Multiple parts for men and women ages 16 and older are available. Please join us for auditions September 7, 2013 from 1 – 3 pm or September 8 from 4 – 6pm at the Eddy Building at 6 South Killingly Road. Please be prepared to stay for the entire audition period. All audition materials will be available on site as well as at auditions for The Crucible. Performances will be December 6, 7, 13, 14 at 7 pm and 8, 15 at 2 pm. For more information contact director Cassandra duCharme at CduCharme82@gmail.com or producer Andy Affleck at Andy@AndyAffleck.com     

Benjamin Eddy Building
6 South Killingly Rd, Foster, RI

Prepare to stay for the evening, no later than 9:30pm. Sign-in begins at 4:30 and closes at 6:45.
Call backs (if necessary) will be held Saturday, July 13, 10 am.

Rehearsals will be every Tuesday and Thursday from July 18 to October 10. Performances will take place October 11 to 20.

For complete information contact Chris Brostrup-Jensen at chrisbj45@yahoo.com

Bring a Dish to pass for the Pot Luck Supper,which will begin at 6:15.
Our business meeting – reviewing last year's budget and setting this year's, voting on the slate of Board Members for this year, officially ratifying the upcoming season, and voting on whatever other business comes up – will begin at 6:45.

Be prepared to share one thing that you like about the SMCT Community and bring a 15 second part of any play that we have done in the first 10 years of our existence. We will all try to guess the show, the character and the person who played it! Points will be given for each correct answer! And in usual Whose Line Is It Anyway philosophy: The points don't matter as we will all be winners!

Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend.

Auditions will be held June 3, 4, 5, 2013, from 6pm to 9pm (Doors close at 8:30pm)
Captain Isaac Paine School
160 Foster Center Road, Foster, RI

Performances will be August 14 to 18.

Please be prepared to read lines and act out scenes for the characters for which you would like to audition. The readings are provided below in case you would like to preview and prepare. Copies will be available at auditions. You may not be asked to read all the lines for a specific character, however you may be asked to read additional lines from other pages and characters. You are not expected to memorize, we may ask you to act out some lines you have never seen before!

A prepared monologue is not required, however we highly recommend that those over age 10 or who plan on auditioning for lead roles (Mowgli, Shere Khan, Nyra, Bagheera, Baloo, Akela, etc.) bring a 15 to 30 second memory piece to perform for the panel.

Anyone who is interested in singing in the show may prepare 1 verse of any song (not a requirement). We will also have opportunities for student musicians (particularly brass instruments), however you do not need to bring your instrument or music to auditions.

Roles available (ages 6-16):

The character’s gender is listed, however most roles can be played by either a male or female. Some actors may be assigned multiple roles if needed.

• MOWGLI: Indian boy raised by wolves. Lead role, 101 lines, some monologues. (Ages 9 to 14)
• NYRA: Elderly woman, the village storyteller. If male: named Koto. Large role, 26 lines, long monologues. (Ages 12+)
• CHITRA: Villager. Medium role, 24 lines. (Ages 9+)
• RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI: Mischievous mongoose. Medium role, 15 lines. (Any age)
• BALOO: Old bear, Mowgli’s teacher. Large role, 48 lines. (Ages 12+)
• BAGHEERA: Panther, Mowgli’s mentor and protector. Large role, 44 lines. (Ages 10+)
• AKELA: Elderly leader of the wolf pack. Large role, 32 lines. (Ages 12+)
• FATHER WOLF: Mowgli’s adopted wolf father. Medium role, 17 lines. (Ages 9+)
• MOTHER WOLF: Mowgli’s adopted wolf mother. Medium role, 18 lines. (Ages 9+)
• TABAQUI: Jackal servant of Shere Khan. Medium role, 28 lines. (Ages 7+)
• WOLVES (3): Medium roles, 8 lines each. (Ages 8+)
• SHERE KHAN: Powerful man-eating tiger. Large role, 44 lines. (Ages 13+)
• YOUNG MOWGLI: As young as possible. Non-speaking role, 1 scene.
• WOLF PUPS: Non-speaking roles. (Under 8 years old)
• JUNGLE CREATURES: Any animal. 11 lines, divided. (Any age)
• MESSUA: Village widow, Mowgli’s real mother. Medium role, 18 lines. (Ages 11+)
• TOOMAI: Village Elder. Medium role, 20 lines. (Ages 10+)
• VILLAGERS (2): Villagers and Village Searchers. Small roles, 3 lines each. (Any age)
• MOR: Peacock, friend of Mowgli. Medium role, 14 lines. (Ages 6 to 14)
• MANG: Bat, friend of Mowgli. Medium role, 15 lines. (Ages 6 to 14)
• RANN: Kite bird, friend of Mowgli. Medium role, 12 lines. (Ages 7+)
• IKKI: Porcupine or hedgehog, friend of Mowgli. Medium role, 12 lines. (Ages 6 to 9)
• KING MONKEY: Fun-loving, not very smart, self-proclaimed king. Large role, 31 lines. (Ages 10+)
• MONKEYS (5): Hilarious followers of the King. Small roles, 8 lines each. (Any age)
• GRAY BROTHER: One of Mowgli’s adopted wolf brothers. Small/medium role, 11 lines. (Ages 8+)
• ELEPHANTS (4): Funny members of the elephant patrol. Small roles, 3 lines each. (Any age)
• HATHI: Forgetful and strict elephant patrol general. Small role, 19 lines. (Ages 10+)
• KAA: Sneaky python. Small/medium role, 14 lines. (Ages 9+)
• COBRA: Huge Guardian of the Great Treasure. Small role, 14 lines. (Ages 11+)

Download the Jungle Book audition scripts.

To save time on audition day, print and fill out the audition form .

For more information, contact Emily Chretien at michemily@mac.com

This play showcases many Swampers you know and love.

The play is about one hour long and all seats are $5 (tickets sold at the door)

Foster Follies is Swamp Meadow’s annual spring fundraiser. This popular event features local talent including comedy skits, singing, and more.

This year’s talent includes:
Meryn Flynn, Mike Ryan, Millie Dubois, Emma Capron, Hannah Gibb, Taylor & Maddie Axtmann, Katie Lewis, Maia & Mike Grandy, LaDelle, Mary, & Preston Arnold, Samantha Baril, Amanda Gelinas, Nigel Richards, Gabrielle Dworkin, Michelle Chretien, Lena & Victoria Craig, Grace Bressner, Elijah Fontenault, Ray Cooke & Lisa Couto.

Come on out and join the fun on Friday, May 3, 2013 at 7 pm at the Foster Country Club.

Admission: adult/$15, student/senior/$10, family/$50 max.

For more info, contact Laurie Murphy at lauriemurph@hotmail.com.

Board Members Present: Bob Hollis, Liz & Eric Dubois, Laura Giorgianni, Chris Brostrup-Jensen, Andy Affleck, Kaila Rubin, Steve Carter,  Jake Farnum, Emily Chretien.

December 2012 minutes accepted as written.

Currently Board Meetings occur on the third Sat. of the month & it is proposed to change them to the 4th Sat. of each month starting with the March meeting. 

We would like to get sponsors for each Playbill & to provide T-shirts.  Is anyone able to coordinate this? 

Judy K. is doing QuickBooks for us, which will help with balancing our Year End Budget. 

Bob’s “Gain thru Loss” has brought in about $400 to our savings.  Last raffle raised about $248 (Wonderful Life).  FileMaker Pro cost us $840 for another 2 years.  Still working on a new server, but having DNS issues.  Per Dennis C. the Server is running but DNS not working correctly.  Working to resolve the issue so we don’t have to take down the current website.  

Cuckoo’s Nest was excellent but needed more people at each show (5 more at each show would have moved us out of the red).  Why after 10 years are we still not drawing a dedicated base?  Location (Foster vs. at school)?  Marginal success with Seasonal Playbill ads, but mostly with our own group (or about half & half).  NEED A SALES TEAM & SALES MANAGER!   Difficult because we don’t have a set season.  Could sell Season tickets.  Need BIG sponsors, like Cardi’s or CVS, etc.  Chris (bass guitarist) is a truck driver & plans to talk to some of the people he’s involved with. 

Invite reporters earlier – Motif wants to come by March.  Need a Special Interest Reporter to write our own stories & submit them ready to print.  Could we get someone like Kim Fusco or another writer to do this?  Kristin Russo is teaching full-time now.  Invite Groups to come.  Snail mail to targeted sources (like Music Stores for JCSS).  Community Calendars.  Libraries.   Internal (email) appeal to our former cast members & ask them to bring a friend. 

Shakespeare going well.  Wants to do a performance for the Boy Scouts in Cranston, but are there licensing issues?  Rehearsal diary is available on Facebook.  Tyler V’s last show with SMCT before he goes off to college.   Carol will check the barn for props.  An email will go out asking for help to everyone.  If we sell out can we add additional shows?  Same problem with licensing requirements.  Need written permission.  Steve C. can get light trees.  We need to move the lights from school & bring light board, dimmer packs, cables & the lights to set up for the show.  Dennis, Eric & Bob can help with this.  The show is on March 2 & 3.  Would like to run a rehearsal for the show on Friday night, but can’t count on this unless we pay to reserve the space.  Must take everything out of the school on Friday as they are not open on Sat.  Will need all morning on Sat. to set up.  No build-outs.  Andy will send the script to Bob, Steve & Kaila.  Buy everything at BJ’s.     

Our JCSS is more about Judas than Jesus & all about the music.  Great voices for our main characters.  Good voices for everyone else.  Mix of professional musicians.  Score not fitted to instruments, but we have someone transposing the music.  Still no Musical Director.  4 people were lined up & either had job changes or moves that made them unavailable.  3 people involved with the show have taught voice & are helping.  Still hoping to hear from some of the cast/musicians who are checking with people they know.  Heather Christie is going to be our Stage Manager!  Costume Team = Liz, Lisa, Marty & Cindy.  Nathan is heading this.  Isabella is our Keyboard Player, but she needs a performance quality keyboard.  Can we borrow one?  Should SMCT buy one?  Can we rent one (estimated at $50/week).  Must have 88 weighted keys.  Music teacher recommended a Casio Previo 130 w/USB port ($600).  Need it now!  With a case it goes up to at least $800.  Steve just bought a Yamaha Grand for approx $600 for home use, but one for church was about $7000.  Electric piano vs. synthesizer (doesn’t usually have weighted keys).  Would Robert’s give us a deal or sponsor us?  One more thing that ends up in the barn.  How sensitive to temp & damp is it?   MMS; Purchase a Keyboard/synthesizer w/weighted keys & case, max. $1000.  Other Tech;  In ear monitor is better, but costs $600 each for a transmitter & receiver.  Have 5 electronic musicians.  How many channels needed?  Steve will look into rental.   Bob helped with ‘Rent’ in Tiverton & they had the band on stage.  We plan the same.  Need to know how much space on stage & what other needs they have.  Singers must be able to hear themselves.  Need 5 build-outs on one side of the stage, 3 on the other & at least 1 in the middle.  Need 2 more for Tech.  Look into buying staging.  Would need 8 x 16 (cut into 4×4 sections).  Want seating for audience of 225.    

Creative issues still being hashed out.  Currently we have Shakespeare (Andy A.), JCSS (Bob H. & Nathan D.) & Jungle Book (Emily Chretien, Laura G. will produce, Liz D. is Mentor), but the Fall of 2013 isn’t set.  Maybe The Crucible (Chris B-J) or Rumors (Bob H.), & then the Holiday show, maybe Christmas Story (Artie or other director?) or The Man Who Came to Dinner or Christmas Carol or a Get Merry…?  Spring 2014: Maybe, Finnegan’s Farewell, an Irish Themed Dinner in March, plus Chicago or Three Musketeers?  Current goal for Fall 2013 is Crucible & XMAS Story, & for Spring 2014 is Chicago (Heather Christie, if she isn’t attending Brown by then).     ”Annie” with Jake Farnum directing is a possibility for the Summer 2014 Children’s Theater.  Jake F. wants Annie to be an adult play, not “Annie, Jr.”, a children’s version.  Show requires a lot of children & it’s harder for them to commit to rehearsals during the school year.  It is a XMAS themed show & would be good for a Fall/Holiday slot, but we do our Summer shows to give talented kids a chance to play major roles.  Annie is a good show for them to get that experience.  Many new kids start in the summers & we do have quite a few turning 16 soon (summer shows are for children age 6-16).  Our 16-18 year olds often get their 1st directing experience during summer shows.  2014 will be Jake’s Senior year of High School.  Possible alternative is Doctor Doolittle (musical).

Improv – Meryn is holding off until after Shakespeare.  Jake will check with her. 

Combat Workshop went well.  4-5 people attended & Frank said it was enjoyable.    

Need to start assigning User Names for BIOS based on real names as people forget which email they used for us to send password resets.  Dennis wants to tighten security/control for productions.  Also, need a way to reduce the list of shows some people have been in & just have them pick top 3 (or some number) of parts for Playbill.   

Need to have a secretary/clerk on the audition panel, just to collect & hand out the audition sheets & track the numbers, etc.  For musical auditions, someone should run sound.

Youth Group hasn’t met in a while. 

Laura G. is awaiting further valuation of Tech items before any progress can be made on Insurance.

Life Cycle of the Show meeting scheduled for 2/1 @ 7:30 PM at the Dubois house.  Goals; define roles, ID tasks involved.  Directed.  Produced.  Technical. 

Follies auditions in March & performance in May.

NEXT MEETING – Feb. 16, 2013 @ the Eddy Building (10 AM).   

Please download and review the draft that resulted from the first meeting on the subject. This second meeting will focus on defining the roles of everyone involved in a production so everyone knows who is responsible for what aspect of each production, volunteers know what is expected of them, and no one is overburdened.

The meeting will take place at the Dubois household on Friday, February 1, 2013 @ 7:30pm. The meeting has been rescheduled for Thursday March 7 @ 7pm, at the Captain Isaac Paine School. Everyone is welcome. RSVP or contact webmaster@swampmeadow.org with any questions.

Words by TIM RICE, Music by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Made available by Rogers and Hammerstein Theatricals

Cast & Show Information

Performances are held in the Captain Isaac Paine Auditorium, 160 Foster Center Road, Foster, RI (directions). Unpaid reservations are held at box office until 20 minutes before showtime. Then, they get released to first-come-first-served.

If a performance date is not visible below, it means that the performance is either sold out or close to being sold out. Call the box office to see if there are any seats available for that date.

Join Swamp Meadow Community Theatre for a High Tea (or, if you will, Dessert Theatre) Fundraiser and a hilarious romp through The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. Coffee, tea, soda, and other drinks will be served along with all kinds of dessert treats! All food and drink are included in the price of your ticket! And, if you don’t like our fare, you can also B.Y.O.B.

Performances are Saturday, March 2 at 7pm and Sunday March 3 at 2pm at the South Foster Fire Station.

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