Hillbarn Theatre Announces Auditions for their
2014–15 Season, “A Season of Awakening”
Highlights of the 2014-15 season include the musical theatre classic, Funny Girl; the gleefully funny adaptation of the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, 39 Steps; and the holiday musical, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, based on the iconic Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney film
2014-15 Season Subscriptions Available now!
Hillbarn Theatre Executive Artistic Director Dan Demers announced today general auditions for the 2014-15 season which features three iconic plays and three hit musicals. Auditions will be held Monday, June 9 through Thursday, June 12 from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Hillbarn Theatre (1285 East Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City). Auditions will be held in 30-minute sessions with 6 to 8 people in each session. Each performer will be given 3 minutes for their individual audition. Auditioners must make an appointment for a session in advance. Hillbarn Theatre will fill six Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) guest artist contracts for the season. Additionally, they will offer paid actor stipends for each show. For more information about the audition process, or to schedule an audition, please visit
http://hillbarntheatre.org/auditions/.
Performers should arrive 15 minutes before call time and should bring six copies of their headshot attached to a resume. Performers interested in auditioning for musicals only, should prepare two contrasting songs (one ballad and one up-tempo) and bring double-sided sheet music in preferred key. Performers interested in auditioning for plays only, should prepare two contrasting monologues; one monologue should be a period piece and the other monologue a contemporary piece. For those interested in auditioning for both the musicals and plays, please prepare one up-tempo song with double-sided sheet music in preferred key along with one monologue. Music should be in a binder and ready for the provided accompanist.
Hillbarn Theatre, the Peninsula’s premier community theatre company, recently announced the lineup for the company’s 74th season, “A Season of Awakening.” Subscriptions for the six-show season range in price from $72 – $192 and are available by visiting
hillbarntheatre.org/subscribe or calling
650-349-6411. Single tickets will be on-sale starting in early August. All performances will be held at Hillbarn Theatre (1285 East Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City).
The 2014-15 season opens with one of Broadway’s musical theatre cornerstones, Funny Girl(August 28 – September 21, 2014). Directed by Dan Demers, Funny Girl is inspired by the life and career of Fanny Brice, one of the most celebrated Vaudeville entertainers. With book by Isobel Lennart, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill, Funny Girl features some of Broadway’s most memorable tunes including “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “People,” and “You Are Woman, I Am Man.” Funny Girl will feature musical direction by Joe Murphy and choreography by James Zongus.
Next, Hillbarn Theatre will present the Tony Award-winning play, The 39 Steps (October 16 – November 2, 2014), based on the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller. In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called ‘The 39 Steps’ is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! Directed by Hunt Burdick, this riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft amount to an unforgettable evening of pure pleasure.
Based on the iconic Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney film, Hillbarn Theatre will present Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (December 4 – 21, 2014). With romance in mind, Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, a successful song-and-dance act, follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters, Betty and Judy Haynes, en-route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge. Upon discovering their former commander is the owner of the Vermont Lodge, Bob, Betty, Phil and Judy put on a show in honor of this amazing man. With a book by David Ives and Paul Blake, Irving Berlin’s White Christmasfeatures 17 Irving Berlin songs including “Blue Skies,” “I Love a Piano,” “How Deep is the Ocean,” and the perennial favorite, “White Christmas.” Irving Berlin’s White Christmas will feature direction by Virginia Musante, musical direction by Rick Reynolds and choreography by Gennine Harrington. This musical adaptation is sure to warm the heart of any Scrooge!
Hillbarn Theatre kicks-off the New Year with Amadeus (January 22 – February 8, 2015), the provocative work that weaves creative genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power. In the court of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of all time: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri has given himself to God so that he might realize his sole ambition to be a great composer. Mozart is a foul-mouthed, graceless oaf who has that which is beyond Salieri's envious grasp: Genius. Written by Peter Shaffer and directed by Leslie Lloyd, Amadeus won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play and has been hailed as “a rich theatrical experience” (The Washington Post).
The season continues with David Auburn’s acclaimed play, Proof (March 12 – 29, 2015). Directed by Greg Fritsch, Proof tells the story of a troubled young woman named Catherine, who loses her father, a famous mathematician, on the eve of her 25th birthday. After years of caring for her brilliant but unstable father, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attention of Hal, a former student of her father's. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of the origins of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into her ultimate personal analysis: is it proof or faith that provides the answers to her greatest questions about her genius or sanity? The winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, Proof “is the one you won't want to miss (New York Magazine).
Hillbarn Theatre’s 74th season culminates with the quirky musical comedy, Curtains (May 7 – 31, 2015), Set in the brassy, bright, and promising year of 1959, Boston’s Colonial Theatre is host to the opening night performance of a new musical. When the leading lady mysteriously dies on stage the entire cast and crew are suspects. Enter a local detective, who just happens to be a musical theatre fan! Featuring a musical score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, the legendary team who wrote the hit musicals Cabaret and Chicago, Curtains will feature direction by Nancy Fitzgerald-Metzler, musical direction by Tony Asaro and choreography by Jayne Zaban.
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About Hillbarn Theatre
Since 1941, the historic Hillbarn Theatre has served the San Francisco Bay Area by embracing this founding ideal - to create theatre with the community, for the community, striving always for excellence in production and education. Hillbarn has won a Theater Critics Circle Award, was accepted at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, was honored with several mayoral proclamations for excellence in theatrical production and education, received three Dean Goodman Awards for Artistic Excellence, and a Foster City Honors Award for Executive Director Lee Foster.
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