2010-2011 Season
October, 2010
The
Red Velvet Cake War
A Comedy written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten. Produced
courtesy of Jones Hope Wooten.
Show
runs October 8-24, 2010
Friday & Saturday nights 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
For ticket information, click here.
Directed
by Jon R. Kruse
| In this riotously funny
Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins – Gaynelle,
Peaches, and Jimmie Wyvette – could not have picked a worse time
to throw their family reunion. Their outrageous antics have set tongues
wagging in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro)
and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as their self-righteous Aunt
LaMerle is quick to point out. Having “accidentally”
crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband’s
girlfriend’s doublewide, Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from
a spectacular meltdown. Peaches, the saucy number one mortuarial
cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if
it’s time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead.
And Jimmie Wyvette, the roughhewn store manager of Whatley’s
Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a
priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum’s newest
widower. But the cousins can’t back out of the reunion now.
It’s on and Gaynelle’s hosting it; Peaches and Jimmie
Wyvette have decided its success is the perfect way to prove
Gaynelle’s sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist.
Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly
eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the
middle of Texas tornado season. Things spin hilariously out of control
when a neighbor’s pet devours everything edible, a one-eyed
suitor shows up to declare his love and a shocking high-stakes wager is
made on who bakes the best red velvet cake. As this fast-paced
uproarious romp barrels toward its surprising climax, you’ll wish
your own family reunion was this much fun! |
Auditions
held July 26-28, 2010, 6:30 pm at the theatre green room.
Casting 4 men, 8 women
On-site rehearsals begin August 30, 2010
For more information 817-341-8687
November, 2010
Greater
Tuna
A Comedy written Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Produced by
special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Show runs November 5-21, 2010
Friday & Saturday nights 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
For ticket information, click here.
Directed
by Damon Herbel
| “Good morning Tuna”. These words have resonated the most innovative and ingenious live theatre production of the last three decades. Experience the comedy about Tuna Texas--the third smallest town in Texas where the Lions club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. Joe Sears, Jaston Williams along with Ed Howard have given us the incredible tale of Tuna. A small Texas town with all the small town humor, politics and quirks that rural life gives us on a daily basis. Come and join Arless, Thurston, Petey, Bertha, Pearl, Vera and the rest of the Tuna gang on a roaring good time. Come on out and experience Tuna’s way of life. If you’ve seen Tuna, then you know what I mean. If you haven’t, then you’ll be in for an experience of a lifetime. I know you’ll enjoy it. You will. You will. |
Auditions
held August 23, 24 & 25 at 6:30 pm in the theatre green room.
Casting men only
On-site rehearsals begin September 27, 2010 (NOTE: off-site)
For more information 817-341-8687
December, 2010
If
It’s Monday, This Must Be Christmas
A Comedy written by Pat Cook, courtesy of Dramatic Publishing Company
Show runs December 10-19, 2010
Friday & Saturday nights 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
For ticket information, click here.
Directed
by Jacquie King
| It's here finally! The fifth
play in the Harry Monday Trilogy! Okay, Harry never could count.
Christmas time rolls around and our down-and-out gumshoe is short of
cash as usual. He's down to walking dogs for a few bucks when
Harrigan's department store has it's payroll stolen. And who you gonna'
call? Loretta Mondello, the store manager, has complete faith in Harry
pulling this one off. After all, she's his mother! Not only is the
payroll missing but, crime of all crimes, somebody kidnapped Santa
Claus! The store St. Nick has gone missing along with the money and
bonuses. And Harry has only one day, Christmas Eve, to solve the case.
Is Scarlet Kloontz, the all-too-friendly clerk, behind it all? "I bet
you've never met anyone as beautiful as me," she coos in Harry's ear.
"That's not an endorsement," He points out. Or maybe Carson Page, the
newest member of the Harrigan staff, who is also in love with the
boss's daughter? And why did Mildred Wolensky, owner of a rival store,
suddenly show up? Or Trixie O'Brien, an elf who was the last one to see
Santa before he vanished? Maybe that old con-artist buddy of Harry's
Louie Grandville has pulled another gig? As if clues weren't hard
enough to find Lieutenant Brogan shows up, along with his 9 year old
daughter. And we get a glimpse into Harry's past as he recalls his
first case.in the third grade! |
Auditions
held September 27, 28 & 29, 6:30 pm at the theatre green room.
Casting 5 men, 6 women, 1
boy and 1 girl
On-site rehearsals begin November 1 (NOTE: off-site)
For more information 817-341-8687
February, 2011
'Til
Beth Do Us Part
A Comedy written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten;
courtesy of Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Show runs February 11-27, 2011
Friday & Saturday nights 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
For ticket information, click here.
Directed
by Robbin Berry
| In this side-splitting comic
romp about marriage, career-driven Suzannah Hayden needs a lot more
help on the home front than she’s getting from her husband,
Gibby. Lately, nurturing his marriage of twenty-seven years
hasn’t been the highest priority for Gibby, but pretty soon
he’ll wish it had been. Enter Beth Bailey, Suzannah’s
newly-hired assistant, a gregarious, highly-motivated daughter of the
South. To Suzannah’s delight, Beth explodes into the Hayden
household and whips it into an organized, well-run machine. This
couldn’t have happened at a better time for Suzannah, since her
boss, Celia Carmichael, the C.E.O. of Carmichael’s Chocolates, is
flying in soon for an important make-or-break business dinner. Gibby
grows increasingly wary as Beth insinuates herself into more and more
aspects of their lives. In no time, she exceeds her duties as a
household assistant and interjects herself into Suzannah’s
career. As Suzannah’s dependence on Beth grows and Gibby’s
dislike of the woman deepens, Suzannah gives Beth carte blanche to
change anything in the household that “will make it run more
efficiently.” And the change Beth makes is convincing Suzannah
that Gibby must go! When he realizes it’s Suzannah’s career
Beth is really after, a newly-determined Gibby sets out to save his
marriage aided by Suzannah’s best friend, Margo, a wise-cracking
and self-deprecating divorcee and her ex-husband, Hank, who is in the
midst of his own mid-life crisis. Their effort to stop Beth at any cost
sets up the wildly-funny climax in which things go uproariously awry
just as Suzannah’s boss arrives for that all-important dinner.
Whether you’re married, single, rethinking your divorce or
currently being controlled by someone up to no good, you’re sure
to enjoy this family-friendly, laugh-out-loud Jones Hope Wooten
Comedy! |
Auditions
held November 29, 30 & December 1, 2010, 6:30 pm at the theatre green room.
Casting 4 Women, 2 Men.
On-site rehearsals begin January 3.
For more information 817-341-8687
March, 2011
Opal's
Husband
A Comedy written by John Patrick; courtesy of Dramatists Play Service
Show runs March 18-April 3, 2011
Friday & Saturday nights 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
For ticket information, click here.
Directed
by Kay Huse
| Bent as usual on a good deed,
Opal tries to round up a husband for her friend Rosie and answers a
lonely hearts ad placed by "Mister Handsome"—who, when he shows
up, proves to be a ninety-five-year-old escapee from a nursing home. As
expected, complications ensue, and when Rosie rejects her would-be
suitor, Opal reluctantly agrees to marry him in order to keep the old
man from the clutches of his scheming daughter. It seems that he really
is quite rich, and his desire is to spend his last days (and his
fortune) with a nubile maiden on a South Pacific island while his
daughter wants him to expire quickly, and quietly, in the old folk's
home. Thereafter the plots and counter-plots multiply hilariously as
the daughter and her husband try to discredit the marriage (and
convince Opal that she is cuckoo), while the old man devises his own
plan to catch them in their dirty work. |
Auditions
held January 10, 11 & 12, 2011 6:30 pm at the theatre green
room.
Casting 2 men, 3 women
On-site rehearsals begin February 7 (NOTE: off-site)
For more information 817-341-8687
April-May, 2011
Angel
Street
A Psychological thriller written by Patrick Hamilton; produced by special
arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Show
runs April 29-May 15, 2011
Friday & Saturday nights 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
For ticket information, click here.
Directed
by Lana Robinson
| A Broadway hit first produced
on the West End under the title Gaslight and filmed twice, Angel Street
tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in 19th
Century London. As the curtain rises, all appears the essence of
Victorian tranquility. It is soon apparent however, that Mr.
Manningham, a suavely handsome man, is slowly driving his gentle,
devoted wife Bella, to the brink of insanity with an insinuating
kindness which masks more sinsister motives. While he is out, Mrs.
Manningham has an unexpected caller: amiable, paternal Inspector Rough
from Scotland Yard. Rough is convinced that Manningham is a homicidal
maniac wanted for a murder committed fifteen years earlier in this very
house. Gradually the inspector restores Bella's confidence in herself
and as the evidence against Manningham unfolds, the author has built
and sustained some of the most brilliant, suspenseful sequences in
modern theatre. |
Auditions
held February 21, 22 & 23, 2010, 6:30 pm at the theatre green room.
Casting for 2 males, 3 females, 2 extras
On-site rehearsals March 21
For more information 817-341-8687
June, 2011
The
Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood
A Comedy written by Mary Lynn Dobson, courtesy of Dramatic Publishing
Company
Show
runs June 3-19, 2011
Friday & Saturday nights 8:00 pm
Special Father’s Day Matinee
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
For ticket information, click here.
Directed
by G. Mike West
| It's hard to be humble when you're a handsome swashbuckling super-hero. But our gallant guy-in-green-tights tries his best as he swaggers through "The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood," a frantically funny, Monty Python-esque retelling of the classic tale. This time around, our legendary legend, in his never-ending quest to aid the needy (and feed his ego), must rescue the lovely Maid Marian from the scheming sheriff and gold-hoarding monarch wannabe, aided by a band of Merry Men whose collective IQ equals six. It's an irreverent jaunt through Sherwood Forest you won't soon forget!
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Auditions
held March 28, 29 & 30, 2011, 6:30 pm at the theatre green room.
Casting for 8 men, 6 women
On-site rehearsals begin April 25 (NOTE: off-site)
For more information 817-341-8687
July, 2011
The
Jungle Book
Written by Joseph Robinette based on the Mowgli Stories of Rudyard
Kipling
Show runs July 15-24, 2011
Friday & Saturday nights 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
For ticket information, click here.
Directed
by Delona Grace
| One of literature's most
enduring classics is brought vividly to the stage in this exciting
adventure of Mowgli, the Indian boy, raised by caring wolves,
befriended by Bagheera, the Panther, and Baloo, the Bear, and
threatened by Shere Kahn, the evil tiger. Also present are an array of
other jungle creatures who inhabit this action-filled play.
Interspersed with the Mowgli tale is the equally intriguing story of a
young Rudyard Kipling, who is sent from his home in Bombay to a British
boarding school where he encounters his own "jungle," including
people—both good and otherwise—who parallel many of the
animal characters he created. Filled with excitement and humor, the
play highlights the struggle of good versus evil, the worth of
friendship, and the importance of loyalty and other values required for
surviving the "law of the jungle." |
Auditions
held May 9, 10 & 11, 2010, 6:30 pm at the theatre green room.
Casting for 10 to 25 men and women
On-site rehearsals begin June 6
For more information 817-341-8687
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