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Riverside Community Players
Live theater in Carver Falls since 1962 · The 1999-2000 Season |
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Welcome to the Riverside Community Players' home page! I'm Jean, the publicity chair, which is a fancy way of
saying I'm the one who paints the sandwich board that sits out front of the Playhouse, calls the newspaper, and now,
thanks to my son the college student, keeps this page. The Players are an all-volunteer community theater. We have
been putting on four shows a year in the old Riverside Playhouse on Mill Street in Carver Falls since 1962, and
everybody you see on that stage, and everybody you don't see backstage, has a day job and does this for love.
On this page you'll find our season, ticket information, the audition notice for our Christmas show, a word from our director, and the many, many ways we could use your help. Come see a show. Better yet, come be in one. |
| The Season ★ Tickets ★ Auditions ★ From the Director ★ Volunteer ★ Our Sponsors |
The 1999-2000 Season
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Tickets
$8 for adults, $5 for students and seniors (60 and up), for every show. Children under 5 are free on your lap for A Christmas Carol and Oklahoma!; the two comedies are better for ages 10 and up. Season tickets: all four shows for $26 (adults) or $16 (students and seniors), which gets you one show free and a reserved seat. Season tickets are still available through the opening of Arsenic. Where to buy: at the door starting 45 minutes before curtain (cash or check), or in advance at the pharmacy on Main Street, which has kindly sold our tickets since before I was born. To reserve seats for a group of ten or more, or to buy season tickets, e-mail me at [email protected] and I'll hold them at the door. Please do reserve for the Christmas show. It sells out, especially the Sunday matinees, and every year somebody drives in from out of town and has to stand. The Playhouse seats 180. Doors open 30 minutes before curtain. There is coffee and there are cookies at intermission, made by the Players' auxiliary, and they cost fifty cents and go to the costume fund. |
Auditions: A Christmas Carol
Monday, October 4 and Tuesday, October 5, 1999, at 7:00 p.m. at the Riverside Playhouse on Mill Street. Come either night; you don't need to come to both. Callbacks, if needed, on Thursday, October 7. Who we need: about 25 roles, adults and children, plus a singing ensemble of carolers and townspeople. Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Mrs. Cratchit, Fred, the three Spirits (Christmas Past is traditionally cast with a young woman or a girl, Present with a big man with a big laugh, and Yet to Come with whoever is tallest), Marley's Ghost, Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig, Belle, young Scrooge, and a houseful of Cratchit children including Tiny Tim (age 6 to 9, small, able to be heard in the back row). What to prepare:  Adults: a short monologue, one minute or less, from anything (it doesn't have to be Dickens). You'll also be asked to read from the script; copies will be there. If you'd like a singing role, bring a verse of any carol; Carol will play for you. Children (ages 6 to 15): no monologue needed. Be ready to sing a verse of a carol you know and to read a few lines. A parent must come with you and stay for the whole audition, and must be able to drive you to rehearsals. Everyone: a list of every date you cannot rehearse between October 11 and December 2. Be honest. We'd rather know now.
Rehearsals are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7 to 9:30, plus Saturday afternoons in the last two weeks, and the children are usually only called two nights a week until tech week. Tech week (November 28 through December 2) is every night, and there's no getting out of that one. No experience is necessary. Half of last year's cast had never been on a stage. It helps if you're not shy, but we've cured that too. |
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A Note from the Director
Jean asked me to write a few lines for the page, so here they are. People ask me why I keep doing this. I've directed twenty-six shows for the Players since 1984, I've never been paid a nickel, and every one of them has had a night around the second week of rehearsal where I go home and tell my wife this is the last one. And then it opens, and the lights go down, and a hundred and eighty people from this town who have known each other all their lives sit in the dark together and laugh at the same moment, and I remember. Arsenic and Old Lace is a play I've wanted to do for ten years, and I finally have the two aunts for it. You'll see what I mean in October. And A Christmas Carol is the reason most of our current members joined: they came to see it, or their kid was in it, and now they're building sets. If you have ever thought about trying this, the Christmas show is the one to try. There's a part for you. There's a part for your whole family. See you at the Playhouse. — Phil |
We Need You (Really)
For every person on stage there are three behind it, and we never have enough of them. You don't need experience for any of this. You need a Saturday morning and a willingness to be handed a paintbrush. Set building — Saturdays, 9 a.m. to noon, at the Playhouse, every week from now through opening. Bob runs the shop and will teach you to use a jigsaw. Coffee and doughnuts provided. We are currently building a Brooklyn parlor with a window seat and a staircase, and after that, Victorian London. Costumes — A Christmas Carol needs bonnets, waistcoats, shawls and about forty yards of hemming. If you sew, even a little, Marian would like to meet you. Work sessions are Wednesday evenings at her house starting October 13; bring your own machine if you have one. Ushers and box office — two people per performance to tear tickets and hand out programs, and one to sell tickets at the door. Ushers see the show free. This is the easiest volunteer job in the world and the one we're always short on. Sign up for a night by e-mail. Also: props (we need a bugle, a lot of old lace, and a coffin that folds flat), lights and sound (Dave will train you), painting, a stage manager for The Odd Couple, someone to run the concession stand at intermission, and anybody who can bake. E-mail [email protected] or just show up Saturday. |
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Thank You to Our 1999-2000 Season Sponsors
The Players get no public money. Ticket sales cover about half of what it costs to put on a season; the rest comes from these good neighbors, who advertise in our programs and underwrite our shows. Please give them your business. Carver Falls Savings Bank — underwriter of Oklahoma! Hubbard's Hardware — underwriter of Arsenic and Old Lace, and the source of every 2x4 in the shop The Corner Bakery on Main Street — underwriter of A Christmas Carol, and the cookies Pinewood Insurance Agency — underwriter of The Odd Couple Mill Street Florist — opening night flowers, every show, for fifteen years The Riverside Diner — where the cast goes after the show Carver Falls Printing — our programs and posters, at cost Lakeshore Lumber & Supply — the lumber for Victorian London The Main Street Pharmacy — our ticket outlet since 1962 And to the Playhouse landlord, the town's Parks and Recreation department, and every family who has lent us a sofa. Program ads for the spring shows are $25 for a business-card size; ask Jean. |
Theater friends on GeoCities.us:
Theo's Theater Page (Theo runs the Stage Door ring and sees more shows in a month than I see in a decade) ·
Stage Right Dance & Drama Studio ·
Songwriter's Corner ·
the Broadway neighborhood
Coming: a history of the Players with the full list of shows since 1962 (I'm typing it from the scrapbooks), and cast photos once we get the roll from Oklahoma! auditions back. Well, from Arsenic. One thing at a time.
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