AUDITIONS FOR THE MURDER MYSTERY "CRITICAL REVIEW"
Auditions for the audience participation Murder Mystery, Critical Review, by Eileen Moushey, will be held on Sunday, March 12th.2006 at 1:00 p.m. at Pekin Park District’s MillerCenter, 551 S. 14th Street, Pekin, IL - in the McNaughton Lounge.
Parts are available for 3 adult men and 3 adult women ages 18 and up.This fun audience participation, Murder mystery will be directed by Nona Buster.
Performance date is Sunday, April 30th at 2:00 p.m. at the MillerCenter. This will be a traveling show with additional performances to be determined at a later date. Details will be available at auditions. Or call Nona Buster, director for more information at (309) 347-8182.
Morton Area Players and The Artistic Community Theatre will hold auditions for the musical, “Route 66”.The musical revue, by Roger Bean, has a cast of four adult men. Cynthia Bedell will be the director.The show will be at the Bertha Frank Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 17 thru Sunday, March 19, 2006 and Friday, March 24 thru Saturday, March 25.
The auditions will be held at the MortonParkDistrictRecreationCenter located at 324 Detroit Avenue in Morton.They will be in the multi-purpose room.Auditions will be at on Friday, January 20 at 6:30PM and Saturday, January 21 at 10AM.Call for an appointment and information.
Bring sheetmusic and prepare 16 bars of song for the audition.For appointment and information, call Cynthia Bedell at 309-999-7002 or Dennis Peacock at 309-347-8982.
We will be doing our version of the Christmas Carol on Friday Dec. 2 from 5-8 p.m. again this year. It will be associated with the Pekin Main Street activity “Christmas on Court Street”
We do the show outside in front of stores and in the small parks. It is really a lot of fun!! The store owners get into the action also.
You can be an active actor, a singer, just dress up and join the group or help direct the multitudes of spectators that follow the action!
The show typically is minimum rehearsal.
We hope to base the show out of Yesterday’s Bar and Grill again, but that has to be verified. We usually have a bite to eat and drink afterwards.
You can see pictures of last year’s activity in the show pics section of this blog.
If you are interested in participating – please come to the meeting, or contact Bill Homel or Dennis Peacock. We will have a ton of Holiday Cheer!!!!!
There will be a meeting at the ACT/MAP (120 St. Mary Street in Pekin) building -- Thursday, 11/17/05 at 6:30PM. There we will set up a read through and a few rehearsals.
If you have signed up to be involved or are still interested – come to the meet. This is a ton of fun and we will find parts for everyone!
If you cannot make the meeting – just contact Bill Homel or Dennis Peacock and we will keep you posted on future meetings.
Funeral Tea
Thanks to all the people that helped make the event a success!!!
Cheaper by the Dozen
We still have shows Friday and Saturday night. Please come and enjoy the Gilbreth family and have a great time!!
Morton Area Players and The Artistic Community Theatre of Pekin will present the musical, “Cheaper by the Dozen”.
The entire family will love this classic. Mr. Gilbreth is a master of efficiency and wants all twelve of his children to understand time management, which includes a completely organized family council, and even playing French and German records while taking a bath. Unfortunately, his oldest daughter, Anne, only wants to be a normal teenage girl, and that seems to be too inefficient for him. He learns to accept her changes and changes a bit himself!
This musical comedy is being directed by Chip Johnson.The Music Director is Debbie Smith and the Choreographer is Heide Thorndyke.
Show dates are November 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 7:30PM and a matinee on November 13 at 2:30PM.
The performances will be at the BerthaFrankPerformingArtsCenter, located in the 400 block of E. Jackson (US #150), in Morton.
Tickets are: Adults/$12, Seniors/$10 and Students/$8.Tickets are available in advance at Colby Natural Health Store, 141 S. Main Street, Morton, or by calling 309-266 -7604.
Funeral Tea and Reunion
Our cast of the one act plays, Funeral Tea and Reunion will be performing this very Sunday, November 13 at the PekinParkMillerCenter.
The Artistic Community Theatre, The Pekin Park Miller Center and the Morton Area Players, in a cooperative venture, will present the one act comedy, “Funeral Tea”.The play, written by Pat Wilson has a five person, all women cast.Nona Buster is the Director of this riotously funny short play about an English tea after a cremation.The family and friends of Uncle Jacob are all a little bewildered on the actual "proper" way to do things, especially with dear Uncle Jacob's ashes!
“Reunion” is the meeting of the same ladies one week later on Halloween night.
For information contact PekinParkDistrictMillerCenter 551 South 14th Street Pekin, IL61554 Phone:309-346-5210
Morton Area Players and The Artistic Community Theatre will hold auditions for the musical, “Cheaper by the Dozen”.The show will be performed at the Bertha Frank Performing Arts Center on Friday, November 11 thru Sunday, November 13, 2005 and Friday, November 18 thru Saturday, November 19.
The auditions will be held at the MortonParkDistrictRecreationCenter located at 324 Detroit Avenue in Morton.Auditions will be on Thursday September 22 and Friday September 23 at 6:30PM.There are two adult male and two adult female parts.There are also numerous children characters from grade school to high school age.
The Artistic Community Theatre and Morton Area Players Present: "ANNIE"
Show dates are August 12th and 13th at 7:30 p.m. and August 14th at 2:30 p.m. Also, August 19th and 20th at 7:30 p.m. Come and enjoy the performances at the comfortably air-conditioned 'state of the art' Bertha Frank Performing Arts Center, located in the 400 block of E. Jackson (US #150) in Morton.
Tickets are available in advance at Colby Natural Health Store, 141 S. Main Street, Morton, or by calling 309 - 266 - 7604.
Annie is an award winning musical based upon the popular 'HAROLD GRAY comic strip LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE. The music is by Charles Strouse,lyrics by Martin Chamin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. Famous songs from the musical include the unforgettable "Tomorrow" and "It's A Hard KnockLife".
The story tells about a 10-year old orphan girl named Annie, who is chosen to spend two weeks with billionaire Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Though cold and
aloof at first, Warbucks comes to love the little orphan and eventually wants to adopt her. But, Annie believes her parents are still alive. Warbucks thenpublicly announces that he will give a cash reward to her real parents. This prompts a plot to kidnap the girl by the tyrannical and dastardly Miss Hannigan the orphange manager, her sleezy brother Rooster, and his girlfriend Lily.
The original Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on April 21st, 1977 and ran for 2,377 performances. It starred Andrea McArdle, Reid Shelton,
and Dorothy Loudon.. It was nominated for 11 Tony Awards and won 7, including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book.
The film version, made in 1982 by Columbia Pictures, starred Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, and Tim Curry.
It was directed by John Huston, his first and only film musical.
A made-for-TV movie version, produced by The Walt Disney Company, appeared in 1999 starring Kathey Bates as Miss Hannigan and Victor Garber (Titanic) as Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.
DON'T MISS this production of "ANNIE", filled with memorable songs and magical moments. This heartwarming musical will have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face, a song in your heart, and reliving the magic over and over.
The director Brandon Burling portrayed an enchanting & perfect Cornelius Hackel in ACT/MAP production of "Hello Dolly" last summ He is persuing his masters degree in theater at Illinois State University. He is very excited and happy to have the opportunity to work again with ACT/MAP.
Aaron Ganschow, a talented youg man, is the music director. He performed with the Pekin Noteables during his high school career and with ACT in "Music of the Century". He is currently the music instructor at DeerCreek/Makinaw schools, and recently directed "Little Shop of Horror's".
Choreographer is Kendra White another talented team member and also the fiance' of director Brandon Burling. She has had numerous years of dance and also performed with the Pekin Noteables.
Annie will be portrayed by Casey Hart, who just finished performing in " The Will Rogers Follies" starring Eddie Urish. She has also starred in Cornstocks "A Christmas Story". With the voice of an angel she will portray the character of Annie to perfection.
Brian Pape will splendidly take on the role of Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. He has had noted roles in "Music Man", Oklahoma" and "Hello Dolly".
Grace, the top secretary to Oliver Warbucks is Monica Pape. She and husband Brian will make a PERFECT team!!!
Miss Hannigan is being played by Lisa MacKenzie. Lisa is the director of the Pekin Civic Chorus and teaches 6th grade at Wilson School in Pekin. Another impressive talent, Lisa will give new life to the orphans greeting, "We love you Miss Hannigan".
MAP/ACT welcomes back Heinrick Hailey who will play Rooster. Heinrick did a fabulous job as Cornelius Hackel's sidekick Barnaby in last summers "Hello Dolly". Hienrick is a super talent and has a great singing voice. He aspires to be a Broadway director someday.....GOOD LUCK Heinrick!!!
The role of Lily will be played by Jaci Nordstrom. Jaci has a list of musical credits as long or longer than her arm. A very talented vocalist, she played the role of Ermmagarde in MAP/ACT "Hello Dolly" last season.
The auditions will be held at the MortonParkDistrictRecreationCenter located at 324 Detroit Avenue in Morton.
Friday, June 10, auditions for children (ages 8 to 18) will be from 6:00PM until 8:00PM and adults from 8:00PM to 9:00PM.
On Saturday, June 11, children auditions will be from 1:00PM to 3:00PM followed by adults from 3:00PM to 4:00PM.
Bring 16 to 32 bars of prepared music.Children should be prepared for a dance audition and people will be asked to read from the script
The show will be performed at the BerthaFrankPerformingArtsCenter on Friday, August 12 thru Sunday, August 14, 2005 and Friday, August 19 thru Saturday, August 20.
Kathie Fornoff is working with the Leadership team of:Brandon Burling = director, Kendra White is the choreographer and Aaron Ganshow is the Music Director.
For more information, leave a message at 309-477-2402 or write a comment on this blog. posted by Lance Travis at 12:06 PM
