Conejo Players Theatre Announces Upcoming Auditions And Performances

Now Playing at Conejo Players Theatre, THE WOMEN By Clare Booth Luce, Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

PERFORMANCE DATES:
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays
August 20th through September 11th, 2010
at 8:00 PM
Sunday Matinees at 2:00 PM

PRICES
Thursdays: $16; Fridays & Sundays: $18
Saturdays: $20
Tickets can be purchased online at conejoplayers.org
or by calling the box office at 495-3715.

Cast Members:
Helene Benjamin - Miss Watts;
Valentine Bezar - Nurse, Helene, Sadie;
Louise Bushnell - Helliwell - Mrs. Morehead;
Kathleen Chapin - Nancy Blake; Jessie Daniels - Peggy;
Kay Dease - Maggie; Elizabeth Edwards - Countess de Lage;
Amanda Elliott - Miss Myrtle; Erin Fagundes- Edith;
Martha Hules - Miss Shapiro, 1st Saleswoman;
Debi Huber- Mary; Jayne Hupp -Instructress, Cigarettes;
Camille A. Land - Miss Trimmerback, 2nd Saleswoman;
Priscilla Losey - Princess Tamara; Samantha Mallory - Jane;
Dawn Meyer - Sylvia; Audrey Miller - Little Mary;
Deborah Parsons - Lucy; Rachel Pugh - Olga;
Allie Rhodes - Miriam; Randi Saxer - Crystal
Opening this Weekend at
Conejo Players Theatre

By Joe DiPietro
Produced by special arrangement
with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

PERFORMANCE DATES:
Saturdays & Sundays
August 28th through September 11th, 2010
Saturday matinees at 2:00 PM
Sunday shows at 7:00 PM

PRICES
All shows are $10.00
Tickets can be purchased online at conejoplayers.org
or by calling the box office at 495-3715.

Plot Summary:
Nick's a single Italian-American guy from New Jersey with a routine of seeing both sets of grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is a standard practice until he has to tell them he's been offered a dream job that would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. This news doesn't sit so well with his family and starts a series of schemes to keep Nick around. Thus ensues a familiar, tragi-comic dialogue between the generations, transcending ethnicity and cultural background. Hilarious and heartwarming!

Cast of Characters:
Jeff Ash - Nick Cristano; Roger Krevenas - Frank Gianelli; Toni Wagner - Aida Gianelli; Ken Johnson - Nunzio Cristano; Carol Garramone -Emma Cristano; Jen Isaacs - Caitlin O'Hare
Auditions at Conejo Players Theatre
for Kiss Me, Kate

Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Sam and Bella Spewak
Produced by Special Arrangement with
Tam-Witmark Music Library Inc.

Audition Dates:
Monday, Aug. 30, Tuesday, Aug. 31 and
Wednesday, Sept. 1 at 7:30pm

Audition Location:
Conejo Players Theatre
351 So. Moorpark Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91361

PERFORMANCE DATES:
Thursday, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 2pm
November 12th through December 11th, 2010

Please bring a headshot and resume (if available) and a list of all potential conflicts including holiday travel, etc. Prepare one minute of a classic Broadway style song that shows your range and vocal ability. Bring sheet music in your key; an accompanist will be provided. You can use CD accompaniment with no vocals. No a cappella auditions will be allowed. Please do not sing from Kiss Me, Kate. Bring dance attire and proper dance shoes. There will be cold readings from the script. Please note: Dialogue in the play-within-a-play is pulled directly from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. No appointment necessary. There is NO PAY.

Plot Summary:
It's Baltimore -- June 1948 -- and to the opening of a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The cast of the play is on stage and receiving final instructions from FrEd Graham, the director. A play-within-a-play unfolds, where each of the four main cast members' on-stage performance is complicated by what is happening in his or her off-stage life. Fred takes the roles of director and male lead, Petruchio. His ex-wife Lilli, now a movie star with a reputation for being difficult to work with, plays Katharine, the shrew. Fred's current love interest, Lois, plays the role of Bianca -- and the other man in Lois' life, Bill, plays the role of Lucentio. Before the curtain rises on "The Shrew," we find out that Bill has a gambling problem ... and that he signed an IOU for a gambling debt in Fred's name. Two thugs show up at the theater to make it clear that Bill will have to make good on that IOU, but they confront Fred instead. And thus begins Kiss Me, Kate

TICKETS

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