THEATRE:
Raconteur Theatre Co. will be visiting with us in March. Info about their next performance is in the left column. Email them for tickets, or go to their website for more info:
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http://www.drawingroomtheatre.com
DRT Schedule of Shows:
Book by Eric Rockwell & Joanne Bogart
Music by Eric Rockwell
Lyrics by Joanne Bogart
APRIL 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
MON, THU-SAT Shows 7:30p, SUN Shows 4p
All seats $15.
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is a musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. The basic plot: June is an ingenue who can't pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? The variations are: a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, set in Kansas in August, complete with a dream ballet; a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work; a Jerry Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from Puccini; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speakeasy in Chicago.
CAST/CREW INFORMATION
June, Juneue, Junita, Junie - Ashley Blankenship
Big Willy, Billy, William, Will - Alan Saunders
Jitter, Jidder, Mr. Jidders, Phantom Jidder, MC - Jordan Shear
Miss Abby, Abby, Dear Abby, Abby Von Starr, Freuline Abby - Gayle Krieger
Ensemble Male - Michael "Mary" Manter
Ensemble Female - Drea Blau
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Music & Lyrics by Jeff Bowen
Book by Hunter Bell
JULY 29, 30, 31, AUG 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
MON, THU-SAT Shows 7:30p, SUN Shows 4p
All seats $15.
Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends Susan, Heidi and Larry on the eighty-eights. With the cast in place, Jeff and Hunter begin a conversation about what to write about. Eventually, Jeff suggests they write about what to write about. They make a pact to write up until the festival’s deadline and dream about the show changing their lives. [title of show]—taken from the space on the festival’s application form which asks for the [title of show]—follows Hunter and Jeff and their friends on their journey through the gauntlet of creative self-expression. In the span of 90 minutes they write and perform their show at the festival and learn lessons about themselves as people, friends and artists. [title of show] is, above all, a love letter to the musical theatre—a uniquely American art form—and to the joy of collaboration.
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Audition info:
SCRIPT PREVIEW: AUGUST 18, 6pm at Club Diversity
AUDITIONS: AUGUST 21, 12pm-3pm at Club Diversity
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Book & Lyrics by John Dempsey
Music by Dana P. Rowe
Based on a story by John Dempsey & Hugh Murphy
OCTOBER 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, NOV 1
MON, THU-SAT Shows 7:30p, SUN Shows 4p
All seats $15.
This girl loves ghoul rock and roll Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal orders him to drop dead while a scandal reporter seizes on him as the freak du jour. History comes to his rescue while a tuneful selection of original songs in the style of 50s hits keeps the action rocking across the stage.
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SCRIPT PREVIEW: SEPTEMBER 29, 6pm at Club Diversity
AUDITIONS: OCTOBER 2, 12pm-3pm at Club Diversity
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Book & Lyrics by Kathy Feininger
Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
DECEMBER 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
MON, THU-SAT Shows 7:30p, SUN Shows 4p
All seats $15.
A Broadway Christmas Carol is a delightful and unexpected mix of show tune song parodies and Charles Dickens' classic story of the redeemed miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. What you get is a laugh-out-loud, roll-in-the-aisles funny, but close to the Dickens narrative holiday quirky production. The witty song parodies, the split-second costume changes and the old miser singing to bring down the chanticleer provide the breath-taking fun at a breakneck pace, but the story is all Dickens. The Ghost of Christmas Present is costumed as a giant Christmas present, Tiny Tim appears in a show-stopping turn donning an "Annie fright wig," and Scrooge's third phantom is a send up of the Broadway stage's most famous Phantom.
No Broadway show is safe in A Broadway Christmas Carol. Every year multiple Broadway shows are spoofed and blended to recreate the Dickens Christmas classic in new and funny ways.
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