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THEATRE SUBURBIA
4106 Way Out West Drive
Houston, Texas 77092
713-682-3525
www.theatresuburbia.com
Northwest Houston's Longest-Running All-Volunteer Playhouse - Est. 1961

AUDITIONS * AUDITIONS * AUDITIONS
DATE/TIME: Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. and Monday, March 1, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

SHOW: Flemming (An American Thriller)
Houston Premiere Comedic Mystery by Sam Bobrick

STORY: Henry sells his lucrative brokerage firm to become a detective. On his first case, his living room begins to fill up with dead bodies. Although he keeps showing up home each day more disheveled and beaten up, Henry couldn’t be happier.

CHARACTERS:
HENRY FLEMMING: Our hero. An unassuming man in his Mid-forties.

KAREN FLEMMING: His wife. In her Late-thirties.

STAN SPENCER: The Flemming’s pain-in-the-neck neighbor. Mid-forties.

SUZY SPENCER: Stan’s long suffering wife. Mid-thirties

WALTER LARSEN: Karen’s father. In his Mid-sixties.

LIEUTENANT DAVIS: A plainclothes cop. In his Late-thirties

MISS HAVENHURST: A sweet young thing who’s had a tough life. Late twenties.

VITO MARDIGIAN: A tough, threatening hoodlum. In his Late-thirties.

DIRECTOR: Doris Merten

REHEARSALS: March 3 through April 15, 2010

PERFORMANCES: April 16 thru May 15, 2010
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30 PM, including Sundays at 3:00 PM (May 2 and 9). Also, a benefit performance may be held on Thursday, April 22 at 8:00 PM.

INFORMATION: No monologue required. Auditions will be readings from the script. Bring your resume and headshot if you have them. If not, we have forms and a camera. For further information, go to our website www.theatresuburbia.com. Or, call the theatre at 713-682-3525 and leave your name, telephone number and any questions on line four of the voice mail system and your call will be returned. Or, email your questions to .

After the auditions on Sunday, February 28, Theatre Suburbia Show Directors will conduct a short workshop on improving your audition techniques. Auditioners are welcome to attend free of charge.

This IS NOT the Alley's version of Wonderland. This one is a published musical by James Devita and Bill Francoeur. Lots of music, roles and fun.

Just wanted to post a note on our behalf thanking everyone for taking the time to log in and submit so much news lately! Now, if you are wondering where your article is, allow me to fill you in on some of the process.

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Cast Theatrical Company will be holding auditions for Benard Slade's comedy "Romantic Comedy"
March 8th, 2010 at 7:30 PM Directed by Zona Jane Meyer
Two Men Four Women Required.

Zona will consider alternate dates for audition if you have a conflict. Email the Theatre with your telephone number and we will forward the request to Zona

This show will open April 30th and runs Friday and Saturday evenings. Two Sunday Matinee's are scheduled May 16th and May 23rd

Cast's Theatre is located in the Vogelsang Antique Emporium 1909 Ave G Rosenberg, Texas approximately 20 minuted from Highway 6 and 59

Dionysus Theatre, the only inclusive theater in
the state of Texas opens the original show "Autistic License" by Stacey Dinner Levin, on Saturday, Feb. 13th, 2010. The playwright, Ms Dinner-Levin will come in from
Minneapolis, MN on opening night and there will be talk back and reception after the show.

Synopsis: Children aren't born with manuals, but
sometimes they teach you what you need to know. Join us for
this poignant story filled with pathos, joy and acceptance as a mother comes to terms with her son with autism. Through her eyes, we see his life - through his eyes, we are given a license to love.

Critics in Minneapolis voted this play as one of "the top 10 shows in the area".

In the cast: Amanda Baird, Shaun Linsey, Sheryl Croix, John Carmona, James Wetuski, Laura Walpole and Roz Turner. This show was directed by Deborah Nowinski, Founding Artistic Director.

Show dates are: 2/13-2/18th-2/20th-2/25th-2/27th at 7:30 p.m.
2/14-2/21st-2/28th at 3 p.m. Sunday matinee

For ticket information, please call 713.728.0041

is com a community theatre, or do they pay their actors? thanks!

STAGE RIGHT Announces Auditions for Southern Comedy DEARLY BELOVED

STAGE RIGHT of Texas, now performing at the historic Crighton Theatre in downtown Conroe announces auditions for the hilarious Southern comedy DEARLY BELOVED. This play is the first in the trilogy created by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jaime Wooten chronicling the trials and tribulations of the Futrelle sisters of Fayro, Texas. STAGE RIGHT has previously presented CHRISTMAS BELLES and SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY, the remainder of the trilogy, to critical praise and laugh-out-loud audience approval.

In DEARLY BELOVED, the Futrelle sister’s plans for a Southern wedding blow hilariously off-course with its Gone With The Wind theme and pot-luck reception unfortunately catered by hygienically challenged Clovis Sanford’s House of Meat. Thrown into the whirlwind are a missing bride and groom and one sister’s desperate attempt to get her boyfriend of 15 years to march her down the aisle. It is a fast paced farce about love, marriage, sisterhood, Gospel music and 300 lbs of finger lickin’ Texas barbeque.

The show will be presented at the historic Crighton Theatre at 234 N. Main Street in downtown Conroe, TX. Show dates are April 16 – May 2, 2010. Show times are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm with two Sunday matinees on April 25 and May 2 at 2 pm. The show will be directed by Diane Edgar who appeared in SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY and has directed numerous shows for ACE Theatre.

A cast of 4 men and 7 women (some doubling) ranging from 20 – 60 yrs is sought. Persons wishing to audition should come to the rehearsal hall located at 115 Simonton St. (around the corner from the main entrance to the Crighton Theatre). Auditions will be held at 7 pm on Feb. 21 & 22 and will consist of cold readings from the script. Callbacks will be at the discretion of the director. Please bring a headshot and resume if you have one. A gas stipend will be paid to cast and crew if a profit is made on the show.

For more information about STAGE RIGHT of Texas please visit our websites:
www.stage-right.org or for information on other shows coming to the Crighton and to sign up for our monthly e-newsletter visit www.resources.stage-right.org .

RUN AWAY WITH CIRQUE DREAMS!

CIRQUE DREAMS ILLUMINATION is Holding a Local Casting Call Saturday, February 6 at 11am at The Galleria Mall (in front of Borders Books and Kona Grill)

One lucky dreamer will have the chance to perform in a feature role when the show performs at the Hobby Center February 23 - March 7 as part of Gexa Energy Broadway Across America-Houston.

Additional information is available at the link below.

http://www.broadwayacrossamerica.co ... ithCirque/

Houston Family Arts Center announces auditions for LOVE & MARRIAGE, TEXAS STYLE, a brand new comedy very loosely based on “Billy Bob” Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, and is set in Tomball in 1910. This new look at that age-old love-struggle has more twists and turns than a trail left by a maverick steer that’s been munching loco weed…and is spoken in good ol’ Texanese palaver! (Where else will you hear such endearments as “She’s as purty a sight as a Jersey heifer in a field o’ bluebonnets!”?) Written and directed by Houston Actress Elaine Edstrom, it will be produced at the new Garza Theatre, inside the Houston Family Arts Center at 10760 Grant Road, 77070 and run from May 7th thru 29th. There will be a small stipend for all actors cast in the production.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script and will be held in the theatre on March 14th from 1-5 PM & 15th from 7-10 PM by appointment only. Callbacks will be on March 16th if needed. Make audition appointments by contacting No roles have been pre-cast. Please bring headshot and resume to auditions. This show will be directed by the playwright, Houston actor/director Elaine Edstrom.

For information on the characters and age ranges, please visit our WEBSITE.

Where is this theatre?

GenAcme--I'm pretty sure they're different. The Alley one is technically called Wonderland: Alice’s New Musical Adventure and I think it follows our Disney Alice in Wonderland. Upstage's Wonderland follows "Through the Looking Glass" more. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I hope this helps :)

As for the rest of this post...HAHAHAHA!! OMG! I thought cpanzer's parody was clever, like Weird Al Yankovich songs are. I think Mark took offense when it wasn't meant to offend. But, in all honesty, you do post things like that often, Mark. Don't be mad, I'm just saying.

SMILEY :)