DESERT FOOTHILLS THEATER PRESENTS 2022-2023 Community Theater Season
Quality entertainment for everyone at Desert Foothills Theater
Desert Foothills Theater (DFT) welcomes back valley theater patrons, actors, designers, directors, musicians, and stage crew eager for the 2022-2023 season. Producing Artistic Director, SANDI CARLL, is thrilled to announce the upcoming season lineup. With three youth shows, one teen show and two adult shows, a mix of both plays and musicals, there is quality entertainment in the works for everyone to enjoy.
“We’re calling this season A Ticket to Laugh” exclaimed Carll. “The greater Phoenix area has an enormous affection for theatre. Theatre has the power to elicit every human emotion including humor, sadness, anger, inspiration, hope, or fear, but this year, well, we’re in the business to create joy and and inspire a laugh or two.”
Please make your plans to join DFT again and again this coming year.
Disney’s 101 Dalmatians Kids
Musical
Children ages 6-15 welcome to audition
Auditions: August 20, 2022
Shows: September 30-October 9, 2022
The Holland Center
Directed by Nathalie Velasquez
Based on the classic animated film, Disney's 101 Dalmatians KIDS is a fur-raising adventure featuring Cruella De Vil, Disney's most outrageous villain, and 101 of the most adorable heroes to set their paws onstage. With a highspirited score and lovable characters, this stage adaptation is certain to charm and delight all audiences.
Disney's 101 Dalmatians KIDS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Play On!
Adult Comedy, Play
Adults 18+ welcome to audition
Auditions: September 17, 2022
Shows: November 10-13, 2022
Cactus Shadows Fine Arts Center Black Box Theater
Directed by Sandi Carll
Play On! is the hilarious story of a theatre group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance, in which anything that can go wrong, does. When the author decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax and a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.
Play On! Written by Rick Abbot. Performed with rights obtained by Concord Theatricals. A Samuel French, Inc. title.
Disney’s The Aristocats Kids!
Musical
Educational Workshop open to children 6-12
Class will take place in January 2023. All students will be cast in the show.
Shows: January 27-29, 2023
The Holland Center
Directed by Don Crosby
Based on the beloved Disney animated film, and featuring a jazzy, upbeat score, Disney’s The Aristocats KIDS is a non-stop thrill ride of feline fun, complete with unbelievable twists and turns.
In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat, and her three little kittens. Laughs and adventure ensue as the greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
Disney's The Aristocats Kids is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Adult Comedy, Musical
Adults 18+ welcome to audition
Auditions: January 20, 2023
Shows: March 9-12, 2023
Cactus Shadows Fine Arts Center Black Box Theater
Directed by Kimberly Woods
Broadway's greatest farce is light, fast-paced, witty, irreverent and one of the funniest musicals ever written. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum takes comedy back to its roots and delivers the infectious energy of classic vaudeville.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a nonstop laughfest in which Pseudolus, a crafty slave, struggles to win the hand of a beautiful, but slow-witted, courtesan named Philia for his young master, Hero, in exchange for freedom. The plot twists and turns with cases of mistaken identity, slamming doors and a showgirl or two.
Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart , Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
The Secret Garden
Teen Musical
Teens 13-19 welcome to audition
Auditions: February 17-18, 2023
Shows: March 30-April 8, 2023
The Sanderson Lincoln Pavilion
Directed by Sandi Carll
This enchanting classic of children's literature is reimagined in brilliant musical style by composer Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of 'Night Mother. Orphaned in India, 11-year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Archibald and his disabled son Colin. The estate's many wonders include a magic garden which beckons the children with haunting melodies and the "Dreamers," spirits from Mary's past who guide her through her new life, dramatizing The Secret Garden's compelling tale of forgiveness and renewal.
The Secret Garden, music and lyrics by Marsha Norman, Music by Lucy Simon. Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Performed with rights obtained by Concord Theatricals.
Robin Hood and His Merry Men
Youth Comedy, Play
Youth actors ages 7-19 welcome to audition
Auditions: April 1-2, 2023
Shows: May 11-14, 2023
Cactus Shadows Fine Arts Center Black Box Theater
Directed by Jim Gradillas
Prince John had decreed that the citizens of Nottingham pay weekly taxes or face the penalty of death. His decrees are enforced by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. The citizens think that all hope is lost until they hear word of a noble hero, Robin Hood of Locksley. Robin Hood, with the help of his merry men (which are mostly girls) rob from the rich, give to the poor and save the fair Maid Marian. This comic retelling of the story includes thumb wars, missed cues and a slow motion fight.
Robin Hood and His Merry Men, A Comedy in Two Acts by Richard Gremel
All Rights Reserved. Heuer Publishing LLC, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
For more information on Desert Foothills Theater events, performances, productions, children’s camps and more, visit dftheater.org or call 480-488-1981.
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