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Welcome to ACT I of Benton County The Miser Prepares for OpeningThe cast a The curtain goes up on the Miser for two weekends March 12-21 on the stage of the Palace Theatre. 7:00 Friday and Saturday, 2:00 on Sunday. Tickets are $7.00, $5.00 for seniors and students. Cast members include: Valere: Garrett Spence
Auditions for Bus Stop Announced
ACT I of Benton County announces Audition Dates for the upcoming Main Stage production of the dramatic comedy Bus Stop. Directed by Jill g. Lockard-Bopp, Bus Stop is a three act play with a color cast of characters of vastly divergent personalities, thrown together in a small Kansas bus stop during a winter storm. According to Lockard-Bopp, the characters each represent various aspects of love, and is truly an ensemble cast. Each character is fully-realized with complex traits for the actor to explore. Audition Dates: Saturday, March 13 at 2:00 and Sunday, March 14 at 7:00. Callbacks, if needed, will be Monday March 15. Location: ACT I studio above Clingman Pharmacy, 106 East 4th Street in Vinton Cast of Characters (3 women, 5 men):
ACT I Announces 2010-2011 Season! November 21, 2009 It seems like our current season just got underway, but the next season is coming quickly upon us! ACT I is pleased to announce that several shows have been announced for the season that begins July 1, 2010. ACT I w Also scheduled for the main stage is Picnic, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Circle Award. The play takes place on Labor day Weekend in the joint backyards of two middle-aged widows. The one house belongs to Flo Owens, who lives there with her two maturing daughters, Madge and Millie, and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher. The other house belongs to Helen Potts, who lives with her elderly and invalid mother. Into this female atmosphere comes a young man named Hal Carter, whose animal vitality seriously upsets the entire group. Plaza Suite, a poignant and funny three act show from Neil Simon will also be a featured show in 2011. Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted, and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before - and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields. He calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little sexual diversion. Over the years she has idolized him from afar and is now more than the match he bargained for. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her or as Mother yells, "I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!" In addition to these timeless shows, check back here often for information about additional productions for Second STAGE!, children's theatre camp, and Event Series!
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ill be the first theatre in Iowa to stage 13, a successful musical that was the first show with an all-child cast to be staged on Broadway, a grown-up story about growing up!
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