Auditions
Ritz Players Productions
The Ritz Players present
The Play that Goes Wrong
From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes the smash hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
Adults $16, Students $12
(Audition dates: August 12 & 13, 2024)
Sponsored by Reineke Family Dealerships
Cabaret
Based on the play by John Van Druten
Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Musical numbers include “Willkommen,” “Cabaret,” “Don’t Tell Mama” and “Two Ladies.”
Adults $20, Students $15 – EV, MS, RP
Audition Dates – December 10 and 11, 2024
Auditions will include a dance call and singing excerpts from the show. Additional information and audition music excerpts can be requested by emailing director, Cheyane Thacker, at thackercheyane@gmail.com.
Sponsored by Reineke Family Dealerships
Harmony Romances
A Play by Ron Hill
A Ritz Players Production
May 2, 3, 9 & 10, 2025 – 7:30 PM, May 4, 2025 – 2:00 PM
(An event in The National Theatre at The Ritz)
The hilarious church ladies who make up Harmony Church’s funeral committee are back in this side-splitting sequel to The Ladies of Harmony. This time, the church ladies are in charge of planning a wedding instead of a funeral. Leah, a fellow church lady, is getting married to Howard, a man she hasn’t seen in years and with whom she has had only an e-mail and telephone relationship. When Howard finally arrives in town, the church ladies discover that the liver spots on his hand form a pentagram, which they suspect could indicate he may be a warlock or a demon. And to make matters worse, the church ladies have to decorate the church in the bride’s chosen color scheme―varicose-vein purple and bedpan white.
Adults $16, Students $12 – EV, RP
(Tentative audition dates: March 16 & 17, 2025)
Harmony Romances is presented through special arrangement with Big Dog Publishing.
Anastasia: The Musical
Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Inspired by the Twentieth Century Fox Motion Pictures by special
arrangement with Buena Vista Theatrical
From the play by Marcelle Maurette as adapted by Guy Bolton
July 11, 12, 19, 2025 – 7:30 PM
July 20, 2025 – 2:00 PM
From Tony winners Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, creators of such Broadway classics as Ragtime and Once On This Island, this dazzling show transports its audience from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s, as a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past. Pursued by a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her, Anya enlists the aid of a dashing con man and a lovable ex-aristocrat. Together, they embark on an epic adventure to help her find home, love and family.
Adults $20, Students $15 – EV, MS, RP
(Tentative audition dates: May 11, 12 & 13, 2025)
Anastasia is presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.