Ignite! Table Reading

Table Read for Ignite! Community Theatre's upcoming play "Beware the Man Eating Chicken"

Monday November 14th
6:30 PM
Central Lutheran Church
518 S Bernard

The Foreigner Audition details

Auditions for The Foreigner by Larry Shue
Aug. 30, 31
7:00 p.m. both nights
Schuler Performing Arts Center in Boswell Hall on the NIC campus.

We're looking for 5 men who can play mid teens to 50s, 2 women who can play early 20s to 60s.

Community members are welcome to attend!

For further information, phone Joe Jacoby at 208-769-3220.

August Auditions

Aug 9: Ignite: Hole In The Sky Booklight Reader's Theatre
Aug 10: Civic: Jane Eyre In Concert [M]
Aug 14-15: Circle Moon: Nunsense [M]
Aug 13: Regional Theatre of the Palouse: Meet Me in St. Louis [M]

Aug 15-16: Interplayers: The Boys next Door, The Receptionist,

Mauritius, An Infinite Ache, & Taking Steps

Aug 19: International Art Walk: (read previous entry)
Aug 27: Blue Door Theatre: open auditions (1pm)

Aug 28-29: SCT: Disney’s Aladdin [M]
Aug 29-30: Lake City PlayH: A Streetcar Named Desire

Aug 30-31: NIC: The Foreigner

International Art Walk looking for volunteers

The International Art Walk is looking for actors to volunteer for their community event on August 19th from 5-9pm. Pantomime, short skits, plays, improv and other ideas are welcome. Please contact Marilee Bailey at marileejb@aol if you are interested.

Auditions

Aug 1-2: Civic: Auditions: Thoroughly Modern Millie [M]
Aug 9: Ignite: Hole In The Sky Booklight Reader's Theatre
Aug 10: Civic: Auditions: Jane Eyre In Concert [M]
Aug 14-15: Circle Moon: Nunsense [M]
Aug 28-29: SCT: Disney’s Aladdin [M]
Aug 29-30: Lake City PlayH: A Streetcar Named Desire

Sept 5-6: Civic: Auditions: Turn of the Screw
Sept 14: Pend Orielle PlayH: 2011 Fallapalooza!
Sept 26-27: LCP: Sorry Wrong Chimney

Oct 17-18: LCP: Rent [M]
Dec 5-6: LCP: Epic Proportions
Feb 20-21: LCP: Lost in Yonkers
Mar 26-27: LCP: How to Succeed in Business...[M]

Computer microphone!

Got an external microphone for my computer from a friend's yard sale (traded her for a t-shirt)! I'm excited because that gives me more impetus to start recording (& posting) performance videos. I want to start a... sort of professional youtube vlog account of my various performing arts stuff. Monologues, songs, no dance since I'm not trained in that yet... maybe some film stuff, and/or a montage of recorded theatre performances, like an audition tape.

...but I've many personal things to deal with presently that take priority.

Songs I love & want to perform

Specifically today:
In the wee small hours of the morning - Frank Sinatra
Rolling in the deep - Adele
Feeling Good - The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd (covered by numerous artists, including Michael Bublé)
A dream is a wish your heart makes - Disney Cinderella

Recently, and wanting to audition/perform:
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Infected - Repo: The Genetic Opera

Ready to Perform:
Maybe This Time - Cabaret
If I were a Bell - Guys & Dolls
Til there was you - Music Man
Goodnight My Someone - Music Man
On a clear day (You can see forever) - [title song of musical]
Almost like being in love – Brigadoon
Home – Beauty and the Beast
Alto’s Lament

Dracula costuming

So, SFCC is planning on doing ***'s version of Dracula in the fall, and my costuming assignment in Stagecrafts class is creating costumes for the brides of Dracula. I know they're doing it in Victorian style, and that the director wants them in gauzy-bridal-looking-pastels-fadedglory sort of style. That's about it. I've read through the play, but don't really know what style he's going for, I assume traditional, since it's pretty accurate to the original novel.

But I has an ingenious idea.

WHAT IF DRACULA WAS STEAMPUNK THEMED?!??!?

I suddenly got very excited, but somehow, don't think this is probably the direction he had in mind, and probably wouldn't be cost-effective for a community college to produce, either.

Now ask me if I care. >:-D

Anyway, so I have to draw/color pictures of them, and come up with appropriate fabric swatches by Wednesday. Kind of excited, but still have a LOT to do!

Missed out on Civic's "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"?

Well, you have another chance to experience it before they leave for national competition in AACTFest11!


Wednesday, June 8 - Audience Dress Rehearsal
Spokane Civic Theatre, Main Stage
7:30 P.M.
No Charge - Open Seating - Donations to the Festival Fund Accepted (See below)

Also, audition packets are available for Civic's In Concert production "Jane Eyre." Auditions will be August 10th. Click here for more information.

Click here for donation form for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

More Auditions

Sorry guys, just missed the Fiddler On The Roof auditions for LCP - they were last week.

As most theatre season are drawing to a close, there are only a few current postings for local auditions. However, several theatres offer classes during the summer, and there are a few amateur film projects going on in the summer you could participate in!

May 21: CIVIC: Footloose (M) (Teens only)
Aug 1-2: CIVIC: Thoroughly Modern Millie (M)
Jan 9-10: Theatre Arts For Children: Anne of Green Gables

local Renaissance Faires

So, if you're interested in participating in one of the local Ren Faires (Yes, we now have two), you just missed auditions for the Northwest Renaissance Faire (they were March 13-20). HOWEVER you can still call Tienne @ (509)276-7728 to audition, since rehearsals don't start until April 17th, and the Faire runs June 25 - July 24.

The OTHER local Ren Faire (Spokane Renaissance Faire, organized by Spokane Entertainers Guild) had their final auditions May 22-23, but since their Faire isn't until October 1-2, you might still have a chance there too. Contact Tara Mickschl (no, I don't know how to pronounce that) @ (509)998-9596.

Respective websites: http://www.nwrf.net/ http://spokentguild.org/home.php

How we act quote

Ran across this today, whilst researching for an upcoming stage kiss in the next production. LOVE it - this is exactly how I think about acting!!

"In acting, we are always, to some extent, split in two. (We never, as some people would have you believe, totally BECOME the character.) There is the part of us that is always ourself, standing to one side watching, while at the same time there is that part of us that is living the life of the character in that moment. The trick is to minimize the former and maximize the latter. The "ourself" part is like a guide, while the "character" part acts on the suggestions of "ourself." The "ourself" part must urge the "character" part to live the moment. But if the "ourself" part is watching the audience watching us and wondering how they’re reacting, it cannot do it’s job properly. It is a problem of concentration, but the key to concentration is knowing at EVERY MOMENT precisely what it is we’re supposed to be concentrating ON." -John Crowther

Laughing Stock auditions

So, this morning, as I was on my way to audition for Laughing Stock, my car decided to NOT start. Fun times. Anyway, after several hours involving my dad leaving work to give me his car, I FINALLY got to Spokane as auditions were ending, did my monologue (CSI Neverland - 911 operator), and read Scene 9 between Sara & Gordon with Geoff (known him a little over a year - Actor/Assistant Director in Richard III, also in The Insanity of Mary Girard), and auditions were over. After about 15 minutes, the Director & Assistant Director finished deliberating and informed me I got the role I read for! Whoo! Shortest & easiest audition EVAR!

Mistress Shore's dress

So I REALLY wish I had taken "before" photos to add to my portfolio, but anyway... My costume (for Mistress Shore) was WAAAAAAAY too big and needed major alterations. So, I essentially took almost the whole thing apart (most of the seams were serged together), removed the upper lining, re-serged the edges, re-fitted the sleeves and bodice, and sewed it back together. I still have yet to re-attach the skirt and bodice trim. Will do that today, and eventually post pictures. :-)

Laughing Stock (Morey) Auditions

Roles (9 men, 5 women):
Gordon Page, 40's-50's. Artistic Director. (Leader of the pack, he's in most scenes)
Jack Morris, 20's. Actor. (The Juvenile. Should he quit acting, and go to law school?)
Susannah Huntsman, 30's. Director. (We've all had directors like this one, unfortunately)
Mary Pierre, 20's. Actor. (The ingénue. Earnest to a fault)
Tyler Taylor, 30's-40's. Actor. (Leading roles only, please)
Vernon Volker, 40's-50's, Actor. (Summer stock may be beneath him.)
Richfield Hawksley, 70's. Actor. (Done it all, played them all, if he could only remember.)
Daisy Coates, 60's-70's. Actor. (Has been ready to play Ophelia for 40 years)
Craig Conlin, 30's-50's. Business Manager. (Someone has to watch the money)
Sarah McKay, 40's-50's. Stage Manager. (Efficient, acerbic, never without her drink mug.)
Henry Mills, 30's-40's. Designer. (Must he really create it all with paper and scissors?)
And the inexperienced, overworked, and faithful apprentices:
Karma Schneider
Braun Oakes
Ian Milliken

Play Description:

In writing Laughing Stock, Charles Morey has drawn on his experiences as the acclaimed director of Salt Lake City's Pioneer Theatre Company. This hilarious farce gives the audience a back-stage look at a struggling third-rate theatre company performing summer stock in an old barn in New England. Faced with eccentric directors, a limited budget, and a challenging schedule, the troupe valiantly tries to keep the theatre afloat. The pragmatic, but weary, artistic director has scheduled three plays to run in repertory (all in rehearsal, to run on alternate nights in the barn theatre): Hamlet, Charley's Aunt, and a new adaptation of Dracula.

Laughing Stock is a farcical send-up of summer stock theatre, combined with an affectionate look at the magic that holds theatre companies together. As Morey states in his introduction to the play, "The humor derives not from the disasters that befall (the characters), but from the manner in which they attempt to cope with those disasters, cover their miscues, and right the sinking ship."

Although the characters in the play will be recognized as types generally found in theatre repertory companies (the juvenile, the ingenue, the leading man, older character actors, etc., they should be portrayed as "real people with real concerns for which we have empathy." The play's characters are members of a true ensemble company, and we hope to assemble a true ensemble cast for Laughing Stock at Country Playhouse to celebrate their misfortunes and their successes.

Auditions 1pm Monday March 7 & Tuesday March 8, at SFCC's Spartan Theatre in Bldg 5.

Richard III hair

So apparently for Queen Elizabeth and other older ladies, we will be doing a hairstyle similar to these pictures:

...which to me, scream Gibson Girl, not Renaissance Dowager. But what do I know? Anyway, I am NOT excited about this hairstyle, since I have GINORMOUS ears. Bah humbug.

And I realized my second, no, third character (1-Mistress Shore, 2-Qn Eliz understudy, 3-random girl in one scene) doesn't have a headress/hat/hair covering. Which needs to be addressed - I'm thinking just a simple wimple/veil or coif. At least I finally have a shirt & skirt to go with the bodice! And I'm excited about my corset!! Woo!!! Mine is the last to be finished, and once I do, I can finally get my dress fitted properly! No more sexy carpet bag dress for me.

Auditions!

Auditions coming up in the Spokane area:

Feb 21-22: LAKE CITY PLAYHOUSE: Dearly Departed
March 6-7: THEATRE ARTS FOR CHILDREN: Treasure Island (M)

March 7-8: SFCC: Laughingstock

March 13-14: SPOKANE CHILDREN'S THEATRE: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (M)

March 14-15: LAKE CITY PLAYHOUSE: Urinetown (M)
March 19: CDA SUMMER THEATRE: CDA Auditions (Wizard of Oz, A Little Night Music, Once on This Island, Sound of Music)
March 21-22: CIVIC: The Full Monty (M)
May 15-16: LAKE CITY PLAYHOUSE: Fiddler on the Roof (M)
March 25: CYT: Alice in Wonderland (M)

March 28-29: CIVIC: Frost/Nixon

April 7: IGNITE! COMMUNITY THEATRE: West Moon Street

??: INTERPLAYERS: Race?

Know of any others? Let me know!

(FYI, (M) denotes Musical.)

shitshitshit

It's starting to sink in. We open Richard III in TWO weeks. I have 2/8 corsets done, and several people still are missing complete pieces of costumes, AND stumbling over lines, AND are unaware of the meaning of what they are saying AND WE OPEN IN TWO WEEKS.

Eeep.

Meaning, I better get any deep dirty character work I intend to do, done NOW. And finish the damn corsets.

Here's a link to our Facebook event page for the show: SFCC's Richard III. It runs from March 3-13; the understudy show (in which I will be playing Queen Elizabeth) is the second Thursday (March 10th). All info is on the event page.

The Vagina Monologues

Presented by Spokane Falls Community College, Associated Women Students.

Shows: Feb. 9 at 11:30 a.m. in SUB Lounges A, B and C, Bldg 17;
AND Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Spartan Theatre, Bldg 5.

Cost: Free on Feb. 9;
$3/general admission, $1/students, and free/SFCC students on Feb. 11

Location: Spokane Falls Community College,
3410 W. Fort George Wright Drive
Spokane, WA

The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women's stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again.

The Vagina Monologues is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women. Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina, be it through sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.

Every year a new monologue is added to highlight a current issue affecting women around the world. The monologue is performed at thousands of local V-Day benefit productions of the play that take place annually in February and March raising funds for local groups, shelters, crisis centers working to end violence against women.

Heraldry

Researching heraldry symbols for Edward & Richard, including their: crests, shields, badges, coats of arms, flags, banners, standards, AND mottos. The last of which has little to do with heraldry except their motto is typically featured on their other stuff. Details to follow once research is cleaned up and organized.

Ditto with the precedence.

Oh! Finally got Mistress Shore's ring (finally) at a local antique shop, "Jewels, etc." on Monroe.

Also came to the conclusion I can't use most of the historical data for Shore's character, so I'll have to start her character work over almost from scratch.

sewing & heraldry

Today I taught 4 people how to hand-sew a straight/running stitch, back stitch, vertical hem stitch and cross hem stitch, then used the regular & serger machine to learn how to finish an edge, make a seam, make a gather and make a corner (like for a pocket). Then I came home, heated up leftovers, did laundry and researched late 15th century heraldry for Edward IV & Richard III. This was a fun & productive day!!