News and Updates Syndication Chatham Community Players Thu, 17 May 2012 06:47:12 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.1 http://www.chathamplayers.org/images/M_images/mambo_rss.png Chatham Community Players News and Updates Syndication The Chatham Community Players will hold open auditions for its 18th annual Jersey Voices One-Act Festival. Auditions will be held on Sunday, June 3 and Tuesday, June 5 at 7:00PM. Both auditions will be held at the Chatham Playhouse, 23 North Passaic Ave., Chatham. Performances on July 27, 28 and August 3 and 4. Jersey Voices has provided a venue for New Jersey playwrights to showcase their work since 1995. They are looking for men and women, ages 20 to 70 and one female teenager who can play 14 years old, to fill roles for six one-act plays. Actors may read from sides available at the auditions or they may present a monologue. For those who are interested, full scripts will be available for reading at the Library of the Chathams - across the street from the Playhouse. Presented Pieces are: 6 in the Kid by Ralph Greco, Jr. A young aspiring writer interviews with a famous playwright to be a research assistant. But the playwright may not be exactly who they seem to be; or maybe they don't really want a research assistant after all. Characters: Interviewee, 20 something, male Playwright, 50 something, female Personal assistant, 60 something, female Directed by Joann Scanlon The Buffer by Mike Allegra Sarah has convinced Bill to go out with her best friend and her friend’s annoying, unemployed husband. Bill, who dislikes the husband, realizes that he is going as a “buffer” and doesn’t want to go. Couples negotiations ensue, with an unexpected outcome. Characters: Sarah – 30 something female Bill - 30s – 40s male Directed by Paul Bettys Ping by Mary Jane Walsh A one-woman play that depicts, in a riveting fashion, a mother's unwavering love for her grown child. Need: Actress is a very composed woman in her 60's-70's, must have great emotional depth and restraint. Directed by Arnold Buchiane The Portrait Gallery by Gary Shaffer An older gentleman sits quietly on a bench viewing paintings at a museum gallery, while a younger woman sits quietly on the floor sketching one the hanging portraits. Another man enters the gallery, disrupting their world and learns there is indeed more there than meets the eye. Characters: Older Gentleman Dudley - Younger Man Frances - Younger Woman Directed by Stephen Catron Children of September by Eric Alter Sometimes wanting to believe is all we have ... and all we need. Characters: Crimson – 14 year old girl Dr. Hillary Larkin (Crimson’s Psychiatrist) – Female late 40s Man – 30s–40s Directed by Frank Briamonte The Incident Report by E.M. Lewis When a passenger ends up dead on a plane, an aviation safety investigator attempts to discover the truth of what happened. Characters: Connor - Male (30 to 60) An officious and determined aviation safety investigator. Petersen - Male (30 to 50) A passenger with good intentions, but racked with guilt. Lee - Male (30 to 50) A heroic but violent passenger, in denial of his actions. Morrow - Male (30 to 50) A drunken and belligerent passenger. Stewardess - Female (20 to 40) Pretty, even-tempered and confident in her role. Directed By Chris Messineo The Chatham Players have an open call casting policy. ALL roles are open, none are precast, and everyone is encouraged to audition. Any questions, please call Bob Lukasik, Artistic Director at 201-412-4039. For directions or additional information about each of the one-acts being produced, stay tuned to our website! webmaster@chathamplayers.org The Chatham Players conclude their 90th Season of producing local theater with an audience favorite and Tony Award winning musical, “CABARET” book by Joe Masteroff with music/lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, based on the Play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood. Jeffrey Fiorello from Montclair directs, Jill Finnerty from Matawan is Musical Director and Megan Ferentinos from Cranford is the Choreographer. The musical was turned into an eight-time Oscar-winning 1972 movie starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. Prior to the movie, Cabaret premiered on Broadway 1966. The musical returned to New York 30 years later with Mendes' famous Tony-winning production, which premiered at London's Donmar, and starred Alan Cumming (London and Broadway) and Natasha Richardson (Broadway only). Joe Masteroff's book for Cabaret was based on John van Druten's play I Am a Camera, itself inspired by Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories. Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the 19 year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fraulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Shultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub which serves as a constant metaphor for the tenuous and threatening state of late Weimar Germany throughout the show. "The original Broadway production utilized a massive mirror, which was turned to face the audience, as part of the set. The mirror forced the audience to face themselves. We saw. We heard. Could it happen again??? In our production, we have gone a step further and placed the audience directly in the Klub. We are no longer bystanders; we are active participants in the production. We are not only the audience of the show, Cabaret, we are also the audience of the Kit Kat Klub and the audience of Berlin in early 1930’s,” explained Director Jeffrey Fiorello. The large and talented cast includes actors from all around New Jersey. Katherine LeFevre from Dover and John Sechrist from New York City star as Sally Bowles and the Emcee. Also featured are Pat Wry as Schneider from Bernardsville, Steven Nitka as Schultz from Hackettstown, Chris Abbott as Bobby from South Plainfield, Raven Dunbar as Fritzie from Dayton, Michal Efron as Frenchie from Summit, Brian Hall as Hans/Rudy from Cedar Grove, Pam Mueller as Helga from Princeton, Stacey Petricha as Kost and Sean McManus as Young Boy from Chatham, Natalee Phemsint as Rosie from Secaucus, Chip Prestera as Ernst from Stirling, Shawna Schopper as Texas from Andover, , Steve Sharkey as Cliff from Washington Twp., Sky Spiegel as Lulu from Morristown, Chaz Turner as Max from Hackettstown, Craig Zimmerman from Rockaway as Herman and Andrew Velez as Victor from Matawan. Bob Lukasik produced this musical for Chatham Players 33 years ago, this time he’s producing “Cabaret” that has been revised and updated to be even more intense, more timely, more relevant and truthful to its time. “We are mounting a production that is honest, engaging and far from trite. I invite you to come to the Chatham Playhouse which, for a few short weeks, is being transformed into Berlin's Kit Kat Klub,” said Lukasik. Box Office Information – Online Ticketing Performance dates are May 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 8PM and May 13 at 3PM. All performances are at the Chatham Playhouse, 23 North Passaic Avenue, in Chatham. Tickets are $25 for adults and $23 for youth/senior. Suitable for mature audiences only. Tickets may be purchased online (http://ccp.ticketleap.com/) via our Ticketleap affiliate. The service is available 24 hours a day, and tickets can be purchased online up until three hours prior to curtain on the day of a performance. The box office accepts phone reservations at (973) 635-7363. For information regarding box office hours, please call the box office number listed above. webmaster@chathamplayers.org The Chatham Community Players is seeking original, one-act plays, short musicals and/or original dance pieces, written by New Jersey authors, for Jersey Voices' 18th Annual Production. Last year's festival produced six original pieces and one dancd piece, selected from over 130 submitted works. Play submissions of any genre, style and length up to 20 minutes running time will be accepted through March 15, 2012. Selected pieces will be performed in our black box theater in Chatham in July and August. Email submissions to: jerseyvoices@chathamplayers.org (mailto:jerseyvoices@chathamplayers.org). For more information, write to: jerseyvoices@chathamplayers.org (mailto:jerseyvoices@chathamplayers.org). webmaster@chathamplayers.org