Ten Minute Play Contest – Now Accepting Submissions

Magnolia Arts Center is now accepting scripts for the Seventh Annual Ten Minute Play Contest.  Entries must be no longer than 10 minutes when read or performed.  A panel of judges will pick the top five entries which will receive a staged reading for the public in November.  A prize of $50 will be awarded to the winner as chosen by the audience.   Entries will be accepted until August 31.  Playwrights may submit original, non-published work to Magnolia Arts Center online ($5 entry fee) or via mail ($3 entry fee).

To submit your script and see full submission guidelines, click here.  Best of luck to our Playwrights!

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PirateFest Coins

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How many coins were in the jar at PirateFest?

324

Ticket winner will be notified this week.

 

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Auditions for a Southern Summer Season

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We will hold auditions for our summer productions – Crimes of the Heart and Second Samuel – in April at the Music Academy of Eastern Carolina (1400 Red Banks Rd, Greenville).

Sunday, April 15 – 2:00-4:00
Monday, April 16 – 6:00-8:00

Sides from each show will be provided at the auditions. You may audition for one or both shows. Show dates:
Crimes of the Heart – June 8-16
Second Samuel – August 10-18

Click for more about each show:
Crimes of the Heart information  and Character List 

Second Samuel and official play website
Characters:
B-Flat (Male Age Range 20-25)- B-Flat is the heart and soul of the play and of the town. The actor playing this part must be able to convince the audience he is retarted-while performing page after page of monologue, imitating the town folk and showing the simple wisdom he possesses. The audience must love and identify with him.
Frisky (Male Age Range 30-50)- He is the best good ol’ boy you’ll ever meet. Frisky owns the local watering hole and is the unofficial leader of the town. To be best friends with a black man in a rural community during the 40′s shows a strength and goodness that we can only imagine today. He and Omaha are married.
U.S. (Male Age Range 30-50)- He is a black man raised in the south by white well-to-do family. He is a little better educated than his peers, but he still speaks with a black dialect. Because of his relationship with Frisky he can say and do some things other blacks would not be allowed.
Mansel (Male Age Range 30-50)- He is not a drunk but he does like to have a beer or tow. Mansel tends to get into trouble. He is a silly, harmless red neck. He is good-looking or has a good quality about him which is why Marcela puts up with him.
Mr. Mozel (Male Age Range 50-70)- The town biggot. He represents the dark side of people. Because of his age (60 or up) he is somewhat benign, but not completely.
Omaha (Female Age Range 25-45)- She is cute and stylish. Omaha is the “boss” on the women’s side and runs a tight ship.
Jimmy Deeanne (Female Age Range 25-40)- Pretty and thoughtless, Jimmy Deeanne is a beauty queen and a bitch, but she has a lovely singing voice. Must be able to sing.
Ruby (Female Age Range 20-40)- Sweet and plain, Ruby works at the hair salon. She is quiet and knows her place as an underling. Coming from this position, she makes a 360 degree turn when she smacks Jimmy Deeanne.
Marcela (Female Age Range 30-50)-She is a good natured, hard working country woman. Most of the trials of her life come from being married to Mansel, but she loves him.
Doc (Male Age Range 40-60)- Doc is one of the town’s leaders. He is one of the few people in town who has gone to college. He knows everybody’s secrets but because he is a gentleman he ain’t telling.
June (Male Age Range 30-50)- The town’s undertaker. He’s a little prissy and absent minded.

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Love Letters by A.R. Gurney

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The Valentine’s Day Dinner Theatre performance is Sold Out.

Great article in the Daily Reflector Friday, Feb. 3, 2012!

In this romantic tale, characters Andrew & Melissa read the notes, letters and cards exchanged over nearly 50 years where they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.

February 3, 4, 10, & 11 at 7:30pm
Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, 1400 Red Banks Rd, Greenville
Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door

February 14, 6:30pm Valentine’s Day Dinner Theatre performance
Greenville Country Club
Tickets $50

Special Thanks to our Corporate Sponsor, Jefferson’s, for providing roses and other treats for our shows!

Order tickets online, or call 888-MAC-EVNT (888-622-3868)

Dinner Theatre Menu:
Seared scallops and endive salad
Grilled Filet Mignon and Buttered Jumbo Prawns
Mashed Potatoes, Baby Carrots, Patty Pans
and for dessert… Chocolate Souffle

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Announcing our 2012 Season

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We are excited to offer three shows for the 2012 Season.

Love Letters
by A.R. Gurney
A Romantic Classic
February 3, 4, 10, & 11

Valentine’s Day Dinner Theatre performace at the Greenville Country Club February 14

Crimes of the Heart
by Beth Henley
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize
June 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, & 16

Second Samuel

by Pamela Parker
A Touching Southern Comedy
August 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, & 18

Season tickets on sale soon for $30. Individual tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

Showtimes are 7:30 Thursday, Friday, & Saturday; 2:00 Sunday matinee.

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Ten Minute Play Contest Winner

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Congratulations to Seth Freeman, winner of the Sixth Annual Ten Minute Play Contest for Press Pray.  Thanks to all who participated by entering, to our preliminary judges, actors, director, audience and volunteers for making this year’s event a success.  Thanks also to the Tipsy Teapot for hosting the finale.  See you all next year!

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Auditions for “Love Letters”

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Magnolia Arts Center announces auditions for its winter show Love Letters by A. R. Gurney, Sunday, November 13 from 3-5 p.m. and Monday, Nov. 14 from 6-8 p.m. at the Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, 1400 Red Banks Rd., Greenville.  For more information, visit www.magnoliaartscenter.com or call 888-MAC-EVNT

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Finalists announced in the Sixth Annnual Ten Minute Play Contest

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We want to extend a huge thank you to all of the playwrights that submitted to this year’s competition.  The judges have read all of them and have selected this years finalists in the Magnolia Arts Center’s Sixth Annual Ten Minute Play Contest:

The Sentinel  by Hal Corley
The Gift of Rift by Evan Allgood
The Holdout by John Boni
The Gorilla King by David Finney
Press Pray by Seth Freeman

These finalists work will be given a staged reading on November 6th at 3 p.m. at the Tipsy Teapot in Greenville, NC.  The audience will select the winner.

Don’t forget – Submissions for next year begin May 1 and end August 31.

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The Last Five Years

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An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

Shows are Thursday through Sunday, July 14-17. Showtimes are 7:30 except for Sunday which is a 2:00 matinee. All performances are at the Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, 1400 Red Banks Road, Greenville.

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Purchase tickets online or call 888-MAC-EVNT.

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Crowns

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Magnolia Arts Center is proud to present our second show of the year, Crowns.  Crowns is a moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functioning.

 

Show dates for Crowns are June 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 at 7:30pm and June 12th (Sunday) at 3:00pm.  Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door.  You can purchase tickets from our website: Magnolia Arts Center

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