Hawthorne Players
(314) 524-5201
Florissant Civic Center Theatre Box Office
(314) 921-5678
UPCOMING SHOWS in 2012!
July 27, 28, August 3, 4, 5
November 2, 3, 9, 10, 11
June 30, 2012
This year’s Best of Hawthorne marks the 20th anniversary of the Duckie DeMere Scholarship program which has presented over $45,000 to talented North County students active in the performing arts. We have invited back many of the past winners for a very special Best of Hawthorne on June 30, 2012!
The program of light classics will feature some of the best voices and players in town, including many of your all-time Hawthorne favorites, accompanied by a full orchestra directed by Christopher Kelts. Don’t miss this fine production, directed by Paul Morris!
The clashing sounds and pulsing rhythms of New York City underscore Stephen Sondheim’s landmark "concept" show, considered by many to have inaugurated the modern era of musical theatre. COMPANY follows our anti-hero bachelor Robert as he makes his way through a series of encounters with April (the stewardess), Kathy (the girl who's going to marry someone else), Marta (the "peculiar" one), as well as with his married friends.
On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state. In vignette after hilarious vignette, we are introduced to "those good and crazy people," his married friends, as Robert weighs the pros and cons of married life. In the end, he realizes being alone is "alone, not alive."
An honest, witty, sophisticated look at relationships, COMPANY is as contemporary and relevant as ever (witness the recent hit revivals on Broadway and the West End). It features a brilliant energetic score containing many of Stephen Sondheim's best-known songs (including "Another Hundred People," "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive").
We’re closing out the 2012 season with a powerful Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by August Wilson. Fences provides a riveting character study of Troy Maxson, an illiterate garbage collector with a touch of the heroic and poetic, overflowing with both contradictions and believability.
Maxson had been a great baseball player in the Negro League, learning to play in prison. He now lives payday to payday along with Rose, his wife of 18 years, their high school son Cory (who is a good enough student and football player to have a college recruiter wanting to talk to him) and his younger brother Gabriel, a veteran whose head injury in WW II leaves him mentally challenged while providing the only means for buying the family home, which he has recently left.
On Broadway, James Earl Jones originally played Maxson and Denzel Washington played the role in the revival, both winning Tony awards for the role.
The fence directly referred to by the play's title is an unfinished one in Maxson’s yard. It is not immediately known why he wants to build it, but later Maxson suggests it’s to keep the Grim Reaper away.
Auditions for COMPANY
will be held on May 21 at 7:00 p.m.
at the Florissant Civic Center Theatre.
Call-backs on May 22
Auditions for FENCES
will be held on Saturday May 19 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
at the Florissant Civic Center Theatre
