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AUDITIONS
Bat Boy: The Musical OCEAN BEACH PLAYHOUSE 4944 Newport Ave., Ocean Beach A dark comedy, based on a June 23, 1992 story about a half-boy, half-bat dubbed “batboy” who grew up living in a cave. Minimum 16 bars, contempo- rary/rock music strongly encouraged. This show requires strong voices and features many different types of music. It is best to sing a song that shows off your entire range. Non-Equity. Runs September 21-October 22, Thursday- Saturday 8pm; Sunday at 2pm. Starts on August 15th: Tuesday-Friday 7-10pm, Saturday 12-4pm, Sunday 6-10pm.
Auditions: APR. 9 2PM
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
KIT CARSON PARK
Much Ado About Nothing CORONADO PLAYHOUSE 1835 Strand Way, Coronado For its annual Free Shakespeare show, the Coronado Playhouse stages the Bard’s comedy about love, war, and the war of wits between Beatrice and Bene- dict. E-mail audition@coronadoplay-
house.com with your name and tele- phone number and headshot/resume attached. Put “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” in subject when e-mailing. ‚ÄãFor preliminary auditions, sides will be emailed to you and are avail- able for download below or advance preparation. The sides do not have to be memorized, but auditionees should be very familiar with the excerpts. Please ensure you have read the full play in advance of the auditions so as to be familiar with the characters, plot, themes, language, etc. Auditions: APR. 24 & 25 6PM
3333 Bear Valley Parkway, Escondido Prepare a one-minute of song to accompaniment. Song style should be similar to the show. Bring a CD or MP3 player with a backing track. No a cap- pella auditions. If you are interested in a non-singing ensemble role, email
mattfitzgerald@patioplayhouse.com to set up an invite to the dance callbacks. Callbacks will consist of a dance rou- tine, vocal harmony, and reading from sides. Sign up at
patioplayhouse.com. Big business means big laughs in this clever lampoon of life on the corporate ladder. A tune-filled comic gem that took Broadway by storm, winning both the Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, the play follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook to climb the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to high-powered executive. Auditions: APR. 9 & 10 7PM
fascism went out of control when the students delighted in power so much they relinquished their free- dom. “While this is a youth theater production, it probably would not
appeal to very young children.” PATIO PLAYHOUSE THEATRE, 116 S. KALMIA ST., NONE. 7PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY, 2PM SUNDAY.
Who Am I This Time (And Other Complications of Love)? Westminster Presbyterian Church’s Vanguard Theatre Ministry pres- ents Aaron Posner’s adaptation of three early comic stories by Kurt Vonnegut. “A walk through sim- ple, mythical small-town America and a glimpse of humankind’s most elusive, complicated and
basic sentiment.” WESTMINSTER THEATER, 3598 TALBOT ST., POINT LOMA. 619-224-6263. 8PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY, 2PM SUNDAY.
UPCOMING SHOWS
Ballast Diversionary Theatre stages the world premiere of Georgette Kelly’s “poetical exploration of the waking and dream lives of two trans- and
Spring Awakening ONSTAGE PLAYHOUSE 291 Third Ave., Chula Vista Runs July 7 to August 12 (Thursdays- Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm). Possible one-week extension. Prepare a one-minute pop/rock song that best shows your vocal range. We encourage pop/rock music from any source – not just musical theatre. Bring sheet music in correct key. An accompanist will be provided. No a cappella or pre-recorded music or backing tracks (CD). Please be familiar with the show. Callbacks April 24. Callbacks will consist of dancing, reading sides from the script and vocals from the show score. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes that you can move in. If you have any questions regarding audi- tions or cannot reserve an audition slot email
ospspringawakening@gmail.com. Auditions: APR. 22 10AM, APR. 23 4PM
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cisgender couples as they come to terms with the new lives they find
themselves in.” Matt Morrow directs. DIVERSIONARY THEATRE, 4545 PARK BL., UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS. 619-220- 0097. MAY 4 THROUGH JUNE 4.
Chicago San Diego City College Drama Pro- gram presents John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Musical Vaudeville” (each of the numbers is reminiscent of a specific vaudeville performer). It’s the Roaring Twenties. Chorus girl Roxie Hart murders her faithless lover and convinces her hapless hus- band, Amos, to take the rap. Katie Rodda directs, with choreography by Kristin Arcidiacono and musical
direction by Michael Farley. SAVILLE THEATRE AT SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE, 14TH AND C ST., CITY COLLEGE. 619-388-3676. APRIL 21 THROUGH APRIL 30.
Clybourne Park Palomar College stages Bruce Nor- ris’s follow-up to Lorraine Hans- berry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. Annie Hinton directs.
PALOMAR COLLEGE, 1140 WEST MISSION RD., SAN MARCOS. MAY 5 THROUGH MAY 14.
Heathers the Musical OnStage Playhouse presents the satirical musical comedy, based on the Daniel Walters film, about “a posse of mean girls, Heather and Heather and Heather,” who rule Westerberg High. At least until Veronica, alleged misfit, rejects them and begins a relationship with J.D., “the dark and sexy new guy.” Manny
and Tony Bejarano direct. ONSTAGE PLAYHOUSE, 291 THIRD AVE., CHULA VISTA. 619-422-7787. APRIL 21 THROUGH MAY 27.
Into the Beautiful North As part of the National New Play Network World Premiere, where a play opens around the country at the same time, the San Diego Rep pres- ents Karen Zacharias’s comedy based on Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel. When thugs taake over her tiny Mexican village, teenaged Naveli and three friends head north to find a mod- ern equivalent for the Magnificent
Seven. Sam Woodhouse directs. SAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE, 79 HORTON PLAZA, DOWNTOWN SAN DI- EGO. 619-544-1000. APRIL 6 THROUGH APRIL 9.
James and the Giant Peach Coronado Playhouse offers the popular musical based on Roald Dahl’s book. “James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and
GROW AND GROW.” CORONADO PLAYHOUSE, 1835 STRAND WAY, CORONADO. 619-435-4856. JUNE 9 THROUGH JULY 2.
The Man Who Came to Dinner Sheridan Whiteside and the Broad- way Vista Theatre invade the Law- rence Welk Theatre with Kaufman and Hart’s mega comedy about Whiteside, a radio personality as obnoxious as he is famous, who injures himself on an Ohio family’s
doorstep and takes over the house. WELK RESORT THEATRE, 8860 LAWRENCE WELK DR., ESCONDIDO. 888- 802-7469. APRIL 7 THROUGH APRIL 30.
Skeleton Crew The Old Globe Theatre and Moxie Theatre present the West Coast pre- miere of Dominique Morrisseau’s drama about Faye’s dilemma. She works long hours in an auto plant (in Detroit, 1908) and is near retirement. BVut management has changed. Now she’s “torn between self-preservation and allegiance to her coworkers.” Delicia Turner Son-
nenberg directs. SHERYL AND HARVEY WHITE THEATRE, 1363 OLD GLOBE WAY, BALBOA PARK. 619-234-5623. APRIL 13 THROUGH MAY 7.
Travels with My Aunt North Coast Repertory Theatre presents Giles Havergal’s theatrical adaptation of the Graham Greene novel. Eccentric aunt Augusta swoops in, shakes up the life of her staid bourgeois nephew, and ignites the lust for adventure buried within his gray flannel soul.” David Ellen- stain directs.
NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE, 987-D LOMAS SANTA FE DR., SO- LANA BEACH. 858-481-1055. APRIL 12 THROUGH MAY 7.
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Sweet-and-sour pork-u-pines... Mrs. Frederick brought one of two dishes to our church potluck. They were spoken of as “Mrs. Frederick’s famous Swedish meat-balls” and “Mrs. Frederick’s famous sweet- and-sour pork-u-pines.” The pork-u- pine’s “pines” or “quills” were rice Mrs. Frederick blended into ground pork. As the pork cooked, fat melted; pork shrank away from the rice, which left rice grains sticking
out of the meatballs. BY JUDITH MOORE, NOV. 10, 1994
Company dinner Alas, for all my wedding booty and imagining of grand meals, I couldn’t cook much but frozen vegetables, grilled cheese sandwiches, and breakfast. What I fixed that evening I first entertained company was a meal I’d eaten at my friend Joanna’s parents’ house: beef and kidney bean chili, gingerbread studded with
raisins, and coleslaw. BY JUDITH MOORE, MARCH 3, 1994
Love spud As food, the sweet potato looks unpromising. Pop a sweet potato into your microwave oven. (Believe me, baked is best.) Ten minutes or so later, slice open the cooked potato. The inauspicious skin hides bright orange flesh. All this potato needs is your mouth. No butter, brown sugar, no rum or miniature marshmallows: the baked sweet
potato is loveliest naked. BY JUDITH MOORE, FEB. 2, 1995
food
As good as we remembered Back in what now seem to me to be the dark ages of my life, when I was a young mother, I made almost all our bread. Even if I’d not said one kind word all day or done one good deed or de-flead the dog or defrosted the refrigerator, whose motor I’d hear groaning with effort, I could put my guilty hand on top the warm rounded loaf and tell myself, “I made something beautiful.” BY JUDITH MOORE, FEB. 3, 1994
Putting Up Is Women’s Work More than thrift spurred me some summers to fill jars with pickles, fruit, and relishes. I was not the only one. You could walk down our alley and, through open windows, see bare-armed women sweating in kitchens, muscles popping up as they lifted hot jars out of the canning kettle, and you could smell the sharp vinegar and deep sweet fruit. These were women with whom I picked huckleberries along rivers and peaches in nearby orchards. BY JUDITH MOORE, AUG. 8, 1991
Mother on a Spoon Feeling low, I yearned after one of those soft puddly custards or cool puddings I was fed as a child. I huddled under my pale blue electric blanket, dial switched to a balmy maternal 4, and asked myself about the solace these humble, almost austere dishes offer. I thought how, in my case (weak in the legs, woozy and easily weary), this even temporary loss of well-being drew me back to earlier losses. That initial loss, for most of us, was the moment when our mothers first left us with a babysitter or turned us
from breast to bottle. BY JUDITH MOORE, JAN. 6, 1994
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