[Theatre Announcements] Theatre Happenings: 18 December 2007

Tue Dec 18 09:58:06 CST 2007

Welcome to this week’s edition of Theatre Happenings, a compendium of imminent productions in the North Alabama and South Central Tennessee area (for all the theatre-goers), as well as a head’s up about upcoming auditions (for all the actors, most of whom are also theatre-goers ).
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Theatre Happenings
in Huntsville, Decatur and Thereabouts

Summary of This Week's Events
Well, the flood of Christmas productions has become a trickle as the holiday itself looms ahead. But auditions are coming up as we look ahead to the Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul that is January.

Click on a link to find out more about a specific event.

"Sanders Family Christmas" (RT) 
"Hansel and Gretel" (AN) 

"Space Rangers and the Viper Menace" (RT/MMO) 
Renaissance Theatre - Open Auditions (RT) 

Play Writing Competition (POA) 

Upcoming Productions

These are the shows either currently in production, or else coming up within the next two weeks.

Renaissance Theatre/Burritt on the Mountain
Sanders Family Christmas
Renaissance Theatre in cooperation with Burritt on the Mountain presents "Sanders Family Christmas".
Date & Times: 

December 20-22 at 7:30 with 2:30 matinees on December 22 and 23. 
All performances on the Burritt on the Mountain in Huntsville.
Synopsis: The the Sanders Family Singers: Vera, Burl, Dennis, Denise, June & Uncle Stanley, back for a second visit to Reverend Ogalthorpe's mountain top church for a rousing holiday caravan of holiday spirit, stories and singing!
Directed by: Bob Baker, assisted by Joanna Broad.
Tickets: All tickets $20 general admission.
Contact:  Call 256-536-2882..
Other Info: Featuring Kelly Sims, Kelly Lynn, Emily Lynn, Mit Merritt, Dennis Joanna Broad & Jeff White.  Musical Direction by David Giambrone, Costumes by Gay Broad/Bob Baker and produced by Renaissance Theatre's Community Outreach Program to effectively support other non-profit organizations as we support ourselves!
www.renaissancetheatre.net

Ars Nova
Hansel and Gretel
Ars Nova presents "Hansel and Gretel".
Date & Times: 

Dec. 21, 22, and 23 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. each day 
All performances at Ars Nova Performance Hall.
Synopsis: After Hansel and Gretel break the last bottle of milk, the children are sent out to the forest to collect strawberries, even though night is near.  The children get lost and fall asleep in the forest. The next day, they happen upon a house made of cake and sugar. They cannot resist and start eating the house. Suddenly an evil witch appears and kidnaps the children! Starring Ron Roberts as the witch, Rosina!
Directed by: Lea Hoppe.
Tickets: $12 general admission.
Contact:  256-883-1105 or arsnovaschool81 at bellsouth.net
Other Info: After the 2pm matinees, children ages 6-12 are welcome to join in a workshop making Gingerbread Houses! This production is made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Huntsville Arts Council, Target, and the Boeing Company.
www.arsnovahsv.com

Auditions

Okay, thespians and thespian wannabees! Here's your chance to tread the boards. Audition opportunities are herein listed.

Renaissance Theatre/Mad Men Only Theatre
Renaissance Theatre, in conjunction with Mad Men Only Theatre, will hold auditions for the original musical, "Space Rangers and the Viper Menace", by Chuck Puckett.
Location and Times: 
Auditions will be held at Renaissance Theatre, 1214 Meridian Street in Huntsville. The schedule is as follows:

Saturday, Jan. 5 (2008) at 10:00 AM 
Sunday, Jan. 6 (2008) at 3:00 PM 
Possible call-backs will be on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 3:00PM 
Director: Chuck Puckett
Cast Requirements: There are roles for 6 Men, 4 Women, and a Chorus. 2 of the men and 3 of the women must be in their 20's-early 30's. 1 of the men and 1 of the women are older (middle aged or older).
Synopsis: Strat Lancaster has saved the galaxy annually, ever since he graduated from the Academy. So a grateful galaxy plans to honor him at his class reunion. But things are not always what they seem. Cosmo Biggs, the most powerful tycoon in the Galactic Federation wants more than money, he wants EVERYTHING. The beautiful, yet sinister Queen Urana seems to have less than honorable intentions as well. And when Strat is grounded on a technicality, there seems to be nothing stopping the triumph of evil and greed. Add a mutating monster lurking in the background, a set of heroic Space Rangers, and lots of great tunes, and you have Space Rangers and the Viper Menace: Look out, Universe, here they come!
Be Prepared: Auditions will consist of cold readings from the play. You should also be prepared to sing a short vocal selection to display your voice. A keyboard will be available, but you'll need your own accompanist, or else bring a karaoke CD (a capella is also okay). Perusal copies of the script are available by emailing puckett_chuck at hotmail.com. You may listen to sample scores at www.puckettpublishing.com/songs/scores.htm (scroll down to find Space Rangers scores).
Show Schedule: Performance dates are April 11, 12, 17-19, 2008 at Renaissance Theatre.
Contact: Call 256-682-0783 or puckett_chuck at hotmail.com.
www.renaissancetheatre.netwww.puckettpublishing.comwww.madmenonlytheatre.com

Renaissance Theatre
Renaissance Theatre will hold open auditions for 2008 shows.
Location and Times: 
Auditions will be held at Renaissance Theatre, 1214 Meridian Street in Huntsville on Saturday, Jan. 12 (2008) at 10:00 AM.
Be Prepared: Bring a prepared monologue and/or a few bars from a musical piece to sing a capella. Even if you’ve auditioned for Renaissance Theatre before, come to express your interest in working with the 2008 lineup of shows including such productions as: Murder on the Nile (production dates in May) (callbacks by February 3rd/4th), La Cage Aux Folles (production dates in August), The Rocky Horror Show (production dates in October)
Contact: Call 256-536-3117.
www.renaissancetheatre.net

Other Events

Other events related to local theatre are listed here.

Panoply
10 Minute Play-Writing Competition
Panoply Arts Festival is accepting submissions to its 10-Minute Playwright Competition. 10-Minute Plays are a relatively new dramatic structure where the playwright develops a full plot with a beginning, middle and end within a production running time of seven to ten minutes. In our fast food society of short attention spans and commitment phobias, the Ten-Minute Playwright competition is the perfect literary-theatric combo meal to educate and expose the general public to bite size portions of the arts. 
Panoply invites playwrights from across the United States to submit original scripts pertaining to the theme outlined below. These scripts will be judged by a panel of judges who will also produce the winning plays. The five selected playwrights will receive a $50.00 stipend for their work, and they will also be invited to attend Panoply and watch as their play is produced for the first time. Panoply will take the responsibility of working with area schools and drama troupes to produce each play five times in the park during the festival.  
Panoply is one of the premiere arts festivals in the southeast. The festival is annually held in Huntsville, Alabama, the last full weekend of April. This celebration of the arts attracted over 140,000 people to downtown Huntsville’s Big Spring Park for Panoply 2007.  The festival was conceived as a fine arts festival geared to children and their families. Panoply strives to offer the community a wide array of the arts including 5 performing stages that showcase the best in theater, music and dance, the Panoply Choreography Competition, a juried Art Marketplace with artists from across the US, many make-n-take activities for children and families, the Global Village, and the 10-Minute Playwright Competition.
Guidelines for Play Submissions:

Run time must be between 7-10 minutes 
Maximum of 4 characters 
For a general audience base; no “mature audience only” material 
Will be produced in a covered tent at an outdoor arts festival 
Furniture and props that can be set up and struck within 5 minutes 
No more than 6 sound cues 
General lighting wash only 
One level 16’x 20’ playing area 
Timeline:

Applications available by October 20, 2007.  Click here to download the Playwright Application 
Submissions must be postmarked by December 31, 2007 
Winners will be notified by February 15, 2008 
Production crew receives script by February 22, 2008 
Dress rehearsal on Thursday, April 24, 2008 
Plays performed at festival on April 25, 26, and 27, 2008 
Theme:
Southern Comfort: Submissions must pertain to the four ways Southerners find comfort: food, family, sports or music.
Click here to see a printable entry form.
Submit Entries to:
10-Minute Playwright Competition
Panoply Arts Festival
700 Monroe St., Suite 2
Huntsville, AL  35801
www.panoply.org

Chuck Puckett, Esq., BS, ~MS, ThD www.puckettpublishing.com "The unexamined life is not worth living." (Socrates) "The unexamined faith is not worth believing." (Chuck) "Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind." (Arabian proverb) "I don't want to steal the show... I only want to borrow it for a while." (Chuck) 
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