Coming Sooner!

Coming Soon!

Don’t wait until the last minute for “Godot!” Bisbee’s Obscure Productions, your hard working, well seasoned, community theater company opens our (count ‘em!) 11^th season on October 11 with Love, Loss, and What I Wore, by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron. The show continues October 12, 13, 18, 19, & 20 at 7:30 pm for evening shows and 3:00 pm for matinees. All performances are at the O. G. Squffy Theater at Central School Project in Old Bisbee.

No, we don’t have any city council persons starring in this one. You can watch those folks perform two Tuesday evenings a month for free! Instead we feature a talented ensemble of beautiful Bisbee and Bisbee area women, expounding on topics that everyone can relate to, or learn to relate to . . . Guys, don’t worry, you might like it too. Just think how sensitive you’ll seem. Great for date night! And just think of all the sporting events and action movies your women folk have endured. Pay back doesn’t have to be a b…. In fact, it could prevent one.

A special feature of our October 11 opening night is the debut of BOP’s “First Nighter’s Café” brought to you by the Queens of Art. We encourage our patrons to come early that evening (doors open at 6:30) and enjoy the Queen’s delectable baked goods and a beverage, making your date night and theater experience even more delicious.

Mark your calendars, call your best gals, guys and pals and come on up. Enjoy the show!

Calling All Comics

Bisbee’s Obscure Productions is currently seeking the witty, the outrageous, and the downright hilarious to join us on stage for BOP’s Eleventh (Almost) Annual Comedy Show! The show is scheduled for evening performances on: Friday, November 22, 2013 and Saturday, November 23, 2013 and a matinee on Sunday, November 24, 2013. There will be one technical-dress rehearsal. Performances and rehearsal will be held at Central School Project, 43 Howell Avenue in Old Bisbee.

If you think you have what it takes to make a grown man cry… of laughter or know someone that can, e-mail: MitchellBOP@aol.com or call (520) 432-2901. Just about anything you can think of can be accepted. We’ve had stand-up comedians, hilarious skits, interactive dance that would have you laughing your socks off, and everything in-between. It doesn’t matter if you are a local or out of town, if you like to perform in a goofy sort of way, we want to hear from you!

And for everything B. O. P, don’t forget to ‘LIKE’ us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bisbees-Obscure-Productions/146107168765482

New Blood! Mwa, aha...

Young blood, new blood! Just what all mosquitoes, vampires and theater producers crave. This season BOP has some of the best young performers and producers Bisbee has to offer stepping up to produce our annual variety shows.

Veteran BOP performer, Mitchell Reed-Tattan will produce and emcee BOP’s Almost Annual Comedy Show. He’s titled it “Up With Sheeple.” This year’s laugh fest is slated for the evenings of November 23 & 24 with a matinee on November 25. This show appeals to performers who cannot make the commitment to an extended rehearsal schedule since everyone gets their act together on their own and then comes together for one tech/dress rehearsal before the show. If you think you’re funny, we want to see what you can do! Please contact Mitchell for more information or to schedule your audition at MitchellBOP@aol.com. We’d love to see more of the “young bloods” on stage this season.

This year’s “Bisbee Women’s Revue” will also have a new producer in the person of locally renowned belly dancer Tianya Milagro. If you haven’t seen Tianya dance, you need to. Those of us who have are completed enthralled by the grace and beauty she brings to the stage. Tianya has proven herself to be a top notch producer as well as a talented performer. Last year she produced her own Day of the Dead Cabaret show to rave reviews. Tianya will again bring the best of local talent to the stage in the second addition of the Cabaret on the evenings of November 1 & 2. BOP is thrilled to have her producing our Women’s Revue, which celebrates International Women’s Day, and we hope she brings some new blood along with her. The Women’s Revue is scheduled for evening performances March 9 & 10 with a matinee on March 11. Contact information for Tianya will be forthcoming after the new year, but it’s never to early to begin getting your act together for auditions.

Speaking of “young blood” and “never to early,” Rae is already beginning to look for the perfect young man to play the male lead in BOP’s spring production of “Harold & Maude” by Colin Higgins. The ideal candidate is at least 18 years old, but can be older if he can play 20 something, and dedicated to the work involved to pull off this wonderful role. Experience is not required, just a desire to learn and have fun with the part. The DVD of the movie version is available at the Copper Queen Library if you’d like to take a look. Contact Rae at obscurerae@gmail.com or 520-432-2901 if interested or for more information.

Hey, let’s play!

Auditions for "Love, Loss & What I Wore

Bisbee’s Obscure Productions Auditions for 

“Love, Loss and What I Wore”

Bisbee’s Obscure Productions will have open auditions for “Love, Loss and What I Wore” on August 17 and 18. This funny and touching play reading was written by Nora and Delia Ephron. Nora Ephron is known for “Sleepless in Seattle,” “When Harry Met Sally” and Julie & Julia,” along with many wry and wonderful essays.

BOP is seeking five to eight smart and funny women to play several roles each, many ages.

Auditions will be held in the O.G. Squffy Theater at Central School Project, 43 Howell Ave. in Old Bisbee on Saturday and Sunday, August 17 and 18, beginning at 2:00 pm each day.

Come prepared to read a one- to three-minute personal story, either your own or from literature. You will also read from the script. Rehearsals will be Thursday evenings and weekend afternoons until performance. Dress rehearsal and performance dates are October 9 – 20, 2013. The script is available for reading only at Bisbee’s Copper Queen Library. 

Contact BOP at (520) 432-2901 or theaterbisbee@gmail.com for more information.

We have dates for that season!

Please join us for another year of great theater. As always, we'll have great casts of BOP veterans and talented newcomers, and also as always, we're at Central School Project: 43 Howell Avenue in Old Bisbee. Contact theaterbisbee@gmail.com or 520.432.2901.

Stay tuned for the first audition announcement!

Love, Loss & What I Wore by Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron

directed by C. Gilles-Brown

October 4, 5, 11 & 12 at 7:30 pm

October 6 & 13 at 3:00 pm

11^th (Almost) Annual Comedy Show

produced by Mitchell A. Reed-Tattan

November 22 & 23 at 7:30 pm

November 24 at 3:00 pm

Adult Language & Situations

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

directed by Peter Gardner

January 10, 11, 17 & 18 at 7:30 pm

January 12 & 19 at 3:00 pm

Bisbee Women’s Revue

looking for producers

March 7 & 8 at 7:30 pm

March 9 at 3:00 pm

Harold & Maude by Colin Higgins

directed by Rae E. Jones

April 18, 19, 25 & 26 at 7:30 pm

April 20 & 27 at 3:00 pm

We Have a Season!

Nora Ephron, author with her sister Delia of Love, Loss & What I Wore.

BOP has selected our shows for next season, and we hope everyone will be as excited about them as we are. We'll begin the year with a piece titled Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron. Don’t you love the title?!

Then comes the ever-popular Almost Annual Comedy Show, this year produced by the ever-popular Mitchell Allen Reed-Tattan. He’s got enough names that he can produce, write, direct, and build sets for the show! Can’t wait to see what he’ll do with it.

Our “blockbuster” winter show will be the famous television drama, Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose. We are pleased and proud to present Tony Perkins look-alike, and well seasoned BOP actor, Peter Gardner, in a role where you won’t even notice how good looking he is. You’ll be seeing him everywhere but onstage as he makes his directorial debut. We hope he brings a whip and chair to control those angry guys. We expect great things.

In March there’s the Bisbee Women’s Revue, honoring International Women’s Day, providing someone(s) steps up to produce it. If you remember, “women were cancelled due to lack of interest” for the Women’s Art Show we had hoped would join the celebration last year. This bummed Rae out, and she wants some help now. A few women are considering it, so we’ll see. Perhaps this is a chance to stir up some of that female collective energy of old and make it a group endeavor? This is a different show and a great show every year, but lack of attendance this year made us wonder, do folks still want this show? Comments appreciated. Comment below or email theaterbisbee@gmail.com.

The season will close with a lovely mixed-cast comedy that will be fondly remembered by many fans of the cult favorite film of the same name. Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins will rekindle a new love in those that know these characters from the film and those that meet them for the first time on stage as well. If there are folks out there who think they are particularly adept at rigging up special effects, Rae would like to talk to you soon.

Dates and more specifics coming soon. Meanwhile, stay cool.                                                        

Beneath Summer Theater Darkness, BOP Bubbles On

 

Hi, Community Theater Fans, both long time and recent,

If you see any BOP flyers floating around these days, they will be the last of the last season, and you either remember the performances with fondness, or are experiencing extreme regret, having missed them. A third option could exist, I guess, and you could have seen something you regret. . . If that happened, we regret it too, and hope that you will give us another try. We do try to have something for everyone, which means that everything might not please everyone. We are a community of blessedly diverse tastes.

Opportunities are open for backstage volunteers over the summer, as well as an opportunity to come play on stage once a month with our improv group (to be named later). Rae is also organizing for another acting class, her last having been so well received. Let her know what times and days work for you. Email your interest to theaterbisbee@gmail.com.

We’ll be doing studio work days most Monday mornings during the summer, mostly 10:00 a.m. to noon, so if anyone wants to build flats, sort screws and costumes, build more storage for all that stuff, and goodness knows what all else, let us know.

Improv workshop continues to meet the first Friday of each month at the Squffy, 1:00-3:00ish, and we love new players! No experience necessary --

you will have one instead. Come to check us out, whether you want to perform or just play.