UPDATE
Southern Repertory Theatre is holding auditions for Equity and non-Equity actors this weekend for Rosary O'Neill's original play DEGAS. Men and women 25-40 are needed; along with one 14 year old girl. Auditions are Saturday, November 18, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., and Sunday, the 19th, 1-4 p.m. at Southern Rep in Canal Place. Call (504) 861-8163 for more info. 
Rivertown Repertory Theatre and director David Hoover will hold auditions for the musical revue TINTYPES Saturday, 18th Novlember, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Kenner, La. playhouse (approximately 10 miles from New Orleans).  He is interested in seeing singing actors, male and female, with movement ability, 25-50. One female character is specifically African-American. Auditioners should come prepared to sing 16 bars of a song of their choosing.  an accompanist will be provided.  TINTYPES chronicles the growing pains of pre-World War II American through its songs. It will play January 19 - February 4 at Rivertown. For more information call (504) 468-7221.

NEWS
LOT’S DAUGHTERS, a play by University of New Orleans graduate student Rebecca Basham, set in World War II Appalachia; won her the Michael Kanin National Student Playwriting Award at the American College Theatre Festival this year.  It was produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Her rewards were $2,500.00 cash prize from the William Morris Agency, active membership in the Dramatists’ Guild, a fellowship to the Sundance Theatre Laboratory, and the publication of her play by the Samuel French Company.
Out of more than 1,000 plays nationally, only five college productions are performed in the national showcase. A UNO production has reached the regional level for each of the last six years. This was the second time UNO has made it to the national floodlights.
Basham wrote LOT’S DAUGHTER as a UNO graduate student pursuing an MFA in poetry; the play was an assignment in Phillip Karnell’s playwriting class.
Karnell, who headed UNO’s BA/MFA Performance Program since 1987, directed the Kennedy Center production.
The play, with cast and crew of 33, is described by its creator as “a drama about acceptance and love”: when Waincey Cobb joins the Navy, he’s worried about leaving his sister Gertie all alone in the hills. So, he marries Susannah Hicks in part to provide company for Gertie. The two women fall in love. “Gertie experiences the harshest realities of life and love in a backwoods community where right and wrong, sinfulness and righteousness are rigidly defined by the community’s church and preacher”, says Basham, a Kentucky native. “Trapped by the ignorance and prejudice of her own community, as well as her own uncertainties about life, Gertie faces love, treachery and heartbreak on her journey towards adulthood.”
Congratulations Rebecca, Phillip Karnell, cast and crew!
Make that twice-again! …

Encore performances have been scheduled for THE WOMEN (see below). Added to a November 11 encore presentation, that makes three … and counting; as it will also return November 16 and 19, as a benefit for the Tennessee Williams Festival. Almost all the cast has agreed to return for the shows, which will be under the auspices of Ricky Graham and Roy Smith’s Producers Circle at a venue to be announced.
Telephone (504) 581-1144 to leave your name and phone number to get on the List.

THEATRE

THE WALL OF CRISPIAN University of New Orleans’ entry in 2001’s
American College of Theatre Festival.
An engaging, theatrical look at the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The Play by Karen Atherton is an original student written script. It begins Nov. 3, then, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11 at 8pm and Nov. 12 at 2:30 p.m. Telephone: (504) 280 – SHOW. Thrust Theater

THE WOMEN Le Petit Théatre du Vieux Carré, 616 St. Peters, New Orleans.
A staged reading of Clare Boothe Luce's comedy about the lives, loves, and intrigues of a catty circle of Park Avenue women, circa 1936 (no nails retracted in this bunch of clawing beasties!) This is an encore performance. Its initial performance in October was wildly successful. Presented by The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and Le Petit Theatre. Directed by Ricky Graham (a New Orleans community theater giant - actor, director, producer - he resurrected our local theater scene in the '70's and shows no sign of letting up).
The performance is Saturday, November 11 at 2:00 p.m. Telephone: (504)-522-2081 $25
The performer's read like a local who's-who from Community theater, TV personalities, Businesswomen, High Society. It is sponsored by the Gertrude C. Ford Foundation.

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Oscar Wilde.
The Pickery in the New Orleans Warehouse District. Sunday, December 8.Telephone: (504)-723-8206  Apropos. I read "Two Women" by Arthur Meiselman in Scene4’s April 2000 issue of his "Life Upon The Wicked Stage". All should enter Scene4's Archives to read it again! He expressed Piper Laurie and Irina Kasvane's performances so vividly, I imagined I was there.

HEAVEN’S BAR at Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave, New Orleans
An original cabaret musical with a dead rock ‘n’ roller caught between a lounge in the great hereafter and a hot spot below.
Music by Paul Freitas. Book and lyrics by Hiram Ed Taylor; who also directs. November 2 – 9 $18 Telephone: (504) 581-5812

HOT STUFF NEW ORLEANS STYLE
True Brew Café Theater, 200 Julia St., New Orleans. A returning musical comedy; alternating with THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLENNIUM. It will be in repertory; however, it will not be at Southern Repertory Theatre as previously announced. Becky Allen, Ricky Graham and Harry Mayronne Jr. November 4 at 9:00 p.m. - November 5 at 6:00 p.m. Becky Allen is in both productions! Whew! Go Birthday Girl!A special showing of TMM on tap November 12 celebrating her birthday (Don’t ask … Don’t tell!) Telephone: (504) 524-8440

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH playing at Loyola University, New Orleans
An American Fantasy
Playwright:    Thorton Wilder
Director: Donald BradyTheatre: Marquette Theatre
Dates: November 3, 4, 9 10 & 11 at 8:00 p.m. and November 5 & 12 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10 General Admission, $7 Students, Children and Senior Citizens

FILM

ALMOST FAMOUS
This film appears to be the best of the lot showing in town. In 1973, teenager Patrick Fugit lands an assignment to cover up-and-coming band Stillwater for Rolling Stone magazine.  Despite the reservations of his protective mother, the aspiring writer hits the road and learns some life lessons from the band, its groupies and a journalism mentor.  Writer-director, Cameron Crowe’s first film since JERRY MAGUIRE, was inspired by his own experiences writing for Rolling Stone as a teenager. The movie, blessed with strong performances across the board, perfectly captures the era in a well-made, coming-of-age tale.
Cast includes: Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Lee, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor and Zooey Deschanel.

2001 SPACE ODYSSEY
On Steve’s Top 5 Greatest Films Ever. He says (kind of weirdee, mysteriously, and biblically) all should view it now … for …its Time Draws Near! I smell a Qreview coming soon to Scene4.

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