Ohio Valley Summer Theater - ohiovalleysummertheater

We're gearing up.  When are you coming to see?  http://willywonkaovst.bpt.me

If you are interested in auditioning but do not get it scheduled in time, please attend OPEN CALL from 6-7PM on April 19th.  See audition event information for more details.  Break a leg!

Auditions will be held in Glidden Hall 480 and 472. Callbacks, if needed are Tuesday April 23 starting at 4:30.  E-mail Stage Manager Chloe at chloe.mock@gmail.com to schedule an audition time. Please bring prepared a one minute monologue and 16 bars of a song. The material should be appropriate for Willy Wonka. Material can also be from the show. Limited scripts available to sign out for 24 hrs. only outside of Rebecca VerNooy's office (Kantner Hall 009, 17 S. College St., Athens). Copies of some of the music and lyrics also available to have to learn as an option for auditions.

We are looking for talented musicians, actors, singers, dancers and technical crews for the 2013 OVST production of Willy Wonka. Opens June 20 through July 7. Rehearsals will begin May 13. Auditions open to young and old, experience not required. Details regarding audition requirements, call times and places for varying ages and groups to follow. Synopsis, show tunes and character descriptions can be found at http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000253 Come join us in a world of pure imagination with students, community members and professional director and movement specialist Rebecca VerNooy of OHIO University School of Theater.

We really enjoyed offering 'Manic Moms,' and sure appreciated our enthusiastic patrons!  Look for us again soon on the cabaret cycle - we think we've found a new sweet spot to add to our old favorites.

Sign up for young fun: elementary, MS and HS too: 

Tickets at:  http://manicmoms.bpt.me  Come see the new side of OVST: rock-n-roll from Holy Spicoli and side-splitting sketch comedy from well-known actors.  You've seen 'em in tens of productions: come let 'em make you laugh!

“Manic Moms’ Night Out” will show nightly on April 5-7 on E State and Carpenter (easy walk from campus), with food, drink, music, and 5-7 minute stage slots for a wide variety of Student/Mom-themed music, dance, improv, and sketch comedy. WHOO OU MOMS!

Thanks to the enthusiastic kids of all ages who laughed along with us at the irrepressible Red Chief and his hapless 'captors.'  We may bring a reprise in January for those who missed the first round....stay tuned!

See a fun-for-the-family dramatization of O. Henry's 'Ransom of Red Chief,' with a firey small kidnappee making his would-be captors plead for their very lives! At the Market on State Friday the 14th, 7 pm.

Tickets at Little Professor's!  Don't miss the drama of the political: come hear Dr. Richard Vedder and Mr. David Wilhelm debate on the topic of "Who should be the next President of the United States?" 7 pm The Market on State, October 29th!

Local journalist Anne Li pivots from her 'Ragtime' viewing to reflect on the modern face of bigotry in: "A Nice Stroll Turns Ugly."

"Joining poignant social commentary and undeniable artistry, Ohio Valley Summer Theater's "Ragtime!" is bringing more than music to Athens this month...."

http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-37379-topical-musical-getting-raves-from-ovst-audiences.html

Local talent brings Broadway quality to Athens: http://woub.org/2012/07/11/ohio-valley-summer-theater-presents-ragtime.

July 12-15, 19-22, 26-29

Called by Time Magazine, “A triumph for the stage,” and by the International Herald Tribune, “the best musical in twenty years,” this acclaimed musical won 1998 Tony Awards for Best Score, Book and Orchestrations. It also won both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Score. Ragtime invites huge scenic, costuming and technical treatments, but critics have sometimes found it lacking in humanity for that very reason. The show really does have a heart and we’re excited about staging it in a more intimate space than the show is often performed in.

RAGTIME is a powerful portrait of life in turn-of-the-century America, and a relevant tale for today. Based on E.L. Doctorow’s distinguished novel, the musical intertwines the stories of three extraordinary families, one upper middle-class white, one socialist immigrant Jewish and one Harlem black family who also encounter historical characters such as Booker T. Washington, Emma Goldman, Henry Ford, Evelyn Nesbit, J.P Morgan and Harry Houdini. Together, they confront history’s timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and what it means to live in America. The show will be performed by an expansive, multi-cultural, intergenerational cast.

Dale Ricardo Shields (Ragtime – Director) is a member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artist, American Guild of Musical Artist and Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees (summa cum laude) from Ohio University.  He is an Associate Board member of Audelco and Archivist of the Iforcolor.org website.

Lopakhin. James Euto

Dunyasha. Maddie Davis

Yepikhodov. Greg Aldrich

Feers. Ezra Thobaben

Anya. Lucy Riesbeck,

Madame Ranyevskaya . Lyrr Descy

Gayev. Ron Luce

Varya. Anna Grossman

Charlotta. Katrina Hamilton

Simyonov-Pishchik. Joe Balding

Yasha. Gregory Atkins

Trofimov. Levi McGrath

The Transient, The Stationmaster. Terrence Smith

The Postmaster, Party Guests, Servants. David Potts, Rachel Weekley, Terrence Smith