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http://thebcoolpage.com/annefrank1.htm

[Come and enjoy a summer day with friends, family, and your NIETF family.]

hello there everyone!  i hope to see you there!

Sunday Sept 5 2010 1-5pm

at Portage Yacht Club (2 shelters, indoor restrooms)

Bring dessert, salad and sides. There is a Salad and Dessert & Side dish contest that yours truly will be running.
Bring bug spray. Games, BYOB (alcohol is allowed outside, None allowed inside (even if it rains).

We have burgers/hot dogs and and condiments (buns, plates, etc..)

Come and enjoy a summer day with friends, family, and your NIETF family.

The Portage Yacht Club is located at 1370 State Highway 249 in Portage, IN 

Directions: From the intersection of State Highway 249 and Route 20, (Melton Road) go north on 249 through two stop lights. Stay in the left hand lane. You will make a left hand turn shortly after the second stop light at Ameriplex Drive near Family Express. There is a "Portage Yacht Club" sign at the turn. Follow the winding road back to the yacht club to the parking lot on the west side of the building. google map yahoo map

Cost: $7 in advance
$10 at the door
$15 for families in advance
$20 families at the door

You can buy your tickets online ahead of time here:
http://www.nietf.org/newsupdates/picnic.htm

[DO NOT audition if you cannot commit to a flexable schedule over the next 8 months]

The Towle Theater is holding auditions for 2 paid acting positions in our original children's musical Pickle Chiffon Pie. Interested actors must be available during the day during the week as the show will tour to schools throughout northern Indiana, southwest Michigan and northeastern Illinois. DO NOT audition if you cannot commit to a flexable schedule over the next 8 months. The 50 minute educational, interactive show is a stage adaptation of Roger Bradfield's book by the same title and all the music is written by Evan Rea, Associate Conductor for Broadway in Chicago's Billy Elliot with lyrics by Shelley Crosby, Towle Director of Education.

Auditions will be held on Monday, September 20th from 10:30 - 3:30 at the Towle Theater 5205 Hohman Avenue, Hammond. Please email Shelley with questions or to schedule an appointment. shelleycrosby@mac.com

Seeking:
            1 female - age 18 - (youthful) 30 to play the princess. Should have a legit soprano range and a wholesome look, hair color doesn't matter, long hair preferred.
            1 male - age 25 - 60 to play the King. This actor spends a considerable amount of time on his knees in a mobility contraption (think the king/prince character in Shrek,    only much less sophisticated). Bari-tenor range.

Both actors play multiple characters and are busy throughout the performance.

Pay is $40 per performance. We have bookings for some shows already in October and January. The goal is to book as many as 100 performances during the 2010-2011 academic year. The show plays well to pre-K - 5th grade. As many as 4 shows per day could be booked, so decent earning potential.

[volunteer]

Grabbed from the paper today...not for me, but it may intererst others...

A huge, new haunted house, called Amhurst Asylum, is being designed by two people who have a combined 20 years of experience in haunted houses and horror movies.

The 23,000-square-foot, all-indoor fright house will be open from 7 to 11 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays from Oct. 1 through 31 at the old Alvarez Arabians horse stables at 228 S. County Road 500 West. This is 4½ miles south of U.S. 30 on County Road 500 West.

Organizers are trying to sign up 100 people who are at least of high school age to volunteer to be part of the production, with jobs including actors, technicians and security. Volunteers will get a chance to learn from professionals about acting, costumes, makeup and set design. People can e-mail nadia@amhurstasylum.com to get involved.

They expect to draw 15,000 people nationwide who want to enjoy a terrifying 25-minute journey through 15 rooms. The cost will be $20, but discounts will be available to their Facebook friends and fans, and through their official website – www.amhurstasylum.com – which is set for launch this Wednesday.

The experience is apparently somewhat scripted -- The story they tell is that crazy Dr. Amhurst once owned the haunted house land. The doctor's wife had a terrible illness, so Dr. Amhurst opened an asylum so he could harvest organs from the criminally insane and conduct experiments on them.

The haunted house features a room where experiments are performed on victims, places where scary people pop out, a room where a real clown magically bounces around and, finally, a morgue and a place where bodies are incinerated.

IF this sounds like your type of thing, go ahead and give the people a call...

To all my theatre peeps:

A friend of mine, who I have known since high school (and some of you know how LONG ago that was), is very active in the greyhound rescue racket, I mean movement.  Anywho, American Greyhound is holding their first-ever auction on Saturday, October 30th at Avalon Manor in Merrillville.  My friend Susan asked me if I could sound out the local theatre groups about donating something, like tickets, I guess.

The relevant web site is: www.americangreyhound.org and the pertinent info can be found there.

Should you want to attend the event, the website also has the facts about tickets, etc.

Thanks for listening.

The Indiana Ghost Trackers are doing a Historical Walking Tour of Maplewood cemetery in Valparaiso, and need a few more people to round out the famous folks being portrayed. They are asking for just one afternoon of your time -- Sat Oct 2 for this fun event. IGT will provide the costumes and scripts- usually one page of dialogue, which could be read if you can cleverly "hide" it in a prop.

They still need people to portray the following:

• Mrs Rhoda Banta, VU Math Prof & Genius,
  Dr Seneca Ball a physician,
  TAE Campbell a Civil War Vet,
  Col Isaac Suman, postmaster and mayor,
  Capt Aaron Lytle, Civil War Vet and local businessman,
  a person to represent those who died while living in the Porter Co. Home and are buried in unmarked graves.

IF interested in helping out, contact Martha Sullins at acl501@aol.com

Great show, great cast!  Can't wait to see it!  LCTG will be doing Prisoner of Second Avenue many of the same dates, but we just do shows on Fri and Sun, so I'll be there to see Drowsy Chaperone at least 2 of those Saturdays!  Congrats to all....and have a blast  xoxox Angie
Betcha I can even get Paul to come to this one!

Hi all....it's Darren.

I told the NIETF board that I would like to start phasing myself out of the webmaster position by the first of the new year. There is no drama at all, I just notice that I am not doing the web work with any enthusiasm anymore. So, I figure it is time to step aside and try to get someone who is still into doing web work and the emerging technologies that come with it.

I have to say that the board has been great to me as a webmaster. I have had tons of support from them and they have allowed me to do whatever creative or necessary items that I wanted.  I really want to thank them for that.

I think I am just at the end of my web abilities. There are new things on the internet/web that I haven't kept up on. I am still trying to figure out some Facebook things to promote all of our information and Facebook keeps changing things and I am just not keeping up (for example).

Anyway, if you are or know of anyone interested in doing web work for NIETF (or just has questions), please let me know. I will pass on info to the board. I would like to show someone the ropes and figured it would be better to start earlier than later. The next board meeting will probably be focused on the Gala and in October we do not meet and before you know it it the new year will be pouncing upon us.

I think someone with more recent web skills and passion for internet trends will be able to really take us to the next level and promote all of us and our art in amazing ways.

Thanks!
Darren
webmaster@nwindianatheatre.org

P.S. I am still doing the NIETF web work so keep sending me your info!

Several people have asked and I forgot to include an address for checks. Payment can be sent to:

The Genesius Guild
6635 Hohman Avenue
Hammond, IN 46324

Also, we are putting together the revue, so anyone interested in performing needs to contact David Long or Ed Griffith by August 31.

Thanks everyone who has helped plan this event,