero, in a room with a time bomb. He escapes in the nick of time, but Mortimer's disappeared. Heavily disguised, he returns and Purity's treated to more double dealing and double crossing.Enter several mysterious guests with a multitude of pasts….and agendas. Naturally, Virtue eventually triumphs. Purity's secret is discovered, bringing her great wealth and happiness with Leander.

Auditions in Leander for Bus Stop by William Inge, Way Off Broadway Community Players, July 30

Way Off Broadway Community Players will be holding auditions for the classic drama Bus Stop by William Inge, directed by Linda L. Durkin, on Monday July 30 at 7 p.m. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.
There are roles for 3 women, and 5 men.

Auditions are open to the public and will be held at Way Off Broadway's new 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)

In the middle of a blizzard, a bus pulls up at a roadside diner. All roads are blocked and the weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie is the passenger with most to worry about. She's been pursued, and kidnapped by Bo, an exuberant cowboy with the romantic methods of a headstrong bull. Virgil, Bo's friend and mentor tries to keep him in check with only limited success. As a counterpoint, Grace, the diner's owner, and the bus driver, Carl, at last find time to develop a "friendship" of their own. A former professor comes to terms with himself; and a young waitress gets her first taste of romance. All the while the Sheriff keeps close watch on the weather, the roads, and the diverse group of people stranded together for one long night at the Bus Stop.

All interested parties are encouraged to audition. Way Off Broadway is continually searching for performers, technicians, and other volunteers of every experience level. Additional information is available at our website, http://www.wobcp.org .

Performances will be at 8 p.m. on September 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29, October 5, and 6 and at 3:00 PM on September 23rd. 

Click to view character descriptions at AustinLiveTheatre.com

Discussing Austin's Summer Musicals -- Robert Faires et al., Austin Chronicle

In today's Chronicle, along with reviews of the productions discussed:

Of Thee I Sing (and Dance)

The musical is America's gift to theatre, and here's the local state of the union

Robert Faires, Fri., July 20, 2012

 

What better time to celebrate the musical than the month in which our nation was founded? After all, musical theatre, like jazz, is one of America's contributions to world culture. And having recently noted the Founding Fathers' keen interest in the melodious ("Revolutionary Score," June 29), I feel they'd be particularly proud that this all-singing, all-dancing art form was born on our shores. Though, really, how could they not, when it put them in a musical of their very own?

Sadly (for me, anyway), 1776 is not among the seven musicals you can find on Austin-area stages this July. (Ah well, at least we had a tip of the tricorn to U.S. history with Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in June.) Still, the month's unofficial mini-jamboree of show-tuners is worth noting, not because it commemorates the art form's American-ness (you can bet your stars-and-bars the July cluster of musicals has more to do with lighter theatrical fare for the mind-melting summer than patriotic pride) but because of the breadth of the selections and producing companies. This small sampling includes two works from the musical's post-war golden age (1946's Annie Get Your Gun, 1959's The Sound of Music), two from the post-Watergate era of anti-romance (Into the Woods and Chess, both from 1986), and two from our own post-millennium age in which musicals are either so derivative or so self-mocking that they routinely advertise the genre in their titles (Legally Blonde: The Musical and Xanadu, both from 2007). Moreover, the productions run the gamut from all-amateur to fully pro. In this one area in this one month, you can chart the evolution of the musical over six decades and see how it's handled from the Great White Way to Main Street, U.S.A. (Drive a little farther, and you can further your musical education with The Rocky Horror Show [Smithville], Fiddler on the Roof [New Braunfels], and Hello, Dolly! and Hairspray [San Antonio].)

The current cluster of musicals offered an ideal opportunity to check in on the form as it's treated in Central Texas today. After three members of the Chronicle Arts team each reviewed a musical now running – Jillian Owens, The Sound of Music; Dan Solomon, Chess; myself, Annie Get Your Gun), we compared notes on what we'd seen and what it said about the state of the art form in our area.

Click to read more at the Austin Chronicle. . . .