USP ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS

Book by Thomas Meehan
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Martin Charnin

Audition Dates:
Saturday August 28 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM – (girls only ages 7 to 14)
Monday August 30 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (adults ages 15 and up)
Tuesday August 31: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (adults ages 15 and up)
Callbacks if needed: September 2: 7 PM
Pella Community Center, 712 Union, Pella

2010 Production dates:
Friday December 3 – 7 PM
Saturday, December 4 – 7 PM
Sunday, December 5 – 2 PM
Thursday, December 9 – 7 PM
Friday, December 10 – 7 PM
Saturday, December 11 – 2 PM

Production Crew: (as of now)
Director: Cyndi Atkins
Producer/Asst Director: Pat Moriarity
Vocal Director:
Accompanist: Brian Nolder
Set Design: Mat Kelly
Master Carpenter: Jim Palmer
Light Design: Arvin Van Zante
Costume Design:
Make-up Coordinator: Peggy Moriarity
Choreographer:
Program: Anne McCullough Kelly
Stage Manager:
Audition Help: Deb Linn, Shelley Buhrow
Sound Board:
Light Board:
Front of House Coordinator:

Cast Needed
Annie: Big voiced, energetic, street-wise yet warm orphan.
Miss Hannigan: Cantankerous orphanage director. Excellent comedic timing and acrid delivery.
Oliver Warbucks: Warm-hearted, sincere, but business minded, lonely.
Grace Ferrell: Oliver's faithful private secretary. Beautiful and loyal.
Rooster: Miss Hannigan's no-good brother
Lily: Rooster's floozy girlfriend.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The president
Sandy, the loveable mutt
Orphans, including Molly, Pepper, Duffy, Kate, Tessie, & more!

Other characters, including Bert Healy, Fred McCracken, Ickes, Ward, Bundles McCloskey, Jimmy Johnson, Boylan Sisters, Dog Catchers, Drake, cabinet members, Cecille, Annette, Mrs. Greer, Mrs. Pugh, announcer, usherette, Cordell Hull, Eddie, Francis Perkins, Henry Morgenthau, Honor Guard.

Background Story
Leapin’ lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world’s best-loved musicals. Annie is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find the parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, mean Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil plot, befriends President Franklin Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and loveable mutt name Sandy.

For More Information
Call Pat Moriarity 641-628-1549 or Cyndi Atkins 641-757-9785

We are looking for help with Costumes, Choreography, Set Construction, Sound Board, Light Board, Stage Crew, & Makeup. Sponsored by the Pella Community Center. Annie is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

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Union Street Players to offer Drama Camp

Union Street Players, Pella's award-winning community theater, announces its 2010 summer Drama Camp for students grades in 2 through 8. Drama Camp will be held August 2-6, 2010 in the Joan Kuyper Farver Auditorium at the Pella Community Center.

Students in grades 2-4 will have their session each day from 8:30-11:30 a.m.

Students in grades 5-8 will have their session from 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Union Street Players' Drama Camp will once again be led by Brystal Hopkins (Grades 2-4) and Suzi Jones (Grades 5-8). Use the link below to download the registration form. The form can be submitted on-line or can be printed and mailed following the instructions on the form.

For more information, please contact the appropriate leader directly:

Session 1 (Grades 2-4)
Brystal Hopkins 641.620.9158

Session 2 (Grades 5-8)
Suzi Jones 641.628.1522

Download USPDC_Registration_2010_final

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Union Street Players' "Charlotte's Web" Spins into Production

The play will be performed July 29 through August 1.

Director: Lisa K Morgan
Assistant Director: Jalissa Morgan
Co-Producers: Anne MCCullough Kelly and Deb Linn
Technical Managers: Arvin Van Zante and Cody Kooi

Our Cast is:
Fern Arable: Jessi Vos
John Arable: Doug De Wolf
Martha Arable: Amanda Gross
Avery Arable: Caleb Blom
Homer Zuckerman: Greg May
Edith Zuckerman: Lori Pearson
Lurvy: Calvin Van Donselaar
Young Wilbur: Zach Van Donselaar
Older Wilbur: Michael Still
Templeton: Lauren Ashworth
Charlotte: Maggie-Anne Landon
Goose: Connie Jagau
Gander: Jim Emmert
Sheep: Brenda Becker
Lamb: Mallory Wheeler
Chorus Member 1: Kelly Anderson
Chorus Member 2: Amber Attema
Chorus Member 3: Austin Davis
Reporter: Megan Malloy
Photographer: Ciera Kooyman
Spectator 1: Jalayna Morgan
Spectator 2: Abby Gross
Judges: Austin Rozendaal, Melissa Malloy, Sarah Davis
Fairgoer 1: Scott Malloy
Fairgoer 2: Mackenzie Becker
Fairgoer 3: Elyse Parisee
Voice/Announcer: Sydney Swanson
Uncle: Jacob Cowman
Spider 1 (Joy): Hannah Emmert
Spider 2 (Aranea): Mandolin Holmes
Spider 3 (Nellie): Jaden Joy Morgan
Crowd Members: Jessica Anderson, Brody Doren, Mai Yang
Baby Spiders: Camryn Norton, Megan Kooker, Emily Rozendaal, Alaina Rahn, Mariah Kooyman, Sarah Peterson, Cole Swanson, Tori Swanson, Jacey Davis, Hannah Blom, Brittny Van Donselaar, Ben Vos, Chloe Morgan, Grace Emmert

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2010 Season All these coming to Pella!! Thank you, USP!

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, adapted by Joseph Robinette (Summer 2010)

Unless you have been under a rock for the past fifty years, you must be at least marginally familiar with E.B. White's classic children's book Charlotte's Web, which is described by its author as being "a story of friendship and salvation on a farm." In Charlotte's Web (the bestselling children's paperback of all time), a spider named Charlotte A. Cavatica becomes friends with a runty pig named Wilbur and, through her machinations and inspired web-weaving, manages to save him from becoming a breakfast side dish!

Annie with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin (Nov-Dec 2010)

Based on the Harold Gray comic strip and the book by Thomas Meehan, Annie tells beloved story of the little orphan girl who rises above the Great Depression, personal tragedy and the machinations of the scheming Miss Hannigan to be adopted by the kind Daddy Warbucks. A favorite on Broadway for many years, Annie is a story of hope that the whole family will enjoy; a show that reminds us that "the sun will come out tomorrow!"

Shows and schedules are subject to change.