The Deal and The Descent are Volumes 3 and 4 of the four-part series: The Charlie Cooke Saga.
It is a film-noir-style-hard-boiled-detective-fiction-crime-drama.
Our hero, Charlie Cooke, is a gritty detective who strives to find veracity in a crooked city.
Throughout parts 3 and 4, he struggles with dames, deals, deaths, Deuces, and other delusional dilemmas that start with the letter "D".
Periodically, he conveys these conflicts through narration, often using ridiculous metaphors and irrelevant similes.
The Deal and the Descent is a stylistic, and often cliché ridden, look at an era where the thin lines between right
and wrong were easily rubbed-out.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. on our Main Stage
Featuring Steve Suter, Shelley Martin, and Bill Huntington
Series directed by Ray Liebau
The SED Trio is an exciting combination of Trombone, Flute, and Bass. Although they perform a wide range of music, including jazz standards, The SED Trio is anything but "standard". This group grew from the collective desires of Steve Suter (trombone), Shelley Martin (Flute), and Bill Huntington (Bass) to perform standard jazz literature, while at the same time looking for a new and novel way to present their vision to an audience.
Auditions: Sunday March 14 at 2:00pm and Monday March 15 at 7:00pm
Parts for 5 men and 2 women.
At a lodge in rural Georgia, Froggy LeSeuer has brought along a pathologically shy young man named Charlie. So Froggy tells all that Charlie speaks no English. Alone, Charlie overhears the evil plans of a sinister minister and his redneck associate who assume that Charlie doesn't understand a word. That he does fuels the hilarity of the play and sets up the climax in which the "good guys" emerge triumphant.
Auditions: Sunday May 23, 2010, at 2:00pm and Monday May 24, 2010, at 7:00pm
Parts for four men and two women.
Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a uptight lawyer and she's a free spirit. Their new apartment is her most recent find: too expensive and in need of a repairs. After the honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker with their neighbor Velasco, where everything goes wrong. And, Paul is just too boring and Corie just wants to go running "barefoot in the park".
September 30-October 3 and October 7-10, 2010 on our Main Stage
Auditions: Sunday August 1 at 2:00pm and Monday August 2 at 7:00pm
Parts for four male and 3 female actors.
David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office, but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun toting fiancee, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas or anytime entertainment.
Auditions: Sunday October 3 at 7:00pm and Monday October 4 at 7:00pm
Parts that will be cast are to be determined.
The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. Originally presented on television in 1957 starring Julie Andrews, CINDERELLA was the most widely viewed program in the history of the medium. As adapted for the stage, with great warmth and hilarity, the hearts of children and adults alike still soar when the slipper fits.
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'Auditions'
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