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The Cumberland ETC Children’s Theatre presents:
🌼🧚♀️✨Thumbelina✨🧚♀️🌼
Audition information and show dates can be found in the image below. Please come prepared with a list of all conflicts for April-show dates! Parents- please come in with your child/children to assist with filling out the audition form.
Auditions will be held in the ETC basement, please come in the side door. We will have scenes for people to read from! Contact Emilie Springsteen at emiliespringsteen@gmail.com or message our page with any questions.
Here is the link to the script preview, which includes character descriptions: https://histage.com/download/freeview/thumbelina
Date: Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025
Time: 7pm
Get ready for a night of romance as our community’s gifted musician’s take the stage for our second year of “Cumberland Cabaret: LOVES NOTES” – a talent showcase dedicated to love songs.
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, our local performers will be delivering soulful renditions of classic, contemporary, and even original love songs. Bring your family, friends, or that special someone, and immerse yourselves in the magic of live music – an experience that promises to make this a perfect date night to remember!
AUDITIONS:
To audition, please email etccumberlandwi@gmail.com
Audition Dates are;
Jan. 25, 2-4
Feb. 1, 2-4
This year’s Christmas play, “The Gift of the Magi”, is brought to us by director and longtime ETC talent, Eva Srubar.
Performances will be help December 12-14 at 7pm, and December 15 at 1pm & 4pm.
Adult Tickets $12, Student Tickets $6
Tickets can be purchased in person at Peter & Annie’s in Cumberland, or online here!
Join us Sunday, December 1st for a wonderful evening of Christmas Music brought to us by local groups “Home Again” and “Hay River Sisters”. Don’t forget to stop downstairs beforehand and at intermission for free-will donation bake-sale.
Mark your calendars for December 8th, 2024 to watch the beloved Community Choir perform their Men’s Chorus, Women’s Chorus, and Mixed Chorus pieces to what will surely be a full house!
Tickets for “Graceland” & “Asleep on the Wind” are now available at Peter & Annies in Cumberland, or online here.
Added audition dates this Thursday & Friday, June 20 & 21, 6pm at ETC stage.If interested but can’t make audition dates, know of anyone who may be interested, or have any questions regarding the play please contact the director, Sheila Shaffer, at lucidreamersheila@gmail.com.
Looking for actors for 2 companion one-act plays “Graceland” a dramedy, and “Asleep On the Wind” the prequel by Ellen Byron.Performance dates: September 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 /matinees 22 & 29.For ‘Graceland‘:
1 woman, Bev – age 40-60
1 woman, Rootie – early to mid 20s, Cajun/Southern accentFor ‘Asleep On the Wind’:
1 girl, Rootie – 11-15, Cajun/Southern accent
1 male, Beau – age 18-30, Cajun/Southern accentAuditions will include readings from selected scenes. Please bring a list of your conflicts for the audition form.
Rehearsals will begin August 1st and will be Monday through Thursday through Sept 12th. Then may include the Friday & weekend prior to opening if needed.*** TRIGGER WARNING!! Please be advised there are references in the scripts of bullying and domestic abuse.**** Also looking for an acapella trio or quartet to sing “Aura Lee” and one singer on acoustic guitar to sing “Love Me Tender”.
THE STORIES:GRACELAND. The place is the front entrance of Graceland, the late Elvis Presley’s Memphis mansion, the time, five o’clock in the morning, three days before the estate is to be opened to the public. Two ardent Presley fans, Bev and Rootie, are camped out before the gates, each determined to be the first to enter the sacred precincts. Bev is a bewigged, middle-aged lady with too much make-up and a brassy down-home style; Rootie is young and shy and somewhat intimidated by the raucous Bev.ASLEEP ON THE WIND. The time is ten years before the time of GRACELAND, the place, a small clearing in Bayou Teche, Louisiana, the “special place” that Rootie refers to in the other play. This is where Rootie and her favorite brother, Beau, a handsome, sensitive and restless young man come to talk in private and to escape her other two brothers who seem to delight in pestering their shy, reclusive sister. This time Beau has a double purpose for their meeting: to persuade Rootie to try to stick it out at home and in school; and also to tell her that he has enlisted in the army and has requested service in Vietnam.
Get ready to be transported to the enchanted world of Beauty and the Beast as ETC brings the Broadway Musical to life on stage at the Enrichment Through Culture Theater on the dates shown below.
Buy Tickets at Peter & Annie’s in Cumberland, or use our new online feature.