Historical April 1989 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The date is set; the place is confirmed; a director has been named; and, at last, we have a play, “Too Many Nights in a Bar Room: A Burlesque Melodrama:’ Director Tom Clear has put together a script for this production based on the classic melodrama “Ten Nights in a Bar Room!’ Clear explained at the last meeting March 22nd that this production can accommodate a cast of thousands and incorporate every melodramatic “trick” in the book (Skinker DeBaliviere thespians have yet to tie a helpless damsel to railroad tracks just in time for the 5 o’clock train …).
There are parts for children in Clear’s “Too Many Nights:’ too. Twelve eight-sixteen year olds will be chosen to perform as a chorus (read on for try-outs dates and times). Clear plans for lots of audience participation with cue cards and prompting from the cast. Learning, and remembering at the critical moment, lines is always a problem for amateur actors (one cast member forgot his name in last year’s “West of Pecos” and another didn’t just drop a line, she dropped three pages of the script in 85’s “Penelope, Pride of the Pickle Factory”). Clear has a solution for this too: not many lines. Instead, this production will be full of action, music, dance and laughs.
For most of you readers interested in participating, the best news is MINIMAL REHEARSAL TIME. Clear anticipates a rehearsal schedule of two times a week for four weeks (fewer for smaller parts), one dress rehearsal, one performance and one party. TRY OUTS ARE SCHEDULED SATURDAY, APRIL 8,10-5, and SUNDAY, APRIL 9,1-5 at 28TH WARD DEMOCRATS HEADQUARTERS, 6010 Kingsbury. Scripts are available at the SDCC now; call and arrange to pick one up (children, too), 862-5122. Mark your calendars: April 8 & 9 tryouts, and MAY 20, 1989, 8:00 p.m., CURTAIN; be there or be square.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April 1989.
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