There is a lot happening back stage at ACT this week. On Jan 30th Tap Classes with Amy McCarthy begin. You can register online at the act website www.actandover.com under the classes tab. In February (just a few days away) we have Dance Fit with Amy Wilkins Blanchette Here is a little more info about Dance Fit (The class will consist of warms up, across the floor and/or center aerobics, and various styles of choreography. Warm ups will be plies, a lot of stretching, laterals, and isolations followed by sit ups, push-ups and triceps dips. The choreography section will be the most challenging for non-dancers. The warm up section will not be hard in terms of dance ability, but may be physically challenging.) And then we have auditions for 42nd Street! Feb 7th and 8th
Auditions for the musical 42nd Street with book by Michael Stewart and MarkBramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. Auditioning for allroles. 42nd Street 42nd Street tells the story of a humble, naïve youngactress named Peggy Sawyer who has come to audition for a new Broadway musicalDirected by Julian Marsh and starring Dorothy Brock. In a twist of fate theyoung actress Peggy has 36 hours to learn the show to take over for the starthat just broke her ankle. Directed by Charles Gracy, Choreographer BethKennedy, Music Director Mark Mercer. For more information visitwww.actandover.com or email charlesgracy@actandover.com 978-476-1138MORE INFO: http://www.actandover.com E-MAIL TO: theater@actandover.com Don't miss out of all the exciting things happening at ACT this month!
Friday, January 27, 2012
There is a lot happening at ACT this month!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Audition Notice for The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Audition Notice
WHAT: The Great American Trailer Park Musical
WHEN: Thursday, November 10 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
WHERE: ACT Rehearsal Space
250 Canal Street Lawrence MA 4th Floor
This is an extremely funny and irreverent adult show. The MUSIC is extremely difficult, if you are not a strong parts singer this is not the show for you.
There are 7 parts in total. The roles of Betty, Lin and Pippi have already been cast, all other roles remain open.
Check out the official web site: http://www.trailerparkmusical.com/
Questions? Email Charles Gracy, Director charlesgracy@actandover.com or call 978-476-1138
A musical written by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso.
There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres – and she’s wreaking havoc all over North Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband – the storms begin to brew.
NOTE: This play contains adult themes and language and is not suitable for persons under 18 years of age.
“Adultery, strippers, murderous ex-boyfriends, Costco, and the Ice Capades. Undeniable fun.”
- The New York Post
“South Park meets Desperate Housewives in this big-hearted musical comedy with a cheeky script and an infectious score. Trailer Park sparkles with treasure.”
- The New York Sun
“Joyful and unashamedly vulgar, this comic fable about women in a Florida trailer park and their no-account men is more fun than a chair-throwing episode of Jerry Springer set to music.”
- The New Yorker
CHARACTERS
THE LOVE TRIANGLE and THE VILLAIN
JEANNIE GARSTECKI (Brenda Brunston) Jeannie has lived in a trailer at Armadillo Acres for 20 years with her husband and high-school sweetheart, Norbert. A faded beauty, she was 17 when she married, 18 when her son was born and 23 when he got kidnapped. That, coupled with a really bad perm, has turned her into an agoraphobic. She hasn’t left her trailer in all these years, and the man she loves is drifting further and further away and she’s determined to get him back ... that is if she could manage to get out of the trailer to do it…
NORBERT GARSTECKI (Joshua Robertson) Jeannie's husband Norbert collects tolls for a living and tries to be as good a husband as one can be to an agoraphobic. A former high-school football star, he has rugged good looks marred by fatigue and the stress of his difficult marriage. He is a simple man who desperately wishes his wife could get out of the trailer, but he's not equipped with the emotional or intellectual tools to help her do it. He has never loved or slept with a woman other than Jeannie. That is until he meets...
PIPPI . Pippi is a striking beauty with a great body and a taste for clothing that shows it off. Up to this point, Pippi's life has been about surviving. She is a professional stripper who has gotten by on her looks and talents for dancing and petty theft. She means no harm and is ready to stop making bad choices and start making changes, but first she has to get lost in a hick-town trailer park in North Florida so she won’t be found by her last bad choice...
DUKE Duke is Pippi’s obsessive, possessive and excessive Magic Marker-sniffing boyfriend; “ex”-boyfriend according to Pippi. Not so, according to Duke. Not the brightest guy south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Duke leaves a trail of disaster in his wake wherever he goes. His road trip to Starke is no exception and his arrival at the trailer park is full of surprises - even for a group of people who have had their share of excitement…
“THE GIRLS"
BETTY Betty attended high school with Norbert and Jeannie Garstecki and has lived at Armadillo Acres for just as long. She now runs the leasing office and makes it her business to know everything about everybody who passes through the trailer park. Though a self-proclaimed "bad-ass," Betty is really a mother hen to the denizens of the trailer park. Of all "The Girls," Betty is the most grounded, earthy and dry.
LINOLEUM “LIN" So-named because her mother gave birth to her on the kitchen floor, Linoleum has a husband on death row at the Florida State Prison. His fate is an electric chair that doesn’t work properly unless most of the town’s electricity is turned off, so Lin watches everyone's lights and appliances very closely in the hopes that she can keep the chair on the fritz. Sometimes self-absorbed and sometimes just a smart-ass, she hints at a wild, rock-and-roll past and is the fieriest of "The Girls."
DONNA "PICKLES" A newlywed, Donna is called "Pickles" because she is perpetually hysterically pregnant - that is, she's so convinced she should be pregnant that she's exhibiting symptoms. Her husband is a lot fancier than she is, as he is from the big city of Jacksonville. His parents haven’t been very supportive of his marital choice, so Pickles is desperate to give her husband a family of his even if she has to fake it. The dimmest of "The Girls," Pickles is airy, sweet and blissfully ignorant.
Monday, May 2, 2011
DIVAS auditions tonight!
EVENT LINK ON FACEBOOK
AUDITIONS FOR DIVAS - Summer Dinner Cabaret at the Indian Ridge Country Club in Andover, MA
ACT Andover Space
250 Canal Street, 4th Floor
Lawrence, MA
Questions? Call 978-476-1138 Charles Gracy Artistic Director ACT for more information visit our website ACT