Richmond Professional Theatre Opportunities
Fall 2006
www.richmond.com/performingarts/
Barksdale Theatre
1601 Willow Lawn Drive Suite 301-E
Willow Lawn Shopping Center-Broad Street 1 block west of Staples Mill
804.282.2620
www.BarksdaleRichmond.org
The Constant Wife
W . Somerset Maugham
September 22 - October 29, 2006
With a mischievous sensibility, this classic comedy of love, marriage and sweet revenge
skewers society’s expectations of a traditional marriage. Constance Middleton, the
beautiful and charming wife of an eminent London surgeon, discovers that her husband is
having an affair with her best friend and refuses to let the scandal of a straying husband
mar the perfection of her emotional décor. On the surface Constance seems to be a rather
typical well-bred lady of her time, but she proves herself to be a singular woman, one
who is able to subvert accepted conventions to her own advantage. Best known for his
novels Of Human Bondage and The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham’s The
Constant Wife has been compared to “Oscar Wilde at his sharpest.”
Mame
Book by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based on the novel "Auntie Mame"
by Patrick Dennis
November 17, 2006 - January 28, 2007
Flash back to the roaring 1920's as a 10-year-old orphan is delivered to his swinging,
eccentric Auntie Mame while she is hosting a cocktail party for flamboyant friends.
Mame adopts Patrick and tries to become as much of a mother as she knows how. Thus
begins the whirlwind adventures of an unconventional aunt and her nephew, with a
rogue's gallery of memorable characters--including has-been actress Vera Charles, timid
secretary Agnes Gooch, and southern gentleman Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside,
among others--plus hilarious encounters with proper society as she proves that life can be
a banquet. Jerry Herman’s score includes the title song, "If He Walked Into My Life,"
"Bosom Buddies “, and "We Need A Little Christmas." Mame has touched the hearts and
tickled the funnybones of audiences everywhere
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Barksdale at Hanover Tavern
13181 Hanover Courthouse Road
804.282.2620 (same box office number as Barksdale Willow Lawn)
www.BarksdaleRichmond.org
The Mousetrap
By Agatha Christie
September 8 – October 29, 2006
Now in its 54th incredible year on London's West End, The Mousetrap is the world's
longest running play, and it continues to enthrall, entertain and thrill audiences from
every corner of the globe. A group of strangers stranded at a country inn must contend
with a murderer in their midst. As a snow storm rages outside and the phone lines go
down, past lives and secrets are bared, and everyone struggles to protect themselves and
identify the guilty party before it's too late. An invigorating thrill ride from start to finish,
The Mousetrap is a must-see classic for anyone interested in world-class entertainment.
Over the River and Through the Woods
By Joe DiPietro
November 17, 2006 – January 7, 2007
Nick Cristano sets out to tell both sets of Italian grandparents big news about his
promotion... without planning to stay for dinner. Big mistake! How can he break the news
to his family that he'll have to move out of town? Familia and tradition hold sway in this
funny and touching comedy, and Nick is in for a boisterous feast of an evening as the
older generation cooks, cajoles and even invites a nice Italian girl to share in the meal!
Nick struggles to stay true to both his family and himself, but by the end of a hilarious
evening around the table, he'll know and love his family even more. From the author of
the popular I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
Theatre IV
Family friendly entertainment since 1975.
114 West Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220
The Historic Empire Theatre
804.344.8040
www.theatreiv.org
The True Story of Pocahontas
Oct. 6-22, 2006
at the Empire Theatre on West Broad Street
By Peter Howard - Music and Lyrics by Julie Fulcher
Every school-age child knows the name Pocahontas and yet her true story is shrouded in
myth. Just in time for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, our play with music
emphasizes historical facts as we discover the real Pocahontas as she grows from a young
playful girl helping the Jamestown colonists to survive, to the young woman who carries
her message of peace, harmony and mutual cooperation across the Atlantic to the mighty
King of England.
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Snowflake
December 1-17, 2006
at The Empire Theatre on West Broad Street
Created and performed by Gale LaJoye
International performer Gale LaJoye tours the world teaching children to turn sorrow into
joy in a lively performance hailed on three continents as “Astonishing,” and “Magical”
for “everyone from toddlers to grandparents.” Through the magic of illusion, LaJoye
floats in mid-air, breathes life into toys and even dances the Nutcracker on skis! Without
uttering a word he creates a unique world of humorous and hopeful characters, and lives
up to his reputation as a world-class performer.
Firehouse Theatre Project
Bringing Richmond audiences a theater experience similar to the blackbox spaces of New York,
Philadelphia, and Chicago
1609 West Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220
804.355.2001
www.firehousetheatre.org
I Am My Own Wife
by Doug Wright
September 14 - October 7, 2006
A Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner for best play, this one-actor drama is based on a
real person, the gender-bending Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (né Lothar Berfelde), who died
in 2002 at the age of 74. Charlotte, dressed in basic black and pearls and surrounded by
antiques, inhabits a world which defies arbitrary boundaries. Her life-long obsession with
preserving the relics of the past provides a backdrop for her harrowing tales of repression
and survival at the hands of the Nazis and the Communists. What is Charlotte hiding?
You decide.
The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath
by Israel Horovitz
November 2 - November 25, 2006
An exciting new work by one of the Firehouse Theatre’s favorite directors, Israel
Horovitz, first read on stage at the Firehouse in March 2006. Encounter mystery,
romance, intellect and humor while exploring the life, art, and muses of the enigmatic,
20th-Century French artist Pierre Bonnard.
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Landmark Theater
6 North Laurel Street
Richmond, VA. 23220
804.646-0546
Bizet's Carmen
Friday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 22 at 2:30 p.m.
Virginia Opera
Carmen is a seductive Spanish gypsy, dancing dangerously with passion in the
smoldering town of Seville where men fall easily to her charms. The free-spirited
temptress gets more than she bargained for, however, when she ends a fleeting
relationship with an army corporal who abandoned almost everything to be with her. In
the end, even the handsome bullfighter she clings to cannot protect her from the jealous
rage of the obsessed solider whose love she scorned.
Floyd's Susannah
Friday, Nov. 24 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 26 at 2:30 p.m.
Virginia Opera
Susannah Polk's young life of purity in rural Tennessee explodes into a scandalous
nightmare when local church elders, searching for suitable baptismal waters, find her
bathing nude in a creek. Unable to face their arousal, the men denounce her publicly as
wantonly evil, while the visiting Reverend Blitch fights a losing battle against his own
burning lust: one that will ultimately shatter Susannah's innocence and seal Blitch's fate
in the dark conclusion of this not-to-be-missed American opera.