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.

Women's Show This Weekend

Bisbee Women’s Revue This Weekend

Bisbee’s Obscure Productions is pleased to announce this year’s Bisbee’s Women’s Revue. Opening Night actually falls on International Women’s Day, March 8th. That performance will begin at 7:30 p.m., with two more shows, March 9 at 7:30 and March 10 at 3:00. All performances are at the Squffy Theater at Central School Project, 43 Howell Ave., Old Bisbee, and all tickets will be five dollars at the door. Ticket sales begin one hour before the show.

This year’s show features a delightfully familiar group of Bisbee’s talented women, representing a wide range of performing arts, as well as representations of “how a woman can be,” as Producer, Rae Jones describes the show. She promises to be extra relevant and funny this year as “Obscure” Rae, telling it as she sees it in a new comic monologue.
Good friend and multi-talented Pearl Watkins will make a welcome return to BOP’s stage in new and familiar comedic personas. Cado Dailey will make a rare solo appearance, and Tianya Milagro will mesmerize and wow us with her supple and sensuous belly dancing. Liz Lockwood will wrangle the group as Emcee this year. Who knows what she can wish into being this year? Come on out and see this, and more!

Contact Rae at 520-432-2901 or theaterbisbee@gmail.com for more information, and — Enjoy the Show!

Women, Men, Kids Join Us on Stage!

And on the wall: BOP is seeking women visual and performing artists for the Bisbee Women's Revue and all sorts of performers for Bisbee's Obscure Alice. Newcomers and veterans gleefully invited. More info below.

Bisbee’s Obscure Productions Seeks Women Artists & Performers

Community Theater Company Bisbee’s Obscure Productions is seeking women artists in all media, visual and performance, for the Annual Bisbee Women’s Revue. This year, the popular all female variety show will bring back an open show of visual art by local women. This celebration of women’s creativity is held in honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, and both performance and art show will open on the evening of March 8, preceded by a gala reception to feast the day and the event.

Interested performers must be available evenings March 7, 8, 9 and for matinee, March 10. An audition is required if BOP doesn’t know your work. BOP is asking performers to contribute finger food for the reception. Contact Rae Jones for information or to sign up at 520-432-2901 or theaterbisbee@gmail.com. Friends of BOP and of Women (either gender) can also contact Rae to sign up to help with food and with service or set-up and clean-up.

Visual artists must be able to drop off hanging ready work at Central School Project on March 6 and to pick work up March 24 or 25. Artists are asked to sign up to help with hanging and strike, to sit the gallery, or to provide food. No commission or hanging fee will be charged. Contact Maralyce Ferree for information and registration at 520-432-3320 (gallery), 207-450-0679 (cell) or panterragallery@gmail.com Helpers who can help hang and strike, also contact Maralyce.

Bisbee’s Obscure Productions Auditions for “Bisbee’s Obscure Alice”

Bisbee’s Obscure Productions will have open auditions for their own “Alice in Wonderland” on February 16 and 17. This is a chance for actors young to old to play some great characters and have great fun entertaining friends, relatives and warm, friendly perfect strangers.

C. Gilles-Brown is adapting the original Lewis Carroll, and together the company will give this show a distinctive BOP feel. Gilles adapted and directed the outdoor BOP show “Aladdin” and “A Christmas Carol” for the original Bisbee Rep. She last appeared onstage in “I Hate Hamlet” and most recently directed Agatha Christie’s “And then there were none…”

Auditions will be held in the O.J. Squffy Theater at Central School Project, 43 Howell Ave. in Old Bisbee on Saturday and Sunday, February 16 and 17, beginning at 2:00 pm each day.

Actors ages 8 and up are asked to come prepared to deliver a one- to three-minute memorized piece, not original work. This piece could be a rhyme or poem, story or theater monologue. Come prepared to move. Children under the age of 8 will be considered if they have theater or dance training. Rehearsals will be Thursday evenings and weekend afternoons until performance. Dress rehearsal and performance dates are April 15 – May 9, 2013. The book for “Alice in Wonderland” is available many places online. Actors may contact BOP at (520) 432-2901 or theaterbisbee@gmail.com for more information.


 

News!

We are pleased to announce open auditions for our upcoming production of Thornton Wilder’s offbeat comedy, The Skin of Our Teeth. All roles are open in this American classic, which will be staged by BOP in collaboration with Cochise College. There are great roles for teens, young adults, and mature performers. Lucinda Sage-Midgorden will direct. Rehearsals for The Skin of Our Teeth will be held selected evenings and weekends August 30-November 28. Performances will be November 30-December 9.

More info on Thornton Wilder's site: http://www.thorntonwilder.com/full-length-plays/the-skin-of-our-teeth.html.

More news!

We've finally decided on our final show of the 2012-2013 season. We couldn't find a pianist with an open schedule, though we did find a lovely person to work with the singers. Ah well, maybe we'll Honk! next year.

We end our tenth season with Bisbee's Obscure Alice. How's that for fantastical? It will be BOP's adventures in Wonderland with lots of help from the great characters and words of Lewis Carroll. This show will have roles for actors 9 on up. Mark your calendars for rehearsals in late February and for the show opening in mid-April.

Sign of relief.