2nd Annual Playwrights Festival

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2nd Annual Playwrights Festival Auditions

Tehachapi Community Theatre announces Auditions for the 2nd Annual Playwrights Festival.  Ages listed are the character ages, not necessarily the actor age. The play dates are October 1, 2, and 3. Auditions are August 27 at 6:30 and 28 at 3:00 pm. Auditions will be at TCT Second Space, 431 W. J Street.

Also needed are 2 more directors.

The plays:

PIE US:  1 man, 1 woman, mid 20’s, 1 woman 40’s to 50’s.  Adam has dinner at the same diner every night.  One evening, he notices a delicious apple pie on the counter.  The waitress informs him that the cooks pies are so good, they are not eaten.  Enter Eve, a voluptuous vixen and all hell breaks loose.

EGGS:  1 man, 1 woman mid 20’s.  Barbara is an “Old fashioned” girl, who is into “relationships”, but wants to be more sexually adventurous.  Randy is a drummer in a band who has fantasies about being a sexual object.  After a “liaison” they “revert to type”.  Barbara see this as a start of a romance, while Randy wants to escape with his fantasy in tact.

WHATEVER I WANT:  2 women late teens, early 20’s.  Rita is dying and has been allowed to plan her own funeral.  Elizabeth, Rita’s older sister, is helping her, but doesn’t think Rita is taking it seriously.  Whose funeral is it anyways?

GROUNDS FOR CONSPIRACY:  3 men, 2 women (2 men and 2 women in their 70’s to 80″s, 1 man mid 40’s).  John, Fran and Eunice spend each morning at the same coffee shop discussing senior life.  One morning, an elderly man with a walker enters the shop with a gun.  The shop owner doesn’t take him seriously and suggest he relaxes while he looks for cash in the back room.  The robber convinces the other three that crime is the way to go.

THE OPENING:  5 men, 2 women (with extras).  All his life, Billy was sure about his sexuality.  Now, he discovers the he is not the person he thought he was and must inform his parents and friends.

ANTIQUES:  2 men (1 mid 40’s, 1 mid 60’s), 1 woman (mid 40’s).  Ethan and Colleen, childhood sweethearts, are on vacation in Boston when they come across an antiuqes store.  More a curiosity and memorabilia store than antiques.   They start to notice that the items look very familiar… from their own childhood?  Is it possible? Past and present unite at the end in a nostalgic and eerie way.

THE PEOPLES PRADA: 1 woman (mid 50’s) 1 man (late 20’s).  A Beverly Hills widow decides it is time for the reluctant stepson to move out.

LEMONADE WITH A TWIST: 1 man (30’s) 1 woman (60’s).  An elderly woman calls the automobile club to get her car started.  A man shows up, and the elderly woman invites him in for some lemonade.  It soon comes out that she dosen’t own a car and just calls different companies to get someone over for companionship.    Their conversation turns to people in the neghiborhood disapering, but who is the suspect?

Thank you to all who entered their play for consideration.   Here is a list of the finalist for the Play Festival coming up in October.

TCT would also like to thank the judges for their time reading all the plays.

Bonnie Chugg

Richard K. Newman

Annette Kirby

Barbara Chugg

Dan Roth

Michael Sadler

Christine Rosensteel

TCT is looking for people to direct the plays.  The dates for the festival are October 1, 2 and 3.

Anyone interested in directing, please contact Kenny Chugg,  661-972-2890 or at kennychugg@tctonstage.com

Auditions will be announced soon.

Click HERE to see a matrix of show dates

This season Main Stage presentations are:

Proof, September 10

It’s A Wonderful Life, November 19

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, January 28

Foxfire, March 18

Taming of the Shrew, June 10

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Opening September 10, 2010-

Proof by David Auburn, ran on Broadway for 3 years, garnering five Tony Award Nominations, including two wins (Best Play and Best Actress Mary-Louise Parker); The Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Joseph Kesselring Award for best new playwright.

Relationships among family and students rearrange themselves in the wake of a professor’s death, and in the scramble to solve the mystery of a mathematical proof. There’s no murder, but Who Done It is the question which dominates the proceedings. The popular film version starred Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

  Directed by Mark Fisher

SOME STRONG LANGUAGE

Play Dates: Sept 10, 11, 17, 18, 19M, 24, 25M, 25

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Opening November 19, 2010-

The stage version of the classic Frank Capra film “It’s a Wonderful Life” ushers the theatre into the holiday season.

Ever wonder what life would have been like if you were never born.  Mostly everyone you know would be better off, one way or another.  The girl of your dreams would get the boy of her dreams.  Your parents would be better off because there would be one less person to care for…right? George Baily thought that and soon discovered that “It’s a Wonderful Life” after all.

The original film garnered 5 Oscar nominations (including Best Actor James Stewart, Best Director, and Best Film), and is ranked by the American Film Institute among the 100 Best American Films and the number one most inspirational American film of all time.

 Directed by Doug Jockinsen

Family Fun Entertainment. 

Play Dates Nov 19, 20, 26, 27, 28M, Dec 3, 4M, 4

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Opening January 28, 2011- MUSICAL THEATRE without the Musical Theatre Price!

Springtime will be welcomed by one of the funniest Broadway Musicals of all time, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” written by Bert Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (of “M*A*S*H” fame), with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.  “Forum” has been to Broadway three times, earning a total of fifteen Tony Award nominations, and two Drama Desk nominations.

Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish; purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the house of Lycus, a slave dealer specializing in beautiful women. Pseudolus concocts a deal in which he will be freed if he can procure the girl for young Hero. Of course, it can’t be that simple as everything begins to go wrong.

Directed by Ruthanne Jennings

Some risque language and costuming

Play dates:  Jan. 28, 29, Feb 4, 5, 6M, 11, 12M, 12

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Opening March 18, 2011-

“Foxfire” by Hume Cronin and Susan Cooper is a rarely produced gem, which includes several songs.  The show received three Tony nominations.  Set in the southern Appalachian mountains, the story is based on the Foxfire project, which documented rural Appalachian life.  Annie Nations, an indomitable Appalachian widow of 79, lives on her mountain farm with the acerbic ghost of her husband Hector. Her tranquility is threatened by a brash real estate developer who wants to turn her land into a vacation resort and by concern over her son Dillard, a country singer who has come home with two stranded children because his wife has run away. Annie’s battle to decide her future takes her through some funny, touching and magical flashbacks of her life with Hector.

Directed by Alex Zonn

Some mild language

Play Dates:  Mar 18, 19, 25, 26 27M, Apr 1, 2M, 2

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Opening June 10, 2011-

Closing the subscription season is “Taming of the Shrew,” a wildly popular comedy based on the battle of the sexes. The rollicking tale has provided inspiration for a contemporary film (10 Things I Hate About You), six operas, one musical (Kiss Me, Kate), a ballet, countless films all over the world, including the famous Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton version directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and twenty-five trips to Broadway. 

Baptista Minola has 2 daughters.  Everyone wants to marry his fair and sweet, Bianca, but no one wants his equally beautiful, but spiteful, mean and just nasty daughter, Kate.  What’s a father to do?  He makes a decision that will affect Bianca and Kate in more ways than one.  Bianca can not marry until Kate does.    Bianca’s suitors begin to search for a unsuspecting man to become Kate’s husband.  Enter a victim (I mean suitor).  The swaggering Petruchio, eager to wive it wealthily in Padua, agrees to do just this.   He vows to marry and then tame this untamable shrew.

Directed by David Siler

Some mild language

Play Dates: June 10, 11, 17, 18, 19M, 24, 25M, 25

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Other shows not part of the Season Ticket Program

Opening October 15, 2010

TCT jr. Fall production of “Alice in Wonderland”

This classic story of Alice’s adventure thru wonderland is a fast paced, funny and wild romp that will keep audiences laughing.  Meet all the caracters you love, from the Cheshire Cat to the Queen of Hearts.

Directed by Heather Ringle

Family Fun Entertainment

Play Dates: Oct 15, 16, 17M, 22, 23, 14M, 29, 30

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Opening May 6, 2011

TCT jr. Spring  Production of “King Midas and the Golden Touch” 

King Midas has been granted a fanstastic wish.  Everything he touches turns to gold.  But, will the King be truly happy with this wonderous gift?

Directed by Monica Nadon

Family Fun Entertainment

Play Dates: May 6, 7, 8M, 13, 14, 15M, 20, 21

Over the past year, TCT has been honored with several awards for its commitment to the community.   Among these are Tehachapi Main Street’s Best Restoration of a building, The California Downtown Association Golden Eagle award for beautification of downtown Tehachapi, and the latest, the Kern Council of Government gave the Regional Award of Merit for Local Government to the City of Tehachapi and Tehachapi Community Theatre for the restoration of the BeeKay Theatre (click here for BeeKay article).

In addition to the award from Kern Council, TCT also received a personal letter of congratulations from Senator Diane Feinstein.

These awards reflect the commitment that TCT has to the community and without the support of the community; TCT would still be looking for a place to call home.

The board of Directors would like to thank everyone that has supported TCT in the past and hope we can keep that support going for another 40 years.

COMEDY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

TCT’s improvisation troupe “Comedy Under Construction” is a group of members under the direction of Monica Nadon.

 Director Nadon studied improv in Los Angeles for six years and performed at the Comedy Store and the famous Ice House in Pasadena.

The group gets together now and then to play at improv and perform whenever the chance arises.  Most recently, Comedy Under Construction performed at Mama Hillybean’s nearly every month to very appreciative audiences.

In the past the group has performed at the Bear Valley country Club, Mountain Festival, and special performances for local groups.  If your group needs entertainment for an event, consider having TCT’s Improve Troupe, Comedy Under Construction, do the honors.

For more information, call the TCT Hot line and leave a message about the your special event.  661-822-4037

333 E. Tehachapi Blvd

823-8333

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