The Limelight Theatre Company

• Lumberjacks: The Musical!  Our very first all-original song-play, written by Company Members Brian Brems, Jeremy Wackerlin, and Ben Wooley.

• The Music Man, Meredith Willson's classic musical of a con man and his adventures in River City.

• Henry and Ramona and Ramona Quimby, a double-feature for the kids, based on Beverly Cleary's timeless tales of the kids of Klickitat Street.

Limelight Informational Meeting

Date/Time:  May 14^th, 6:30 pm Location:  Bednarcik Junior High

Limelight Auditions

There will be joint auditions for all three of the Limelight performances this year, with a $10 fee to audition.  Participants wishing to audition for Henry and Ramona/Ramona Quimby, The Music Man, and Lumberjacks!, will sign up for an audition slot by calling Prairie Point at 630.554.1010 to register and choose a time slot. 

Audition sign-up will begin May 14^th.  You will be able to register for individual shows after callbacks conclude on June 8^th.  All participants must pay the full fee by June 13^th, otherwise they will be removed from the production.

GENERAL AUDITIONS

June 6^th:  9 am - 5 pm
June 7^th:  1:00 - 5:00 pm

CALLBACKS

Monday, June 8th

The Music Man:  9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Henry/Ramona:  1:00 - 5:00 pm
Lumberjacks:  5:00 - 8:00 pm

Please bring dance shoes to your Music Man and Lumberjacks callbacks.

All auditions and callbacks at Bednarcik Junior High.


Henry and Ramona/Ramona Quimby

Directed by Brian Fauth
Rehearses 1:00 - 5:00 pm M - F June 9^th - July 7^th
Performs July 8^th - July 11^th
Location:  Bednarcik Junior High
Ages:  grades 4 - 8 

Henry is a young man with his first paper route.  Ramona is a pest.  In Henry and Ramona, Henry Huggins, Beezus and Ramona Quimby, and faithful dog Ribsy wander Klickitat Street in search of responsibility, adventure, and trouble!  In part two of our Henry and Ramona double-feature, Ramona Quimby, Ramona takes center stage as she deals with getting older and learning some of life's tougher lessons as her father loses his job.  Beverly Cleary's classic characters return to Limelight for an unprecedented double production of children's literature's most enduring characters. 

Please Note:  Henry and Ramona and Ramona Quimby are two separate productions.  Actors will be cast in separate shows, or both, if they are able and interested.  Henry and Ramona will rehearse from 1:00 - 3:00 pm; Ramona Quimby will rehearse 3:00 - 5:00 pm.  The shows will be performed the same weekend, on alternate nights.  Further information will be available on our website.

The Music Man

Directed by Amy Meyers, Ed Perry and Penny Bovelli
Orchestra directed by Lisa Hatfield

Rehearses June 9^th - July 15^th, 9 am -12 noon
Location:  BJH; (Rehearsals July 8 - 15 at Oswego East High Scool (OEHS)
Performs July 15 - 18 at OEHS.  All performances 7:00 pm
Ages:  grades 6 - college 

An affectionate paean to Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Willson's The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize - this despite the fact he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall. 

Lumberjacks:  The Musical

Stage direction by Brian Brems and Jeremy Wackerlin

Music direction and choreography by Adrian Aguilar

Orchestrations by Ben Wooley

Rehearses June 15th - July 30^th, 5:00 - 8:00 pm M-Th
Rehearses at Bednarcik June 15 - July 24
Tech Rehearsals at OEHS July 27 - July 30
Performs July 30, 31, and August 1st
Location:  Oswego East High School
Ages:  grades 9 - college 

Freshly cut paper has been brought in from the logging town of Woodsburg, Oregon, for Limelight's first original song play, Lumberjacks: The Musical!  A tale of rural working men and women against corporate greed unites the book and lyrics by Brian Brems and Jeremy Wackerlin with the original song compositions of Ben Wooley to bring the community a unique theatre experience previously unseen.  The lumberjacks, wives, and townspeople of Woodsburg fight against Xavier Dalton Kilpatrick and his big business logging operation, with some help from Carlton Worthingman, the son of an Oregon Senator with lumberjacking aspirations of his own, and Madeline Cartwright, an incorruptible EPA liaison.  The story, characters, dialogue, lyrics, and music are all brand new in this first original musical from the Limelight Theatre Company.  Grab an axe and let's get to work.        

PIT ORCHESTRA INFORMATION

If you are interested in playing in the instrumental pit orchestra for The Music Man, please contact the orchestra director, Lisa Hatfield, at lisa.hatfield@bps101.net for more detailed information.  You must have at least 2 years experience on your instrument.  Rehearsals will be on Wednesday nights from 6-8pm at Bednarcik, except in July where there will be some dress rehearsals in the mornings.

Instructor:  Amanda McMillion