San Luis Obispo Little Theatre Blog

ACT Special Workshop - The Reality of Breaking into Los Angeles

2008-08-14T14:48:00.000-07:00

Join talent executive, Loch Powell, for an overview of the realities of breaking into the L.A. market. Learn the dos and don'ts of Hollywood and the most effective steps to take to give you the best chance of success. Don't miss your opportunity to ask questions of a Hollywood entertainment veteran in an intimate discussion forum. There is no charge for this event!

Loch Powell, veteran Hollywood talent executive for 17 years began as a model booker for the prestigious LA Models and segued into talent representation development. Through the years, Loch has represented many A List stars. Currently, Loch specializes in talent development for young adults with Leverage Management.

If you are interested in participating in this session, please come to the SLO Little Theatre on Friday, August 15th at 11am. Please be prompt as we have limited time available.

Thank you and we hope to see you at the theatre!

AND DON'T FORGET THAT REGISTRATION FOR OUR FALL CLASSES HAS BEGUN. CLASSES START THE WEEK OF AUGUST 26TH - THE BROCHURE IS ATTACHED OR CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION WWW.SLOLITTLETHEATRE.ORG

Central Coast Children's Choir Accepting New Students!

2008-08-13T14:52:00.000-07:00

Central Coast Children's Choir are currently accepting new students in the following choirs: Apprentice I Girls & Apprentice II Girls (auditions for grades 3 - 8), Debut Choir (no auditions needed, boys and girls grades 1 - 3) and boys in grades 3 - 8 for the premiere of San Luis Obispo's Boys Choir! We are so excited to announce that Dr. Thomas Davies, of Director of Cal Poly Choirs and Cuesta Master Chorale, will be leading our boys. This is a FANTASTIC opportunity for young boys to express themselves through vocal education and performance. Assistant Director, Richard Carrick, will teach their musicianship class and provide additional vocal coaching.

For fifteen years, the Central Coast Children’s Choir has been a highly respected and valuable county asset. The choir has sung with the major performing groups in the community, including San Luis Obispo Vocal Arts Ensemble, Cuesta Master Chorale, SLO Symphony, Pacific Repertory Opera, and the Mozart Festival. We have supported other non-profit organizations, performing at benefits for Hospice, SLO Children’s Museum, and C.A.S.A. Over the years, Central Coast Children’s Choir singers have been chosen to represent California in National and Western State honor choirs in Anaheim, Las Vegas, New York, Honolulu, Chicago and Miami.

Rehearsals include musicianship training and vocal coaching to assist in developing healthy singing habits. Professional directors provide a friendly, supportive environment. Our organization is committed to creating choral excellence, instilling self-esteem and self-discipline, building lasting friendships, and inspiring the artist within each child.

You can also check out the website: http://www.centralcoastchildrenschoir.org/.

GUYS & DOLLS AUDITIONS!

2008-08-11T09:51:00.001-07:00

Chameleon Productions is holding open auditions for their upcoming production of Guys & 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.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND SUMMER SPECIAL COUPON!

2008-08-06T16:00:00.000-07:00

There's only one weekend left of Alice in Wonderland. This production is beautifully done and perfect for the whole family.

To persuade audiences to give up this gorgeous weather for a couple hours, we're offering a Summer Special Coupon code that give you an additional $2 off each ticket! You can use the coupon code online or call our box office at 786-2440.

Simply mention the code "AWSS08" and receive a special price of $6 for children and $10 for adults!!

Enjoy the show!

Alice in Wonderland - Opens this weekend!

2008-07-31T14:18:00.000-07:00

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!

2008-07-31T10:13:00.001-07:00

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!!!

2008-07-31T10:04:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-29T15:40:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-29T13:56:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-29T13:53:00.000-07:00

Readers' Theatre - THREE DAYS OF RAIN

2008-07-24T14:55:00.000-07:00

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!

2008-07-24T14:53:00.000-07:00

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

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

So Much To Do!!!

2008-07-23T22:59:00.000-07:00

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!

Best of Hollywood

2008-06-16T12:23:00.000-07:00

OPENS JUNE 27th!!!

If you enjoyed “Razzle Dazzle” or any of our Award-winning Legend Series Shows, you will LOVE “Best of Hollywood”! Don’t miss this unforgettable musical homage to the films of Tinseltown. Once again, Mary Meserve-Miller and Suzy Miller combine their dynamic creative talents, along with the genius of Robyn Metchik, to create a fabulous song and dance-filled journey through eight decades of Hollywood films. Join us and one of the most incredibly talented casts ever assembled at SLOLT for what promises to be one of the most highly acclaimed shows EVER produced on our stage. You won’t want to miss this show! And don’t forget, every Saturday night is Martini Night, with a light gourmet supper and a no-host bar before the show. Hooray for Hollywood!

ACT Summer Camps

2008-06-08T11:57:00.000-07:00

Summer is coming fast and with it comes 3 great ACT camps to keep all of our young performers busy this summer. Camps are filling fast, so register today!

The first camp is our Acting Out! Camp, a one week acting camp for performers in grades 1-6. The camp will explore character development, theatre games, improv, and audition techniques. At the end of the week, the students will perform for their family and friends. The camp runs June 16th -20th and costs $150. Grades 1-3 will work from 9am-12pm daily and Grades 4-6 will work from 1pm-4pm daily.

Our second camp is our Musical Theatre Camp, a two week camp for our performers in grades 1-6. In this camp the students will take classes in singing, acting, dancing, and audition techniques. The students will put their talents to work on a musical that will be performed on the last day of camp. The camp runs July 14-25th, with 1-3 graders attending from 9am-12pm and the 3-6th graders attending from 1pm-4pm. The last few days of camp (7/23, 7/24, 7/25) all campers will attend all day. The cost for the camp is $300.

Our final camp is for our older performers (grades 7-12), ACT Conservatory. The conservatory is a two week intensive camp where our students will attend classs from 9am-4pm. The morning sessions will concentrate on various workshops in different areas of theatre performance (Shakespeare, improv, voice, dance, stage combat, acting for the camera). The afternoon sessions will concentrate on various acting styles, advanced scene work, monologues, and audition techniques. The camp runs from August 3-15th and tuition is $450. On August 15th at 4pm, the conservatory students will present a showcase performance with what they have been working on for family, friends, and SLOLT directors.

For additional information, please contact the ACT Coordinator at (805) 781-3889 ext 14 or act@slolittletheatre.org There are scholarships, sibling discounts, and payment plans available for all our camps. A $50 deposit is due at the time of registration and the remaining tuition is due by the end of camp. Registration can be done via phone, mail, email, or fax. Camps are filling fast, so call today!

Here's a chance for single SLOLTers to support A.C.T.!!

2008-06-04T15:24:00.000-07:00

COME HELP SUPPORT A.C.T.!!!

Known as “The Skim Event”—where singles meet & non-profits compete!
SCM helps singles meet & greet with our local non-profits & aims to provide education & inspiration to match our collective resources to better our non-profit community.
Mix it up, change it up & give it up to party for a cause!

Next Event
Date: June 24, 2008Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Location: Embassy Suites, 333 Madonna Rd, San Luis Obispo

Click http://www.scmevent.com/ to register.

My Fair Lady Review - Mustang Daily

2008-06-03T16:58:00.000-07:00

Stephen Espinosa (Col. Pickering), Lauren Alburn (Eliza) and Alan Benson (Prof. Higgins)
Photo by Jonothan of BluePhoto

A big thank you to Bridget for her coverage of My Fair Lady! For more Mustang Daily articles, click on the 'arts' link below.

'My Fair Lady' goes local, still amazes

By: Bridget Veltri

Issue date: 6/2/08 Section: Arts

I am a bit of a musical theater snob.

I've been lucky to have had opportunities to see the crème de la crème perform on the legendary stages of both Broadway and London's West End.

The San Luis Obispo Little Theatre's (SLOLT) performance of "My Fair Lady" was my first community theater musical experience.

As I filed into the intimate theater, a minority among a sea of senior citizens, I thought this local performance would need more than "a little bit of luck" to stack up to my previous experiences.

Armed with a pen, a notebook and cynicism, I settled into my seat and prepared for what I thought would be the longest two-and-a-half hours of my life. But as familiar tunes streamed out of the speakers above and the lights dimmed, my elitist attitude began to fade.

The cast scurried about the stage conversing in convincing Cockney accents and dressed in surprisingly elaborate costumes, except for one unlucky ensemble member in an ill-fitted red dress.

After Eliza Doolittle (Lauren Alburn) finished singing "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," I was a community theater convert and had to restrain myself from bursting into song with her.

Audrey Hepburn is to "My Fair Lady" as Julia Roberts is to "Pretty Woman." In Alburn's first performance with the SLOLT, she played a character immortalized on the big screen by the iconic Hepburn and on the stage by Julie Andrews - no pressure. She was impressive and belted out the songs as if she was a Cockney canary.

Alfred Doolittle (Mike Mesker) didn't need a "little bit of luck" to bring Eliza's pub-frequenting father to life. His rise to "middle-class morality" was both convincing and entertaining.

Alan Benson brought his professional acting experience to the role of Henry Higgins and was a delight to watch.

For those unfamiliar with the musical - based on "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw - it is a story about love and personal transformation. It's the story of Eliza Doolittle, a woman plagued by a thick accent who makes her living by selling flowers on the streets of London, and Henry Higgins, an arrogant language academic who casually comments that "the way she speaks is what keeps her in her place" and with the right coaching he could turn her into a lady. Higgins eats his words when Doolittle shows up at his door for lessons.

Both the main characters embark on personal journeys: Doolittle's from flower girl to lady and Higgins' from snooty confirmed bachelor to a gentleman finally ready to let "a woman in his life."

There is a reason why they call it the SLO Little Theater: it's tiny. The audience surrounds the stage on three sides and the front row is inches away. The cast's witty banter compensated for the lack of curtains during set changes.

The atmosphere was crammed but comfy, and the theater's size added to the experience. While one of the women seated next to me dozed off and snored at several points during the performance, the other was there to see her young granddaughters perform, and informed me that her daughter made the strawberry tarts Col. Pickering (Stephen Espinosa) enjoyed in Higgins' study just before Doolittle has her breakthrough moment and sings about the infamous "rain in Spain."

The cast did more for me than just put on a show; they showed that you can do justice to a classic musical on a small scale, and the best part is you don't have to pay big Broadway prices to enjoy an afternoon of theater. Tickets are $22 for general admission, and $19 for students and seniors. The show, sponsored by Bob and Ruth Bostrom, will run through June 22.

Just as Higgins found love with someone he never imagined, I found a quality production in a place I never imagined: the SLO Little Theatre.

I am now a reformed theater snob.

A message from Erik Stein! :-)

2008-05-22T22:36:00.000-07:00

Hello SLOLT!

Jackie and I co-directed a production of Elton John’s Broadway Rock Musical, “Aida”, and it opens this Thursday, May 22nd, at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande.

This is a thrilling production with unbelievable music, and it performs one weekend only. May 22, 23, 24 at 7:30 pm and a Sunday matinee, May 25th at 2:00 pm.

For tickets call (805)489-9444 or visit www.clarkcenter.orgTickets cost $15 in advance and $17 at the door.

We have some of the strongest high school students on the Central Coast in this show, and honestly the three leads, Joanna Jones, Andy Wilson, and Lauren Seidenberg, are the strongest young performers I've ever worked with.If you can fit it in your busy schedule go see these students. They sing stuff I can't believe people their age can sing, they dance Suzy Miller's choreography like pros, the leads play guitar, bass, drums, piano as part of the action of the play, and most importantly they tell a thrilling story.

May 22, 23, 24 at 7:30 pm and a Sunday matinee, May 25th at 2:00 pm.

You can call (805)489-9444 or visit www.clarkcenter.org for tickets.

We'll see you at the Clark Center.

All the best,
Erik

1st Annual SLOLT Short Play Festival!!!

2008-05-21T13:06:00.000-07:00

The San Luis Obispo Little theatre is proud to support our nation's playwrights through the 1st Annual SLOLT Short Play Festival. We are looking to celebrate talented emerging artists, as well as established playwrights from across the United States. The 10 plays chosen for the festival will receive a full production, as well as publication in our SLOLT Short Play Collection 2008 which will be available for sale at the theatre during the festival, as well as on our website and on Amazon.com. All festival playwrights will receive a complimentary copy of the collection.

We are looking for strong writing in a variety of genres, so please send us your best work only.

Guidelines;

1. All 10-minute plays must be in English. All playwrights must be residents of the United States.

2. Deadline for submission is June 15, 2008. Only electronic submissions will be considered.

3. 10-minute plays must be no longer than 10-minutes when performed. Usually 10-pages in
standard playwriting format.

4. Provide separate cover page with author, title, contact information, email address, and phone. Do not print or include author’s name or other information on 2nd cover page or anywhere in script. You should be able to combine all materials into one file, but if you have trouble doing this, simply let us know in your email that there are multiple attachments.

5. The monologue/play must not have been previously published nor should it be pending publishing. Previous productions are okay. We will NOT keep someone else from publishing your piece in the future but we must be able to continue to keep the book in print.

6. Please be sure to fill out and submit the festival application along with your submission fee and script.

7. Plays that have been produced or won other awards are welcome – however, you must provide a complete list of awards and productions. We insist that we give credit to theatres that previously produced the work.

8. All genres are welcome.

9. Entries will be acknowledged by email. For more information, visit our website at http://www.slolittletheatre.org/.

10. All material must belong solely to playwright(s) listed on entry form.

11.SLOLT reserves the right to cast and staff all shows as we see fit without approval from playwrights.

12. Playwrights who wish to attend rehearsals may do so, but no pay or travel is offered and playwright’s attendance at any and all rehearsals is at the discretion of the director and/or producers.

13. Please provide a brief bio less than one-quarter of a page.

14. Criticism/feedback will not be available.

15. Please send your submission to office@slolittletheatre.org. Please be sure to include “SLOLT Short Play Festival Submission” in the subject line.

My Fair Lady of the Van

2008-04-24T14:10:00.000-07:00

Last evening during the rehearsal for the "Embassy Waltz," it became necessary to time some dialogue spoken by Higgins, Pickering, Mrs. Higgins, and the show's villain/buffoon, Zoltan Karpathy, to the accompaniment of underscored music. With the rest of the company hard at work in the fellowship hall learning to waltz as the elegant upperclass socialites they are, we had to find an alternate space to do our task. So, five of us--four actors and I--repaired to the parking lot and piled into my van, and by the glow of the roof lights and to the cheerful strains of Frederick Loewe's waltz on my car stereo, we hunkered down and got the job done. We did have to pause to open the windows after the first couple of times through the material (with all that hot air steaming up the windows). But in spite, or maybe because, of our circumstances, this was one rehearsal I will always remember. I only wish I'd had a video camera to record it, if one could have fit.

M. Butterfly - Smut or Theatrical Literature??

2008-04-23T10:48:00.000-07:00

Our current production, M. Butterfly, has the lobby buzzing with discussion during intermission. This cutting edge, award-winning drama crosses sexual and cultural boundaries and transports SLOLT audiences to places they're possibly never been before.

The question is... do audiences want to go there?

We've had varied reactions. Some of our patrons consider this play nothing more than 'smut' and were highly offended that SLOLT would choose such a play for our season. On the other hand, we received congratulatory calls thanking us for doing something other than comedies and musicals.

For those of you who've seen our production of M. Butterfly, what do you think? Is this play worthy of a Tony award? Can you understand why this play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist? Or is it nothing more than 'in your face' smut that the world would be better off without?

SLOLT wants to know how you feel. Please click on the 'comments' link and tell us!

Thank you,

Wendy-Marie Foerster

Executive Director

Baby Lewis Update!

2008-04-23T10:45:00.000-07:00

Here's a message from SLOLT actress, Debi Lewis, who played Lizzie in our Fall musical, "Baby". She's getting close to her due date and we are thrilled to share her excitement as she progresses. Thanks so much for sharing this amazing part of your life with us, Debi!

Hi guys! I wanted to share our fun news. We now know that Baby Lewis, who is due July 25, is a...GIRL!!! We are so excited! As soon as we found out, my hubby ran out to buy a cheerleader doll and first set of pom poms...ha!!! Let me tell you, this kid is already practicing her pirouettes too! She’s a wiggler!!!! :) I’m feeling great. Still able to run, do pilates, work, train our crazy dog, and paint the nursery, so I can’t complain! I miss you guys. Hope you are all doing well and I get to see you soon!

Debi is going to send some preggy pictures so we can all be a part of this wonderful 'theatre baby' experience. :-)

Back on Track!

2008-04-22T15:09:00.000-07:00

My apologies for dropping off the face of the earth like that! We are back on track and plan to blog regularly again.

Coming up soon, we will be featuring a weekly ACT update and a weekly Volunteer update, in addition to announcements about upcoming events and special projects. So make sure you check back regularly!

Quick Update:

M. Butterfly has opened and received a lovely review from the New Times. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, please do! Please note that this production does contain adult content and partial nudity.

We will be announcing our 2008-2009 season very soon. All our SLOLT supporters and volunteers will be receiving an email with the announcement, so make sure we don't go into your spam. I hope to be able to make the official announcement by the beginning of next week.

Our next Readers' Theatre production will be Taking Leave by Nagel Jackson, directed by Anet Carlin on Friday, May 9th at 8 pm. See synopsis below for more info.

In the middle of the night in his home in Seattle , Professor Eliot Pryne, PhD, D.Litt., is packing what he believes is a suitcase and leaving what he believes is a hotel. Suffering from dementia, Eliot is actually preparing to "take leave" of the real world and to enter a new one, but the transition is terrifying. His alter-ego, seen only by the audience, charts this final voyage speaking as Eliot once did when his seminars on Shakespeare and Chaucer overflowed with enthusiastic students. The central event of this oddly comic, yet fully sympathetic play is the visitation of Eliot's three daughters, who must decide what to do with their father, now that the hired nurse can no longer handle his antics. Motifs from Shakespeare’s King Lear, on which Eliot was an authority, resound throughout the play. A dark comedy you won’t want to miss.

My Fair Lady opens Friday, May 23, 2008. We are very excited about this large production and look forward to seeing you at the theatre! You can reserve tickets online through our ticketing system. Simply go to our website and click on the tickets tab.

I'll be posting pictures from our first annual Volunteer Appreciation Day soon!

Have a wonderful week and check back in a couple days for more updates.

Your Executive Director,
Wendy-Marie Foerster

READERS' THEATRE THIS WEEK!

2008-03-26T17:06:00.001-07:00

WE'VE ADDED A THURSDAY NIGHT PERFORMANCE FOR THIS ROUND OF READERS' THEATRE, SO FEEL FREE TO COME ON THURSDAY OR FRIDAY (OR BOTH) AT 8 PM!

SEE YOU AT THE THEATRE!

Adult Acting Classes

2008-03-26T00:10:00.000-07:00

For those of you looking for an adult acting class, SLO Little Theatre is proud to welcome back veteran professional actor/director, Bill McLaughlin. PRO ACTING TECHNIQUES WORKSHOPS Sundays, April 9- June 1, 2008 from 4.30 - 6.30 p.m. at the theatre.

Classes will involve:

How to listen
Basing your performance on reaction
How to break down a scene
How to work with directors
How to prepare a strong audition
The rehearsal process and research
How to make dynamic choices

All students will receive extensive coaching in the organic process of acting and scene analysis.

No more than 15 students will be accepted.

For more information call 773-4647 between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.