FALL ACTING CLASS & PLAY PRODUCTION
OF "CURTAINS"
by Craig Sodoro
Sept 9 - Nov 18, 2024
MONDAYS & THURSDAYS
5:30-8:30p
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CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Our ACTING CLASS will teach novice and experienced actors the basics of auditioning, acting, improvisation, storytelling, characterization and scene blocking. Through acting and movement exercises and creating character backstories, students will learn to enhance their characters with proper motivation and intent.
We will produce a the hilariously fun play, "Curtains" with 3 performances, Nov 20-22, 2025 at Camp Shiloh.
All costumes, set, props are included in price.
"CURTAINS"
by Craig Sodoro
Sneaky Charlie Leach and his new bride, Cheri, have a week to pay off mobster Tony Tenor and his flowery accomplices or the final curtain will fall on poor Charlie. So the newlyweds use honeymoon money as down payment on an old theatre that Charlie secretly plans to blow up for the insurance settlement. There’s just one caveat: they can only get a policy by staging a production. The show must go on!
Fortunately for Charlie, Cheri’s cousin Isabella is looking for a stage. Unfortunately, it’s for an artsy adaptation of Frankenstein with an almost all-female cast. And when the actor playing Frankenstein’s monster suffers a sudden stage accident, clueless Charlie is brought on as the understudy!
But Charlie’s no actor. He’s also hysterical because he told the demolition expert the wrong time! He wanted the building to be empty when it went “boom,” but he realizes now it will be packed for the Saturday premiere! Charlie transforms into a monster with a heart and breaks character to warn everyone to get out of the theatre, including Tony Tenor, who has front-row seats to the disaster!
Your audience will explode with laughter at this Bullets Over Broadway nod with lots of over-the-top characters and fantastic stage action played for laughs... and absolutely no guns.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: 4 MALES, 11 FEMALES, 3 MALE/FEMALE
Charlie Leach - con mon trying to go straight
Cheri Leach - Charlie's ditzy new bride
Tony Tenor - smooth-talking gambler
Daffodil - Tony's accomplice
Tulip - Tony's accomplice
Hyacinth - Tony's accomplice
Monica Steele - young real estate agent
Isabella De Starr - gregarious director & actor
Angela Angel - actress in Isabelle troupe
Sprinkles - actress in troupe
Paula - actress in troupe
Connie - actress in troupe
Mrs. Petrie - oldest actress in troupe
Mr. Krook - older gentleman actor in troupe
Lance Culpepper - young insurance agent
Professor Quirk - engineer and demo edpert
Rex Ripped - arrogant theatre critic
Mystery Voice - real theatre ghost?
CLASS DATES:
SEPTEMBER 8 - NOVEMBER 17, 2025
AGES 8 - 18:
MONDAYS & THURSDAYS
5:30 - 8:30p
PERFORMANCES OF "CURTAINS":
3 performances:
THURSDAY, Nov 20 - 7:00pm
FRIDAY, Nov 21 - 7pm
SATURDAY, Nov 22 - 7pm
Tickets: $5/Adult & Children over 8yo
CLASS & PERFORMANCE LOCATION:
Camp Shiloh Retreat
Conference Center Building
3335 FM 21
Pittsburg, Texas
(On Lake Bob Sandlin, off Rt 21 bridge;
across lake from Lake Bob Sandlin State Park)
https://www.campshilohretreat.org/map
COST:
$275 -
*payment may be made in full or monthly
*10% family discount for second family member
Please call or text Ms. Jodie with any questions
SAFETY:
We adhere to all current recommended health guidelines.
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If needed, we wear clear masks (as worn in professional performance companies) in performance so we can be safe AND see all those wonderful expressions:)
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Hand sanitizer is always available
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We are in consultation with a local nurse to keep us updated on the current recommendations
