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The Towle Community Theater Announces Open Auditions for "URINETOWN, the musical".
Audition and
Audition Workshop will be held at the Towle Community Theater-5205
Hohman AvenueHammond, IN. For more information call 219-937-8780.
Confined to a wheelchair by a sniper's bullet, former Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside (Emmy-winner** Raymond Burr of Perry Mason) consults for the San Francisco police department, solving major crimes with a crack team of investigators, including Detective Sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway of Arrest & Trial), policewoman Eve Whitfield (Emmy-winner Barbara Anderson of the original Mission Impossible) and ex-con Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell). Set during the turbulent 1960s, Emmy-winning Ironside confronted the hottest issues of its time civil rights, drugs, hippies, rock 'n' roll topped the ratings while on NBC from 1967 to 1975, and gave television its first disabled hero. The ground-breaking inaugural season boasts original music by Quincy Jones and an array of guest stars including Jack Lord (Dr. No and Hawaii Five-O), Susan Saint James (Kate & Allie), David Carradine (Kung Fu and Kill Bill) and Gary Collins (Airport). Available on DVD for the very first time on April 24, 2007, Ironside - Season One includes all 28 original episodes, as well as the made-for-TV movie that started it all, in an action-packed 8-DVD box.
The winner of
the award for "Best Experimental Feature Film" at the
New York Independent Film and Video Festival, this feature length
festival favorite channels the anarchic spirit of its' '70s ancestors
The Groove Tube and Kentucky Fried Movie and offers up a rapid-fire
succession of skits and sketches with a unifying anti-authoritarian,
pro-drug theme. Sure to open bleary eyes and induce plenty of
laughs, THE WAR ON THE WAR ON DRUGS will be available on DVD
for the first time. |
One
of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years, "URINETOWN,
the musical" is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love,
and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.
In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a
20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private
toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by
a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission
for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero
decides he's had enough, and plans a revolution to lead them
all to freedom! Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt
Weill, "URINETOWN, the musical" is an irreverently
humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Praised
for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be,
"URINETOWN, the musical" catapults the "comedic
romp" into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective,
wickedly modern wit, and sustained ability to produce gales of
unbridled laughter.
In 2005, the cost of
the U.S. government's war on drugs was estimated at $12 billion.
But what has the "war" actually accomplished? Hilarious
and irreverent, poignant and informative, THE WAR ON THE WAR
ON DRUGS reveals that a propaganda-filled drug war is ultimately
far more dangerous than the drugs it purports to fight. 