HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

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Newsies

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Students age 4 to 18 now enrolling for our spring semester music theatre class where you will be performing

"Cinderella".

Go to acadamy classes for more information.

Friday, December 5

at 10:00am and 7:00pm

Saturday, December 6 at 7:00pm

tickets are $7

call 848-SHOW(7469)

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WANTED:

A few good men

We still need a few men to fill roles in Cinderfella

Please, call asap if you are interested.

OPEN AUDITION
Saturday, November 22 at 1:00pm

Come with a prepared song to sing with cd or accapella

Men and women of all ages needed

We are looking to fill the following roles

Ladies
Alexis: 20 something heiress, believes in true love, needs a husband (prince charming in a skirt)
Victoria: Her blue blood mother, very pragmatic, needs her daughter to find a husband
Lacy: The younger sister, impetuous, flirtatious, flamboyant
Trudy: Age undetermined personal assistant, family secretary, overly optimistic (footman)
Producer: Shark, all business, looking to make a big break in reality tv
Chorus: A small singing and dancing ensemble to play various small roles

Men:
Fisher: (Cinderella) Hopelessly romantic and a little nerdy, abused by stepfather and two step brothers
Grant: Oldest step brother, ruggedly handsome, country club type, hopelessly cruel where it comes to Fisher
Herbie: Younger step brother, wants to be nice; needs Grant’s approval too much so he joins in
Reginald: Stepfather, pretends to be blueblood, really the secret son of a fishmonger in his home country of England
Fairy Godfather: Older cab driver, very eccentric, helps Fisher to gain Alexis attention
Suitors: a small ensemble of eligible men to woo Alexis, featured in a musical song and dance frenzy surrounding a “speed date” scenario, all types

Busboy, Clue and Newsboys updates!

The Fall season at Family Theatre Warehouse is off to a big start! Enrollment for Newsboys and The Lion the WItch and the Wardrobe is over and casting done for Newsboys! Auditions for our homeschol class will begin this coming Tuesday so, if you want in now's the time!

The world premier of our new comedy Advice From a Busboy was a smashing success. Audience response was extremely positive with plenty of laughs to go around and people promising to return with friends! Come see it if you can, Friday night at 7pm Saturday night at 7pm and Sunday at 2! Tickets are available at Okctickets.com or by calling our box office 848-7469.

Clue the Musical will be the next big hit from our community troupe, The Family Theatre Group! Featuring talent from some academy parents and many returning regulars it promises to be even bigger and better than last year! Check out this link to find out more! Or go to Okctickets.com to get your tickets today!

Thinking of auditioning for our next show, but think the rust is too thick on those highschool drama skills? Well we are working on plans for a six week acting tuneup for those who think they might like to give it a try. Come join us Mondays from 6-7pm starting Oct. 13th. This fun and informative class will tackle the basics of acting and provide the necessary skills to give a good audition and create believable characters. The class will end with a cabaret performance of selected scenes. Cost will be $50 and is open to all students 18 and older. Appropriate for beginning to intermediate actors or those returning to the craft! Call 848-7469 or follow this link to mysignup.com to sign up today!

Newsboys! The new musical from our director Mark Morris is well underway with a freshly written script and brand new music! For more about the show and the history behind it, follow this link!

Clue auditions!

Family Theatre Group will be presenting this fun musical, performances Oct. 30 through Nov9. follow this link for more info!

Fall Semester Featuring New Musical!

Inspired by the same HISTORIC NEWSBOY STRIKE that gave us the movie musical Newsies, The Newsies a new musical will bring that same charm and energy to the stage, featuring brilliant new music and original characters this one promises to be huge!

Follow the link in the top right corner to sign up for classes today!

Summer Update

So, I planned on making this whole update thing a regular event,but, like so many things in life ti kind of took a back seat. Anywho (Seuss joke) things are really great! Thank you to Fox 25, the DAily Oklahoman, and The Oklahoma Gazzette for giving us such great press! (we beat out Lyric performing the Sound of Music in the top ten things to do in the Oklahoman this past weekend, hah!) And thanks to the actors, technicians, patient families and audience for your tremendous support!

So on to new stuff! Monday July 21 at 7pm we will be hosting auditions for Advice From a Busboy. This is a world premier of a play written by our own artistic director, me (Mark Morris) it is my fourth full length play to write and produce and I am excited about it! I've been asked a number of times what it is about, so....it's about how and why we place value on people. Why is it that some people's advice is like gold while others we totally ignore even when they are right and we know it?

Mario is a mute dishwasher, nobody pays much attention to him unitl, through a series of events they begin to suspect that he has won a large sum of moneyn in a lottery. People who formerly would not have given Mario a second glance now find his silent "advice" to be invaluable. Here is a link to the first few pages of the script. I hope you enjoy it. http://www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php?fCID=2205098

For the younger ones be sure to check out the new links on the top right corner of the FamilyTheatreWarehouse.com main page for more info regarding Summer camps! That's all for now!

WE'VE BEEN ROBBED!!

HELP! Family Theatre Warehouse lost valuable assets yesterday afternoon when someone came into the Morris house (our executive director) and walked off with the studios digital video and still cameras. Not to mention the Wii game disks our kids lost, most of which they earned the money for themselves, mean people stink out loud!! (they did not get the console though, which my children received as a Christmas gift, we literally met a man in a parking lot to pick the sucker up...bu that's another story)

As many of you know we don't make much money in this biz and we buy precious little in the way of luxury items, but they got some of the best! It is very near the anniversary of the "great tool heist" three years ago when the overhead door of the studio was left unlocked and somone made off with over four thaousand in power tools. (I'm a carpenter, I buy the best, they should have lasted me the rest of my life)

When the tool heist went down the good people of OKC helped us replace our entire workshop in time to save the show a few weeks later. We haven't asked for your help since then until now, but, unfortunately we cannot afford insurance for contents, only the structure of our house is covered.

We rely heavily on every avenue of free publicity available and these two tools were among the most used for that purpose. Most of the images and all of the video on our sites was created with these two cameras, so, here's how you can help. While we would love to accept your cash donations, (and we will if you offer it) we can not offer tax exemption, so, instead we are asking you to help us replace these very important items by doing the following:

First, we have half heartedly been engaged in an ink/toner cartridge and cell phone recycling program through FundingFactory.com . They will purchase used cell phones and empty ink and toner cartridges. If you have any of those type items you can bring them to the studio at 907 W. Britton Road Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4-9 Wed. from 3:30-5 or call 848-7469 to make an appointment.

Second, buy tickets! We have two exciting productions coming up and we would love to be able to tape and take pictures (our photo sales go toward providing scholarships for deserving students who can not afford our classes) and we would love to sell every seat! So, even if you can't make it, buy tickets! You can give them away yourself or we will find people who otherwise would not be able to attend to fill those seats, either way its a win win! And it helps us promote through word of mouth!

To see what your donations will help us produce check out the new S.E.E.D.S.Tv site to see what our film making camps have been up to. This is grass roots quality entertainment at its finest, but without our cameras its kind of tough!


PS the goal is $1500 to replace the items we had with comparable quality merchandise. If we can go the ink cartridge route they also offer ann incentives program that trades our cash credit for AV gear and we might be able to get a better deal that way.

Time Flies!

Time flies when you're having fun. We have been at Family Theatre Warehouse coming up on five years this July and things just keep getting better.

What a week! The cast of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten opened with a bang last Friday and Saturday evening. There are three more shows left! Friday at 7pm, Saturday at 2 & 7. Tickets are available at Okctickets.com, look up Family Theatre Warehouse, hope to see you there!

Saturday we had auditions for the next Family Theatre Group classic Tickets will be available soon. Check out the Family Theatre Group site for a cast list and more info on the auditions.

Tickets will be going on sale in just a couple of weeks for the Spring Academy Finale, keep your eyes open for more information coming soon!

We have been asked to attend a festival for all of the arts magnet schools in the Okc district on May 3rd, looking forward to seeing you there.

Be sure to check out our other great sites for more exciting news about all of our work here at FTW, thaks for your support!

Everything's Coming up Roses!

FTW hits the bigtime! Things are really happening quickly here as we are moving through our first full year with community and youth theatre combined!

Tickets for every Family Theatre Group, Family Theatre Academy and Donut Theatre production will now be available online for a nominal fee. Don't worry, we are still going to supply our trusty regulars with ticket without the service charge here at our box office. This service will simply allow us to appeal to a broader market (over 1500 hits a day on their website) and accept credit card, online and phone orders. You can check out the available services at Okctickets.com Or pick up tickets at any Party Galaxy or Guest Room Records location!

Our Summer season of camps and FTG shows is already warming up for takeoff, check on our Family Theatre Group and Family Theatre Academy sites for more information, or check the main page at FamilyTheatreWarehouse.com down at the bottom is a printable calendar of all events covering the year until October.

We have some exciting additions to our Summer schedule which we will be ready to announce soon, keep your eyes open for some really cool new stuff!

Don't forget to get your tickets for All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten running April 4-12. You can get tickets from us or online @ Okctickets.com

Spring Break!

RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY! Well, I was supposed to catch up on all the yard cleanup all the rest of you did three months ago from the icestorm and instead I am stuck inside banging away on my keyboard.

Well, in case you missed the memo there are no classes for Family Theatre Academy this week,but "Kindergarten" is trucking right along. We took some publicity shots last night, you can find those here.

Sign ups for Summer camps are off to a great start!

For those of you hardcore drama geeks who need to get your fix this week check out all the new stuff at dramorama.com!

Mark has finally published his new play "Advice From a Busboy" it is available for purchase in either print or download versions here! We are currently rounding up a cast for the first public reading on the way to a fully staged production this Summer, check it out and let us know what you think!

We'll keep you posted on the reading. It will be a $1 per seat fund raiser for new lighting in the theatre, so be sure to keep your eyes open, the audience gets to give their input on the impact of the play, a great way to get your family a little culture!

A Preview as promised of our new Donut Theatre Script! This is in its first stages, so be nice! Here is the first four pages of Little Red Riding Hood Donut Style

Updates! Updates! Updates!

Whewww! Have we been busy! As many of you know we are rapidly ex[panding our programming to include not just the kiddos, but the whole family! In that attempt we have recently added a full season of shows to the roster for our Family Theatre Group! Whether you are a potential audience member or a closet actor or techie we have something for you.
First, coming up in just a couple of weeks we have our second show of the year All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, check here for details
Next, we have our first all ages cast BIG BROADWAY MUSICAL! Many of you have heard rumors, sooooo...we need talent! If you have ever thought it might be fun to give this stuff a shot, this is it! We need more than a dozen actor singers, plus chorus, plus tech, so come on out!
Third Family Theatre Academy Summer schedule is here! Sign up today to reserve your space!
Last but not least, The Donut Theatre is in develoment on a new script! By April we will be announcing performance dates for our new adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, and it is funny! Keep checking back for a few scenes from the script and a video clip as soon as its ready!

Welcome Jones High School!

Under the capable direction of Carla Carmichael the Jones High School drama club will present their Spring play A Midsummer Night's Midterm on schedule, school destroying flames not withstanding.

About a month ago I received an email from the harried MS. Carmichael regarding their lack of performance space due to a fire that destroyed their entire facility in December. When I heard about the fire it occured to me that I wished there was something we could do, so naturally I volunteered our space free of charge.

The Longhorn thespians will present their play three times this Friday at 10am, 12:30 and 7 Pm. We are happy to have them and hope to invite them back as long as they are in need of space, we wish you well guys, valla con Dios!

Be looking for some new entries to the costume shop blog on Dramorama.com featuring ideas from Jones high school students!

Welcome to our new home on the web!

Welcome to Family Theatre Warehouse! Here at the warehouse we work hard to bring the best in family friendly uplifting theatrical experiences to Oklahoma City and the surrounding area. We are committed to: using local talent, providing shows your family can enjoy TOGETHER, presenting new works, and helping theatres, schools and churches in our area in their production endeavours. This website is here to provide you with information about our upcoming classes, workshops and productions. Check back soon for 2008 season calendar and more!