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Albany Civic Theater Announce its 2011-2012 Season
Posted by Gail M. Burns - February 2011
Albany Civic Theater is proud to announce its 2011-2012 Season!
Director’s Showcase
Thursday, June 23, 2011, 8pm
“I’m Herbert” from You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water is Running by Robert Anderson
Directed by Ed Countermine
Playwright’s Showcase
Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 3pm
The Happiest Place on Earth by Gregory Dodds
Directed by Carol King
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Juliet King
Auditions – 5/9 & 5/10/11
Preview 9/1/11
Show dates 9/2-9/4/11, 9/9-9/11/11, 9/16-9/18/11
Young Vivie Warren, emancipated, intelligent and self-sufficient, is astounded to learn her mother rose from poverty to riches through prostitution – and also that she is now part owner and operator of a chain of brothels. Mrs. Warren ably justifies her past – attacking a hypocritical society that rewards vice and oppresses virtue. Mrs. Warren states that poverty and the society that fosters poverty are the real villains and that life in a brothel is preferable to life in a 19th-century factory. Written in 1893, this is Shaw’s controversial attack on society’s hypocrisy.
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
Directed by Carol King
Auditions – 9/6 and 9/7/2011
Preview 11/3/11
Show dates 11/4-11/6/11, 11/11-11/13/11, 11/18-11/20/11
Travelling faith healer Frank has gone all over Wales and Scotland with his wife, Grace, and his manager, Teddy. In their respective monologues, Frank, Grace and Teddy tell their differing versions of the healer’s performances and of a terrible event that slowly comes into focus. In this darkly lyrical tale, the author has created a metaphorical portrait of the artist as both creator and destroyer through the shifting memories of the three characters.
Rumors by Neil Simon
Directed by Katie Weinberg
Auditions – 11/7 & 11/8/11
Preview 2/9/12
Show dates 2/10-2/12/12, 2/17-2/19/12, 2/24-2/26/12
At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden’s Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer Ken and wife Chris must get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and miscommunications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.
The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin
Directed by Aaron Holbritter
Auditions 2/13 & 2/14/12
Preview 5/3/12
Show dates 5/4-5/6/12, 5/11-5/13/12, 5/18-5/20/12
It’s 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called “television.” Separated by two thousand miles, each knows that if he stops working, even for a moment, the other will gain the edge. Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy? The answer comes to compelling life in The Farnsworth Invention from Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing, playwright of A Few Good Men and Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated writer for The Social Network.