A
New Beginning - 2011 - 2012 Season
Corinth
Theatre-Arts Playhouse
303 Fulton Drive - Corinth, Mississippi 38834
Phone: (662) 287-2995 Fax: (662) 287-6272
E-mail: corinth.theatre.arts@gmail.com
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season brochure here.
Annie
September 9-10, 2011 at 7:30pm;
September 11, 2011 at 2:00pm
Sponsor: Kimberly-Clark Corp.
Book
by Thomas Meehan
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Based
on the Tribune Media Service Comic
Strip, Little Orphan Annie Leapin' Lizards!
The
popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one
of the world's best-loved musicals. "Annie"
is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find
her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep
of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered
Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure,
Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new
family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his
personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt
named Sandy.
Auditions
June 13-14, 2011 at 6pm
A
Christmas Carol: Scrooge & Marley
December
9-10, 2011 at 7:30pm
December 11, 2011 at 2:00pm
Sponsors:
Caterpillar Inc.; Cooley & Labas Financial Advisors
By
Israel Horovitz, adapted from Charles Dickens' A Christmas
Carol
Famous
the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming
story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others
needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows
the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it
to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness
and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strengthen
its timeless virtues. The end result is a theatre piece
of unique eloquence, which will delight audiences of
all ages, and draw forth the best efforts of all engaged
in its presentation.
Auditions
September 19-20, 2011 at 6pm
Casting
flexible, minimum of 22 players: 44 total
The
Fisherman and His Wife
February
24, 2012 at 7:30pm
Sponsors: Bill and Barbara Rogers;
Northside Mini Storage; LINK
By
Autry Davis, Milton Wallis and David Maxedon
Adapted from a story by The Brothers Grimm
The
Fisherman and His Wife is one of Brothers Grimm more
famous fairy tales. The Fisherman and His Wife is a
story of a good man who is content with very little.
After catching a magical fish, he releases it at the
fish's request. However, his wife is quite different.
She is greedy and quick tempered. The wife is not content
with what she has. She bullies her husband into asking
the magical prince/fish for a cottage, a castle, a kingship--and
is still not satisfied. The moral of the story: the
wife had everything for a while, but she lost everything
through greed.
Auditions
January 2-3, 2012 at 4pm
Cast
flexible – 12 roles
The
Emperor’s New Clothes
February
17-18, 2012 at 7:30pm;
February
19, 2012 at 2:00pm
Sponsor:
Physicians Urgent Care
By Charlotte Chorpenning
The
Emperor of China cares for nothing but clothes. The
minister of the robes plays on this weakness to rob
the royal weavers and persecute the Empress. Two rogues
convince the Emperor they can weave a cloth which cannot
be seen by anyone unfit for the position he holds. Everyone
is afraid to confess that he cannot see the new clothes
the Emperor orders. The resulting comic situations enable
the rogues to save the Empress and the weavers and expose
the villainy of the minister. The Emperor proudly walks
in procession clad in nothing but a straight little
shirt to show his people the glory of his new clothes.
Auditions
January 2-3, 2012 at 4pm
Cast:
8 males, 4 females
On
Shiloh Hill
A Musical Resurrection of
the American Civil War
April
13-14, 2012 at 7:30pm;
April 15, 2012 at 2:00pm
Sponsor: Corinth Area Tourism
By Bill Schustik
The
time is now. The scene is a mythical American attic
place similar to the one described in the prologue to
Stephen Vincent Benet’s JOHN BROWN’S BODY:
“IN YOUR LONGHOUSE THERE IS AN ATTIC PLACE FULL
OF DEAD EPICS AND MACHINES THAT RUST…” In
this attic place, using the actual music, memories and
images of the past, our players, guided by the troubadour,
will resurrect and then become the long-departed spirits
of those who endured the American Civil War. The players
make their own music and set their own scenes by gathering
props and costumes from the chests and rafters. The
proses have been taken directly from letters, memoirs,
diaries and other written collections. All the music,
save the invocation, is original to the period.
Auditions
February 25-26 at 2pm
Cast:
5 men, ages 16-50+, 3 women, ages 15-38+
Steel
Magnolias
June
1-2, 2012 at 7:30pm;
June 3, 2012 at 2:00pm
By Robert Harling
The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin,
Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody"
come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new
assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she
is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy
dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich
curmudgeon, Ouiser, ("I'm not crazy, I've just
been in a bad mood for forty years"); an eccentric
millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth;
and the local social leader, M'Lynn, whose daughter,
Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry
a "good ole boy." Filled with hilarious repartee
and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal
collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the
second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks
pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization
of their mortality affects the others, but also draws
on the underlying strength—and love—which
give the play, and its characters, the special quality
to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable
company in good times and bad.
Auditions
April 23-24, 2012 at 6pm
Cast:
6 women
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