Buck Creek Players Seek Directors

Buck Creek Players is seeking directors interested in one of two directing opportunities in the 2011-2012 season.

Christmas Show:
Unfortunately, the musical Irving Berlin's White Christmas is not being licensed in the Indianapolis area this holiday season. As a replacement, the Board of Directors of BCP have found several possible productions that are currently available and are seeking directors who are interested. The productions are:
Sander's Family Christmas
Winter Wonderettes
Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)
A Christmas Survival Guide
Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
The chosen show will audition September 26 & 27, 2011, with nine performances running three weekends, December 2-18, 2011.

Harold & Maude:
We are also seeking a director for the dark comedy, Harold & Maude by Colin Higgins.

Harold & Maude will audition January 30 & 31, 2012, with six performances running two weekends, March 23 to April 1, 2012.

Directors that are interested in either opportunity, should submit the following information:
A letter of interest that outlines which production you are seeking to direct. Please include a short description outlining your vision and desires for the production.
A theatrical resume outlining your past experience on and off stage
Information may be submitted via e-mail to buckcreekplayers@yahoo.com or via U.S. Mail to:

Buck Creek Players
c/o 2011-2012 Directors
11150 Southeastern Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46259

Interested directors should ensure their information is received no later than Saturday, August 13, 2011 to be considered.

Questions may be submitted to buckcreekplayers@yahoo.com.

A SANDER'S FAMILY CHRISTMAS (Samuel French)
Musical Comedy
Written by Connie Ray. Conceived by Alan Bailey
Musical Arrangements by John Foley and Gary Fagin.
4 m, 3 f
In this sequel to the ever popular New York hit , the Sanders family returns to Mount Pleasant, NC, home of the Mount Pleasant Pickle Factory. It's Christmas Eve, 1941. Reverend Oglethorpe has invited them to the Baptist Church to sing and witness, getting the congregation into the down home holiday spirit before the boys, including one of the Sanders' own, are shipped off to World War II. More than two dozen Christmas carols, many of them vintage hymns, and hilarious yuletide stories from the more or less devote Sanders family keep the audience laughing, clapping and singing along with bluegrass Christmas favorites. Richly entertaining, this wildly infections musical brings cheer to audiences eager to see how their friends from have been getting along.

WINTER WONDERETTES (Steele Spring)
The '60s Holiday Sequel to the Smash Off-Broadway Hit Written and Created by Roger Bean
The Marvelous Wonderettes are back as they create a rockin' '60s party to celebrate the holidays with friends and family! Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy are entertaining at the 1968 Holiday Party for Harper's Hardware, where Betty Jean has worked since high school. Audience members are fellow employees, friends and family, and the girls have transformed the hardware store into a winter wonderland-with help from the guys in the lumber department, of course! As is the annual tradition, Mr. Harper is scheduled to appear at the end of the evening as Santa Claus, when he will pass out the much-anticipated bonus envelopes. After missing his cue-the special 'Santa Bell'-several times, Betty Jean runs off to find him. She can't find Santa but returns triumphant with the bonus envelopes instead. After passing them out to the audience, they open the envelopes to discover pink slips with notIce That Harper's Hardware is closing! Missy tries to cheer things up with happy Christmas memories as well as a musical tribute to Christmas around the world. After an audience participation bell medley, they finally decide to bring on their own Santa: Missy's new husband Bill-an audience member. After singing to Santa onstage, Suzy discovers an identical set of bonus envelopes in Santa's bag. The first set of envelopes were a trick-Harper's is staying open and everyone receives a huge bonus! All ends happily and merrily in this wonderful winter wonderland.

NUNCRACKERS: The Nunsense Christmas Musical (Tams-Witmark)
Book, Music & Lyrics by Dan Goggin
The Nunsense Christmas Musical, NUNCRACKERS, is presented as the first TV special taped in the Cable Access Studio built by Reverend Mother in the convent basement. It stars the nuns you love, plus Father Virgil, and four of Mount Saint Helen's most talented students. Featuring all new songs including Twelve Days Prior to Christmas, Santa Ain't Comin' to Our House, We Three Kings of Orient Are Us and It's Better to Give than to Receive, this show is filled with typical NUNSENSE humor, some of your favorite carols, and a "Secret Santa" audience participation. We're certain this NUNSENSE Christmas Show will make you laugh, and maybe tug at your heartstrings. It's the perfect way to insure that your holiday season is merry and bright!

EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD (AND THEN SOME!) (Playscripts, Inc.)
Comedy
Full-length, 80-95 minutes
3 males (3 actors possible: 0-3 females, 0-3 males)
Minimal set: several chairs, a couple of trunks, some holiday decoration.
Instead of performing Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told -- plus Christmas traditions from around the world, seasonal icons from ancient times to topical pop-culture, and every carol ever sung. A madcap romp through the holiday season!??

A CHRISTMAS SURVIVAL GUIDE (Samuel French)
Conceived and written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick
Musical arrangements by John Glaudin
Musical Revue 1m, 2f or 2m, 3f Simple sets This intimate revue takes a wry and knowing look at a stressful season. Armed with a copy of and an optimistic attitude, the characters charge into an urban holiday landscape searching for the true essence of Christmas. In songs and vignettes, they learn to cope with the season in ways that are both hilarious and heartwarming.

"Ho Ho Hilarious! The funniest Christmas revue around!" -The New York Press

"Audiences love it! We sold out." -Westchester Broadway Theatre

"Sold out for two years! Perfect for corporate and group outings." -Stepping Out Productions

"Knows when to put tongue firmly in cheek!...Songs, familiar and not so familiar...explore everything from parody ("The Twelve Steps of Christmas') to the traditional ("O Holy Night"....A light and lively way to take your mind off the holiday crush!" -AtEase CN1 Newspapers

MRS. BOB CRATCHIT'S Â WILD CHRISTMAS BINGE (Dramatists)
Comedy Written by Christopher Durang
In this departure from Dickens, young Scrooge's exclamations of "Bah, humbug!" are an undiagnosed "kind of seasonal Tourette's Syndrome," and The Ghost of Christmas Past is played by a sassy African-American woman with enough attitude to portray all three spirits (which she does). She tries to show Scrooge his past, present and future in order to change him, but her magic keeps malfunctioning in Durang's version of the beloved holiday classic, and they consistently find themselves transported to the wrong time and place. She tries to take Scrooge back to see his old employers, the Fezziwigs-"always an audience favorite"-but instead she and Scrooge keep appearing in the present at the Cratchit's pathetic home. Mrs. Bob Cratchit, a minor character in the Dickens, takes center stage here. No longer loving and long suffering, Mrs. Bob is in a rage: She's sick of Tiny Tim (the goody-goody crippled child), she hates her twenty other children (most of them confined to the root cellar), including oversized Little Nell, and she wants to get drunk and jump off London Bridge. As the Ghost loses more control, the plot morphs into parodies of Oliver Twist, "The Gift of the Magi" and It's a Wonderful Life. And to make matters worse, Scrooge and Mrs. Bob seem to be kindred souls falling in love. With a dénouement that is two parts Touched by an Angel and one part The Queen of Mean, Scrooge's tale of redemption and gentle grace is placed squarely on its head.

HAROLD AND MAUDE (Samuel French, Inc.)
Comedy by Colin Higgins
This is a stage adaptation of the movie about the suicidal 19 year old boy who finally learns how to truly live when he meets that delightfully wacky octogenarian, Maude. Harold is the proverbial poor little rich kid. His alienation has caused him to attempt suicide several times, though these incidents are more cries for attention than actual attempts. His peculiar attachment to Maude, whom he meets at a funeral (a mutual passion) is what saves him and what captivates us. This stage version, a hit in France directed by the internationally renowned Jean Louis Barrault, will certainly delight both aficionados of the film and new comers to the story. "Offbeat upbeat comedy." Christian Science Monitor.

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