Audition Announcement – Naughty and Nice: A Christmas Repertory

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode

directed by Catherine M. Bertrand

A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

directed by Caroline Watson-Felt

Roles to be filled are as follows:

2 Men, 30+, Both actors will play 2 roles: one in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and one in A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Roles to be filled in The Eight are “Dasher” and “Donner”. Open roles in A Child’s Christmas in Wales are not yet specified.

2 Women, late 20’s+, One actor will play 2 roles, one in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and one in A Child’s Christmas in Wales.  Open role in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues is “Vixen”. One actor will play 1 role in A Child’s Christmas in Wales.  Open role in A Child’s Christmas in Wales is not yet specified.  All actors in A Child’s Christmas in Wales will play multiple roles of equal importance.

3 boys, ages 10-14 for A Child’s Christmas in Wales

Performances are alternating nights December 4,5,6 and 11,12,13. Rehearsals will begin immediately. Both performances and rehearsals will take place in Salem.

Auditions will be held by appointment only on Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12 between 6pm and 9:30. Please email catherinembertrand@gmail.com for an audition time.

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Audition Announcement  - Joe Orton’s Loot

Loot, Joe Orton’s 1960s black farce, is a tightly plotted play about two bank robbers—Hal and Dennis—who need to hide their loot. Complicating and aiding this situation is the funeral of Hal’s mother, his grieving father, a nurse with a mysterious past, and a police officer who says he’s from the Water Board.

Audition Format: A short comic monologue if you have one and cold readings from the script. British accents are required.

Audition Times & Location: Auditions will be held on November 18 & 19 at 7:30 PM each evening in the Salem Arts Association Gallery on Artists’ Row in Salem.  24 New Derby Street – Unit One.  Please arrive by 7:30.

Characters:

MCLEAVY:  Older man—60s—respectable, religious, middle class, smitten by Fay, confused and appalled by his son Hal.

FAY:  30s–40s. A nurse with dead husbands in her past. She appears to be devout and upright but will stop at nothing to get rich.

HAL: 20s. A young man of loose sexuality and even looser morals. He desperately needs to hide his loot.  Hall is McLeavy’s son and because of his strong Catholic upbringing, he cannot lie.

DENNIS: 20s. He works at a funeral home but wants more. Another young man with loose morals although he wants to marry Fay.

TRUSCOTT: Middle aged. A police detective trying to find the bank robbers. He is absolutely corrupt and makes up the rules as he goes along.

MEADOWS: Any age. A police officer who does as he’s told.

Kris Burke of Salem in "Wives of the Dead" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This story, along with two by Edgar Allan Poe, have been adapted for the Salem Theatre Company's 2009 production of "Chilling Tales."

STC’s annual Halloween treat, “Chilling Tales,” is not to be missed this October!  New stories from the original master of the macabre – Edgar Allen Poe – as well as a bonus tale from Salem’s own Nathaniel Hawthorne, in the creepiest, authentic venue in Salem: the Custom House on Derby Wharf.

Bob Karish of Salem rehearses "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Whether you are a “Chilling Tales” regular or this is your first visit, this October’s production offers new stories, new scares, and a brand new venue.  We’re still in partnership with the National Park Service and at the Maritime Site, but stroll on over to the Custom House, opposite the Wharf, weekend evenings starting October 9th for the most bone-chilling Halloween offering in Salem!

Tickets are just $15/$10 and are on sale now.  Performances are every 30 minutes starting at 5:00pm; with only 30 seats per performance, tickets will go fast.  Every year we have to turn people away at the door because they waited to the last minute to buy their ticket at the box office and we already sold out every performance that evening!  Don’t let this be you.  Book your tickets online now to ensure you get your seats for the all new “Chilling Tales” from the Salem Theatre Company.

The Custom House is located opposite the TICKETS booth on Derby Street.

Weekends commencing Oct. 9^th, 5PM-9PM, at the Custom House on Derby Street

“The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October, Of my most immemorial year.”

The STC brings back the creepiest of the classics, with new adaptations of master works of the macabre by Edgar Allan Poe and Salem’s own Nathaniel Hawthorne, on stage for the seventh annual presentation of Chilling Tales this October.

Presented once again in conjunction with the National Parks Service, this year’s Chilling Talesis not to be missed.  In celebration of the 200^thanniversary of Poe’s birth, the STC will stage two of his most gruesome, terrifying tales, as well as an additional offering from Hawthorne, at the historic Salem Custom House on Derby Street, directly opposite Derby Wharf.

The tales will be directed by STC Artistic Director John Fogle and feature a cast of professional actors from across the region.

Performances begin every thirty minutes from 5PM to 9PM on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from October 9^th through October 31^st.  Tickets are $15 for ages 13 and up and $10 for age 6 to 12.  Tickets are now available online at www.salemtheatre.com and those planning on attending are strongly encouraged to book their tickets online in advance; telephone reservations cannot be accepted for this production.  Tickets will also be available on show dates beginning at 4:30PM at the STC Box Office tent situated at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site on Derby Street just past Pickering Wharf.

North Shore Art Throb features an interview with Salem Theatre Company Artistic Director John Fogle. Check it out!

 Thanks to everyone who was involved in making our 6th Season possible: those who were on stage, back stage, in the audience, and who generously donated to support the STC.  It was an incredible season of comic adventures and challenging, thought-provoking dramas.  It’s a pleasure to serve the Salem community by offering consistent, year-round, professional-quality live theater right here in Salem.

Here’s to an exciting 7th Season commencing September 1st!

STC is delighted to return for the 3rd Annual “Improv on the Bricks” – a FREE improv comedy show during Salem’s annual Heritage Days celebration.  Bring a chair…bring padding…it’s improv on a hard surface and anything can happen!

Saturday, August 8th

Sunday, August 9th

3:30pm — FREE!

Derby Square (in front of Old Town Hall on Front Street, Salem)

“Catch the comedy at the Salem Theatre!” -Improper Bostonian, July 2009

“Get your tickets now! Fantastic!” -Art Throb, July 2009

Only two more performances of the STC hit production of Steve Martin’s comic romp “The Underpants”!

Last night’s performance was heavily sold out, with a long line of walk-in folks waiting for stand-by tickets.  A good reason to reserve your tickets early at www.salemtheatre.com or by calling 978-790-8546.

Tonight at 8pm and tomorrow at 2pm. 316 Essex Street, Salem. $20 adults/$15 students and seniors.

Donate for a discount…. Come to the final matinee tomorrow at 2pm and bring a new, unopened package of at least three underpants that the STC can donate to the Salem Mission and get $8 off your ticket!

The STC’s smash hit production of Steve Martin’s The Underpants runs for just four more performances (July 30-August 2) at the First Church, 316 Essex Street, in Salem.

North Shore Art*Throb raves “Get your tickets now! Fantastic!” about the STC’s production. The New York Times calls Martin’s script “laugh-out-loud funny.”

When Louise Maske’s bloomers fall down in public, the quiet, conservative lives of both her and her husband, Theo, are shattered. It doesn’t take long for a line-up of prospective and peculiar boarders to show up at the Maske’s front door. As scandal explodes into spectacle, the characters reflect – and reflect upon – our society’s fascination with fame, our reliance on gender roles, and our enslavement by sex.

The Underpants is the final Main Stage production of the STC’s 6th Season and is directed by Dominick Pangallo (Salem), with stage management by Jason Feran (Beverly). Jessica McGettrick (Salem) is the assistant stage manager and Alicia Greenwood (Beverly) designed the costumes. The cast includes Sarah Carlin (Beverly), Stephen Cooper (Marblehead), John Fogle (Marblehead), Bob Karish (Salem), Craig Owen (Georgetown), Caroline Watson-Felt (Salem), and James Wilcox (Beverly).

Thursday-Sunday, July 30-August 2 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00pm; Sunday at 2:00pm

Adults $20, Students/Seniors $15 – reservations at www.salemtheatre.com or (978) 790-8546.

Box office opens 30 minutes prior to curtain; reservations not picked up by five minutes to curtain are subject to cancellation. Groups of 15 or more making advance reservations receive $3 off each ticket in their group; group inquiries should be sent by email to gary@salemtheatre.com.

At the First Church, 316 Essex Street, Salem This venue has limited handicapped accessibility. Patrons with disabilities that are unable to walk up or down stairs are kindly asked to call the STC in advance at (978) 790-8546 so that appropriate arrangements may be made for them to be able to access the theater. Show time: 1 hour, 40 minutes, including a 10 minute intermission. The Underpants contains suggestive language and innuendos that may not be appropriate for children.

STC is proud to be a ticketing partner with the following businesses and organizations. Members of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Arts Association, Massachusetts Teachers Association, House of the Seven Gables, or the Salem YMCA can show their membership card at the box office to receive a $3 discount off their ticket price. Patrons who dine at Caffe Graziani, Gulu-Gulu, or Capt’s or who stay at the Hawthorne Hotel or Salem Inn the day of the show and show their receipt at the box office will receive a $3 discount off their ticket price. These discounts may not be combined.

Thanks to everyone who came out for a terrific opening weekend for “The Underpants.”  Only eight shows left, so get your tickets at www.salemtheatre.com while they last.

Thursday July 23rd through Sunday August 2nd at the First Church, 316 Essex Street in Salem.  Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 2pm.  We are selling out shows, so don’t wait to get your tickets at the door, book them now in advance at www.salemtheatre.com or by calling 978-790-8546.

STC’s production of Steve Martin’s hilarious “The Underpants” is now open and will run through August 2nd. Tickets are available at www.salemtheatre.com or by calling 978-790-8546 – $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors.

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 2pm.  The performance takes place at the First Church, 316 Essex Street in Salem.  Don’t miss it!