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Ten years ago, a train collided with a school bus, killing the second-grade class of Spring Farm, Illinois. The only student not on the bus was Emily Book, who was sent away shortly after the accident happened. Now she’s back for her senior year of high school--the only senior at Spring Farm High. Not only is Emily trying to negotiate her way back into a community that doesn’t know how to receive her, she is also carrying the burden of the accident ten years before. 

April 10, 11, 13, 14 & April 19-20

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In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called The 39 Steps is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale!

Combine a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit. It is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a cast of five), a plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance!

May 15-19 (to date)

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JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU KNOW SOMEONE . . .
Forthright, anguished and sarcastically funny, an old woman known only as “A” lays bare her inner life in sometimes shocking detail to two others: a middle-aged caregiver identified only as “B” and a young legal professional, “C.” The old woman cascades from regal and charming to vicious and wretched as she recalls her life: the cold, passionless marriage to her husband, her estranged son, and more.
Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which he called an “exorcism” of his own troubled relationship with his adoptive mother, is a profound meditation on aging, death and the very nature of the self: who are we really, and how do we become who we are?

June 19-23 (to date)

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Teen Improv Summer Workshop

June 24-27 9 am-12 noon

Fee: $175 Led by Julie George

15 percent discount if enrolled by June 1st

Attention all teen performers! Looking for a fun way to spend some of your summer break? Want to hang out in a cool theatre space with other theatre kids for a few hours? Sign up now to attend a four day workshop focusing on Improvisation, Script Analysis, & Playwriting at Magnolia Arts Center. This workshop will include improv games & scenes, analyzing scenes & monologues, as well as give you the opportunity to write short, original scenes that will be performed at the end of the workshop! Break up the boredom of summer with some fun improv & a chance to perform your own original work for your families and friends. Sign up now and we will see you at the theatre this summer!

12 spaces maximum

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Fractured Fairy Tales: Adventures In Pantomime and Improvisation

July 22-26 10 am-12 noon

12 participants maximum

Fee: $150 Led by Janice Vertucci Schreiber

15 percent discount if enrolled by June 1st

If you have ever read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs or Honestly, Red Riding Was Rotten, then you have read a fractured fairy tale. If you like the idea of turning traditional fairy tales on their heads, then sign up for this summer workshop at the MAC! In this workshop, participants will romp through a creative process as they learn to develop the skills needed to grow as an actor. Our concentration will be pantomime which will demonstrate creative growth in the use of their bodies. We want participants to learn that the body can speak volumes. The improvisational work will develop the use of their voices and take their imaginations on a true quest.! Possible fairy tales to be fractured are Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas and the Golden Touch, and The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Come join us for our summer journey at the Magnolia Arts Center!

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The Art of Auditioning and Acting

July 22-26 2 pm to 5 pm

Maximum 12 participants

Fee: $200 Led by Janice Vertucci Schreiber

15 percent discount if enrolled by June 1st

Before you get the opportunity to act in a play or musical, you must audition. Auditions can vary from being in-person which may simply be you and the audition team or a group of hopefuls and the audition team. We also now have video submissions for auditions and reels. Musical Theatre auditions have even more demands. Part of this workshop will be devoted to preparation for different types of auditions and strengthening audition skills.

The acting portion will focus on the Michael Chekhov technique. Chekhov’s goal was to train our imagination and our body to inspire each other. New ideas generated during the workshop will challenge, and enhance the young actor’s instrument and imagination, and, perhaps, it will even enrich his/her ideas about the world.

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What’s the Buzz?
Jesus Christ Superstar is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary series of events during the final weeks in the life of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas, who is dissatisfied with the direction in which Jesus is steering his disciples.
The play is a baroque fusion of styles, rock rhythm with ballad narrative, which succeed in communicating a humble theme of love and acceptance. Sacred themes are fused with ancient political history and modern sensibilities into an entirely new form of theater art. Jesus is portrayed as having human qualities, doubts, and faults, yet his crucifixion becomes all the more poignant for it.

August 7-11 (to date)

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Many of the most beloved and romantic songs in musical theater history come from the incomparable team Rodgers and Hammerstein II. This musical revue celebrates over 30 hit songs from such musical treasures as Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music, The King and I, Cinderella and more.
 

Performances:

October 17-20 (to date)

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“You may be an undigested bit of beef, for example, or a blob of mustard. A crumb of cheese or a fragment of an underdone potato. I’d say there’s more gravy than graveyard about you!” The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is convinced that he's suffering from indigestion when faced with the ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley…and that’s just for starters!
This musical adaption of Charles Dicken’s famous novel features diverse musical styles (rock, country, gospel, polka) and varied uses of wording and language that spans from one century to the next. All the beloved (and reviled) characters show up as Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas.
The words and lyrics of Ebenezer – A Christmas Carol come to life from the creative imagination of North Carolina playwright Frank P. Trimble. The audience will be delighted with the wonderful choreography and unexpected comedic turns in this delightful adaptation.
Make your Christmas even brighter with this wonderful production!

Performances:

December 4-8 & December 11-14

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