Edition 6, Volume 4
March 15, 2009

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Cape May Stage Presents
Classic Radio Play "Sorry Wrong Number"
During The Stage Festival March 9-28

  As the 12th Annual statewide Family Week at the Theatre and Stage Festival event continues, Cape May Stage, Cape May’s premier professional Equity theatre, in cooperation with the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, is pleased to announce a unique opportunity for the older generation to take an entertaining trip back in time.   Starting March 9 and running each Monday thru March 30, Cape May Stage will take their live production of the classic radio play, Sorry, Wrong Number, on the road to four different Cape May County Senior Recreation Centers.
   Cape May Stage Education Outreach Coordinator, Donald Toal, along with local performer Lisa Rigazio, will bring to life the classic broadcast, “Sorry Wrong Number” originally performed by Agnes Moorehead in 1943.  Complete with traditional radio music and ‘advertisements,’ audience members will be given the opportunity to get a taste for acting themselves. Toal and Rigazio, both graduates of DeSales University’s performing arts program, encourage participation and will lead all ages in several improvisational acting exercises. 
   This fun-filled event will take place every Monday during the month of March.  The first reading is scheduled for March 9 from 10:30-11:30AM at the Stainton Senior Center on Asbury Ave in Ocean City, with the second scheduled for Monday, March 16 at the Lower Cape Senior Center on Bayshore Road in Villas from 10:45-11:45 AM.  The final two readings will take place March 23 on Route 9 at the Upper Township Senior Center in Palermo and the last on March 30 at the North Wildwood Senior Center located at the corner of 10th and Central Ave.
   All of these programs offered are free and open to the public, and a great opportunity to enjoy live theatre. 
For more information, please contact Cape May Stage at (609)- 884-1341.
   Family Week at the Theatre is a co-sponsored project of The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and Discover Jersey Arts.  Visit www.JerseyArts.com for more information about other arts programming happening around the Garden State. 
   Additional support has been provided by Appel Farm Arts and Music Center, Bank of America, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, The F.M. Kirby Foundation, Fund for New Jersey Blind, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, The George Ohl, Jr. Trust, The New Jersey Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the New Jersey Library Association, New Jersey Monthly, New Jersey State Library, The Prudential Foundation and WNYC.
For more information (click here)
Box office at (609) 884-1341.
The box office is open Monday through Sunday from 10AM – 5PM.
Assisted Listening devices are also available upon request.
 

Agnes Moorehead in the original  "Sorry Wrong Number"

East Lynne Theater Company
East Lynne Theater Company auditions for its summer/fall season 2009

    East Lynne Theater Company will have two audition days of open calls for Equity actors. On Friday, April 3, from 11:30 PM to 7:30 PM, the call will be at the theater’s venue, The First Presbyterian Church, 500 Hughes St., Cape May, NJ, which is about a three-and-a-half hour drive south of NYC. All of the rehearsals will be in Cape May. Sign-up for auditions begin at 11:00 and continue through 7:25, with a meal-break from 3:30-4:30 PM. On Wednesday, April 22, from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM, the call will be at the Actors’ Equity Audition Center, 165 West 46^th St., 2nd Floor, NYC.  Lunch break is from 1-2 PM.  Non-union actors will be seen as long as no Equity actors are kept waiting.     

     The company operates under an Equity SPT 3 Contract with rehearsals beginning on Monday two weeks before the opening-performance week, and a Wednesday through Saturday night performance schedule, with two exceptions that are noted below. Artistic Director, Gayle Stahlhuth will be at both auditions, and Karen Case Cook will be at the NYC audition.  Actors are asked to audition with a brief humorous monologue, or read from “Alice on the Edge,” “The Ransom of Red Chief,” or “The Butter and Egg Man.”  Sides will be available at the auditions. 

Visually-impaired performers may request an advance copy of the sides by e-mailing eastlynneco@aol.com. A reader will be provided for those auditioning with sides.

     Seeking actors for the following productions: “Alice on the Edge,” four provocative one-acts by Alice Gerstenberg written between 1915-1922, running from June 17-July 25 (no performance on Sat. July 4, but added show on Sun. July 5), directed by Karen Case Cook; “The Ransom of Red Chief,” adapted from O. Henry and directed by Gayle Stahlhuth, running from July 29-Sept. 5 (no performance on Thurs. Aug. 27, but added show on Sun. Aug. 30); and “The Butter and Egg Man,” written by Pulitzer Prize-winner George S. Kaufman in 1925, about two producers who will do anything to get funding for their show, running from September 23-October 24, directed by Gayle Stahlhuth.

     “Alice on the Edge”(each actor will be in at least 2 of the 4 one-acts and which will be  playing which role will not be decided until individual one-acts are cast: “Fourteen:” MRS. HORACE PRINGLE – a fashionable woman, who is concerned about her dinner party, range 45-55; ELAINE – her practical daughter, a debutante, age range 20-25; and DUNHAM: the maid or butler, any age; “The Illuminati in Drama Libre:” HE – moves well with a great sense of timing, age range 35-50; and SHE – moves well with a great sense of timing, age range 25-50; “Overtones:” HARRIET – a cultured woman; HETTY – her primitive self; MARGARET – a cultured woman; and MAGGIE – her primitive self; “He Said and She Said:” DIANA CHESBROUGH – a young woman in love with a soldier fighting in The Great War, age range 20-25; ENID HALDEMAN – her friend, age range 35-45; FELIX HALDEMAN – her loving husband, age range 35-45; and MRS. CYRUS PACKARD – a gossipy neighbor, age range 35-55. 

     “The Ransom of Red Chief:” SAMANTHA – a good-natured thief and storyteller, age range 35-50; BILL – her partner, also a good-natured thief and storyteller, must have a back strong enough for a 12-year old to sit comfortably, age range 35-50; and NARRATOR/PRUDENCE/ PRUNELLA PICKLE -  age range nonspecific, looking for an actor who can play guitar, banjo or violin, but the most important ingredient is still the storytelling, and it is not necessary to bring instrument to the open call.  Non-Union performers are already cast in the roles of Johnny Dorset and his father, Ebeneezer.

     “The Butter and Egg Man:” JOE LEHMAN – producer who is accustomed to getting his way, age range 35-55; JACK MCCLURE – producer who is not as fast a talker as Joe, but almost, age range 35-55; FANNY LEHMAN – Joe’s wife, extremely poised, smart, and had spent several years on the stage; age range 35-50; JANE WESTON – Joe’s secretary who is very bright, age range 25-35; MARY MCMARTIN –  playing the leading lady one more time even though if she forgets a line it is everyone’s fault but hers, age range 45-55; PETER JONES  -  a nice guy who learns a bit more about the world during the course of the play, age range 25-35; CECIL BENHAM – English director, age range 35-60; and OSCAR FRITCHIE – impressionable, age range 35-55.

     The East Lynne Theater Company is committed to nontraditional casting and equal employment opportunities. Actors wishing to mail pictures and resumes should mail to the office: 121 Fourth Ave., West Cape May, NJ 08204 – and not to the church..   To learn more about the company, including its current productions of “Sherlock Holmes’ Adventure of the Speckled Band” and the student production of “The Civil War and Henry Sawyer,” call 609-884-5898 or (click here).

Great Vacation Things To Do

Dock Mike's Pancake House     
3 Locations to serve you!
Cape May, Rio Grande, Sea Isle City

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