Bartlett Community Theatre

Bartlett Community Theatre will be holding auditions for “Barefoot in the Park” which will run May 10-13 2012  & be directed by Daniel Martin. Auditions will be Monday February 13 and Tuesday February 14 from 7-9pm at Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center 3663 Appling Road  Memphis, TN 38133 (901) 385-6440.

About “Barefoot in the Park”:

This romantic comedy focuses on newlyweds, Corie and Paul, as they begin married life in a tiny 5th floor walkup apartment in a mid-Manhattan brownstone. Paul is a strait-laced attorney, Corie a far more spontaneous free spirit. The young couple must contend with a lack of heat, a skylight that leaks snow, several long flights of stairs, oddball neighbor Victor Velasco, and Corie’s well-meaning mother. Adjusting to married life isn’t so easy! The first act of Barefoot dramatizes a making of a new life, and its second builds to a near-breakup of the marriage.

Bartlett Theatre Company and Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center are proud to present Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”, directed by Tony Isbell.

Show dates will be March 15,16, & 17 at 8:00pm & March 18 at 3:00pm.

Cast:

Giles Ralston – Christopher Tracy
Mollie Ralston – Christine Matarese
Christopher Wren – Justin Willingham
Mrs. Boyle – Janie Paris
Major Metcalf – Paul Webb
Miss Casewell – Beverly Morlang
Mr. Paravicini – James Cacy
Detective Sergeant Trotter – Kinon Keplinger

Bartlett Theatre Company and Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center are pleased to present “The Hallelujah Girls”, a production directed by Bill Roraback.

Show Dates are:

October 27 8:00 pm
October 28 8:00 pm
October 29 3:00 pm & 8:00 pm
October 30 3:00 pm

Cast Members:

Carlene-Carolyn Spratley
Porter Padgett-John Reed
Crystal-Sherry Nash
Bobby Dwayne-Ken Hippchen
Bunny-Cathi Johnson
Mavis-Ivory Smith
Nita-Cat Nass
Sugar Lee-Chris Wilson

About “The Hallelujah Girls”:

Hilarity abounds when the feisty females of Eden Falls, Georgia, decide to shake up their lives. The action in this rollicking Southern comedy takes place in SPA-DEE-DAH!, the abandoned church-turned day spa where this group of friends gathers every Friday afternoon. After the loss of a dear friend, the women realize time is precious and if they’re going to change their lives and achieve their dreams they have to get on it now! But Sugar Lee, their high-spirited, determined leader, has her hands full keeping the women motivated. Carlene’s given up on romance, having buried three husbands. Nita’s a nervous wreck from running interference between her problematic son and his probation officer. Mavis’ marriage is so stagnant she’s wondering how she can fake her own death to get out of it. And sweet, simple Crystal entertains them all, singing Christmas carols with her own, hilarious lyrics. The comic tension mounts when a sexy, ex-boyfriend shows up unexpectedly, a marriage proposal comes from an unlikely suitor and Sugar Lee’s arch rival vows she’ll stop at nothing to steal the spa away from her. By the time the women rally together to overcome these obstacles and launch their new, improved lives, you’ve got a side-splitting, joyful comedy that will make you laugh out loud and shout “Hallelujah!”

Bartlett Theatre Company and Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center are pleased to present PLAZA SUITE, a production directed by Daniel Martin and written by Neil Simon. Show dates are 8 p.m. May 19, 20, 21 and 3 p.m. May 21-22 at BPACC.

For ticket information, please call BPACC at 901.385.6440 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cast members:

Karen Nash = Robbie VanDeveer
Sam Nash = Gene Elliot
Bellhop/Waiter/Borden Eisler = Bradley M. Applegate
Jean McCormick/Mimsey Hubley = Chelsea Robinson
Jesse Kiplinger = Chadwick Rodgers
Muriel Tate = Candice Gibson
Norma Hubley = Sherry Nash
Roy Hubley = Paul Webb

About PLAZA SUITE:

Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted, and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before. And was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields. He calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little diversion. Over the years she has idolized him from afar and is now more than the match he bargained for. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her, or as mother yells, “I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!”

Bartlett Theatre Company and Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center proudly presented another sellout, ON GOLDEN POND, directed by Paul Webb and written by Ernest Thompson. Stage manager was Cherry Gibson and set designer was Kerry Strahm.

Performances were January 20-23, 2010.

Cast members were:

Norman Thayer, Jr. — John Malloy
Ethel Thayer — Janie Paris *
Chelsea Thayer Wayne — Candace McGowen
Charlie Martin — John Reed
Bill Ray — Marcus Santi
Billy Ray — Austin Brown

ON GOLDEN POND was sponsored by Foxbridge Assisted Living and was presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (*) Ms. Paris appeared under a Special Appearance Contract courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

We’d love to have You become a part of our family. Bartlett Theatre is growing our corps of supporters for our board and subcommittees.

If you are interested, please come sign up to volunteer when we next meet 7 p.m., April 21 at BPACC, 3663 Appling Road.

Our volunteer group has an ambitious plan to present a handful of exciting shows annually but we need to bring on a few more community members who enjoy theatre. Previous experience with a community theatre is terrific but not required — we’ll help you get started!

We seek other volunteers who can help by attending our meetings to help plan shows, or help in numerous other ways — by reading scripts, painting, building sets under supervision, gathering props, decorating the set, sewing costumes, ushering, overseeing auditions, assisting technicians while under supervision, take show pictures, write for our Web page, manage our growing inventory of supplies — just about anything!

Bartlett Theatre typically holds its planning meetings during school-year months on the third Thursday, 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Bartlett Station Municipal Center. During months with auditions or performances, the meeting is held at the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center.

Show volunteers receive a complimentary ticket to Preview Night.

THANK YOU to everyone who attended!

Cast members included:

Bartlett Theatre was pleased to present “Steel Magnolias,” with performances May 20-23 at Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center. The show was directed by Daniel L. Martin and all performances sold out.

Marsha Nicholson — Truvy Jones

Falon Jones — Annelle Dupup‐Desoto

Jeanna Juleson — Clairee Belcher

Emily Burnett — Shelby Eatenton‐Latcherie

Cozset Jones  –  M’Lynn Eatenton

Chris Wilson — Ouiser (Weezer) Boudreaux

Set in a small town in Louisiana ‐‐ in the time of really big hair ‐‐ six women gather in Truvy’s beauty shop for gossip, friendship, and support. These women are true steel magnolias: southern belles who are flowery on the outside, but tough as steel inside.

The play is alternately hilarious and touching as it moves from the excitement of Shelby’s wedding to sadness as friends mourn her loss.

Bartlett Community Theatre brought the hilarious “A Tuna Christmas” to Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, Dec. 17-20

Joe Broy (left) and John M. Hemphill (right) returned from “Greater Tuna” to portray almost 20 colorful characters in this fast-paced comedy about Christmas in Tuna, the “third smallest town” in Texas.

Ann Marie Hall directed a script written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard.

Christmas is coming and all comic calamity is about to break loose as the delightfully eccentric characters attempt to cope with seasonal traumas such as a disaster-prone little theatre production of “A Christmas Carol,” and a yard decorating contest that is being sabotaged by a mysterious Christmas phantom.

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