Hillbarn Theatre Announces Auditions for their
75th Anniversary Season: Dare to Dream
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include Neil Simon’s award-winning comedy The Odd Couple; the 11-time Tony Award-winner Fiddler on The Roof; and
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning American classic, To Kill A Mockingbird
Hillbarn Theatre Executive Artistic Director Dan Demersannounced today general auditions for the 75th Anniversary season which will feature two classic plays and four hit musicals. Auditions will be held Wednesday, April 22 through Friday, April 24 from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday, April 25 at 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Hillbarn Theatre (1285 East Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City). Auditions will be held in 30-minute sessions with six to eight people in each session. Each performer will be given three minutes for their individual audition. Auditioners must make an appointment for a session in advance. Hillbarn Theatre will continue to offer AEA guest artist contracts for this season. Additionally, they will offer paid actor stipends for each show. For more information about the audition process, or to schedule an audition, please visit
http://www.hillbarntheatre.org/news/sign-up-for-auditions-2/.
Performers should arrive 15 minutes before call time and should bring six copies of their headshot attached to a resume. Performers interested in auditioning for musicals only, should prepare two contrasting songs (one ballad and one up-tempo) and bring double-sided sheet music in preferred key. Performers interested in auditioning for plays only, should prepare two contrasting monologues. For those interested in auditioning for both the musicals and plays, please prepare one up-tempo song with double-sided sheet music in preferred key along with one monologue. Music should be in a binder and ready for the provided accompanist.
Hillbarn Theatre, the Peninsula’s premier community theatre company, recently announced the lineup for the company’s 75th Anniversary season, “Dare to Dream.” Subscriptions for the six-show season range in price from $98 – $236 and are available by visiting
http://www.hillbarntheatre.org/buy/subscribe/ or calling
650-349-6411 x2. Single tickets will be on-sale starting in July. All performances will be held at Hillbarn Theatre (1285 East Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City).
The 75th Anniversary season opens with A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum —Broadway's greatest farce—a light, fast-paced, witty, and irreverent performance that is one of the funniest musicals ever written (August 27 - September 20, 2015). Stephen Sondheim’s classic and comedic musical is a non-stop laugh-fest in which Pseudolus, a crafty slave, struggles to win the hand of a beautiful but slow-witted courtesan named Philia, for his young master, Hero, in exchange for freedom. The plot twists and turns with cases of mistaken identity, slamming doors, and a showgirl or two.
In the fall, Hillbarn Theatre will feature Neil Simon’s award-winning comedy The Odd Couple. (October 15 - November 1, 2015). This classic comedy opens as a group of guys are assembled for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Unger who has just separated from his wife and is fastidious, depressed and none too tense. Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds, Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind when the neat freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together with hilarious results as this truly odd couple is born!
Hillbarn Theatre closes out 2015 with the Tony-Award winning crowd-pleaser, Fiddler On The Roof. (December 3 – 20, 2015). This musical sensation is the brainchild of Broadway legends Jerome Robbins, Harold Prince, songwriters Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, and bookwriter Joseph Stein. Touching audiences worldwide with its humor, warmth and honesty, this universal show is a staple of the musical theatre canon. Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor dairyman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia.
Hillbarn Theatre kicks-off the New Year with The Last Five Years (January 21 - February 7, 2016). This Drama Desk Award winner and timeless story has been translated into many different languages, and was named one of Time magazine's “10 Best Shows” in 2001. It is an emotionally powerful and intimate musical that tells the story of two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show
Hillbarn Theatre continues its theme of “Dare to Dream,” with a graceful adaption of Harper Lee’s triumphant Pulitzer Prize winning story, To Kill A Mockingbird (March 10 - March 27, 2016). Set in Depression-era Maycomb, Alabama in 1935, this incredible tale follows young Scout Finch who lives with her father, Atticus Finch, an attorney, and her older brother Jem. When Tom Robinson, a black man, is accused of raping a white woman, Mayella, Atticus is asked to represent him and accepts, knowing that that decision will likely make him and his family unpopular in a town suffering from the vivid realities of the Jim Crow South. As the trial moves ahead, the town’s emotions run high, mobs gather and relationships are strained. This acclaimed adaptation brings to life the compassion and humanity of Harper Lee’s acclaimed novel.
To close out its 75th Anniversary season a live orchestra production of the Tony Award-winning hit musical,Sweet Charity. (May 5 - May 29, 2016). Charity—the girl who wants to be loved so much that she has lost sight of who she is—sings , dances, laughs and cries her way through romances with the “animal magnetism” hero, the “ultra-chic continental” hero, and the “impossible-to believe-but-he’s-better than nothing” type hero. Her world is the all too real world of Times Square, and the people who pass through her world are as deceptively charming a group as ever swept across any stage. Wonderful musical numbers include “Big Spender,” “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” “Too Many Tomorrows,” “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This,” “I’m a Brass Band” and “Baby, Dream Your Dream.”
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About Hillbarn Theatre
Since 1941, the historic Hillbarn Theatre has served the San Francisco Bay Area by embracing this founding ideal - to create theatre with the community, for the community, striving always for excellence in production and education. Hillbarn has won a Theater Critics Circle Award, was accepted at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, was honored with several mayoral proclamations for excellence in theatrical production and education, received three Dean Goodman Awards for Artistic Excellence, and a Foster City Honors Award.
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