Into the Woods Changes Venue for Auditions and Performances

Stocking Productions' Founding Artistic Director, Jordan Stocksdale, has announced that the company's upcoming Into the Woods has changed venues for both the show's auditions and performances. Stocksdale and Stocking Productions will now bring this new staging of the Stephen Sondheim classic to The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre.

Auditions for Into the Woods will be held on Wednesday, February 23rd beginning at 7:00 p.m. at The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre at 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick, Maryland.

Those auditioning are asked to bring a headshot and resume, as well as 16 bars of prepared music and be ready to sing and read from the script. An accompanist will be provided and those without sheet music will not be permitted to sing. Those auditioning should be at least 18 years old. The roles of the Witch, Baker, Baker's Wife, and Jack's Mother have already been cast. All other roles are open and non-union, non-paying. No appointments are necessary.

Additional infromation and casting details can be found at www.stockingproductions.wordpress.com.

The show will play at Way Off Broadway during the Memorial Day Weekend, May 27th, 28th and 29th.

Into the Woods brings together storybook characters that have been an integral part of our culture and weaves all of their stories together into one classic musical. An ambivalent Cinderella. A blood-thirsty Little Red Ridinghood. A Prince Charming with a roving eye. A Witch . . . who raps' They're all among the cockeyed characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's fractured fairy tale. When a Baker and his Wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone's wish is granted at the end of Act One, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results. What begins a lively irreverent fantasy in the style of "The Princess Bride" becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.

Into the Woods has music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine.

Stock♦ing Productions, under the direction of its Artistic Director, Jordan Stocksdale, is an independent theatre Production Company. Previous productions in the area include A New Brain and The Rocky Horror Show. Its upcoming production of Into the Woods will play The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre in Frederick as a special Memorial Day Weekend presentation.

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