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TNT Youth Conference 2010 Show Synopses
E.L.F.S. Touring Troupe - S.T.A.G.E., Inc., Bulverde
The True Colors of Weedle, by June Rachelson-Ospa, is about a boy born without color in the faraway land where everyone and everything is a kaleidoscope of color. Young Weedle travels far and wide to find out how to live in an outcast's world, and meets new fantastical friends along the way. Join Weedle on his special journey. It's an inspiring story with a moving score.
The Inner Circle - Circle Arts Theatre, New Braunfels
The Cave Cat by Ford Ainsworth.
The theme of this play is the struggle of youth to surmount the established conventions of a society which divides all cats into three rigidly maintained categories. At the outset, the idealistic young cat feels that he is a misfit since he does not possess the characteristics of his respectable middle-class "lion" parents. As he struggles to establish his true identity, however, he discovers that these characteristics are only masquerade costume pieces which obscure the fact that all lions, his parents included, are really only plain cats like himself. At the core is the desperate struggle of the individual to maintain his integrity under the pressures of social conformity.
BLTeens - Baytown Little Theater
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
Berenger - an average citizen in a nameless French city - is not interested in the fact that rhinoceros are on the loose. This causes him to quarrel with his friend Jean and his attractive secretary Daisy outside a grocer's shop. The argument continues with many local joining in - these include the grocer and his wife, a waitress and a housewife, a cafe owner, an old gentleman, a waitress and a logician. The group try to reason the events that are happening around them. The results are understandably chaotic.
In the local government office where Berenger works he witnesses that the staff are gradually turning into rhinoceros.
Eventually Berenger finds out that Daisy and he are the only human beings left. To his surprise Daisy then too turns into a rhinoceros. Berenger concludes he will then fight against all the rhinoceros...
YOUTH, Brazos Valley TROUPE, Bryan-College Station
Dear Edwina Junior
Book by Marcy Heisler, Lyrics by Marcy Heisler, Music by Zina Goldrich
At last a musical that features a cast of nearly all girl performers! Follow the adventures of advice- giver extraordinaire, Edwina Spoonapple as she directs the kids in the neighborhood in production number after hilarious production number in her "Advice-A-Palooza" extravaganza. Written in the style of Schoolhouse Rock Live! and You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Dear Edwina Junior is the perfect girl power musical for a new generation.
Bastrop Opera House
Without Strings: An adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic Pinocchio
By Patrick Rainville Dorn
Your favorite puppet story gets a modern renovation, updated with lots of slapstick humor and clever wordplay to appeal especially to teens. Carl, an angry and lonely teenager, has left home and seeks out work with the enigmatic Professor Pinecone and his marionette troupe. Carl becomes Pinocchio in this play-within-a-play and encounters our familiar cast of characters along his travels. The Blue Fairy, an underhanded fox and cat and a vivacious cricket help him navigate his way through life's grand decisions. Struggling along the way, he ultimately makes good by saving Geppetto from impending doom. Audiences of all ages will enjoy the smart dialogue and surprise ending to this hip and hilarious version of the traditional tale.
BCT Teen Troupe - Boerne Community Theatre
The Brothers Grimm: Out of Order by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus
When brothers Jake and Will Grimm can't agree on a script, they end up in a fight-pages are swapped, plots intermingled. . . it's a complete mess! After all, Jake likes blood and guts, and Will likes fluffy bunnies and happy endings. What's worse is that the principal is coming to see a production of the show in less than half an hour! The intermingled storyline now has Hansel and Jorinda on their way to meet the stage mother and her two evil step daughters, Gretel and Joringel-who's so happy to be part of the "A" story, he'll do it in drag! Meanwhile, Rapunzel, who's been demoted from ingenue to character actress, wants her son, Prince Charming (played by a wise-guy with big-time family connections), to go to the Gingerbread Castle for a ball to meet his true love, the evil witch Cinderella. With name-calling, finger pointing and lots of "I quits," the entire show collapses just as the principal arrives. But all is not lost! The producer rallies the troops with an incredible cheesy speech, and the cast dishes out the works of the Brothers Grimm in six minutes and 12 seconds. And although they don't truly succeed, they actually find their own path to happily ever after.
Theatre Arlington
Seussical Jr.
Book by: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Co-Conceived by: Eric Idle
Lyrics by: Lynn Ahrens, Music by: Stephen Flaherty
Music Supervised, Adapted and Produced by Bryan Louiselle
Co-Conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle.
Based on the works of Dr. Seuss.
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and all of the Whos of Whoville! The score emerges as a Seussian Gumbo of musical styles, ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B_to funk! So let your toes tap, your fingers snap, and you're imagination run wild for "Oh, the thinks you can think, When you think about Seuss!"
Harlequin Players - Slightly Off Center Players, Deer Park
Anatomy of Gray
By Jim Leonard, Jr.
The award-winning author of The Diviners, And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson, and Crow and The Weasel describes his newest play as "a children's story for adults." When June's father dies, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray, so that no one will ever suffer again; the next thing she knows, there's a tornado, and a man in a balloon blows into town claiming to be a doctor. At first, the new doctor cures anything and everything, but soon the town's preacher takes ill with a mysterious plague. And then the plague begins to spread. Set in Indiana during the late 1800s, Anatomy Of Gray deals with death, loss, love, and healing in a unique coming of age story.
EASY Theatre of Austin
The Audition by Don Zolidis
A new theater teacher is bringing a production of A Chorus Line to the high school. Though the hopefuls range from shy to outrageous, and from diva-like to determined, everyone has a chance to step into the spotlight. A hilarious and heartbreaking look at the madness of auditioning and the actors who brave the process for that perfect part. |
