Upcoming Performance Schedule
Following are the upcoming productions for the Company of Rowlett Performers. We hope you can join us for these great performances!
FrUiTCaKeS
Playwright: Julian Wiles
Mix together a batch of fruitcakes, three dozen Christmas trees, 10,000 outdoor Christmas lights, a chicken pox epidemic, two southern spinsters, an estranged old man, a lost cat named Tutti Frutti and a Christmas hog named Buster and you've got the recipe for a fun filled and touching evening filled with holiday cheer. Into this world comes Jamie, a kid who has run away from home and come as far as his money will take him. At first he thinks this town's inhabitants are "nuttier than fruitcakes," but soon he comes to admire, appreciate and adore this nutty little town. A moving story of alienation, understanding and reconciliation, FrUiTCaKeS provides audiences with a heaping helping of holiday warmth and Christmas cheer.
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing.
Performances: December 11th, 12th and 13th at 7:30 p.m.
December 14th at 2:00 p.m.
Cast Info: Cast includes: 10 men and 11 women
Cast Age Range: 13 years to 70 years old
Audition Details: Audition will include a cold reading from the script.
Auditions October 25th 10:00-2:00p.m.
October 27th 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Callbacks: Callbacks October 28th 6:00-9:00p.m.
To schedule an appointment, contact Donna Covington at donnacovington@yahoo.com or call 972-977-7710.
Venue:
Plaza Theatre
521 State St.
Garland, TX
Show Prices: $10 Adult
$9 Seniors 55+
$8 Students and Children
Wonderland
Adapted By: James DeVita
Score By: Bill Francoeur
Wonderland! is an unabashedly silly adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. With hip-hopping music, it is an upbeat, coming-of-age story that audiences of all ages will adore! You'll recognize some of your favorite familiar characters of Alice's Wonderland along with meeting dozens of new ones: a baseball team, a gospel group called The Responsibilities, a train conductor, star-struck tourists, plastic light-saber wielding knights and much more. An eclectic mix of music that ranges from gypsy swing to doo-wop to bluegrass will have your audiences grinning like a Cheshire cat! You’ll love the toe-tapping musical renditions of Jabberwocky and the Walrus and the Carpenter, as well as other great numbers such as Anything’s Possible, Step by Step, and the hysterical He was a Good Egg But Then I Done Went Bad, sung by Humpty Dumpty and the Dixie Chickens!
Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama.
Performances: February 19th and 20th at 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
February 21st at 7:30
February 22nd at 2:00 p.m.
Cast Info: Cast includes: 9-25 Characters, plus Chorus
Cast Age Range: 5 to 21 years old
Audition Details: Audition will include a cold reading from the script. Also a singing audition of 16 bars of music - bring your own accompaniment.
Auditions December 16th 6:00-9:00 p.m.
December 17th 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Callbacks: December 20th 10:00-2:00 p.m.
To schedule an appointment, contact Donna Covington at donnacovington@yahoo.com or call 972-977-7710.
Venue:
Plaza Theatre
521 State St.
Garland, TX
Show Prices: $10 Adult
$9 Seniors 55+
$8 Students and Children
The Riot Act
Katie Delaney, an upright, hard-working widow, struggles to keep her three grown sons from falling into the clutches of "designing women." The sons, all members of the New York City police force, are far from pleased by this parental tyranny, but filial duty (and their mother's good cooking) conspire to keep them in line—at least to outward appearances. But natural impulses and the urgings of their various fiancees begin to tell. It turns out that one son has already married his sweetheart in a secret, civil ceremony, and while he has been fearful of revealing this fact to his rigidly Catholic mother, his wife's approaching motherhood soon forces the issue. When the truth is known Katie orders her son from the house and, despite the fact that her first grandchild is born soon after, refuses to acknowledge his existence. Before long another of the impatient girls threatens to accept a rival proposal and, to add to the growing confusion, a Puerto Rican urchin becomes embroiled in Katie's increasingly tangled affairs. Despite her dislike for his kind Katie is drawn to the boy, and in her zeal to help him soon finds herself of all things, in trouble with the police. For the widow of a policeman this is a disturbing turn of events, but beneficial too in the happy transformation it works in Katie. She adopts the boy, forgives her son and starts life over with a lighter heart.
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Publishing.
Performances: April 16th, 17th and 18th at 8:00p.m.
April 19th at 2:00 p.m.
Cast Info: Cast includes: 4 men and 5 women plus 1 boy
Cast Age Range: 13 to 60 years old
Audition Details: Audition will include a cold reading from the script.
Auditions March 5th and 6th 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Callbacks: March 7th 2:00-5:00 p.m.
To schedule an appointment, contact Donna Covington at donnacovington@yahoo.com or call 972-977-7710.
Venue:
Plaza Theatre
521 State St.
Garland, TX
Show Prices: $15 Adult
$12 Seniors 55+
$10 Students and Children
