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Circle is proud to be a part of the Coralville community! Our mission
is to present professional caliber theatrical productions and to
provide education, enrichment, and enlightenment for the membership and
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WE NEED YOUR HELP
TO FIND ONE MORE PERFORMANCE SPACE!
We need a place
to do a play the first three weeks in April 2009. Simple
stage, basic
lighting, Seating for 100. We are adept at
making unusual spaces
work, so feel free to suggest something off the beaten path. If
you
have any ideas, please e-mail!
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Announcing our new Season!
 Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
By
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Directed
by Mike Carroll
August
1, 2, 3 at dusk (8:00 pm)
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Morrison Park in Coralville
The
story of Joseph of the Biblical Coat of Many Colors fame as he
travles through the latter pages of Genesis encountering Pharos,
Famines, and Fratrocide, all with a rollicking, good-time Lloyd Webber
score.
Auditions:
Saturday,
May 17 from 2 - 4 pm
and
Sunday May 18 from 2 - 4 pm
at
the Community of Christ Church
121 South Ridge Drive, Coralville
Please
bring a song to sing (CD or sheet music) and wear clothing in which you
can move freely enough to dance.
NOTE:
This production will be entirely performed by High School and
Junior High students. Please bring a vaild school ID or a note
from
your parents confirming your home school status to auditions.
There is
also a Grade School Children's Chorus which will audition at the same
time. Please contact info@citycircle.org for more information.
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Based on the ABC-TV
educational animated series
Schoolhouse Rock
LIVE!
A Collaboration with the Iowa Children's Museum and the Englert Theatre
Book by: George Keating, Kyle Hall and Scott Ferguson
Lyrics & Music by: Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, George Newall,
Kathy Mandry, Lynn Ahrens and Tom Yohe
Directed by: Chris Okiishi
October 16, 17, 18,
19, 2008
at the Englert Theater
In a brand-new production, the heroes of Saturday Morning educational
television come to life! "Interplanent Janet", "Hero Zero"
, "Conjunction Junction" and the ever popular "I'm Just a Bill" -- so
much fun for the whole family!
More information and related events will be announced soon.
Visit the exhibit at the Iowa Children's Museum all summer long!
Auditions in late June--check back for times.
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Santaland
Diaries
By
David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by the author and Joe Mantello
Directed
by John Harper
Starring
Tim Budd
December
12 - 14
Special
benefit performance December 10 for IOWA SHARES in collaboration with
the Englert Theatre
Reprising
the role of a struggling actor working as an elf at Macy's
during the busy holiday season, this show is the perfect antidote to
the holiday blues.
Englert
Theater
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Arkansas
Bear
by
Aurand Harris
March
2009
Iowa
Children's Museum
"Saddened
and bewildered at her grandfather's approaching death, Tish
runs to her "special tree." There, in a world of fantasy, provided by
her wishing on a Star, she meets the World's Greatest Dancing Bear. He
is old, like her grandfather, and is running away -- from death. In
trying to help him, she begins to understand the meaning of both life
and death, which helps her to cope with her own sadness. The play
blends realism and fantasy, pathos and humor. Delightfully theatrical,
with music, magic and dance, enthusiastically applauded by children's
audiences -- and family audiences. The Arkansaw Bear is an important
work by America's foremost playwright for young audiences, sparkling
with entertainment and, at the same time, dramatizing, with poignancy,
a universal truth."
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Circle's
Edge Reperatory Festival
Coordinating
Director: Steven Hunt
April
2009
Three
weekends, three very different evenings of theater.
Running
in rep through each weekend:
Evening One:
Rabbit Hole (Rights Pending)
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed
by Joshua Beadle
"Becca
and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a
life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the
couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet
search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will
lead them back into the light of day. Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer
Prize. David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a
departure but a revelation—an in-tensely emotional examination of
grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty."
—Variety.
Evening
Two:
Sarah
Shattered
by John Cameron
Directed
by Steven Hunt
A
factual and fanstatical travel through the life of the author's mother
mixing humor and pathos as only he can.
Evening
Three (A DOUBLE BILL):
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
by
Steve Martin
Directed
by Kehry Lane
"This
long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein
and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned
scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the
celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first
comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and
loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the
century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics
with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso' agent, the
bartender and his mistress, Picasso's date, an elderly philosopher,
Charles Dabernow Schmendimen and an idiot inventor introduce additional
flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at
the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark haired singer time warped in from
a later era."
Also
that same evening:
All the King's Horses
by
Steve Hunt
A
one-act of tremendous power set in the twilight of life. |
Hello
Dolly!
Book
by Michael Stewart
Music
and Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based
on the Play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder
Directed
by Michael Stokes
June
2009
"And
what do you do for a living, Mrs. Levi?" asks Ambrose Kemper in
the first scene of this most delightful of musical comedies. "Some
people paint, some sew...I meddle," replies Dolly. HELLO, DOLLY! is
full of memorable songs including Put
On Your Sunday Clothes, Ribbons
Down My Back, Before the Parade Passes By, Elegance, Hello, Dolly!, It
Only Takes a Moment and So
Long, Dearie. And we are off on a whirlwind
race around New York at the turn of the twentieth century, as we follow
the adventures of America's most beloved matchmaker!
A
brand new production staged by veteran "big show" director Michael
Stokes. |
Check back for audition
postings
and more
details!
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Copyright 2008 City Circle
Acting Co.
All Rights Reserved.
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Auditions
Joseph
May 17 & 18, 2-4 pm
Community of Christ Church, 121 South Ridge Dr, Coralville
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