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DAVID WAYNE REED $5 APRIL 2013 Notes More Arts News at www.kcstage.com/blog MOMMA Panel Discussion The Missouri Motion Media Association (MOMMA) will host a panel to discuss its campaign to renew the Missouri Film Tax Incentive program and other industry issues at the state level of government. The panel will be held at 7 pm on April 4 at Think Big Partners located at 1800 Baltimore Avenue. Admission is free for MOMMA members. Admission for non-members is a suggested Auditions ten dollar donation. www.kcstage.com/auditions

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The Barn Players, Inc.* C Gladstone in the Park C Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater: Auditions for The Music Man and Guys and Dolls: May 4-5: 1 pm Sat-Sun Apr 7-13: 1 pm Sun Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Please come to only one audition date. Please arrive 15 Spring Awakening celebrates the unforgettable journey minutes prior to your audition time. Please complete an from youth to adulthood with a power, poignancy, audition form and bring with you. Resumes and photos not and passion that you will never forget. Adapted from required. Only basic movement required for ages 16 and Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist about the older. Must be at least 10 years of age, or have finished 4th trials, tears, and exhilaration of the teen years, it has grade to audition. Auditions for GTIP are open to everyone. been hailed as the “Best Musical of the Year” by the No prepared material is necessary, however, participants will New York Times, New York Post, Star Ledger, Journal be asked to sing and dance. Only basic movement will be News, New York Observer, and USA Today. Directed required for over 16 years of age, but there will be an option by Eric Magnus. OPEN CALL: May 4 - 5, 1 - 4pm. to dance a more difficult audition dance. Sunday, Apr 7 and CALLBACKS: May 11, 1 - 4pm, St. Pius School, 55th 13. Times: Ages 10 - 12, 1 pm; ages 13 - 15, 2 pm; ages 16 and Woodson, (913) 432-9100, www.thebarnplayers. - 19, 3 pm; ages 20 and up, 4 pm, Antioch Middle School, org 2100 NE 65th St, (816) 436-2200, www.gladstonetip.com

P Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre River City Community Players C 2013-2014 Chestnut Season Auditions: The Bard on Broadway by Donna Elmer: Apr 6: 10:30 am Sat Apr 29-30: 7 pm Mon-Tue Ol’ Blue Eyes (Sept 12 - Oct 20, 2013), Forever Plaid A collection of scenes from Shakespeare’s plays matched (Oct. 31 - Dec. 15, 2013) Always ... Patsy Cline (Jan 16 with Broadway tunes, tied together with dialogue, written by - Mar 2, 2014), Climb Every Mountain (Mar 20 - May Donna Elmer, between two theatre cleaning ladies, one a 4, 2014 ), Bob and Bing (May 15 - June 22, 2014), serious actress wannabe and the other a future Broadway and Amazing Grace (July 10 - Aug 24, 2014). Directed star. Directed by Donna Elmer & Penny Paradies. High by Brad Zimmerman. Auditions will be held Apr. 6 from school aged actors and singers, please prepare 32 bars of a 10:30am - 1:30pm. Auditions are open to equity & Broadway style selection. An accompanist and CD player will non-equity performers ages 16 and up. Appointments be provided. No a cappella singing, tapes, or USB plug-ins. are not necessary & an accompanist will be provided. Bring a resume and a complete list of conflicts from April 29 Please bring sheet music in the correct key. Those - June 2. A current headshot is welcome, but not required. auditioning should prepare a song and Leavenworth Performing Arts Center, 500 Delaware St, (913) may also be asked to present a one-minute monologue. 651-0027, www.rccplv.com Contact Brad with questions. Chestnut Fine Arts Center, 234 N Chestnut St, (913) 764-2121, chestnutfinearts.com Free College Day City Theatre of Independence* C On Golden Pond: Apr 15-16: 7 pm Mon-Tue The faculty and staff of Johnson County Directed by Jamie Close. Auditions April 15 & 16, Community College will teach more than callbacks April 17. Production: June 6 - 9 & 14 - 16. 200 classes for the college’s Free College Character names and ages: Norman Thayer, Jr., 79; Day event on April 20. Some of the courses Ethel Thayer, 69; Charlie Martin, 40s; Chlesea Thayer include “Anyone Can Act” and “Shooting Wayne, 40; Billy Ray, 13; Bill Ray, 40s. Roger T. Sermon and Editing Video on Your iPad”. Participants Center, 201 N Dodgion St, (816) 325-7367, can register for classes online at jccc.edu www.citytheatreofindependence.org beginning March 11.

Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? B KCSTAGE Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. Two New Creative Support Programs Founded The Creative Arts Industry Commission (CAIC) announced two programs to promote creative support. The Creative Economy Project Support program provides funding for communities and organizations with programs that focus on cultural and economic development projects, while the Creative Arts Industry Incentives program provides financial supports for individuals, businesses, and Spotlight on organizations looking to relocate or expand David Wayne in Kansas. The deadline for the Creative Reed 3 Economy Project Support program is April 8. 10 Cover photo by Bob Compton For more information on the CAIC, complete program details, and full application Performances guidelines, visit KansasCommerce.com/ CAIC. KCWIFT & KC Filmfest Finalists Notes B Announced 5 Kansas City Women in Film and TV (KCWIFT) announced the finalists of the Auditions second annual KCWIFT & KC Filmfest Short B Screenplay contest. The top six finalists are: • Hannah Leskosky • Daniel Minton • Misti Boland do • Gary and Beth Hoover 2 si • Jessica von Schramm la • Berenice Freedome

The screenplays will be featured at a live stage reading on April 11 at the Alamo Drafthouse. R film clips

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Cast of Characters KCVol. 15 • No.STAGE 6 • Issue 164 • April 2013 Scott Bowling...... Webmaster [email protected] • (816) 23-STAGE Tricia Kyler Bowling...... Subscriber Rep Richard Buswell...... Managing Editor PO Box 410492 • Kansas City, Missouri 64141-0492 Bryan Colley...... Blog Curator May Deadline: April 10 Jamie Lin...... Editorial Assistant Samuel Stokes...... Editorial Assistant www.kcstage.com Angie Fiedler Sutton...... Associate Editor © Copyright 2012 by KC Stage. All material contained in this pub- lication is the property of or licensed for use by KC Stage. Any use, Cassandra Whitney...... Graphic Designer duplication, or reproduction of any or all content of this publication is prohibited except with the express written permission of KC Stage Photo by Bob Compton Letters to the Editor...... [email protected] or the original copyright holders.  www.kcstage.com APRIL 2013 1 Film Clips by Larry F. Levenson

Michael Weiderman, a St. Louis Marine The National Geographic channel was KC singer and actor James Wright was Corp veteran, has written his first seeking a Production Assistant for a project talent on a Capitol Federal commercial. screenplay, and is seeking crew members in Farmington, Mo. for a 30-minute short movie, “Lou’s Place”. Talent Unlimited was looking for skilled Shoot times are scheduled for May 2013 If you watched the Super Bowl, you might football players for a well-known athletic around St. Louis. At this time, Michael have seen the Anheuser Busch InBev wear shoot in Lincoln, Neb. The client is looking for an experienced director of commercial with the Clysdale horses. Parts was looking for experienced male players, photography. Send résumé, reels, and were shot in Boonville, and the “Chicago” 18 - 22 years old, African-American or references to [email protected], skyline was really Kansas City. Caucasian. subject “Lou’s Place – DP”. Casting for Tim De Paepe was putting together a crew, Casting director Heather Laird was looking actors, and filling other crewmember slots and needed production assistants and grip/ for identical twin males for a television will be done at a later date. electric crew. His movie is Blood of Me. commercial. Production assistants and an assistant I & I Agency of KC was involved with The Discovery Channel needed a camera person were needed in Jopin for a casting two pilots for ABC and one for production assistant in Branson for shoot in Travel Channel project. NBC. Several roles from ages 7 to 60’s were March. available. iMacqui Studios of Omaha was looking for Bradley J. Lincoln was preparing for a a co-host for it’s newest online radio show/ Alden Miller of KC was in need of a male music video at the end of March. Locations podcast. Check with the iMacqui Studios actor 20s-30s to play a soldier, and possibly were in downtown KC. Facebook page for more information on some crew, for his movie. how to get your music put on the air as well Paul South was trying to book a female as plugging your projects. actor for a short movie. Laura Roach of KC was looking for two The History Channel was seeing a lead people for a short movie. editor for a shoot in St. Louis.R Andrew Rolston of KC was seeing someone to do makeup and hair for a movie. Female Are you a filmmaker in the KC area and want talent was being brought in from the East to submit news about your production to KC Coast. Stage? E-mail Larry at llevenson@kcstage. com before the 10th. A camera operator was being sought in St. Louis for a low-budget project. Production assistants and a production manager film clips were needed in Bridgeton, Mo., for a FOX network road show.

The cast of the Mid Life Players’ production of Rent In Concert, performing April 12 - 20. Photo by Ruth Bigus and Pete Barret

Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly, 2 KCSTAGE Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy? Spotlight on David Wayne Reed by Pete Bakely

”When asked if I wanted to grow up to be a farmer, I said, “No, I But the tonal mix of irony and affection comes from David Wayne want to be a back up singer, and an artist and a stripper.” - from Reed’s own upbringing, as the youngest son of a farm couple from Jolly Rancher Louisburg, Kan.

David Wayne Reed is excited. I. Louisburg ”In Grandma’s shawl or some doilies from the coffee table, I His play Mother Trucker is being produced at Seaside Repertory enchanted my parents to ‘rock a little.’ As I spun around them, I Theater in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. “It’s the first production of dared them to see this white winged dove singing his song .... But something of mine that I didn’t produce. It’s mind blowing,” says instead of the applause I had imagined and rehearsed, my parents David. just turned on their heels and said, ‘I don’t know where he gets it, but he sure as hell didn’t get it from me.’ Pat Benetar was right. Hell is for children.” - from Jolly Rancher

Louisburg, Kan. is a small farming town just south of the Overland Park border, between Stillwell and Lacygne. “I grew up on a farm about an hour south of KC. I come from many generations of farmers.”

When asked if he was expected to follow the tradition, David replies, “I think my Dad realized pretty early on that that wasn’t going to happen. I think he did hold out hope though. He did stencil ‘Reed and Sons’ on the back of his seed drill, which was a future I had no plans of following at all.”

He was raised and schooled in the farming community.

“It was good. I had friends. We were the weird kids. I ran around with the big girls ... the bruisers .... We’d cruise around town. We’d Mother Trucker is Reed’s homage to the trucker movies of his take laps. I ran around with this motley crew of girls. I held their youth as well as a callback to his own past. The play, originally babies in the back seat while they pulled bitches out of cars and written and produced for Late Night Theatre, tells the story of recent pummeled them. And they were my best friends, they were my widow Ruby Lee Jenkins, her wheelchair bound son Teddy Bear, sisters and I love them.” He laughs warmly as he remembers. “It her rodeo workin’ love interest Deke Crenshaw, and her brother- wasn’t all sunshine and roses, I mean, I had bullies. I was the class in-law, country and star Slim Jenkins. Inspired by Smokey faggot .... I wasn’t helping my cause much, though. I mean, I went and the Bandit and trucker culture, Ruby and her gang need to use as Boy George for Halloween in the 8th grade. I had 45s of Wham! her pink eighteen-wheeler to transport a load of Alabama No-No in my locker. I performed in drag for school assemblies. There were Juice in order to get Teddy Bear an operation and rescue Deke some bigoted backwoods personalities, but shit happens. That’s from the clutches of Sheila Walker and her sheriff daddy, Dick high school wherever you go and with age, I realized I got away E. Walker. Mother Trucker liberally cherry picks items from 70’s pretty unscathed.” redneck culture, including vast amounts of music from the likes of Willie Nelson and Red Sovine and the comedy of Hee-haw and II. Jolly Rancher Burt Reynolds movies. “I stay [at my ten year high school reunion] for a good while before my allergies flare, I sneeze and my eyes tear up. On the way out, I see the most popular girl in our class arriving late. She’s driving

continued on page 5 www.kcstage.com APRIL 2013 3 The Music Beat: Musical Tent Utopia in TEXAS?!? by Jeanne Jasperse

It starts with one tent and a guitar or three. Then another tent Songwriters sit in circles around campfires that are scattered pops up across the meadow. all over the 60 acres. One year, a guy next to me asked if he could use my guitar to play a song since he was up next in the Then a camp pops up at another end of the meadow. Before you circle. Not knowing him and being new to the festival, I was kind know it, every little scrub or droopy tree with a few leaves on it of hesitant, but went ahead and handed it over. After singing hovers over all kinds of camping contraptions. From VW micro a particularly funny song, he handed it back .... “Do you know buses to RV’s worth several thousands of dollars to duct tape who that was?” asked a friend of mine. I had no idea it was Fred dwellings to simple hammocks and guitars ... lots and lots of Kohler, writer of several number one hits and a co-writer with guitars ... the festival has begun. Shel Silverstein.

I’m going outside the state here this time to tell you about a One night, a campfire was going pretty strong with a woman place for musicians called the Kerrville Folk Festival. 18 days ... writer who was doing an impromptu recording session. Michelle yep, 18 days of music in the hot Texas sun. Songwriters from all Shocked and the Texas Campfire Tapes was born. This place just over the world gather in the Hill Country of Texas to celebrate attracts talented writers like Texans to a good barbeque joint. songs. Oh, and to celebrate songwriters in particular. It is not uncommon either to see actor Ronny Cox wandering Back in 1972, this guy named Rod Kennedy had an idea. around with a guitar and Peter Yarrow is there every year without Although he was a huge lover of jazz and classical music, he had fail. eclectic tastes and decided to throw a three day festival in his hometown. It lasted for three days, and the main headliner was Past performers include Judy Collins, the Indigo Girls, Mary Willie Nelson, who lived about 30 miles away at the time, so it Chapin Carpenter, Janis Ian, and Peter, Paul and Mary. seemed to be a good fit. So many stories of so many careers that have started at Kerrville At the same time, he thought it might be a good idea to start a have been chronicled in many books. Hot Jams and Cold songwriting contest with his good friend Peter Yarrow in order to Showers, Music From the Heart, I have even seen a master’s promote folk music, and thus the New Folk songwriting contest thesis that was written about Kerrville Folk Festival. began. There were 42 finalists, of which 6 winners were named. I think at the time, Mr. Kennedy had no idea what he had started. This year it runs from May 23 through June 9. For more information, their website is kerrvillefolkfestival.com. It is run now Past winners of the New Folk competition recognized the talents by the Texas Folk Music Foundation, a non-profit organization. of Steve Earle, Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, and James McMurtry. The competition though is not the real reason behind the Oh, and don’t forget your instrument if you plan on going. The specialness of the festival. It’s the miracles that happen. rest will just fall into place.

It’s the jam sessions underneath the one streetlight that go on “Welcome Home” says the sign at the front gate. It sure is. A little until dawn. It’s the inspiration of hearing another writer work on heaven on earth. R a new song. It’s the surprise when you hear someone singing harmony to one of your songs and when you turn your head to Jeanne Jasperse is a 25 year veteran of the Coffeehouse see who it is, it’s Peter Yarrow. Radio Show on KKFI. You can reach her through kkfi.org or on Facebook. This is a “Leave Your Ego at the Gate” type of place. You never know who might be sitting next to you in a song circle, and that’s where the real magic kicks in.

When you first hit Quiet Valley Ranch, rule number one is to turn off your stereo. No canned music is allowed ... anywhere. Crickets and cicadas make up the background noises, but it kind of adds a certain feeling of ... well, like being on your back porch.

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If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, 4 KCSTAGE By unions married, do offend thine ear,  Spotlight on David Wayne Reed continued from page 3 the same red Mustang her father bought her our senior year. It has IV. Late Night Theatre been maintained as meticulously as the spiral perm she still sports ”I was on the ascent. My career was taking off. I joined a ragtag even now - years later. It’s as if she came dressed as she was then company called Late Night Theatre. We were an all-male company just so we’d all remember. I tell her I’m leaving and give her a hug. that specialized in parodies of movies of yore - The Stepford Wives, She looks at my irritated eyes and says “Don’t cry, David. I know Valley of the Dolls, The Birds. I played a lot of women. I played a how you feel. I miss high school, too.” - from Jolly Rancher lot of men.” - from Jolly Rancher

Jolly Rancher is a one man play, written by David Wayne Reed “I did Shakespeare and Restoration and heavy drama all through for performance as part of his one month residency at Escape to college. I didn’t do a lot of comedy. Fact!” David explains. I then Create at the Seaside Repertory company. It was first performed at ask him why they cast him at Late Night Theatre. He seems non- January of 2012 in Florida, then performed at the Fishtank in April plussed at my question. “Because I’m fucking amazing!” of 2012 and also at La Esquina in December of 2012. Reed recalls his first audition for Late Night Theatre. Jolly Rancher is a series of autobiographical short stories originally written (mostly) for KC Magazine, where David was a former monthly “Ron had a lot of heels sitting on the side of the stage and he asked columnist. I’ve been quoting liberally from these pieces for this us to put them on and act like we were being attacked by birds. I article. If you want to hear David telling his own stories in a way guess I did it well?” that’s extremely funny, you need go no further than Jolly Rancher. David joined the Late Night Theatre troupe with a host of other Oh, and the title? It’s the punch line to an old joke. performers destined to be Kansas City legends: Ron Megee, of course, but also Philip blue owl Hooser, Jon Piggy Cupit, Bob “What do you call a gay farmer? A jolly rancher.” Kohler, Gary Campell, Steve Jones, and DeDe DeVille.

III. Back To Our Narrative David now had a home base. A high point came when they did David lasted one year at Emporia State University, then fled for The Stepford Wives and David played the original Stepford wife, K State for a degree in Journalism. “I wasn’t digging it.” He said, Carol Van Sant. The show was commissioned to be presented at “Finally a friend said, ‘Why not theater?’” In Manhattan, Kan., he the Kemper museum and they played to a four hundred set house, was part of a fertile group of actors which included Eric Stonestreet, turning away latecomers. now of Modern Family. He graduated in 1994. “Everybody was talking about us,” David remembers. “I was going David moved to Denver, becoming festival staff at Central City to get my headshots taken and driving down Ward Parkway. I’m Opera, a catch-all job which had him singing one day, running for stopped at 75th Street and a guy in car across from me yells, ‘Hey! props the next. He headed west toward Los Angeles, but ran out You were in The Birds.’ And I thought, this is it, I have arrived.” of money in New Mexico, and came back making his permanent move to Kansas City proper by 1995. The Late Night troupe was then offered The Old Chelsea Theater as a working space. The Old Chelsea was scheduled for destruction, but “I auditioned. I got a few shows at Martin City Melodrama. I got until that happened, Late Night Theatre would be let use the building the part of Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at TYA. and everything within it. For those not acquainted with Kansas City Then, I quit acting because I fell in love. Then I fell out of love and entertainment history, it was located in the River Market District went back to acting. The first audition I went to was for the first and had been the largest porn movie theater in Kansas City. Late production of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds at what would become Night had inherited a performance space with dilapidated seating Late Night Theatre. and a room full of reels from pornographic movies.

“We started raffling them off,” says Reed. “A lot of times, the LNT survived on porn money .... Which is hilarious and awesome.” continued on page 6 www.kcstage.com APRIL 2013 5 adfadf

 Spotlight on David Wayne Reed Ordinary Days continued from page 5 by Adam Gwon They did have to clean the space. They took out all the seats, put them in a horse trough with sanitizer and bleach, and scrubbed them all by hand, cleaning off decades of gum and God-knows- what other substances. They put on three shows there, a reprise of The Birds, 1983’s Drill Team Massacre, and Sweet “Underground” Charity. And then the space was closed.

They put on one final benefit before they left,The Eve of Destruction Party, a compilation of bits from five years of shows. David describes their opening number.

A KANSAS CITY THEATRE PREMIER! April 5 - 14 @ the Just Off Broadway Theatre “We’re in the dressing room backstage. Ron’s in heels and suddenly he fires up this chainsaw and cuts a hole right through the wall. And the audience is right there and we all file through this hole and go 816-405-9200 for Tickets downstage and do our opening number, ‘The Show Must Go On!’ www.SheAndHerProductions.com The evening ended with a party outside, with fireworks and sparklers. The building was going to be torn down, so people are tearing off pieces of wallpaper ... and we woke up the next morning ... and it was 9/11. And we had spray-painted the name of the party on the door. The Eve of Destruction September 10, 2011.”

After that, they went to the Hobbs building in the West Bottoms, which had no restroom facilities for the actors. They put buckets of kitty litter backstage where the cast could pee. “We had men dressed as Stepford Wives hoisting it up over these buckets ....”

Then, Late Night Theater made a permanent move to fifteenth and Grand, where the Car Bar currently resides. It was at this point that David started getting more responsibility for the contents of donate the shows. He adapted and directed Come Back to the Five and today. Dime, Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton. The first version ofMother Trucker tribute to was performed in this theater. He created a show called The Show Formerly Known as Purple Rain, which won the Kansas City Star’s Best Show of the Year Award in 2005.

“I was starting to get my teeth around it. And with Mother Trucker, we weren’t men playing women’s roles, we were men playing men’s roles. We needed to change it up. Mother Trucker was a game changer.”

Late Night Theatre closed its doors in 2007. Long work hours and http://tinyurl.com/marshamorgan constant burnout did the company in. David remembers, “It was time. It had been awful and amazing and everything single thing in between. Late Night was my family and it changed the way I came to view myself as a person and an artist.”

They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds 6 KCSTAGE In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.  Spotlight on David Wayne Reed continued from page 6

In 2007, The Pitch ran an article announcing Late Night’s demise. Quoted in the article, David Wayne Reed had the last word, “it’s actually quite ironic that a bunch of bottoms would go out on top.”

I asked David if he ever had the urge to put it all back together. He was silent for a long while and then he said, “No. That time is passed.”

V. After Late Night This past year, David wrote and produced Mother Trucker 2: Ride On, a return to the characters of one of his Late Night Theatre shows. This one catches up to Ruby, Teddy Bear, Deke, and Slim as they try to transport a dangerous animal cross country in Ruby’s pink 18 wheeler.

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• Performances • Celebrities • Panels “I was curious about the characters,” says David. “I wanted to know what they’re doing. I knew I wanted Deke to get back into • Workshops • Special Events the rodeo. I wanted Teddy Bear to lose his virginity. I wanted Ruby and Deke to get married. I just wanted it for them.” Featuring… Otis Guernsey New Voices Award Winner David received an Inspiration Grant from the Arts Council of Samuel D. Hunter Metropolitan Kansas City to fund the set - a large, revolving pink semi-truck. With help for the Charlotte Street Foundation, Reed Independence Community College acquired use of their performance space, La Esquina. He recruited a Independence, Kansas cast that included Kimberley Queen as Ruby, Ron Megee as Deke, 620.332.5491 • www.ingecenter.org and Gary Campbell as Teddy Bear. The Official Theatre Then he got into the script and realized it wasn’t working. So a Festival of the month before he opened, he did a complete rewrite on the script. State of Kansas “Thank God for Xanax, PBR, and Arizona Green Tea.” Continued on Pg 15 www.kcstage.com APRIL 2013 7 KCSTAGE APRIL 2013 *Affiliate Organization

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Go! • Theatre for Young America* Bud, Not Buddy • The Coterie Theatre Boomers • Quality Hill Playhouse Kansas City Swing • UMKC Theatre Carlsen Center of JCCC Man After Superman • Kansas City Swing • UMKC Theatre Bobby McFerrin: SpiritYouAll • It’s A Small World • Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre Journeyman Theatre Company My Name is Asher Lev • Unicorn Theatre Harriman-Jewell Series American Buffalo • Kansas City Repertory Theatre Man After Superman • Bud, Not Buddy • The Coterie Theatre The Fantasticks • Journeyman Theatre Company Man After Superman • Olathe Community Theatre Association American Buffalo • Kansas City Repertory Theatre Journeyman Theatre Company You’ve Got a Friend: Music That Raised the Baby 24 WED 25 THU The Mikado • Lyric Opera of Kansas City American Buffalo • Kansas City Repertory Theatre Bud, Not Buddy • The Coterie Theatre It’s A Small World • Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre Boomers • Quality Hill Playhouse Darwin: A Chamber Opera • Darwin: A Chamber Opera • American Buffalo • Kansas City Repertory Theatre Bud, Not Buddy • The Coterie Theatre 12 Angry Men • Theatre Lawrence newEar contemporary chamber ensemble* newEar contemporary chamber ensemble* The Mikado • Lyric Opera of Kansas City Man After Superman • My Name is Asher Lev • Unicorn Theatre Journeyman Theatre Company Scapino • Olathe South High School* Scapino • Olathe South High School* You’ve Got a Friend: Music That Raised the Baby La Boheme • University of Kansas Theatre American Buffalo • Kansas City Repertory Theatre You’ve Got a Friend: Music That Raised the Baby You’ve Got a Friend: Music That Raised the Baby Boomers • Quality Hill Playhouse Scapino • Olathe South High School* Boomers • Quality Hill Playhouse Boomers • Quality Hill Playhouse Go, Dog. 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The Barn Players, Inc.* Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: The Coterie Theatre Chess by Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Apr 20: 8 pm Sat Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Anderssen, Tim Rice, and Richard Using instruments bought with loose Curtis, Reginald Andre Jackson, and Nelson: Apr 12-28: 7:30 pm Fri-Sat, change (and no electronic trickery) these Paul Binkley: Apr 9-May 19: 10 am Mon; 2 pm Sun uke players stand firm on the belief Tue-Fri; 2 pm Sat-Sun; 7 pm Fri; 12 pm Here, the ancient game of chess that all genres of music are available Wed-Fri becomes a metaphor for romantic for reinterpretation – Tchaikovsky to Based on the Newbery Medal and rivalries, competitive gamesmanship, Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti Coretta Scott King Award winning novel, super power politics, and international Western soundtracks – as long as they this comic Oliver Twist story follows Bud intrigues. The pawns in this drama are played on the ukulele. You may as he blazes his own trail through the form a love triangle: the loutish never think about music in the same Depression-era Midwest, guided by his American chess star, the earnest Russian way once you’ve been exposed to the hilarious self-written “Bud Caldwell’s champion, and a Hungarian American Ukes. Bring your uke and play along on Rules and Things for Having a Funner female assistant who arrives at the a special piece during the show! $40, Life and Making a Better Liar Out international chess match in Bangkok $30. Yardley Hall, 12345 College Blvd, of Yourself”. He escapes a monster- with the American but falls for the (913) 469-4445, [email protected] infested woodshed, steals a vampire’s Russian. Industry Night: Apr 22 at 7:30 car and meets the “Dusky Devastators”, pm - $12. Directed by Barb Nichols. Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre a roadhouse band, where he finds a $18; seniors $15 (65 and older); It’s A Small World: Mar 21-Apr 28: 8 new family that’s different than he ever students $10 (with ID); Groups of 10 pm Thr-Sat; 3 pm Sat; 2 pm Sun expected. Directed by Scot Copeland. or more $12. The Barn Players, 6219 It’s A Small World features the magical Adults: $15; youth, students, or seniors: Martway St, (913) 432-9100, music of Disney. The tribute will feature $10. The Coterie Theatre, 2450 Grand www.thebarnplayers.org many of the exciting songs we’ve Blvd, (816) 474-6552, hummed through the years: “When www.coterietheatre.org Carlsen Center of JCCC You Wish Upon a Star”, “A Whole Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: New World”, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, The Culture House* Apr 27: 8 pm Sat “Beauty and the Beast”, and “Circle of Annie: Apr 11-13: 7 pm Thr-Sat; Back by popular demand! A gloriously Life”. Directed by Brad Zimmerman. 9:30 am Thr; 2 pm Sat irreverent take on ballet. It’s an $23, discounts for seniors, children, Directed by Mr. Cary Mock. $8/$10. outrageous spoof when farce collides & groups. Chestnut Fine Arts Center, Youthfront Auditorium, 4715 Rainbow with classical ballet, and guys perform 234 N Chestnut St, (913) 764-2121, Boulevard, (913) 393-3141, both the men’s and women’s roles. The chestnutfinearts.com www.culturehouse.com results are staggeringly funny and – we promise – these guys are tutu much! City Theatre of Independence* Romeo & Juliet: $50, $40. Yardley Hall, 12345 College Once Upon a Mattress by Mary May 3-4: 7 pm Fri-Sat; 2 pm Sat Blvd, (913) 469-4445, [email protected] Rodgers,Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, Directed by Mr. Danon Park. The Culture and Marshall Barer: Apr 4-14: 8 pm House, 13808 W 117th St, (913) 393- MOMIX-Botanica: Apr 5-6: 8 pm Fri-Sat Thr-Sat; 2 pm Sun 3141, www.culturehouse.com A A spectacular blend of physical theatre, Directed by Shari Johnson. Tickets for circus, athleticism, and comedy, musical productions will be $14 or $12 Harriman-Jewell Series Botanica, a commentary on the state for patrons age 60+. Dinner Theatre Bobby McFerrin: SpiritYouAll: of nature today, reveals its changing tickets for the first Saturday performance Apr 26: 8 pm Fri imagery in MOMIX’s unforgettable of each production $28. Roger T. Listening to Bobby McFerrin sing may be illusionary style. Be transported from Sermon Center, 201 N Dodgion St, hazardous to your preconceptions; side your everyday life to a fantasy world. In (816) 325-7367, effects may include unparalleled joy an endless search for “another gravity”, www.citytheatreofindependence.org C and a sudden, irreversible urge to lead artistic director Moses Pendleton a more spontaneous existence. Ten- combines athletic dance, riveting music, time Grammy Award winner McFerrin’s outrageous costumes, inventive props, legendary solo vocal performances and pure talent to create an entertaining have dazzled audiences all over the multimedia experience. $50, $40. world. With his new project, Bobby Yardley Hall, 12345 College Blvd, pays homage to his father and the (913) 469-4445, [email protected] generations of Americans who sang of

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our shared joy and pain through the Jewell Theatre Company* Kansas City Repertory Theatre songs commonly known as the Negro Arcadia by Tom Stoppard: Apr 18-20: 7 American Buffalo by David Mamet: Apr Spirituals. $25, $45, $50, $60, & $75. pm Thr-Sat; 2 pm Sat 19-May 19: 8 pm Fri-Sat; 2 pm Sat- Kauffman Center for the Performing In 1809 in an old estate in Derbyshire, Sun; 7 pm Sun, Tue-Thr Arts: Helzberg Hall, 1601 Broadway, England, 13 year old Thomasina Winner of the Obie Award & NY Drama (816) 415-5025, www.hjseries.org miraculously theorizes Newton’s second Critic’s Best Play Award, American law of thermodynamics in that if one Buffalo tells the story of Don, Teach & Itzhak Perlman: Apr 20: 8 pm Sat could stop every atom in motion, a Bob’s struggle to get ahead. Centering The iconic violinist was first presented person could write a formula for the on a scheme to recover a buffalo by the Harriman-Jewell Series in 1971; future. Mathematics, romance, Lord nickel recently sold from Don’s Resale the event will mark Itzhak Perlman’s Byron, Fermat’s Last Theorem, Latin Shop, the three discover realities about 10th recital for the Series. Undeniably translation, chaos theory, rice pudding, business, leadership, & ethics, all told the reigning virtuoso of the violin, comedic and literary figures, unfold from the petty theft view of the pursuit of Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely from the past as a modern day novelist the American Dream. It takes a modern afforded a classical musician. Beloved and history professor attempt to unravel look at the underbelly of American for his charm and humanity as well as the truth. Directed by Natasha Martin. capitalism in which every exchange has his talent, he is treasured by audiences $10 general admission, $5 students “business” written on it. Directed by throughout the world who respond not and senior citizens. Peters Theater, Jerry Genochio. Kansas City Repertory only to his remarkable artistry, but also Brown Hall, (816) 415-7590, Theatre, Copaken Stage, (816) 235- to the irrepressible joy of his music- www.jewell.edu/theatre/ 2700, www.KCRep.org A making. $25, $45, $50, $60, & $75. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts: Helzberg Hall, 1601 Broadway, Journeyman Theatre Company Lied Center of Kansas (816) 415-5025, www.hjseries.org Man After Superman by Allen Amdor: Brentano String Quartet: Apr 19-28: 7:30 pm Thr-Sun Apr 12: 7:30 pm Fri Tara Erraught - Mezzo-Soprano: Apr 12: Finding love in Metropolis can be Brentano String Quartet asked six 8 pm Fri complicated. When Dan meets and daring, modern composers, Charles Born in Dundalk, Ireland, Tara Erraught falls for Lois Lane, who’s freshly out of Wuorinen, Sofia Gubaidulina, Vijay graduated from the Royal Irish Academy her last famous relationship, he’s not Iyer, Bruce Adolphe, John Harbison and of Music in Dublin. In 2008, she was sure if he can measure up to his super Stephen Hartke, to use the unfinished awarded both the Houston Grand successor. Lois finds everything she works of masters Mozart, Schubert, Opera Prize and Washington National needs in Dan. Man After Superman Bach, Haydn, and Shostakovich as Opera Prize at the International Hans takes the audience on the hilarious an inspiration for the creation of Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition adventures of Dan and Lois as they complementary compositions. The in Vienna. In 2010, Erraught was fight to get past their own baggage, a result is stunning. Join the quartet at the named Dublin’s National Concert Hall’s jealous ex, and some very questionable Lied Center as they use crisp technique Rising Star Prize. “Erraught is one of uses of X-Ray vision to find their happily- and luxurious sound to imagine the those singers who take a real delight ever-after. Directed by Dustin Blakeman. abandoned spaces of these pieces. $26 in negotiating the obstacle courses of $10 general, $8 student. Just Off adult, $14 student/youth. Lied Center of virtuosic arias,” praised the Irish Times. Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr, (785) 864- $20, $40, $45, $55, & $65. Folly Street, (800) 494-TIXS, contact@ 2787, lied.ku.edu Theater, 300 W 12th St, (816) 415- journeymantheatre.com A 5025, www.hjseries.org Regina Carter, Jazz violinist: Kansas City Ballet Apr 5: 7:30 pm Fri Hey-Hay, Going to Kansas City: May Reverse Thread, Regina Carter’s 3-12: 7:30 pm Fri-Sat; 2 pm Sun latest album, invites us to a world of Postcards Groundbreaking African-American traditional African music infused with choreographer Donald McKayle contemporary jazz and Afropop energy. from the past presents Hey-Hay, Going to Kansas Known as one of the finest violinists of her generation, Carter captures both will return City. A celebration of the golden age of jazz, the ballet pays tribute to the era of the essence and allure of the original next month nightclubs and dance halls when Kansas music through a lens of contemporary City was considered the Paris of the interpretation. This album blends the Plains. Plus, enjoy nationally acclaimed exquisite sound of Carter’s violin with a “Common People”, choreographed rhythm section, the kora (West African by Margo Sappington and a new work harp), and the accordion. $28 adult, by Karole Armitage. A unique night of $15 student/youth. Lied Center of dance! $29 - $99. Kauffman Center for Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr, (785) 864- the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, 2787, lied.ku.edu (816) 931-2232, www.kcballet.org

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Lyric Opera of Kansas City connects the past with the future, and Paradise Playhouse Dinner Theatre The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan: Apr is one of only eight musicals to win the Bathroom Humor by Billy Van Zandt and 20-28: 7:30 pm Fri-Sat, Wed; 2 pm Pulitzer Prize for drama. It also won two Jane Milmore: Mar 22-Apr 13: 6 pm Sun Tony awards and seven Drama Desk Fri-Sat; 7 pm Thr; 12 pm Sun Widely regarded as the finest Gilbert awards in 1984. MTH’s production Van Zandt and Milmore have certainly and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado will will be the first professional production come up with a novel setting: the play captivate and humor you at every turn. in Kansas City! Directed by Sarah takes place in the bathroom in a home Naki-Poo, son of the Emperor of Japan, Crawford. $10 - $35. Crown Center during a party, a handy place for gossip is desperately in love with Yum-Yum. Off Center Theatre, 2450 Grand Blvd, and hanky panky, where we learn of But she is betrothed to Ko-Ko, the (816) 842-9999, www.MTHKC.com the wild and crazy things going on at Lord High Executioner! Witty lyrics and the party. The authors have ingeniously brilliantly constructed plot twists make contrived this play so that we feel that, if this tale of forbidden love, deception, newEar contemporary chamber we had gone to this party, we too might and beheadings a light-hearted favorite ensemble* have spent most of the time hiding out among opera-goers everywhere. Call Darwin: A Chamber Opera by Michael in the bathroom. Directed by R. Cress for ticket prices. Kauffman Center for Henry and Dwight Frizzell: Apr 26-27: 8 Hewitt. $30 to $32. Paradise Playhouse the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, pm Fri-Sat Dinner Theatre, 101 Spring St, (816) 471-7344, www.kcopera.org Produced in collaboration with the (816) 630-3333, Owen/Cox Dance Group, Darwin is a www.paradiseplayhouse.org A full staged opera with a cast of vocalists, MidLife Players chamber ensemble, dancers, video Rent in Concert by Jonathan Larson: Apr projection, and multi-channel spatial Puppetry Arts Institute 12-20: 7:30 pm Fri-Sat sound design. $25 ($10 student with Corcoran Puppets Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, ID). H and R Block City Stage Theatre at Queen of Hearts: Apr 6: 2 pm, Jonathan Larson’s Rent follows a year Union Station, 30 W Pershing Rd, (816) 11 am Sat in the life of a group of impoverished 235-6222, www.newear.org The Queen of Hearts, she made some young artists and musicians struggling tarts .... In this Corcoran Puppets to survive and create in New York’s version, she is making tarts for her Lower East Side, under the shadow of Olathe Community Theatre dog, Toby. Jolly the Jester is in for a HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional Association big surprise in this re-telling of the complications of the disease pervade The Fantasticks by and old rhyme! Pam Corcoran brings this the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom, and : Apr 5-21: 8 pm Fri-Sat; 2 hand puppet show to the Puppetry Arts Angel. How these young bohemians pm Sun Institute for the first time. Admission negotiate their dreams, loves, and The Fantasticks tells the story of a young also includes a tour of our puppet conflicts provides the narrative thread to boy and girl who fall madly in love at museum, which features our exhibit, this groundbreaking musical. Directed the hands of their meddling fathers, but “Pinocchio Time!” Finger puppets of by Dan Prather & Alex Bigus. $10. soon grow restless and stray from one show characters are for sale at the front Alcott Arts Center, 180 S 18th St, mid- another. Will their separation provide desk. Directed by Pam Corcoran. $5. [email protected] A a deeper appreciation for the love they Puppetry Arts Institute, 11025 E Winner once shared - or create a permanent Rd, (816) 833-9777, www.hazelle.org gulf between them? The Fantasticks Musical Theater Heritage is a quintessential celebration of Musical Mondays 2013: Feb 11-Nov Quality Hill Playhouse love in all its gorgeous simplicity and You’ve Got a Friend: Music That Raised 25: 7:30 pm Mon heartbreaking complexities. Join OCTA the Baby Boomers: Apr 19-May 19: 1 An intimate evening of Musical for this replacement to Man of La pm Thr; 8 pm Wed-Mon; 3 pm Sun Theater starring KC’s finest performers. Mancha. Directed by David Martin. Folk singer-songwriters like Carole King Reservations required: (816) 221- Adults $17; seniors/students $14; and James Taylor defined a generation 6987, or online, $20. Crown Center children <12 $12. Olathe Community searching for personal meaning in an Off Center Theatre, 2450 Grand Blvd, Theater Assn, 500 E Loula St, (913) era of turbulent change. Directed by J. (816) 842-9999, www.MTHKC.com A 782-2990, www.olathetheatre.org Kent Barnhart. $32 adults; $29 seniors/ students. Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W Sunday in the Park with George by 10th St, (816) 421-1700, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine: Olathe South High School* www.QualityHillPlayhouse.com Mar 28-Apr 14: 8 pm Fri-Sat; 2 pm Sat- Scapino by Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale: Sun; 7 pm Thr Apr 25-27: 7:30 pm Thr-Sat Inspired by Georges Seurat’s famous Directed by David Tate Hastings. painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the $8. Olathe South High School, Island of La Grande Jatte, this Sondheim 1640 E 151st St, (913) 780-7160, classic is one of the most critically [email protected], acclaimed musicals of our time. Sunday is a deeply moving love story that www.kcstage.com APRIL 2013 13  Performances

Ruskin High School Theatre Theater for Young America* UMKC Theatre What I Want to Say but Never Will by Chicken Little, The Musical: Mar 5-Apr Brecht One Acts by Bertolt Brecht: Apr Alan Haehnel: Apr 11-13: 7 pm Thr-Sat 13: 12 pm Thr-Fri; 10 am Tue-Fri; 2 pm 5-14: 7:30 pm Sun-Sat; 2 pm Sun If you could say anything you wanted, Sat Directed by Erin Merritt. Undergraduate without any consequences or judgment, This short folk-tale of the chicken that spring production. Adult $15, senior& just what would you say? Based on created an unnecessary and hilarious student $10. Studio 116, Olson PAC, student responses from around the panic when he proclaims, “the sky is 4949 Cherry St, (816) 235-6222, country, What I Want to Say But Never falling.” A delightful musical version of www.umkctheatre.org A Will explores this simple but intimate the story of Chicken Little, Henny Penny, question, offering a glimpse into Cocky Locky, Goosey Poosey, and Burnt by the Sun by Peter Flannery, teenagers’ most private thoughts. The Foxy Woxy. $9; season rates & group Adapted from the film by Nikita show takes a look into what it is really discounts available. Theatre for Young Mikhalkov: May 3-12: 7:30 pm Fri-Sat like to be a young adult. It is bittersweet, America, H & R Block City Stage at Burnt by the Sun starts out like a jovial, and, most of all, brave. Directed Union Station, (816) 460-2083, masterpiece by Chekhov and then is hit by Kelly Michale. $5. Ruskin High www.tya.org C by violence so sudden and so shocking, School Theater, 7000 E 111th St, (816) that to us, it echoes of 9/11. The 316-7382, www.ruskineagles.com Go, Dog. Go!: Apr 23-May 18: 12 pm Russian/French movie, which won an Thr-Fri; 10 am Tue-Fri; 7 pm Fri; 2 pm Oscar for best foreign film, is brilliantly Theater League Sat adapted for the stage by Peter Flannery. Mary Poppins: Apr 9-14: 8 pm Fri-Sat; Go, Dog. Go! uses much of the ‘Already a classic’ declared the 7:30 pm Tue-Thr; 6:30 pm, 1 pm Sun; dialogue and illustrations of author P. enchanted critics when it premiered at 2 pm Sat D. Eastman’s classic children’s book of the Royal National Theatre in London. Mary Poppins is bringing its own brand the same name. The stage-play, which Beautiful, full of wonderful characters, of Broadway magic to theaters across takes place in a world where dogs funny, and deeply moving, Burnt by the the country, which has Variety raving, are involved in car chases, perform Sun is not to be missed. Directed by “This is the rare touring production circus tricks, and dance, was adapted Barry Kyle. Adult $15, senior& student that over-delivers on every level!” This by Roberta Wilhelm for the Omaha $10. Studio 116, Olson PAC, 4949 spectacular hit has astonished over Theater Company for Young People and Cherry St, (816) 235-6222, seven million people worldwide with was developed under the auspices of www.umkctheatre.org A its pure Broadway magic. With four the Estate of P.D. Eastman. Kids will be productions currently running on three dazzled by the frenetic pace and enjoy Kansas City Swing by Trey Ellis and continents, Mary Poppinsis one of the the play’s faithfulness to the book. $9; Ricardo Khan : Apr 19-28: 7:30 pm biggest stage musical successes in season & group discounts available. Sun-Sat ; 2 pm Sun recent years to come out of London and Theatre for Young America, H & R Block It’s Kansas City in the autumn of 1947 New York. Directed by Richard Eyre. City Stage at Union Station, (816) 460- and Jackie Robinson has just integrated $25-$75. Kansas City Music Hall, 301 2083, www.tya.org C major league baseball. The Satchel W 13th St, (800) 776-7469 Paige All-Stars from the Negro Leagues www.theaterleague.com Theatre Lawrence are gearing up to play the Bob Feller 12 Angry Men by Sherman Sergal: Apr All-Stars from the Majors in a thrilling STOMP: Apr 5-7: 8 pm Fri; 6:30 pm, 1 12-28: 7:30 pm Thr-Sat; 2:30 pm Sun off-season match-up. But there’s a pm Sun; 9 pm, 5 pm Sat A 19-year-old man has just stood storm brewing. Baseball is about to STOMP is explosive, provocative, trial. It looks like an open-and-shut change, and so is America. This play sophisticated, sexy, utterly unique, and case - until one of the jurors begins is about some of the greatest stars of appeals to audiences of all ages. The opening the others’ eyes to the facts. the Negro Leagues baseball era and international percussion sensation has Each juror reveals his own character as it’s about people, just trying to cope garnered an armful of awards and testimony is re-examined, the murder is with it all. Directed by Ricardo Khan. rave reviews, and has appeared on re-enacted and there is a new murder Adult $15, senior& student $10. Helen numerous national television shows. The threat! Tempers get short, arguments F. Spencer Theatre, Olson PAC, 4949 eight-member troupe uses everything grow heated, and the jurors become Cherry St, (816) 235-6222, but conventional percussion instruments 12 angry men. Directed by Charles www.umkctheatre.org A – matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, Whitman. $13.99 - 21.99. Theatre garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps Lawrence, 1501 New Hampshire St, – to fill the stage with magnificent (785) 843-7469, rhythms. $23 - $51. Kauffman Center www.theatrelawrence.com A for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, (800) 776-7469 www.theaterleague.com

Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, 14 KCSTAGE Sings this to thee: ‘thou single wilt prove none.’  Performances  Spotlight on David Wayne Reed continued from page 7

Unicorn Theatre politicians, greedy corporations, and My Name is Asher Lev by Aaron Posner: neighborhood violence rule the day. Mother Trucker II opened to rave reviews Apr 17-May 12: 8 pm Fri-Sat; 3 pm Street Scene is a true American classic. and sold out houses. Sun; 7:30 pm Tue-Thr Directed by Richard Herman. $12 This moving story follows the journey general, $10 faculty and seniors, $7 of a young Jewish painter torn between students. Highlander Theatre, University As mentioned before, David followed his ultra-Orthodox upbringing and of Central Missouri, (660) 543-8811, up Mother Trucker 2: Ride On with Jolly his desperate need to fulfill his artistic www.ucmo.edu/theatre A passion. When his artistic genius Rancher. After the workshop production in threatens to destroy his relationship with The Restaurant by Dan Greenburg: Apr Florida, Heidi Van, curator at the Fishtank 11-13: 7:30 pm Thr-Sat his parents and community, young Asher Performance Studio, started asking David realizes he must make a difficult choice Directed by Jessica Biggs. $1. between art and faith. This stirring Nickerson Hall Black Box Theatre, to bring it to the Fishtank, where it received adaption of a modern classic presents University of Central Missouri, (660) great reviews and again sellout crowds. a heartbreaking and triumphant vision 543-8811, www.ucmo.edu/theatre A of what it mean to be an artist. Directed by Cynthia Levin. $22.50 - $32.50; Waltzing DeNiro by Lynn Martin: Apr Speaking of Heidi Van, David has been a discounts for students/seniors/under 35. 11-13: 7:30 pm Thr-Sat writer and performer in the popular Brindsay Unicorn Theatre Mainstage, 3828 Main Directed by Loran Jett. $1. Nickerson Kardilton shows, White Nose Christmas, St, (816) 531-7529, Hall Black Box Theatre, University of www.unicorntheatre.org Central Missouri, (660) 543-8811, Bump, and the upcoming Forever 27: www.ucmo.edu/theatre A The End of the Line. Each concerns the University of Central Missouri misadventures of a young Hollywood starlet University of Kansas Theatre Theatre & Dance Dept.* Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage: Apr and her coterie of family and friends. A Second of Pleasure by Neil LaBute: 3-11: 7:30 pm Tue-Fri; 2:30 pm Sun Apr 11-13: 7:30 pm Thr-Sat This personal and moving drama is “Heidi is a really great collaborator and I’ve Directed by Mary Rogers. $1. Nickerson symbolically a tale of dreams and Hall Black Box Theatre, University of disappointments in the African American pushed her and she’s pushed me and we Central Missouri, (660) 543-8811, experience in the early 1900s. It tells have a really great synergy.” www.ucmo.edu/theatre A the story of Esther, a gifted seamstress making intimate apparel for both Street Scene by Elmer Rice: Apr 24-28: prostitutes and New York’s social elite. David makes a point to thank his biggest 7:30 pm Wed-Sat; 2 pm Sun Esther is determined to use her gifted influences and supporters. Street Scene, the Pulitzer Prize-winning hands and her sewing machine to play by Elmer Rice, takes place on the refashion her dreams anew from the front stoop of a New York City tenement whole cloth of her life’s experiences. “Ron Megee and Late Night Theatre gave building in the summer of 1929. The Directed by Scott C. Knowles. $10 me a platform that I am so fortunate to have characters represent a cross-section - $18. Inge Theatre, Murphy Hall- of lower-middle class immigrants University of Kansas, (785) 864-3982, had. Writing for KC Magazine gave me the as they labor to survive in America. www.kutheatre.com opportunity to expand my audience and Increasingly, it seems difficult for honest and hard-working folks to succeed my writing. Charlotte Street Foundation has in a system where big money, selfish been so amazingly supportive of me. And,

The cast of OCTA’s The Fantastiks, most recently, Heidi Van and the Fishtank on stage April 5 - 21. Performance Studio. And finally, Escape to Photo courtesy of Olathe Community Theatre Create. “Without these people, I wouldn’t Association be where I am. Trust.”

Mother Trucker, the first one, is running late March through April in Seaside, Fla. R

Pete Bakely is a Kansas City playwright and actor, currently completing his master’s degree in playwriting from UMKC.

www.kcstage.com APRIL 2013 15 Callboard www.kcstage.com/callboard Choreographer, PerformOUTKC PerformOUTKC is Kansas City’s first and only performing arts group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer youth and their straight allies. PerformOUTKC provides a safe and inclusive atmosphere for youth of any and all identities, which foster positive identity development through excellence in music performance and creative expression. POKC seeking a choreographer.

• Excellent performance choreographer •. Strong track record of developing work with young people •. Strong track record of working with youth and/or church groups • Reliable, punctual and professional •. Willingness and ability to work with and support the development of POKC young artists with choreographed dance movement. •. Design and communicate sequence of movement through dance •. Create and arrange original dances, combining steps and movements to form an artistic whole •. Coach and mentor young artists on choreographed dance on Sunday rehearsal designated and scheduled by artistic director •. Work with and closely support young artists with educational projects. This will be for members who would like to emerge as dancers that want to develop their experience in dance •. Audition young artists and teach them a dance(s) at designated rehearsal or rehearsal retreats •. Develop dance interpretations with choral and/or musical theater productions •. Work as a team with the artistic director, associate artistic director, and business manager in supporting the strategic artistic goals and plans.

Type of position: Part-time. Benefits not offered. Artistic mentor opportunity.

If you’re interested, please send an e-mail with your most current resume and a statement of interest. (816) 659-7899, [email protected], www.performoutkc.org, PO Box 30032, Kansas City, MO 64112-0632. Posted 03-06-13 (Closes: 04-06-13).

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Actors with Moxie William Inge Center for the Arts* Hollywood Casting Director - Intensive High School Acting Competition: May 4: 9 William Inge Center for the Arts* Audition Technique Workshop: May 4: 10 am Sat 32nd Annual William Inge Theatre am Sat William Inge Theatre Festival High School Festival: May 1-4: 7 pm Fri; 7:30 pm This is your chance to find out straight Acting Competition Scholarships May 4. Sat, Wed-Thr from a working LA casting director, Corbin Nine cash scholarship prizes, from $100 Celebrate the works of William Inge, Bronson for TV/film, what it takes to be to $500, paid directly to students. Winning America’s foremost stage voice of the a successful actor. You will get a chance scene performs at the Tribute May 4 before Midwest, on the occasion of his 100th to meet one on one and work prepared/ national theatre luminaries. All get festival birthday, on May 3! Party over four days cold material. This workshop is not to teach tickets and lunch! Early Registration deadline of professional performances, master you “how to act”, it is to teach you the Mar 1: $45 per scene (non-refundable). workshops, and humming social events. techniques it takes to book the job. Check Late reg: Mar 15: $75 per scene (non- $5 - $35. William Inge Theatre, 58 out website for more details. Stageport, 208 refundable). Register now http://ingecenter. Road, (800) 842-6063, W 19th St - Studio A, (913) 219-3079, org/high-school-inge-scene-acting/, William www.ingecenter.org A www.actorswithmoxie.com Inge Theatre, 58 Road, (620) 332-5492, www.ingecenter.org/om Happy Faces Entertainment LLC Coming in May Free Beginning Clown Workshop: May 4: 9 am Sat The Barn Players, Inc.* A history of clowning, make-up demo,  Performances Sordid Lives by Del Shores: costuming, and props with hands on continued from page 15 May 31-Jun 16 make-up and demonstrations of magic, La Boheme by By Giacomo Puccini: Apr face painting, juggling, balloon twisting, Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre and comedy. These are given to help you 19-27: 7:30 pm Thr-Sat; 2:30 pm Sun The University Theatre joins with With A Banjo On My Knee: decide if clowning is right for you. Fantastic May 16-Jun 23 clowning & magic will have supplies for sale. the School of Music and KU Opera RSVP to Stacey at (816) 520-2985 or e-mail to stage the most popular work in the Italian opera repertory and the Harriman-Jewell Series at [email protected]. Sponsored Jan Lisiecki – Pianist: May 10 by: The Northland Clown Guild Alley 217 fourth most frequently performed of Clowns of America International and The opera worldwide. The KU Symphony Quality Hill Playhouse Retired and Senior Volunteer Program. North Orchestra, conducted by David Neely, Great Big Broadway: The Rise of the Kansas City Hospital Prairie View Room, will accompany the poignant story BIG Broadway Musical: May 31-Jun 30 2800 Clay Edwards Dr, (816) 520-2985, of a group of artists in Paris and the www.happyfacesentertainment.biz romantic relationship between poet Rodolfo and grisette Mimi. Puccini’s Spinning Tree Theatre magnificent score is a testament to his Hello Again - KC Premiere by Michael Paradise Playhouse Dinner Theatre John LaChiusa: May 9-26 The Krazy Kats: Apr 27: 7 pm Sat musical genius. $10 - $18. Crafton- Yesterday’s Rock ‘n Roll at its best! Tickets Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall-University $15 per person (performance only). Food of Kansas, (785) 864-3982, UMKC Theatre and drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) www.kutheatre.com Burnt by the Sun by Peter Flannery, available for sale. Order early for best Adapted from the film by Nikita Mikhalkov: May 3-12 R seating! Paradise Playhouse Dinner Theatre, The White Theatre 101 Spring St, (816) 630-3333, The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances www.paradiseplayhouse.org Goodrich and Albert Hackett: Apr 6-14: 7:30 pm Sat, Thr; 2 pm, 4:30 pm Sun StoneLion Puppet Theatre* In this stage adaptation, Anne’s wry StoneLion Puppet Theatre’s Puppets For the observations and thoughts have been Planet Festival: Apr 20: 9 am, 11 am Sat dramatized, evoking all the original It’s a Puppets for the Planet Festival with sentiments of a young girl’s dramatic StoneLion, Bridging the Gap’s Earthwalk, and heartbreaking diary, written in the and The City Market’s Green Festival all most hostile of environments. Anne’s rolled into one - guaranteed to be one of personal account of hope, courage, the largest celebrations in the metropolitan and survival has united and touched area. This free community event will have people worldwide. “How wonderful it is puppets, music, stilt walkers, jugglers, that nobody need wait a single moment spoken word, face painters, art & craft before starting to improve the world.” - projects, dozens of Earth Friendly exhibitors, Anne Frank. Directed by Mark Swezey. electronic recycling, a city wide yard sale, $10 - $20. The Lewis and Shirley White the organic farmer’s market, & YOU! Down the Drain puppet show @ 1 pm. City Theatre, 5801 W 115th St, (913) 327- 8054, www.jcckc.org/cultural-arts/ Market, 3rd and Oak, (816) 221-5351, The cast of the Mid Life Players’ production of www.stonelionpuppets.org jcc-performing-arts-series-at-the-white- theatre/ Rent In Concert, performing April 12 - 20. Photo by Ruth Bigus and Pete Barret www.kcstage.com APRIL 2013 17 KCSTAGE Presorted Standard PO Box 410492 U.S. Postage Paid Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri 641 64141-0492 Permit No. 2117

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