The Barn Players Seeks Directors For 2011 Season, 7/15 Deadline

THE BARN PLAYERS 2011

CALL FOR DIRECTORS

EVITA March 4 - 20
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics and Book by Tim Rice
RATED PG

Argentina's controversial First Lady is the subject of this dynamic musical masterpiece. As an illegitimate fifteen year old, Eva escaped her dirt-poor existence for the bright lights of Buenos Aires. Driven by ambition and blessed with charisma, she was a starlet at twenty-two, the president's mistress at twenty-four, First Lady at twenty-seven, and dead at thirty-three. Eva Peron "saint to the working-class, reviled by the aristocracy and mistrusted by the military" was destined to leave a fascinating political legacy unique in the 20th century. Told through a compelling score that fuses haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz influences, EVITA creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself.

SHOUT: THE MOD MUSICAL
April 29 - May 15
Created by Phillip George, David Lowenstein & Peter Charles Morris
RATED PG

SHOUT! flips through the years like a musical magazine and takes you back to the music, the fashion and the freedom of the 60's! This smashing revue tracks five groovy gals as they come of age during those liberating days that made England swing! Join this non-stop journey through the infectious and soulful pop anthems and ballads that made household names of stars like Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield and Lulu. SHOUT! uses letters to an advice columnist, true confessions, quizzes and advertisements as a frame for terrific new arrangements of such chart-topping hits as "To Sir With Love," "Downtown," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "Son of A Preacher Man," and "Goldfinger." With its irresistible blend of hip-swiveling hits, eye-popping fashions and psychedelic dances from the 60's, this fun-filled musical will make you want to throw your head back and SHOUT!

 

FROST / NIXON
June 10 - 26
By Peter Morgan
RATED R

British talk-show host David Frost has become a lowbrow laughing-stock. Richard M. Nixon has just resigned the United States presidency in total disgrace over Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. Determined to resurrect his career, Frost risks everything on a series of in-depth interviews in order to extract an apology from Nixon. The cagey Nixon, however, is equally bent on redeeming himself in his nation's eyes. In the television age, image is king, and both men are desperate to outtalk and upstage each other as the cameras roll. The result is the interview that sealed a president's legacy.

 

THE LAST FIVE YEARS
A Benefit Concert for The Barn Players
August 12 - 14
Music, Lyrics and Book by Jason Robert Brown
RATED PG

A contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. Written by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs For A New World), The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.

 

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Sept. 16 - Oct. 2
Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison
Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar
RATED PG

A rare combination of unprecedented originality and blinding talent, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE boldly addresses a great unspoken desire in all of our hearts: to be entertained. If you've ever sat in a dark theatre and thought, "Dear Lord in heaven, please let it be good," this is the show for you!
It all begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan plays his favorite cast album on his turntable, and the musical literally bursts to life in his living room, telling the rambunctious tale of a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find, and keep, her true love.

 

SWEET CHARITY
November 4 - 20
Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Book by Neil Simon
RATED PG

Charity Valentine is the eternal optimist. While working at the seedy Fan-Dango ballroom, she is often taken advantage of and continually experiences bad relationships. Finally, she seems to have met a decent fellow in Oscar. Trying to hide her true profession, she lies to him and tells her that she works in a bank. Soon, Oscar asks Charity to marry him. Unfortunately, Oscar discovers Charity's real profession and backs out of the marriage. Nevertheless, Charity continues to remain hopeful that good things will happen in her life.

Please send a letter of application specifying the show you are interested in directing, and give a general outline of your concept of the show for our space at The Barn Players. Please include a resume highlighting your past directing experience.

Deadline for application is July 15th, 2010.

Interviews will take place the last two weekends in July.

Application and resume should be sent to:
Eric Magnus, Artistic Director of The Barn Players at emagnitude@yahoo.com

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