Date: Aug. 30, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Village Properties Room 208, 56835 Venture Ln, Sunriver Business Park
Event Contact: Victoria Kristy 541-588-2215 –sunriverdiva@gmail.com
Event Website: www.sunriverstars.org
Cost: $0.00
SSCT SEASON OPENS WITH “SECRET GARDEN”
The Sunriver Stars Community Theater will open its 2017-2018 season with a musical version of the beloved story, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Auditions will take place on August 30th from 6 to 9pm in Room 208 above the Village Properties Building in the Sunriver Business Center. Rehearsals will begin September 5th and go from 6 to 8pm. In the beginning weeks, directors will rotate with Tuesdays being devoted to music , Wednesdays reserved for dance and Thursdays for putting it all together.
There’s no business like show business! Come be a part of the fun. For additional information, please contact the director at sunriverdiva@gmail.com .
The show, which will be directed by SSCT Artistic Director and founder, Victoria Kristy and presented at The Door, runs October 27,28 and 29th and will feature fully choreographed musical numbers by Rich Mundy . Sharon Sackett will serve as musical director, Gail Gibson as Assistant Director and Doug Griffin will once again construct the sets.
“I am looking for a cast of thousands,” said Kristy. “I like to think of myself as the Cecil B. DeMille of small community theater. I welcome actors from 5 to 95, all wanting to sing, dance and act while having a great time sharing the story! No previous acting experience is necessary.
Don’t let the word ‘musical’ scare you off,” she says,” The majority of the songs are sung in groups and the dance movements can be mastered by all.”
Specifically, the cast requires 19 adults and children with speaking parts . Boys aged 10 through teen will take on the roles of invalid Colin Craven, Dickon, the young garden apprentice and John and Phil the stable boy and young footman, respectively. Mary Lennox is the young star of the show . She portrays a young unruly orphan and has to master 190 lines. There are roles for Victorian era housekeepers and neighbors and maids and the governess and the Master of Misselthwaite Manor himself.
The show opens with a super exciting East Indian dance number, the vision of Rich Mundy. Think Bollywood meets the Victorian era!