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Playgoers of Lethbridge holding auditions for “Send Me No Flowers”

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If you want to be on stage, here’s your chance.Elaine Jagielski will be directing Send Me No Flowers.  Photo By Richard Amery


 Long-standing Lethbridge theatre company Playgoers of Lethbridge are holding open auditions this week for their October production of the Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore’s  three act comedy “Send Me No Flowers.”


 Send Me No Flowers is best known as the hit 1964 Norman Jewison directed comedy starring Rock Hudson, Tony Randall and  Doris Day.

The play had a short run on Broadway in 1960. The title song was composed by Hal David and Burt Bacharach.


Elaine Jagielski, who directed last year’s dinner theatre “One for The Pot,”  will be directing this farce about hopeless hypochondriac George who experiences chest pains and goes to the doctor when he overhears the diagnoses of a terminally ill patient and assumes they are talking about him.

Assuming he’s the one dying, he asks his friend Arnold to help find his wife, Judy, a new husband so he knows she won’t be alone.

So he finds her old college boyfriend Burt, a Texas oil baron. Comedy ensues as Judy assumes her husband’s actions are an attempt to cover up an affair and throws him out of the house.

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Empress Theatre presents gangs of Vaudeville

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Join Don Biscotti and the Empress Players in an offer you can’t refuse, it’s Gangs of Vaudeville - a one night only smorgasbord of southern Alberta talent.


Local singer songwriter Tristan Skettering will be among the performers which features plenty of Southern Alberta talent including piano players, bagpipers, belly dancers and poets.

Showing Aug. 19 at 8 p.m, make the quick trip to Fort Macleod and enjoy one of the most popular forms of entertainment seen on stage during the 1880s through to the 1930s, but with a modern twist. 

Tickets $15 for adults, $10 for everyone else, rated E for everyone!

Visit www.empresstheatre.ab.ca or call the Empress Theatre in Fort Macleod at 1-800-540-9229 for tickets and further details.  Make the Empress Theatre part of your summer entertainment.

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The kids want to rock with New West

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 Summer time means New West Theatre is “Born To Rock,” especially this summer.the cast of Born to Rock gets Footloose. Photo By Richard Amery


 They are already getting great audiences for their current production, which runs until Aug. 27 at the Yates theatre. It could be renamed the Hunt and Haubs show as the multi-talented Erica Hunt and Jocelyn Haubs seem to be in everything from innumerable comedy sketches to stunning solo performances of Queen’s “Somebody to Love” and Guns N’ Roses‘ “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” respectively.


 That isn’t to say the other cast members don’t have their inspirational moments.
 I really enjoyed comedian Andrew Legg’s medley of CCR hits, as well as one of several political moments in this show when Devon Brayne sang a song called “If I were Prime Minister,” backed by Grahame Renyk mugging in the background as he provided back-up vocals.

The always affable host Renyk didn’t get to take centre stage as much as he usually does in New West productions, but he earned his pay with a variety of excellent character comedy throughout.


 The comedy really appealed to one loudly hooting member of the audience who really got into Hunt and Haubs riffing on a a couple sets  of “bad” husband jokes.


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Improv wars at the Empress

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Johnny K performing at Fort Whoop Up last summer. Photo by Richard AmeryYou know what they say about improv?

They just make it up as they go along, usually with hilarious results. If you’ve seen  the TV show “Whose Line is it Anyway,” you know what I mean.


 So check out two hilarious Southern Alberta improv groups as Improv Wars hits the Empress stage Aug. 11.

The Empress Theatre Players face off against the Lethbridge Drama Nutz in head to head improv action. 

Classic improv scenes come to life on stage based on audience suggestions. Hosted by Jonny K from Rock 106, one night only August 11 at 6 p.m., tickets cost $10, rated E for everyone!

Visit www.empresstheatre.ab.ca or call the Empress Theatre in Fort Macleod at 1-800-540-9229 for tickets and further details.  Make the Empress Theatre part of your summer entertainment.

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