When you visit us this season – you’ll find a new look to our parking lot! We’ve added painted parking lines! So you can park your car yourself! We’ll be having our historical parking attendants for Grease so we can all get familiar with it – but after that…..a new era at PCPH will begin!
Read all about it here. Parking instructions are at the link!
The first row will be reserved for our Handicapped Patrons.
Season tickets will be mailed out on May 22 – so watch for them!
Also remember our Open House at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 4. Tickets for all shows will be on sale then. You can come visit us and see a Grease rehearsal. Grease will run June 8-10 & June 14-17 and tickets go on sale at the Open House!
The July production at Putnam County Playhouse is the comedy The Play That Goes Wrong. Director Dustin Bond will hold two rounds of auditions for the show.
The first round will be conducted Sunday, April 30, at 3 p.m. A second round will be on Monday, May 1, at 7 p.m. They will both be held in the Michael McClaine Rehearsal Center at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre.
Nice hair, Jack Randall!
Dustin talks to The Man In The Chair, Jack Randall Earles about his audition requirements HERE.
The show will be produced July 13-15 and July 19-22.
It is being sponsored by:
To read about the play and see a list of characters click HERE.
l-r: REMC representative Madison Cooper & PCPH President Shelly McFadden
Putnam County Playhouse is continuing updates to its technical equipment. We are changing from stage incandescent lighting to LED lighting equipment. The new lights are more energy efficient. They also operate at a lower temperature, making the barn more comfortable – onstage and off.
The Parke County REMC presented us recently with a $3000 grant to help us with the project. Madison Cooper, a representative of the company, gave President Shelly McFadden the check.
l-r: Dustin Bond, PCPH Tech Director and McFadden.
Also on hand was PCPH Technical Director, Dustin Bond, who is spearheading the instrument upgrade.
Season ticket brochures have been mailed. Please return them as soon as possible. Single tickets go on sale at the open house Sunday, June 4, at 2 p.m. The box office will not be open until then.
For the first time since Y2K (that’s the year 2000 for you young folks) Grease the musical is returning to Putnam County Playhouse. Director Lita Sandy has announced her auditions for the show that will open our 2023 season.
Grease – Y2K!
Two sessions of auditions are scheduled. The first will be at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 2. The second will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 3. Both sessions will be at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre in Greencastle. The show itself will be produced June 8-10 and June 14-17.
Vocal director of the show is Debby Lambert and musical director is Morgan Asher.
Sandy says those auditioning should be at least 12 years of age. Please prepare a vocal audition of about 16 measures and bring your sheet music. An accompanist will be provided. There will also be readings from the script.
There will also be dance auditions conducted by choreographer Tara Gardner. Wear or bring shoes that you can dance in – and bring knee pads if you have them! And be ready to have fun!
Lita was recently interviewed on “Conversations With Jack” and we’ll post that link soon!
Read about the show and see the list of roles available HERE.
Courtney Renee Slough, Ashlee Anne Vitz, Bryan Schroeder
You don’t have to wait until summer to see some of your favorite PCPH performers onstage. During the off-season, many of us travel to other local theatres to trod the boards.
Can you spot the familiar faces?
For example, at the Lark Theatre in Brazil, Indiana, home of Community Theatre of Clay County, several familiar faces are rehearsing Noises Off. Among them are Ric McFadden (last summer’s Colonel Mustard in Clue: Onstage), TJ Tincher and Ashlee Anne Vitz (most recently appearing in Oliver!), Bryan Schroeder (seen last in Send MeNo Flowers), and Courtney Renee Slough (Miss Scarlet from Clue: Onstage).
L-R: Bryan, Ashlee, Ric, and TJ
Director of the show is Lee Reberger who has appeared onstage at PCPH in TheDrowsy Chaperone and Curtains and also most recently directed Shrek for us.
Noises Off will be onstage at CTCC on March 10, 11, 12. Details about tickets can be found here. Ashlee is in charge of the sardines, the telephone, and the newspaper!
And you can catch actor Bart Jones at Hendricks Civic Theatre playing the role of Bill in its production of On Golden Pond April 13-16 & April 20-23.. Bart was in Oliver! last summer and also worked on Clue: Onstage and Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Details and ticket information can be found here.
Founder and Director of our annual Youth Theatre Workshop SHAKESPEARED! is happy to announce that sign ups are now open for 2023! This year the intensive two-week event will focus on William’s play The Tempest.
The workshop will be held at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre June 19-July 1.
The workshop is open to those entering grades 6-8 in the fall of 2023 for the Middle School group and those entering 9th grade and up for the High School group. Registration ends on June 10 or when the workshop is full.
You can read all the details HERE. And you can sign up HERE.
This year we are celebrating our 62nd year of Putnam County Playhouse AND our 40th season in the Hazel Day Longden Theatre. We hope that you will join us for a program of fun, music, and rock and roll! All of our main stage productions are being directed by PCPH regulars who appeared onstage in the hit comedy Clue: Onstage last season.
We open our season with Grease! We last produced this musical in 2000 and we are happy to have its director Lita Sandy – Mrs. Peacock – back to give us an encore! It will be produced June 8-10 and June 14-17. We’re planning a sock hop before the show – so come dressed in your best 1950’s swag!
Read additional show information audition dates here.
Read what Lita has to tell all you cool cats here.
Our annual Youth Theatre Workshop will be conducted June 19-July 1. This season’s Bard selection is The Tempest. Sign-up will begin on February 1. Read all about it HERE. Caroline Good’s SHAKESPEARED is sponsored by:
In July the rollicking comedy The Play That Goes Wrong takes the stage.
Be prepared to laugh as everything that can go wrong…..does go wrong. Director Dustin Bond aka The Perfect Butler Wadsworth is in charge and chaos reigns. It will be onstage July 13-15 and July 19-22.
Read details about the show and available roles HERE.
The Play That Goes Wrong is sponsored by:
Our annual Children’s Theatre Workshop (also sponsored by Shuee’s) will be presented July 24-July 29. Information will be posted soon.
Our August production will be Cole Porter’s famous musical Anything Goes. We last produced this audience favorite in 1985. This time around it will be directed by Mr. Green himself – Brad Sandy. With many of Porter’s well known tunes and a story of mistaken identities – don’t miss your chance to see it onstage August 17-19 and August 23-26.
The 62nd season will end with a production of the Paul Osborn comedy Morning’s At Seven. The director is Jack Randall Earles, Clue’s Chief of Police. A family comedy that will bring lots of laughs and maybe a tear or two to the stage September 14-16 and September 20-23.
