Our Town
By Thornton Wilder
In cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate, FCT presents the playwright's definitive version of Our Town. This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous versions, yet it presents Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it performed.
Often described as "the greatest American play ever written", the story follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life", "Love and Marriage", and "Death and Eternity". Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually - in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre - die.
While all of Wilder's work is intelligent, non-synthetic, and often moving as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American." -Edward Albee
"Thornton Wilder's masterpiece ..An immortal tale of small town morality [and]...a classic of soft spoken theater." -The New York Times
"Beautiful and remarkable one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre ...A spiritual experience." -The New York Post
"No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves." - The New York Daily News
"No play ever moved me so deeply." -Alexander Woolcott, The New Yorker
An invaluable addition to the American stage and to the experience of theatre lovers internationally
A cast of 7 Women and 17 Men of varying ages, including children
Production Dates: October 7-9, 14-16 2011 
Directed by Jan Wilcox
Auditions August 7 & 8
Nuncrackers
THE NUNSENSE CHRISTMAS MUSICAL
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Dan Goggin
Nuncrackers, is presented as the first TV special taped in the Cable Access Studio built by Reverend Mother in the convent basement. It stars the nuns you love, plus Father Virgil, and four of Mount Saint Helen's most talented students. Featuring all new songs including Twelve Days Prior to Christmas, Santa Ain't Comin' to Our House, We Three Kings of Orient Are Us and It's Better to Give than to Receive, this show is filled with typical NUNSENSE humor, some of your favorite carols, and a "Secret Santa" audience participation. NUNCRACKERS will make you laugh, and maybe tug at your heartstrings. It's the perfect way to insure that your holiday season is merry and bright! -D.Goggin
Produced by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.
Cast of 4 women, 1 man, 2 boys, 2 girls
Production Dates: December 2-4, 9-11 2011
special Saturday matinees at 2 pm, also Friday and Saturday, 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm
Directed by Jimy Foreman
Auditions October 9 & 10, 7 pm at the theatre
Out of Sterno
by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Dotty's life in Sterno with her husband Hamel is absolutely perfect! It's a fairy tale, it really is. True, in their seven years of marriage Hamel has forbidden her to leave their tiny apartment or speak to anyone, but Dotty is so very happy to spend her days watching video re-enactments of the day they first met. When a phone call from a mysterious woman threatens to tear her world asunder, Dotty must venture out into the vast city of Sterno, and try to discover what it is to be a "real" woman. "Out of Sterno" is a coming-of-age play in an Alice in Wonderland world. It explores the triumph and heartbreak of growing up and the contradictory societal pressures women face just trying to make it across town.
CHARACTERS : 2 men, 2 women
DOTTY: 23. Childlike and loving and hopeful. Dotty is bursting with intense enthusiasm for everything. She makes art out of every object in her view and hosts her life like a TV talk show to an imaginary audience. She refuses to think ill of anyone.
HAMEL: 30's. Dotty's thug of a husband.
ZENA: 30's. The proprietress of Zena's Beauty Emporium. Miss Tri-boro Area for two years running. Tough as nails.
DAN: Magically transforms himself into every other character in the play, including: Delivery Man, Taxi Driver, Waiter, Mrs. Cuthbert, Mrs. Peabody, Barb, Sallie Mae, Man on the Bus
Production Dates: January 20-22, 27-29 2012
Directed by Mindie Ottney
Auditions Dec 4 & 5 at 7 pm
The Red Velvet Cake War
by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins-Gaynelle, Peaches, and Jimmie Wyvette, could not have picked a worse time to throw their family reunion. Their outrageous antics have set tongues wagging in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them as their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out. Having accidentally crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband's girlfriend's doublewide, Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular meltdown. Peaches, the saucy number-one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it's time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead. And Jimmie Wyvette, the roughhewn store manager of Whatley's Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum's newest widower. But the cousins can't back out of the reunion now. It's on, and Gaynelle is hosting it; Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided its success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle's sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist. Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado season. Things spin hilariously out of control when a neighbor's pet devours everything edible, a one-eyed suitor shows up to declare his love, and a shocking high-stakes wager is made on who bakes the best red velvet cake. As this fast-paced uproarious romp barrels toward its surprising climax, you'll wish your own family reunion was this much fun!
Cast 7 women, 3 men, doubling possible
Production Dates: March 9-11, 16-18 2012
Directed by Pete Lowry
Auditions January 22 & 23 at 7 pm
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
The Secret Garden
With Music by Lucy Simon
Book and Lyrics by Marsha Norman
Book by Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Winner! 3 Tony¨ Awards!
This enchanting classic of children's literature is reimagined in brilliant musical style by composer Lucy Simon and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. Orphaned in India, 11 year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Archibald and his invalid son Colin. The estate's many wonders include a magic garden which beckons the children with haunting melodies and the "Dreamers", spirits from Mary's past who guide her through her new life, dramatizing The Secret Garden's compelling tale of forgiveness and renewal.
"Elegant, entrancing...The best American musical of the Broadway season."-Time
"A splendid, intelligent musical...It's all you can hope for in children's theatre. But the best surprise is that this show is the most adult new musical of the season."- USA Today
"A many splendored children's fable that neither cloys or loses grip on its unique spell."-Newsday
"Revels in theatrical imagination [and] achieves the irresistible appeal that moves audiences to standing ovations."-Christian Science Monitor
Cast includes 12 men, 10 women, 1 girl (doubling possible)
Directed by Randy J. Brown
Production Dates : May 4-6, 11-13, special bonus weekend May 18-20
Director Randy Brown
Audition Dates: February 12 & 13 at 6:30 pm
