Hello Everyone,

What great talent this year, and how I wish I could cast all of you… PLEASE do not be discouraged if your name is not listed. You did a great job!

The first CAST & CREW call is very important! It is scheduled in the theatre, Tuesday, August 27^th at 5:30 p.m. for schedules, scripts and costume measurements. Please call if you have any unavoidable conflicts.

Looking forward to lots of hard work, lots of fun, and a wonderful “Christmas Carol!”

Marilyn duBrisk

CAST LIST – “A Christmas Carol”

Narrators/Chorus: Angela Willis, Bill Herrick, Brandi Shelnutt, Wess duBrisk, Austen Herron, Jeff Klepper

Scrooge: Brian Ricker

Bob Cratchit: Parker Bunch

Fred, Scrooge’s Nephew: David Brannock

Fred’s Wife: Bonnie Parks

Her Sisters: Kaci Norton, DeAundra Bowker

Topper: Deaton Myers

Guests at Fred’s Party: Narrators/Chorus

Singing Boy: Caedmon Oakes

Jacob Marley’s Ghost: Tom Sizemore

The Spirit of Christmas Past: Michael Fernando

Two Portly Gentlemen: Michael Fillers, Wess duBrisk

Mrs. Cratchit: Eva Griffin

Peter Cratchit: Andrew Fisher (Understudy-Ben Hoeke)

Martha Cratchit: Mary Elizabeth Smith

Belinda Cratchit: Reagan Bunch

Three Small Cratchits: Hannah Kolb, Eli Berney, Baylah Close

Tiny Tim: Jackson Beddingfield

Boy Scrooge: Carter Del Sorbo

Young Scrooge: Brandon Moorman

The Spirit of Christmas Present: Michael Willis

Headmaster: Jeff Ward

Fan (Scrooge’s sister): Allison Craft

Mr. Fezziwig: Steve Isley

Mrs. Fezziwig: Ariel Davis

Three Miss Fezziwigs: Molly Harris, Ashleigh Murphy, Emma Murray

Three Young Men: Maxwell Reid, Dylan Pruitt, Deaton Myers

Dick Wilkins: Zachary Gass

Milkmaid: Grace Duer

Girl-Next-Door: Rebecca Williams

Cook: Jessica Masters

Florist: Margo Olmsted

Housemaid: Rachel Reed

Fiddler: Jean Bean

Belle: Kassandra Willis

Belle’s Children: Eliza Brown, Carlie Shipley, Xander Ellenburg

Belle’s Husband: Jeff Klepper

Lost Children: Angel Klepper, Amora Klepper

Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come: Paige Mengel

Businessmen: Wess duBrisk, Bill Herrick, Jeff Klepper, Zachary Gass

Important Ladies: Angela Willis, Brandi Shelnutt, Austen Herron

Boy on Christmas Day: Tate Brumit

Poulterer’s Man: Zach Gass

Old Joe: Will Maddux

Mrs. Dilber: Christy Hoeke

Charwoman: Sandy Nienaber

Undertaker’s Wife: Laura Dupler

Passersby: TBA

Senior Singers: Steve Isley, Bob Davis, Jessica Masters, Rachel Reed, Michael Fillers, Grace Duer, Christy Hoeke, Rebecca Williams, Andrew Fisher, Carol Susong, Jeff Ward, Beth Brimer, DeAundra Bowker, Kirsten Lawing, Margo Olmsted, Dylan Pruitt, Cherlanda Florival, Sandy Nienaber, Brandon Moorman

Junior Singers: Sarah Smith (#60), Claire Valk, Mattie Olmsted,  Mylee Doty, Emma Maddux, Jade Ward, Elijah Collins, Lillie Jones, Jorja Ward, Elliott Tucker, Olivia Graham, Carissa Hopson, Lydia Craft, Jasie Carter, Braylin Brown

Phantom Dancers: Lori Ann Sparks, Parke Brumit, Kim Berry

Sinbad: Colby Freeman

“Cupboard” Dancers: Ansley Inscore, Chloe Mabry, Migel Bobadilla, Lexie Humbert, Claire Hoeke, Mya Davis

Urchins: Dakota Goins, Jake Hartman, Reed McAmis, Aubrey Knop

Theatre-at-Tusculum will be holding auditions for Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” the week of August 19th, in Annie Hogan Byrd Theatre, Tusculum College.  Please see detailed information below.

The famed multiphonic singers of Tibet’s Drepung Loseling Monastery will perform Thursday, March 21, at Tusculum College.

The singers, whose sellout performances in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center have received national acclaim, will perform “Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing.” The performance will be at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building on the Tusculum College campus. The event is part of the Tusculum College Arts Outreach Acts, Arts, Academia’s 2012-13 performance and lecture series.

The performance features multiphonic singing, wherein the monks simultaneously intone three notes of a chord. The Drepung Loseling monks are particularly renowned for this unique singing. They also utilize traditional instruments such as 10-foot long dung-chen horns, drums, bells, cymbals and gyaling trumpets. Rich brocade costumes and masked dances, such as the Dance of the Sacred Snow Lion, add to the exotic splendor.

The monks’ performance is part of their international tour, The Mystical Arts of Tibet, co-produced by Richard Gere Productions and Drepung Loseling Institute, the North American Seat of Drepung Loseling Monastery, India. Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the tour has three basic purposes: to make a contribution to world peace and healing, to generate a greater awareness of the endangered Tibetan civilization and to raise support for the Tibetan refugee community in India.

The monks of Drepung Loseling have a very distinguished modern-day musical history. On past tours they have performed with Kitaro, Paul Simon, Philip Glass, Eddie Brickell, Natalie Merchant, Patti Smith, the Beastie Boys and the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart. In addition, two of their recordings achieved top-10 listings on the New Age charts: Tibetan Sacred Temple Music (Shining Star Productions) and Sacred Tibetan Chants (Music and Arts Program of America, Inc.).

Their most recent recording, Compassion (Milennia Music), pairs them with the Abbey of Gethsemani Schola in an encounter of Gregorian chant with Tibetan multiphonic singing.

Their music was featured on the Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack of the film Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt (Columbia Pictures) and they performed with Philip Glass in Lincoln Center in the live presentation of his award-winning score to the Martin Scorsese film Kundun (Disney).

In response to the September 11 tragedies, they had the honor of creating special mandalas and leading prayer ceremonies and meditations in New York and Washington. Organized in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, these events were dedicated to the healing and protection of America.

The Loseling monks have twice been featured artists at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, representing Tibetan culture, and in July 2003 enjoyed the rare honor of representing Tibet in the

Cultural Olympiad of Greece, a pre-Olympic celebration of World Sacred Music and Dance. For this event the monks toured Greece and performed at venues that included the Acropolis and ancient Olympia, the historic site of the original Olympics.

Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors (60 & over) and  $5 children ( 12 & under). For more information, please call 423-798-1620 or email jhollowell@tusculum.edu

 Wayne and I would like to thank everyone for trying out.  It gave us a lot to look at and, of course, a lot of choices and options.  Many of you did wonderfully, but sadly we can only cast so many.
Hope to see you at the next auditions,
Frank Mengel

Accented
Spencer – Justin Reed
Corrine – Austen Herron

Gone Cold
Bayla – Sara Hendry
Helen – Paige Mengel
Boone – Carnes White

If It Looks Like a Duck
Jeff – Codie Fleming
Susanne – Britany Menken
Afif – Baltimore Spivery
Timothy – Joe Borden

Sacred Feet
Jones – Lulu McGeorge
Penny – Maggie Bernabei
Police – Carnes White

Shovel
Sister – Danielle Threet
Brother – Allison Harris

** Scripts will be emailed sometime in the next day or two from Billy Jennings.

Renowned media analyst Jennifer Pozner will cast a critical eye on reality television programs and their effects on Thursday, Jan. 24, at Tusculum College.

Pozner will take a fierce, funny and in-depth look at how “guilty pleasure” television affects beliefs, behavior and culture in “Project Brainwash: Why Reality TV Is Bad for Women (and Men, People of Color, the Economy, Love and Sheer Common Sense.)”

Her presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in the Behan Arena Theatre (lower level) of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building on the Tusculum College campus. The program is part of Tusculum College Arts Outreach’s Acts, Arts, Academia 2012-13 performance and lecture series and is also being presented in conjunction with the college’s Office of Student Affairs.

Pozner is a media critic, journalist, author and founder and director of the Women in Media and News (WIMN). A media justice group based in New York, WIMN amplifies women’s presence and power in the public debate through media analysis, education and advocacy. She is also managing editor of WIMN’s Voices, a popular group blog on women and the media, which can be found at WIMNonline.org.

A widely published freelance journalist, her work has appeared in outlets ranging from newspapers such as The New York Times, Newsday, Chicago Tribune and Boston Phoenix, to magazines such as “Ms. Magazine,” “The American Prospect” and “In These Times” to new media such as Salon.com and the Huffington Post.  She formerly directed the women’s desk at the national media watch group FAIR, where she was a staff writer for Extra! magazine and the organizer of the national Feminist Coalition on Public Broadcasting.

Pozner has appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC News Now, National Public Radio, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and several documentary films.

Her first book, “Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV,” was published in 2010, and has been praised as an insightful and fun read.

A noted public speaker, Pozner has conducted multi-media presentations and participated in panels and debates at colleges and conferences across the country. She has spoken on women, media, politics and pop culture at more than 70 colleges across the country. In 2009, she was named as one of the New Leaders Council 40 Under Forty young progressive leaders to watch and “Forbes” has named her one of the “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter.”

Admission to the presentation is $6. Tickets may be purchased at the door or by calling Arts Outreach at 423-798-1620.

-TC-

Super auditions for “A. . . My Name Will Always Be Alice.”  Congratulations to everyone who participated .  With so much talent, we will have a fun show!

A completed rehearsal schedule will be on our web site:  http://arts.tusculum.edu/ then click on “Latest News.”  This should be posted by December 15^th.  Mandatory cast call for scripts, etc. will be Monday, January 14^th, 2013 at 6:30pm.

Always Alice Cast Announcement 2012

If you have not yet seen Theatre-at-Tusculum’s production of “Seussical” the Musical, it’s not too late!

We have four shows left:  Thursday 11/15, Friday 11/16, Saturday 11/17 at 7:00 pm, and Sunday 11/18 at 2:00 pm.  The Box Office will open at 5:30 pm on evening shows, and at 12:30 pm on the Sunday matinee.

Ticket prices are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors (60 & over), and $5 for children (12 & under).  If you would like to reserve tickets, please call the Arts Outreach office at 423-798-1620 or email <jhollowell@tusculum.edu> Please be aware that we accept cash or checks only, no credit/debit cards.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  We will cease telephone and email ticket orders at noon on Friday, 11/16.  You must have a verbal or written confirmation on all ticket orders! But unless otherwise noted, tickets will be available at the Box Office before each show.

Thank you – See you at the show!