More Detail about Summer Performances
Johann Wagner
Pier One Theatre at Alice's Champagne Palace
Johann Wagner is based in Austin, Texas. He is a songwriter/folk rock performer (one of his songs, "If I go, I'm Going" was featured on the TV show “Californication”).
Here are links to his sites, where you can find out more about him:
www.myspace.com/johannwagner
www.jwagnermusic.com
Youth Theatre Skills Camp Performances
Title TBA
Culmination of a 3 week long theatre camp.
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film of the same name, directed by Roger Corman. The music, composed by Menken in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, includes several well-known tunes, including the title song, "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly, Seymour".
Oleanna
Oleanna is an intense two-character play by David Mamet, about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual exploitation and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being awarded tenure. The play's title, taken from a folk song, refers to a 19th-century escapist vision of utopia.
Outrageous JAZZ!!
Karen Strid-Chadwick (UAA Music Professor) leads Alaskan jazz musicians (Curtis Bates, Ray Booker, Dale Curtis, Jim Davis, and Brenda Vulgamore) in two nights of Mainstream Jazz with an Alaska twist.
The Answer and Flip
Two new one act plays by Homer playwrights Nancy Chastain and Kate Rich.
Youth/Teen Theatre: Will Shakespeare's The Tempest directed by Clara Noomah.
Moon Over Buffalo
Moon Over Buffalo is the story of an acting couple on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac (revised one-nostril version) and Noël Coward’s Private Lives.
This backstage farce by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor) gives the couple one more shot at starring roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel epic and director Frank Capra himself is en route to Buffalo to catch their matinee performance. If comedies and farces are your favorite choice of theatre, then Moon Over Buffalo, is sure to please. If you're an actor or a wanna-be actor, then you'll love it even more. It's one of those plays that shows the scenes behind the onstage scenes.
In Moon Over Buffalo, there are really three plays intertwined with each other. And, being a farce, you have all the craziness that includes doors opening and closing, people hiding in closets, half-dressed actors, near misses in running into people who are hiding, mistaken identities and mass confusion. Timing is everything....