Alice in Wonderland - Opens this weekend!

Alice in Wonderland
Opening this weekend!

The Academy of Creative Theatre (ACT) at the SLO Little Theatre is proud to announce the opening of their summer production of Alice in Wonderland. With a very talented cast of 15 young actors, this is not your average children's production. The land of wonder was created beautifully by our cast as a place of imagination and curiosity. Come and join us in our adventure through Wonderland!

Tickets can be purchased by visiting our website at http://www.slolittletheatre.org/ or by calling our box office at 786-2440.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for children 13 and under. Show dates and times are: August 1 @7pm, August 2 @ 2pm and 7pm, August 3 @ 2pm, August 8 @ 7pm, August 9 @ 2pm and 7pm, and August 10 @ 2pm.

This is a great family show, approriate for audiences of all ages.

We hope to see you all at the theatre!

ACTORS WARHOUSE NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Hurray! AW has a FREE piano – all we have to do is pick it up. Need 4-6 people to help move it – Saturday at 1 pm. Picking up in SLO near French Hospital and delivering to Atascadero. Meet there if you’re in SLO and I’ll drive you back home. If you’re in North County I’ll pick you up. We have a u-haul truck with the lift in rear to make it easy. Please please please call asap if you can help. We have to pick it up Saturday or we lose it. 712-1134. Thanks!

BABY LEWIS IS HERE!!!

Congratulations to Debi Lewis on her GORGEOUS new baby girl!! I guess doing the musical Baby last season was worth all the hard work! ;-)


Here's an excerpt from Debi's email:

Grace Madison Lewis was born last Wed July 23 @ 8:14 pm. Gracie, as we will call her, was 7.4 lbs and 20 inches. My labor was pretty bad. It lasted for 35 hours! She was wedged in crooked, so it was really hard to get her out, but it was worth it! She’s amazing and I’ve never known such love. I’m in awe of her!

We have a blog if you’d like to see pics and baby updates of our little bundle. Check it out... www.thelifeofalewis.blogspot.com

Can’t wait for you all to meet her. She’s an absolute joy!

Debi

Tech week at SLOLT

Hi everybody!

Once again, we are in tech week. It seems lately like we hop from one tech to the next. On Friday night Alice in Wonderland opens and the kids have been working like crazy.

We've had some AMAZING volunteers working on sets, costumes and props. Gene Goldschmidt has truly topped himself with his creative solutions for the larger than life teapot which has to hide the our young door mouse actress and the over-sized mushroom that not only has to move around but hold another young actress. Sharon Woodside-Hanish has done it again with her charming and creative costumes. Charlene Premer finished all the show props in record time, delivering the CUTEST baby and other odds and ends weeks before even going into teach. Heidi Ennslin and Lynn Hessler came in to paint set pieces, including an enormous book generously donated by the SLO Literacy Council. The kids and parents came in to paint the floor and prepare the backstage area. It's been a week of wonderful activity all leading up to one thing...opening night!

Of course kudos must go to our two talented directors, Annie H. Kee and Katie Mack-Montenegro who have taken a group of young actors and created another world.

Although 'hell week' can be exhausting for all involved, it is also the phase that reminds me how lucky we are to have the volunteer base that we do. Without our AMAZING volunteers, we wouldn't be able to do what we do! And our ACT kids are so talented and their excitement is catching.

I hope you can come by and see Alice in Wonderland and all the fabulous work done by our very own community artists and performers!

Wendy-Marie Foerster
Executive Director

Don't Forget to Buy Your 2008-2009 Season Subscription!

Readers' Theatre - THREE DAYS OF RAIN

THREE DAYS OF RAIN
By Richard Greenberg
Directed by Gailee Walker Wells

Friday, July 25, 2008 at 8 pm
888 Morro Street in SLO

Click here to order your tickets online, or pay cash at the door

A year after he disappeared on the day of his father's funeral, Walker Janeway returns to New York. He takes up temporary residence in the unused space where thirty-five years earlier, his father Ned, and Ned's late partner Theo, both architects, lived and designed the great house that would make them famous. Sleepless and emotionally jangled, Walker scours the old empty space for clues, evidences or keys to the tortured family history. Discovering his father's journal hidden under the bed, he finds it as unforthcoming as his nearly silent father had been. Walker is joined by his sister, Nan, and their friend from childhood, Pip, Theo's son, to hear the reading of Ned's will. It is there that Walker forces the confrontation that the others need. After an evening of harrowing and sometimes comically inadvertent revelations, Walker disappears once more. This time he returns later that evening with a surprising, but to him, definitive solution to the family puzzle. We travel back to 1960, when Ned's journal begins. We meet the parents at the same age their children are in Act One: Ned, who seems very different from the cold monster the children conjured; the charismatic and putative genius, Theo; and Lena, Walker and Nan's mother, the delightful, troubled "Southern woman who admits to thirty." In the guise of a love story, we are offered all the information needed to devise an alternative reading of the sad, unexpectedly romantic family story.

THE CAST:

Nick Bell...................Walker/Ned
Spencer Goss............Pip/Theo
Kelli Rodda...............Nan/Lina

OPEN AUDITIONS FOR GUYS AND DOLLS!

Chameleon Productions is holding open auditions for their upcoming production of Guys and Dolls!

Auditions will be held at St. Paul's Church at 800 Bello Street in Pismo Beach on Monday, August 18th and Tuesday, August 19th at 7:00pm. We are looking to cast thirty performers ages sixteen and up. Please bring sheet music with 16-24 bars of music prepared, it doesn't need to be from the show but if you are interested in a specific role we request that you be familiar with the show music. We also ask that you be prepared to do a short dance audition. Rehearsals begin August 31st and the show runs October 31st through November 15th at The Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. All roles are available so mark your calendars and we hope to see you there!

For more information please call Chameleon Productions at 474-8902.

So Much To Do!!!

Hello everyone!

Once again I got stuck in a time warp and lost a month. Between getting Best of Hollywood up and running and the season subscription rush, we've been swamped int he office. In addition, we received 170 play submissions for our first short play festival and had to read and score them all so we could post our semi-finalists. (see website for more info). In any case, things are beginning to slow down so we can all get back to blogging and sharing the daily life at the theatre with whoever would like to read about it. :-)

Don't forget this Friday we are kicking off our 2008-2009 Readers' Theatre season with Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg, directed by Gailee Walker Wells. Tickets are only $10 and available at the door or online through our website.

August 1st is opening night for Alice in Wonderland our summer ACT production. The kids have been working so hard to create a fantasy world that I think you'll all enjoy. It's the perfect family summer activity, so we hope to see you all there.

Our play festival guest director, Cornielia Drese, will be blogging with us a bit until she lands in SLO in October, so keep an eye out! In fact, I hope that all our directors will join us on our blog this season to share with you a behind the scenes peek at their production. We are so excited about the season. It's going to be FABULOUS!

See you at the theatre!