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· AMAZING JOB THIS LAST WEEK! I was just blown away by everyone's hard work and excellent performances! Here's to two great final performances!
· Performance – Saturday (2 & 7 PM)
· The Hines family has graciously volunteered to bring dinner for everyone so we will be eating together between shows on Saturday.
· Please be at the church by 11 AM to set up the chairs before the performance. By the by, the church was just delighted with the wonderful job you all did on Tuesday night. It is work like that which provides a place for us to perform as churches are blessed by your help and good stewardship of their facilities.
· We have decided that if you are interested in being in The Happiest Millionaire and you were in Oklahoma you do NOT have to audition. We will simply take your performance as your audition and cast you accordingly. However, if you do want to be considered you must sign up at the sound booth on Saturday. I have pasted the information about the next season so you can see when performances would be, etc. Handouts will also be available on Saturday for you to pick up and take to friends. If you have friends that want to do the show they will need to audition and those are on April 6 & 7 from 7-9 PM at Moon Valley Bible.
· CAST PARTY--April 13 at Moon Valley Bible at 7 PM! Bring food!
The Happiest Millionaire Comedy 9 men, 6 women
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Cordelia's enthusiastic but unpredictable father, has a fine house at 2104 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, a fortune and a great enthusiasm for lunacy. He collects alligators and prizefighters and rules his family by bluster. Among those is his daughter, Cordelia, who falls in love with a southern boy, Angier Duke. Biddle tries to take over and run this romance, and for the first time in his noisy career he meets defeat. Mr. Biddle, who is an ardent amateur boxer, has no use for his prospective son-in-law because that young man knows nothing about boxing—but when Angier suddenly turns to jiu-jitsu and throws a professional prizefighter, as well as Mr. Biddle, to the floor, Biddle's heart is won, and he is resigned to losing his daughter.
Auditions: April 6, 7 & May 4-6, 2009 from 7-9 PM at Moon Valley Bible Church
Performances: July 30-August 1, 2009 and August 6-8, 2009 at Joy of Life Church
Hello Dolly! Musical 4 men, 4 women plus chorus
Mrs. Dolly Levi desires to marry Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half-a-millionaire, and send his money circulating among the people like rainwater the way her late husband, Ephraim Levi, taught her. Along the way she also succeeds in matching up several couples. Mrs. Levi tracks Vandergelder to his hay and feed store in Yonkers, then by train back to Mrs. Molloy's hat shop in New York, out into the streets of the city where they are all caught up in the great Fourteenth Street Association Parade, and finally to the most elegant and expensive restaurant in town, the Harmonia Gardens. What happens in the end? Dolly gets her man, of course. Even makes him glad she caught him. Dolly leaves the stage at the end of Act II with a wink to the audience as she takes a peep into Vandergelder's bulging cash register, and promises that his fortune will soon be put to good use. She quotes her late husband as she says, "Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.” Classic musical numbers include Hello Dolly, Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Ribbons Down My Back, Before the Parade Passes By, Elegance, It Only Takes A Moment and So Long Dearie.
Auditions: Leads: May 4-6, 2009 from 7-9 PM at Moon Valley Bible Church
Chorus: August 10, 2009 from 7-9 PM at Moon Valley Bible Church
Performances: October 8-10 and 15-17, 2009
Smoke on the Mountain Musical 4 men, 3 women
The year is 1938. It's Saturday night in Mount Pleasant, NC, and the Reverend Oglethorpe has invited the Sanders Family Singers to provide an upliftin' evening of singin' and witnessin'. The audience is invited to pull up a pew and join in the rollicking good time. More than two dozen songs, many of them vintage pop hymns, and hilarious stories from the more or less devout Sanders provide a richly entertaining evening that has audiences clapping, singing, laughing and cheering. "Totally beguiling ... foot stomping soul food."-- N.Y. Post.
Auditions: Due to the nature of this musical, auditions are by invitation only
Performances: January 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 & 31, 2010
Jane Austen’s Emma Drama 5 men, 7 women plus others
Emma Woodhouse is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on an estate in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley, her neighbour from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband. As the play opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking. After a few interesting attempts, she suddenly finds that she is in love with George Knightley, one of the gentlemen she is tying to match with her new friend, Harriet Smith.
Auditions: November 5, 7 & 8, 2009 from 7-9 PM at Moon Valley Bible Church
Performances: March 19-21 & 26-28, 2010
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