Annual Membership Meeting

Results of the Vote on the Slate of Plays
That Will Make Up the TCP's Next Season

    At “The Building” recently, spirited play-readings were given by talented TCPers on the shows to be produced during the next season of live theater in Tyrone. A tally of the votes by the TCP membership resulted in the following shows selected:

— Autumn 2008 (Comedy) —

The Octette Bridge Club

— Spring 2009 (Large-cast musical) —

Honk!

— Summer 2009 (Small-cast musical) —

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

    The TCP thanks all who participated.

TCP Announces Its 25th Season
And Seeks Stage Directors

    The next season, “Our Leap Year,” of the Tyrone Community Players is filled with laughter, love, music, and creativity. There’s something for the entire family — individually and as a family unit!
    The Players will kick off their season in the autumn with the hilarious tale of eight sisters and their evolution as a family over a ten-year period. The Octette Bridge Club delves — with humor and pathos — into the relationships among sisters as siblings and as women. The action of the play takes place in the living room of Ann’s home, where she hosts her seven sisters for their bridge club. The ten-year span in the play will encompass you with their escalating problems of aging, marriage, children, and sibling rivalry — even as they enter their later years.
     The Octette Bridge Club offers eight challenging and varied roles for women between the ages of 35 and 50. There’s also one smaller role for a performer of either gender. The show is contained within a single set at several times of the year and in consecutive decades.
    The second offering of the season, to be performed in the spring of 2009, will be the creative and exciting family musical, Honk! Based on the story, The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen, Honk! is “a poultry tale of folks down on the farm,” and their introduction and adjustment to Ugly, a hatchling who laments, “I’m different, I’m just so different from the rest.”
    The sweet story, gentle music, and familiar characters offer a unique acting challenge for adults and young thespians alike. You’ll immediately become attached to Ugly’s parents, Ida and Drake Duck; the villain cat, who thinks Ugly looks like a tasty treat; Grace, Dot, and Lowbutt; the chickens; and a bevy of geese, swans, frogs, froglets, fish, and turkeys. But don't be mislead. This is a musical with as much to offer adults as it has to offer younger audiences.
    The final main-stage production for this season will be a contemporary take on courtship and marriage, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. To be performed early next summer, this small-cast musical begins with the divine idea of courtship and travels through the entirety of a life between two people.
    A cast of three women and three men sing their way through the pitfalls and ecstasy that turns two people into a couple — each actor performing a different character in each stage of this evolution.
    I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change enjoyed a robust success on Broadway and only recently has become available for amateur theater productions.
    The TCP is accepting applications from potential directors for any of these exciting productions. Scripts (and CDs, where required) are available for perusal by potential directors. Persons applying to direct a TCP show should submit their letter of interest and resumé of experience to the Production Committee, either by mail at 1019 Logan Ave., Tyrone, PA 16686 or by e-mail to OrchardHaven@aol.com by May 5, 2008. Interviews with potential directors will be scheduled after that date.
    If you’re interested in directing and would like to peruse the information available on the scripts for these shows, please phone the ArtsLine at 684-ART2.
    The TCP is anticipating a very challenging and rewarding season of live theater in Tyrone and thanks you for supporting the arts in Tyrone.