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2009 Season

Justice at the End of the Trail: The Trial of the Desperado Barry Wey (HTDD)
Foiled by an Innocent Maid | Rumors (ASP) | Pinocchio (MCT)
A Midsummer Night's Dream | The Odd Couple

Justice at the End of the Trail:
The Trial of the Desperado Barry Wey

by Timothy O'Neill
Directed by Lowry Browning

Celebrate Oregon's 150th Birthday during
Historic The Dalles Days

This show is associated with Historic The Dalles Days. The story is a piece of The Dalles' history - this trial is for the robbery of the Wheeler Stagecoach and the shooting of it's driver by the outlaw Barry Wey. The show is great fun and very entertaining.

Audition Site: The Original Courthouse Museum, 410 West 2nd Place, The Dalles Oregon (behind the Chamber of Commerce/Visitor Center)

Audition Dates: Monday, Aug. 3th and Tuesday, 4th (2009)

Audition Time: 6:00 p.m.

Rehearsal Site: The Original Courthouse Museum, 410 West 2nd Place, The Dalles Oregon (behind the Chamber of Commerce/Visitor Center)

Rehearsal Dates: August 10-11, 24-28
September 2-4, 7-11, 16-19

Rehearsal Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Performance Site: The Original Courthouse Museum, 410 West 2nd Place, The Dalles Oregon (behind the Chamber of Commerce/Visitor Center)

Performance Date: Sunday, Sept. 20th (2009)

Performance Times: 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.

Foiled by an Innocent Maid

By Fred Carmichael

Directed by Scott Simmons

This old-fashioned melodrama dinner theatre provides a thoroughly entertaining evening for cast and audience alike. The story involves Rachel Follansbee's missing grandchild, his discovery and subsequent loss in the laundry hamper, and the efforts of evil Fergus Longfellow to kidnap the child for ransom! The action of the play takes place in the Follansbee mansion in a large city. The time is the turn of the 19th Century.

Performance Site: The Civic Auditorium Ball Room, 323 East Fourth Street, The Dalles Oregon

Performance Dates: September 11, 12, 17, & 18

Doors Open: 7:00 p.m.

Dinner Starts: 7:30 p.m.

Show Begins: 8:00 p.m.

Ticket Prices: $25 per person (with dinner)

If you would like dinner please call or e-mail to reserve a date and indicate your choice of either Italian Sausage Pasta or Pasta Primavera.

Contact Number: 1-541-370-2513

E-mail: thetheatrecompany@gorge.net

After School Productions

Rumors

By Neil Simon

Directed by Alex Patton

"The story starts with people gathered in the posh suburban residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their tenth anniversary. When people arrive, they discover there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the host- the deputy mayor of New Your City - has shot himself through the earlobe. Comic complications arise when, given everyone's upper class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening's events from the police and the media (http://en.wikipeid.org/wiki/Rumors).

Performance Site: The Dalles-Wahtonka High School Auditorium, 220 East 10th Street, The Dalles, Oregon

Performance Dates: August 6-8

Performance Time: August 6-8 (7:00 p.m.)
August 8 (1:00 p.m.) (There are two performances on August 8th.)

Ticket Prices: Adults - $7.00

Tickets will be available at the door and Klindt's Bookstore.

The Missoula Children's Theatre

Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi

"When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a puppet to be his substitute son, a kind fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, honest, and selfless. But, even with the help of Jiminy, a cricket who the fairy assigns to be Pinocchio's conscience, the puppet goes astray. He lies instead of telling the truth, tangles with the tricksters, Fox and Cat, and meets up with Lampwick and his no-good buddies in the Land of Toys. Pinocchio finally proves worthy by risking his life to save Gepetto from a whale."

(http://www.childrenstheatreplays.com/pin.htm)
(http://movies.ask.com/c/video/Pinocchio/38183?q=Pinocchio&qsrc=2247)

This production is part of The Missoula Children's Theatre's unique international touring project and is presented locally by The Theatre Company of The Dalles. Their productions are complete with costumes, scenery, props, and makeup.

Audition Date: Monday, June 15, 2009

Audition Description: No advance preparation is necessary, but a smile never hurts. Four Assistant Directors (older middle and high school people) will also be cast to aid in rehearsals throughout the week and to take on essential backstage responsibilities.

Audition Site: The Dalles-Wahtonka High School Auditorium
220 East 10th Street, The Dalles, Oregon

Audition Time: 9:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Those auditioning should arrive at start time and plan to stay for the full two hours.

Ages Eligible to Audition: Six thru 18, entering grades one thru 12

Rehearsal Site: The Dalles-Wahtonka High School Auditorium
220 East 10th Street, The Dalles, Oregon

Rehearsal Dates: Monday June 15, 2009 through Saturday June 20, 2009   

Rehearsal Hours: The first one immediately follows auditions (for principal roles only) and the others are 10:00 to 2:30 pm. 

Rehearsal Description: MCT Tour Actor/Directors will conduct rehearsals throughout the week each day. Lines, staging, songs, and dances will be learned. Although they will not need all cast members at every session, those auditioning must have a clear schedule for the entire week and if selected, able to attend all rehearsals required for their role. Principal roles will be asked to stay over and throughout the week. A detailed rehearsal schedule will be distributed at the conclusion of the audition. Cast members scheduled for the full four and a half hours of rehearsal should bring a sack lunch, dinner, or snack.

Concept: A week-long residency during which a team of two staff Tour Actor/Directors develop and produce a full-scale musical with 50-60 local children as cast members.

Tuition Price: $25.00 per student (scholarships are available)

Performance Site: The Dalles-Wahtonka High School Auditorium
220 East 10th Street, The Dalles, Oregon

Performance Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009

Performance Times: 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Ticket Prices: $2.00 - Students/Seniors and $3.00 - Adults

Contact People: Melanie Brown (1-541-296-3399)
& Ray Swift (541-980-7717)

Tickets will be available at the door.

Click here to view the Missoula Children's Theatre website.

"Missoula Children's Theatre is supported by a grant from the Wasco County Cultural Trust Coalition with funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust to support Oregon's arts, heritage, and the humanities."

A Midsummer Night's Dream

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Richard Parker

"A Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest."

"To trick Titania into handing over an Indian boy she is raising, Oberon orders Puck to find a plant that causes love at first sight, and through Oberon's meddling and Puck's trickery, the characters fall into and out of love with the wrong people."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream)
(http://www.cliffnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/A-Midsummer-Night's-Dream
id-78.html)

Performance Site: Columbia Gorge Community College's Little Theatre on the third floor of building two, 400 East Scenic Drive, The Dalles Oregon

Performance Dates: May 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, & 30 (2009)
June 4, 5, & 6 (2009)

Performance Time: 7:30 p.m.

Ticket Prices: Adults - $12.00, Seniors (62 and over)/College Students - $10.00, and Children under 12 - $5.00

The Odd Couple    

By Neil Simon

Directed by Ken McCarty

"Compulsive neat freak Felix is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of New York, considering suicide, before gravitating to the apartment of his best friend, sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison. Worried that Felix will try something desperate, Oscar, himself in the process of being divorced by his wife, invites Felix to move in with him. Within a few days, this mismatched pair is on the verge of mutual murder: Felix cannot abide Oscar's slovenliness, while Oscar is driven insane by Felix's obsession with cleanliness. A potentially passionate evening with Oscar's neighbors, the "coo-coo" Pigeon sisters is ruined when Felix, ruminating over his wife and children, reduces the two ladies to remorseful tears. Pushed to the brink, Oscar stalks around the apartment making as big a mess as possible. Comes the next week's poker game, and the previously vengeful Oscar is worried that Felix might have attempted to kill himself again. Instead, a surprisingly self-confident Felix shows up to collect his belongings, then announces that he's temporarily moving upstairs with the toothsome Pigeon sisters."

(http://www.fandango.com/theoddcouple_v35944/summary)

Performance Site: Columbia Gorge Community College's Little Theatre on the third floor of building two, 400 East Scenic Drive, The Dalles Oregon

Performance Dates: February 19, 20, 21, 26,27, & 28
March 5, 6, & 7 (2009)

Performance Time: 7:30 p.m.

Ticket Prices: Adults - $12.00, Seniors (62 and over)/College Students - $10.00, and Children under 12 - $5.00