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KC Stage Magazine www.kcstage.com magazine $5october 2012 spotlight on Jon Weimer Notes Auditions More Arts News at www.kcstage.com/blog WWW.KCSTAGE.COM/AUDITIONS 12th Annual KIFF Oct 5 - 11 Independent Actors Theatre P Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris: The Kansas International Film Festival (KIFF), Oct 16-17: 7 pm Tue-Wed founded in 2001, will be Oct. 5 - 11 at the The Santaland Diaries gives us a glimpse of what a Glenwood Arts Theatre in Overland Park. slacker’s Christmas must feel like as he becomes a Macy’s The festival culminates in the presentation of elf during the holiday crunch. At first, the job is simply several awards, including an Audience Award humiliating, but once visitors start pouring through Santa’s workshop, he becomes battle weary and bitter. Eventually, in each category based on audience votes. a new Santa enters the workshop, but this one is different KIFF attracts local, regional, and national work. - this Santa startles our hero into a moment of goodwill More information, including ticket prices and just before his job ends. Directed by Bryan Vandevender. a schedule of events, can be found at www. Independent Actors Theatre of Columbia is looking for kansasfilm.com. male actors (age range 20s - 40s). Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Actors need only attend one evening of auditions. The actor cast will receive a Music Highlights of 2012 stipend for his work. Location TBA - Columbia, MO, PO Box 7122, (651) 260-9406, www.iatheatre.org Japan Festival A traditional-Japanese-drum group, a pop The Barn Players, Inc. C singer from Kyoto, and sumo wrestlers are All Shook Upby Joe DiPietro: the featured performers for the 15th Annual Oct 20-21: 1 pm Sat-Sun Greater Kansas City Japan Festival. The festival Inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley. Into a square little town in a square little state rides a guitar- will be from 10 am to 8:30 pm on Oct. 6 playing roustabout who changes everything and everyone in the Carlsen Center of Johnson County he meets in this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy Community College. Tickets are $10 adults, that’ll have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with $5 students and children, and free to children such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel”, “Jailhouse Rock”, under 5. For more information, including a full and “Don’t Be Cruel”. Directed by Jason Coats. Open schedule of events, go to www.kcjapanfestival. auditions on Oct 20 and 21 from 1 pm to 4 pm at St. Pius com. School. 55th and Woodson, (913) 432-9100, www.thebarnplayers.org MATC Dramatists Lab Call for The 5th Annual 6 x 10: Ten-Minute Play Festival: Oct 20-21: 7 pm Sat-Sun Directors, Actors, and Dramaturgs Six ten-minute plays, six playwrights, six directors, one The Playwriting Symposium of the Mid-America great evening of theatre! Open call for all six ten-minutes plays on Oct 20 and 21 from 7 pm - 10 pm at St. Pius Theatre Conference seeks directors, actors, and School at 55th and Woodson in Mission, KS, (913) 432- dramaturgs to participate in our Mid-America 9100, www.thebarnplayers.org Dramatists Lab, which produces a series of staged readings of new ten-minute plays during She&Her Productions C the Playwriting Symposium breakout sessions. Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon: The conference-wide theme is “Myth”. Resumes Oct 12-14: 7 pm Fri-Sat; 3 pm Sun are due Oct. 15. For more information, visit Directed by Tiffany Garrison-Schweigert. Oct 12, 13, and 14. River Market Water Building, 201 Main St, (816) 405- matc.us, go to the menu “Calls for Papers”, 9200, www.sheandherproductions.com “Playwriting Symposium”, and “Actors, Directors and Dramaturgs”. Theatre Lawrence C The Sound of Music by Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oct 1-2: 7 pm Mon-Tue The world’s most beloved musical! When a high-spirited NOVEMBER postulant serves as governess for the seven children of a ’S widowed naval captain her energy and joy capture the SPOTLIGHT heart of the stern captain. With a Nazi threat looming, the : family’s narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre. Performance dates: Nov 30, Dec 1, 2*, 6, 7, 8, 9*, 13, 14, 15, 16* (*matinee). Directed by Terrance McKerrs. Multiple roles for men and women available. Roles for 7 children available from ages 5-18. Scripts are available now for a 3-day checkout. $10 deposit required. Theatre Lawrence, 1501 New Hampshire St, (785) 843- 7469, www.theatrelawrence.com A Academic E Equity CHRIS MCCOY C Community P Professional When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, B KCSTAGE And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, KC Ballet’s William Whitener to Leave at End of 12-13 Season Thomas F. Whittaker, president of the board of directors of Kansas City Ballet, announced that William Whitener, Kansas City Ballet’s longtime artistic director, has decided not to renew his employment contract for the 2013-2014 season. Whitener succeeded Todd Bolender Spotlight on as artistic director of the company in 1996, Jon Weimer following Bolender’s 17- year tenure. 2 How to Train Cover photo by Kelly Luck Whitener choreographed 16 new ballets for Kansas City Ballet including Tom Sawyer – A Your Child to Ballet in Three Acts which was the second highest grossing ballet in the company’s Dance 3 history and was warmly praised by the New York Times. Furthermore, he commissioned 17 new works by an array of American choreographers and presented numerous works of historical significance. Over his career, Whitener has Notes 1 launched and developed the careers of many talented dancers. Whittaker indicated that the board of directors B Auditions is in the process of naming a search committee to begin an international search for Whitener’s successor to ensure a smooth transition. For Whitener’s complete bio, go to www.kcballet. 16 org. Calendar 8 KCYA Names New Director of Film Clips Arts Education 13 Kansas City Young Audiences announced that Kara Armstrong has been named director of arts education. Armstrong will be responsible for Events 15 17 managing the nearly 200 contracted teaching artists who provide programs for Kansas City area children and for developing new arts education programs. Prior to this position, Performances Armstrong was the education director for the 10 Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. NOVEMBER Idealware ’S SPOTLIGHT 5 : Cast of Characters 4 Scott Bowling ............................Webmaster Tricia Kyler Bowling ...............Subscriber Rep Richard Buswell .................Managing Editor KCVol. 14 • No.STAGE 12 • Issue 158 • October 2012 Bryan Colley .......................... Blog Curator [email protected] • (816) 23-STAGE Jamie Lin .........................Editorial Assistant Angie Fiedler Sutton ............ Associate Editor PO Box 410492 • Kansas City, Missouri 64141-0492 Cassandra Whitney ......... Graphic Designer November Deadline: October 10 Letters to the Editor ...... [email protected] www.kcstage.com do © 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, si duplication, or reproduction of any or all content of this publication is prohibited except with the express written permission of KC Stage or la the original copyright holders. Printing by Alphagraphics. www.kcstage.com OCTOBER 2012 1 Spotlight on Jon Weimer by Kelly Luck It’s not easy thing being an independent filmmaker. You have to give him one more day with his daughter. When he wakes up the next deal with the lack of money and dearth of outside funding in these morning, two weeks have rolled back: his daughter is still alive, and financially uncertain times. Or people who, when you tell them you’re he is in the body of Adam, a gay man and friend of Sarah’s. Adam, he making an independent film, automatically think “porn”. Locations realizes with horror, is one of the victims of a man who has been going which flat-out refuse to allow you to film, or demand rates that would around brutally killing gays because “it’s what the Bible demands.” Gary make a major studio flinch. Leads who move across the country must reconcile with his daughter while enduring the slings and arrows three-quarters of the way through filming because they “want an of his followers and trying to keep himself alive. Asian girlfriend”. Stoned sound guys. Spending thousands of dollars for an animatronic monster and getting nothing to show for it. Jon freely admits he draws on his environment for ideas. Unafraid - even eager - to tackle hard social issues, nothing delights him quite so much But none of that stops Jon Weimer. as to play with the audience’s expectations and preconceived notions. Characterization, to him, is all-important. When he wrote the original Jon got started in filmmaking several years ago, starting with his draft of Change of Life, he felt that it was too dark and lacked by not 2001 short film “Wild”, based on an original story. Jon is a writer by having a genuine LGBT perspective. Enter Amy McClung, a talented nature; the films are a way to bring his stories to life. After managing gay woman of his acquaintance he brought in to direct. Together, they to complete “Wild” to moderate success, he expanded his horizons rewrote the screenplay, finding a balance between his natural predilection and made a feature length anthology called Night Terrors. In the for darkness and the overall theme of redemption and reconnection. The tradition of the old Amicus horror anthologies, the five stories - all collaboration paid off: the film won the Religious/Spiritual category at his - featured the same actress playing five different roles, and a the 2009 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival, and has been selected wraparound story to join them together.
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