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Brigadoon Auditions

Bakersfield Music Theatre- Stars Dinner Theatre is holding auditions for Brigadoon.

Performance Dates run through the month of July. Please come prepared to sing with a piano accompaniment, and you will be asked to dance and read a scene from the show.

Directed by Adam and Terri Cline.

For more info, please call 661-343-2499

AUDITIONS: Medea

Auditions for The August Production at TES
MEDEA
By Euripedes
Directed by Bob Kempf

Auditions: Sunday, May 25, 4-6pm; Saturday, May 31, 11am-1pm
Performances: August 8 - 23, 2008
Rehearsals: 7-10pm, Sunday - Thursday beginning July 13

The Plot: After retrieving the legendary golden fleece, Jason brings his wife Medea to settle in Corinth. There Jason falls in love with the local princess, whose status in the city will bring Jason financial security. He marries her without telling Medea. Medea takes revenge by killing the new bride and her father, the King of Corinth. Medea then purposely stabs her children to death in order to deprive Jason of all he loved (as well as heirs that
would carry on his name). She escapes to Athens with the bodies. The chorus of Corinthian women is left contemplating the will of Zeus in Medea's actions.
MEDEA has withstood the test of time to become one of the great tragedies of classical Greece.

CHARACTERS
Medea: (CAST) Barbarian, sorceress, woman of passion and rage. Clever, powerful, and ruthless, fiercely proud; a cunning and cold manipulator
Jason: Leader of the Argonauts, an opportunistic and unscrupulous man, full of self-deception and repugnant smugness.
Creon: King of Corinth. Suspicious, paranoid.
Aegeus: King of Athens. Friend of Medea. Kindly and trusting ruler.
Nurse: Servant to Medea, loyal to Medea. She is an outside commentator on the events of the play. As a slave, she is a canny but powerless observer.
Tutor: Tutor to Medea's children. Like the nurse, he comments on the behavior of his masters, although he has a different perspective on events.
Messenger: brings the news of the deaths of Creon and the Corinthian princess.
Chorus of Corinthian Women: The women of Corinth. Medea enlists their loyalty, extracting a vow of silence. They watch the horrific events unfold, but do not interfere. Though they condemn Medea at times, on the whole they seem to be more enthralled than disgusted by her. Like Medea, they are subject to the injustices that befall women; there is a part of them that seems to live vicariously through Medea's terrible revenge.

AUDITIONS: Medea

Auditions for The August Production at TES
MEDEA
By Euripedes
Directed by Bob Kempf

AUDITIONS: Medea

Auditions for The August Production at TES
MEDEA
By Euripedes
Directed by Bob Kempf

AUDITIONS: Medea

Auditions for The August Production at TES
MEDEA
By Euripedes
Directed by Bob Kempf

Reefer Madness: The Musical!

REEFER MADNESS: THE MUSICAL

Directed by Jeremiah Heitman

The award-winning Reefer Madness musical was inspired by the notorious -- and deliciously awful -- 1936 anti-marijuana film originally titled Tell Your Children. A smarmy lecturer arrives in a typical small town of the late '30s to warn the populace of the dangers of the "evil weed," bringing along a lurid propaganda production to dramatize his message. In broad, unsubtle, and hilarious strokes, the play-within-a-play shows how even a squeaky-clean pair of highschoolers named Mary Lane and Jimmy Harper can become hopeless dope addicts by succumbing to the lure of marijuana. Reefer Madness: The Musical is not only a savage skewering of the original black-and-white movie (some of the musical's campiest lines are taken directly from the earlier script!), but also a devastating attack on what playwrights Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney consider to be the real reason that the 1936 movie was made: to frighten the public out of their wits in order to keep them under the thumb of an oppressive government. Some memorable songs include "Romeo and Juliet,” “The Stuff,” “Down at the Ol' Five and Dime,” “Listen to Jesus Jimmy,” “Mary Jane/Mary Lane,” “The Brownie Song,” “Tell 'Em the Truth,” and the title number.

The cast includes: Alyssa Bonanno, Brian Brown, Jared Cantrell, Caroline Clark, Alex Cullen, Jessica Delcid, Diego Flores, Samantha Gonzales, Jeremiah Heitman, Jay-Ar Ignacio, Austin Jallo, Kamala Kruszka, Taylor Lozano, Paul Sosa, and Veronica Surber.

Performances are June 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 8PM, with 2PM Sunday matinees on June 15 and 22. Call 327-PLAY to make reservations!

Reefer Madness: The Musical!

REEFER MADNESS: THE MUSICAL

Directed by Jeremiah Heitman

Performances are June 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 8PM, with 2PM Sunday matinees on June 15 and 22. Call 327-PLAY to make reservations!

AUDITIONS: Babies Having Babies

Auditions for the August Production at TES
Babies Having Babies
By Kathyrn Montgomery & Jeffery Auerbach
Directed by Fred Burnett

Auditions: Saturday, June 7, 11:00-12:45am; Sunday, June 8, 12:00-4pm
Performances: August 29, 30 and September 5, 6 at 8pm;
August 31 at 4pm with a Baby Shower and Resource Fair at 2pm

CHARACTERS
LISA: The over-achieving journalist, she starts out and ends as the narrator. A quiet intensity and attention to detail. 17 years old.

MAX (MAXINE): The tough outsider, very sarcastic. Aggressive. One gets a sense that she's hiding something; protecting herself in some way. Thrift store chic, speaks her own mind. 16 years old.

MARY PAT: Catholic, Very reserved. The "Chubby" girl in school with glasses. Plain. She's going to give her baby up for adoption- abortion isn't an option. 16 years old, eight months pregnant.

KELLY: all-American cheerleader, attractive. Stand-offish. "A real model teenager." 17 years old.

BRENDA: Black girl from low income family, seven months pregnant. Her mother got pregnant at a young age as well. Is being "kicked" out of school, because her pregnancy is a disruption. 14 years old.

HENRY: Older, unshaven man. The Center's custodian, takes his job seriously. Crotchety.

MRS. CHAPMAN: middle-aged pregnancy counselor; over worked. Volunteers her time to a good cause, stretched far too thin.

DELIVERY BOY: 17-year-old pizza delivery hotshot.

For more information and ways you can help, please contact Fred at babieshavingbabies@yahoo.com