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LOOKING TOWARD THE 2011 SEASON
Although there are lots of performances
around the area during the holidays, most
companies will pick up their seasons again in
2011. Here are some current and upcoming
productions for your delight:
Rose of Athens Theatre offers No Shame
Theatre, an open showcase of short original
works, at Hendershot's Coffee Bar, Dec. 17.
They start performances back up Jan. 18 and
then on every Tuesday evening. Frankenstein
Lives! continues on tour until March 2011.
RoA's Fall Theatre Academy class presenta
tion is 10:40 a.m., Dec. 17 at the Tae Kwon
Do Center in Alps. Auditions for Alice in
Wonderland and As You Like It are Feb. 2,
location is TBD. Email
danielle@roseofathens.org
for an audition time-slot.
► Athens Creative
Theatre presents LIVE
ART: Sweethearts of the
Stage, Feb. 12, 13 & 18,
19, 20. Auditions for the
all-female repertory show,
The Dixie Swim Club,
are Jan. 10 & 11, with
performances Apr. 1-3 &
8-10. ACT Summer Camp
Registration is in April. Go
to www.athenscreative
theatre.com for more info.
Athens Little Ptayhouse
will open Rapunzel, Feb.
25-27 and Mar. 4-6.
Oconee Youth Playhouse presents the ever-
popular musical Annie, Jan. 7-9 & 14-16.
The current production features a cast of 170,
ranging in age from kindergartneis to adults.
Claire Vogel, a fifth-grader at High Shoals
Elementary School, landed the title role. Other
featured orphans are Megan Hodgson (Pepper);
Bailey Chastain (July); Antonia Bowen
(Duffy); Gracin Wilkins (Tessie); and Sawyer
Bradford (Kate). Malia Horst is the youngest
orphan, Molly. Kelli Bull plays Miss Hannigan,
and Dagdy Warbucks will be played by Richard
Hoard. Other adults include John Brantley as
President Franklin Roosevelt and Bob Googe,
Jeff Dibling and Mark Vagle as cabinet mem
bers. Brantley shares the stage with his son
Chase, who plays the role of Rooster. Other
cabinet members are Doug Ivey, who played
Daddy Warbucks in OTP's 2000 production of
Annie, and Lynn Renna, who was seen in Willy
Wonka. Other featured cast members are North
Oconee High School students Collier Cobb as
Grace Farrell, Jackie Raye as Lily St. Regis,
and Dayne Joyner as Bert Healy. Amy Coenen,
a former OYP performer herself, is assistant
director and Rachel Townes is musical director.
Clrde Ensemble Theatre's next production
will be three original one-acts by Dan Guyton
in February. Two are world premieres written
for CET, and one has already won a Kennedy
Center award. Playwright Daniel Guyton has
won numcious awards, including two Kennedy
Center/ACTF awards for his plays Attic and
Where's Julie?, and his plays have been pro
duced in New York City, Iceland, Canada, LA.,
Portland, Albany and Atlanta. Guyton's short
plays have been published in The Twisted
Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays in the
Dark Comedy Vein), and his plays Attic, Spat!,
Where's Juiie?, The Mother of God Visits Hell
and Gsorgie Gets a Facelift have been pub
lished in otfier collections (www.danguyton.
com). See www.drcleensembletheatre.com for
more info.
Town and Gown Players continue their
Mainstage season with Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel, directed by Leara Rhodes; Feb.
11-13 & 17-20. The play depicts five unmar
ried sisters in a small village in Ireland during
the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates
the pagan god of the harvest with drunken
revelry and dancing. The Second Stage season
continues with Crave, by Sarah Kane, directed
by Ashley Laramore, Feb. 25-27. Auditions for
Little Shop of Horrors, directed by G. Derek
Adams, run Feb. 14 & 15, and performance
dates are Apr. 8-10 & 14-17. Auditions for
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Fran
Teague, will be Apr. 11 & 12, and performance
dates are June 10-12 & 16-19. See www.
townandgownplayers.org for more info.
Athens Academy's next Mainstage show will
be Rodgers & Barer's Once Upon a Mattress:
An Adaptation for Pre-High School Students.
This production of Mattress boasts a cast
of 32 seventh- and eighth-grade students.
Performance dates are Feb. 10-12. North
Oconee High School presents Arthur Millers
The Crucible, Feb. 18-20.
■JGA's Department of Theatre and Film
Studies' spring semester season includes
Mainstage production Fuddy Meets, by
David Lindsay-Abaire, Jan. 27-29 & Feb.
2-5. Nothing is what it seems in this quirky,
twisted comedy/mystery about a woman
with a rare condition that erases her memory
whenever she goes to sleep. The Studio Series
includes Ruined, by Lynn Nottage, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning play which uses humor and song
to address the raw and brutal realities of war
in the Congo, Feb. 15-20; and Aunt Don and
Lemon, by Wallace Shawn, Mar. 29-31 & Apr.
1-3. This interesting “assault on the liberal
conscience" was originally produced in 1985
and again at the Royal Court in 2009. The
final offering of the season is the Mainstage
production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet,
Apr. 14-16 & 20-22 in the Fine Arts Theatre.
See www.drama.uga.edu for more info.
There are other holiday productions
throughout the area, often produced by
churches and other non-theatrical organiza
tions as part of the season's celebrations.
Please support all live productions in our area.
And have a joyous new year!
RkklUwtfieatre@ftagpote.corn
The Annie orphan ensemble is fronted by Malia Horst, a first-grader at Athens
Montessori who plays the youngest orphan, Molly.
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