Beechmont Players, Inc.

Arts Organization in Residence for Anderson Township, OH

Call for directors, 2016-17 season

Beechmont Players, Inc., is seeking directors to direct in the Beechmont Players’ 2016-2017 season.

As the Arts Organization in Residence at the Anderson Center, BPI has the privilege of presenting its productions in the Anderson Center’s beautiful 223-seat proscenium theater.  With our large audience base, BPI typically fills this theater with approximately 1,000 audience-members over each production’s run.  BPI now has a storage/build facility, where set designers and builders can take full advantage of the theater’s plentiful stage space by building the set in advance.  This space can even allow rehearsals on the set at the build facility.  BPI welcomes directors, design teams, and crew-members new to our group, while maintaining an active and talented membership that is ready to step up to help make each show a success.

Interested in joining us for our 57th season?  Please submit up to five plays and/or musicals that you would like to direct in BPI’s 2016-2017 season.  If scripts for the shows you are presenting are not available at the Hamilton County Public Library, please submit a copy for the Play Reading Committee (if you do not have a copy and would like assistance obtaining a copy, please let me know).  Please consider the group, our audience, and our theater when suggesting shows to present.  Click here for additional information about our group and a list of our past productions.

If you are interested in submitting to direct at Beechmont, contact Wayne Kirsch at wayne@beechmontplayers.org.  An Application form will be sent to you.  Please fill out and return this application, along with a current theatrical resume, by November 2, 2015.  You may submit these items via e-mail to wayne@beechmontplayers.org. Please indicate your availability for production dates, as well as your availability for director interviews on the application.

Please note that the group would like to produce at least one musical in the 2016-2017 season.  Also, we prefer the summer production be a family-friendly show.  This does not necessarily need to be a show with children in it, but should at least be appropriate for children to watch, and it can be a musical or not.

For the director interviews, you will be asked to present up to three shows, though the Play-Reading Committee may ask you about the other two shows you submitted.  Director interviews will take place on Sunday afternoon, November 29, and Monday evening, November 30.

Thank you for your interest in Beechmont Players, Inc.  I look forward to receiving your submission!

Sincerely,
Wayne Kirsch, VP Shows
Beechmont Players, Inc.

Audition Notice: Death Takes a Holiday

Beechmont Players, Inc. (BPI) is gearing up for its winter production of the 2015-16 season, Death Takes a Holiday.

Auditions will be held October 19 and 20 (with callbacks, if necessary, on October 22) at the Anderson Center Theatre. For details, click here.

Season subscriptions still available

Do you enjoy watching Beechmont Players shows?  Why not buy a season subscription?  You can purchase either a three-show or four-show subscription and pick out favored seating, plus, at the $11 per per ticket subscriber price, you save $2-$4 per ticket (depending on whether or not you’re a senior!).  What if your plans change?  Just give us a call to change the date you’re going to come.

As an extra value, we are going to provide a “use it anytime during the season” gift certificate good for one additional ticket to a performance of your choice for anyone buying a four-seat season subscription.

Actors/Actress Needed: The Trials of Robin Hood

Beechmont Players’ The Trials of Robin Hood is in need of several good actors and one good actress to round out the cast. Ages range from older teen to mature male. All roles will be interesting to play as each actor will play several different characters in the show, as many as four.

If you are interested, please call Lynne Aronson, director, at 513.624.8665 as soon as you can, as rehearsals have already started.

Characters in need include:

  • Friar Tuck/Evil Lord/Peasant
  • Little John/Peasant
  • William Church, Merry Man/Archer
  • Daniel Boyle, Merry Man/Archer
  • Nathaniel Piper/ Alan A Dale
  • Finn Lucky, Sheriff’s Soldier/Archer
  • Tobias, Sheriff’s Soldier/Archer
  • Edward of Locksley/Lord DUncan/Townsman
  • Lady Ellen/Lady Lucy/Townswoman

The show runs August 7-15, 2015, at the Anderson Center Theater.

Show synopsis: Back from the Crusades, King Richard sifts through conflicting stories to figure out what happened in his absence. Told from the testimony of Robin himself, Maid Marian and Prince John, this family-friendly comedy combines three different stories in one hilarious trial.

Additional Audition: The Trials of Robin Hood

Beechmont Players is in need of several male actors for its summer, family-friendly production of The Trials of Robin Hood. An additional audition has been set:

Wednesday, May 27, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Anderson Center Station: 7832 Five Mile Road (bus stop south of/up the hill from the Anderson Center)

BPI is in need of male actors to fill the following roles:

Friar Tuck: 30s-40s-a bit portly would be good. He will also play an Evil Lord and a Peasant. A somewhat shady character.

Little John: 20s-30s. He also plays a peasant. A member of the Merry Men and good with a quarter staff.

William Church: Part of the Merry Men

Daniel Boyle: Part of the Merry Men

Nathaniel Piper: Part of the Merry Men

Finn Lucky: A Sheriff’s soldier

Tobias: A Sheriff’s soldier

Much the Miller’s Son/Madge the Miller’s Daughter: no age requirement. A little drag going on here.

Edward of Locksley: 40s-50s. He is the father of all of the Robins. Also plays Lord Duncan and a Townsman.

Please contact director Lynne Aronson with any questions: 513.624.8665

Back from the Crusades, King Richard sifts through conflicting stories to figure out what happened in his absence. Told from the testimony of Robin himself, Maid Marian and Prince John, this family-friendly comedy combines three different stories into one hilarious trial.

The Trials of Robin Hood will run August 7 – 15, 2015, at the Anderson Center Theatre.

The Matchmaker, May 5-13

A widow who brokers marriages in Yonkers, New York, sets her sights on a local merchant, who hired her to find a wife. A series of slapstick situations involving mistaken identities and separated lovers, ensues.

For more info, click here.

 

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