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Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode two of New Musical Monday as we showcase selections from the new musical “Volcano” by Nathan Blanchard.

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After volcanic activity threatens to cancel the high school basketball championship, a headstrong girl who dreams of basketball stardom travels from her small town to the big city in search of the witch whose magic spells are the only way to stop the volcano from erupting.

Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode one of New Musical Monday as we showcase selections from the new musical “Your Name On My Lips” by Eric Sirota

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Sam, a self-taught painter, struggles to get into an art institute; while fighting to hold onto the love of his life, as the materialistic world tugs at her.  With a contemporary, classically-infused score, “Your Name on My Lips” will transport you back to when love was earnest, feelings deep, and romance unabashedly unapologetic.

🌧TTS Fringe 3 proudly presents “Rain On New Year’s Eve” 🌧

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⭐️Presented by Project Audion

🌧Project Audion presents a recreation of the classic OTR Quiet Please episode titled "Rain on New Year's Eve." It's a small, spooky story about movies, monsters, and midnight, written by Wyllis Cooper, master of radio macabre which originally aired December 31, 1947.

For this transcribed-live national recreation, Pete Lutz in Corpus Christi Texas directs and appears in the show, along with Dana Gonsalves, Jessica Mathews, and Marty Bufalini from WWJ radio in Detroit. Larry Groebe created the organ links and handled production elements.

🕯TTS Fringe 3 proudly presents “A Christmas Carol In The Dark”🕯

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⭐️Presented by A Theatre In The Dark

🕯Do you believe in ghosts? Turn off your screen and crank up your speakers as you journey with us into the dark...

Who hasn’t heard of Ebenezer Scrooge? Well, you’ve never heard him like this: Charles Dickens' immortal holiday classic comes to life with A Theater in the Dark's signature audio style as listeners join Scrooge's ghostly Christmas Eve journey through darkness towards light. While the script reveres Dickens' language, actors original broadcasting in real time from Chicago, Vancouver, and Philadelphia breathe fresh life into this Christmas Carol.

Creative Team

The Three Storytellers: SARAH ALTHEN, KATHLEEN PULS ANDRADE, and MACK GORDON
Scrooge: COREY BRADBERRY

Adapted & Directed by MACK GORDON
Adapted from the novella by CHARLES DICKENS
Featuring Original Music by JAKE SORGEN
Sound Design: MACK GORDON
Stage Manager/Sound Engineer: COREY BRADBERRY

🐎TTS Fringe 3 proudly presents The Six Shooter “Britt Ponsett’s Christmas Carol” 🐎

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⭐️Presented by Project Audion

🐎 Project Audion turns to Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol." There were many adaptations during the Golden Age of Radio, but one of the cleverest and most charming was when it was transplanted to the Old West for a Christmas episode of the Jimmy Stewart western "The Six Shooter" which aired from 1953 to 1954. The story of Eben and Jake - and how and why Stewart's character Britt Ponsett tells it - makes for a delightful half hour.

Our cast for this recreation is our most wide-ranging in both location and age:

BRITT PONSETT: Ric Spiegel, TX

JOHNNY CARVILLE: Austin Mosher, NY

EBEN SCROOGE: Stanley Dyrector, CA

BOB CRATCHITT: Chris Marcellus, UT

BELLE / MRS CRATCHITT: Rachel Pulliam, MO

AUNT MILLIE: Denise Cline, KY

NEPHEW: Ken Raney, TX

ANNOUNCER: Paul Arbisi, IL

JAKE MARLEY: Joe Mendell, UK

GHOST: Richard Huitema, FL

Sound is by Ken Raney, with direction, production, & music by Larry Groebe

👑TTS Fringe 3 proudly presents “Wicked Cinderella”👑

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⭐️Written by Benjamin Peel

👑 The actress who was playing Cinderella is in her dressing room

about to go on stage to play the Wicked Stepmother for the first

time instead owing to that performers indisposition it becomes

apparent that all is not quite as it seems.

Cast

Aryana Ramkhalawon - Cinderella

Vicky Wild - Wicked Stepmother

Benjamin Peel - Deputy Stage Manager

(Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org Source: incompetech.com Artist: incompetech.com Audience Sound Effect BBC Sound Effects Library)

🎄TTS Fringe 3 proudly presents “The Plot To Overthrow Christmas”🎄

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"Did you hear about the plot to overthrow Christmas?

Well, gather ye now from Maine to the Isthmus

of Panama, and listen to the story of the utter inglory

of some gory goings-on in hell.

It happened down there that the fiends held a meeting

for the purpose of defeating

Christmas. With the aid of a fade, a fade on the radio,

we'll take you there with a hi and hey-di-ho!"

⭐️Presented by Project Audion

🎄 Project Audion has lovingly recreated Norman Corwin's charming 1938 radio fantasy using some of our best cross-country vocal talent performing live, augmented by a few visual effects. Our sterling cast includes Doug Fain, Dana Gonsalves, Les Marsden, Sally Martinez, Chris Messersmith, Duane Noch, Brad Oxnam, Patte Rosebank, and Lothar Tuppan, with Larry Groebe directing.

Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode six of New Musical Monday as we showcase selections from the new musical “Love Can Break Your Heart” by Barry Brown

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Love Can Break Your Heart is a musical, with music, lyrics and script written by Barry Brown.

It is set in a residential hotel and tells the love stories of its residents and guests, with them looking for love, finding love and losing love.

Love is a theme we can all relate to, we all like a tugging of the heart strings.

Spoiler alert. Love Can Break Your Heart will be a rollercoaster ride of emotions, be prepared, bring a box of tissues.

Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode three of New Musical Monday as we showcase selections from the new musical “Go, My Child” by Eric Sirota

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Leaving one’s parents, infertility and the search for truth, set against a background of xenophobia; 3000 years ago, but particularly relevant today. Set in ancient Mesopotamia, "Go, My Child" is an original account of the early lives of biblical characters Abraham and Sarah.

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Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode three of New Musical Monday as we showcase selections from the new musical “Paulie, the murder mystery musical”

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Life is great; well, at least, as great as it can be at Parkers High. Five friends- Holly, Amber, Johnny, Curtis, and Paulie- have all grown in different directions. Suddenly, Paulie is murdered. Everyone has a motive. Now, Holly, Amber, Johnny, Curtis, and the rest of the school have to figure something out- who killed Paulie?

THORNHILL THEATRE SPACE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE REUNION REHEARSED READING OF “FRED” A NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL - PART 3️⃣

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Act one ended with Brooke and Emma calling for an ambulance after finding maureen unresponsive. They wonder who could of knocked on the door to make them aware there was something wrong.

The cast of the 2018 Tweed Theatre Company’s (New South Wales, Australia) production of “FRED” have reunited for a rehearsed virtual reading of the production that brought them together four years ago! Directed by TTS Artistic Director Ryan Thornhill, “FRED” was written by Wendy Waters with music by Wendy Waters and Ian Camilleri.

Three women living side by side in adjoining apartments in any crowded major city fantasize about an outside rescuer whilst ignoring the potential friend living right next door. However, when the power in the building fails an electrician called FRED is sent to fix it and as he fixes the fuses, he chats to each woman individually and comes up with a plan to unite them in friendship and purpose.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Blue Curtains Brisbane: Stories from the Stalls

Musical Theatre Radio

Jean-Paul Yovanof

The Fame Reporter

Theatre Weekly

BroadwayWorld

THORNHILL THEATRE SPACE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE REUNION REHEARSED READING OF “FRED” A NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL - PART 2️⃣

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We last left the girls having electrical problems while dining at Maureens apartment. After a call is made they are assured that a man named FRED will come fix their problems on Saturday morning.

PART 3️⃣ - Friday, March 25th - 7pm AEST

The cast of the 2018 Tweed Theatre Company’s (New South Wales, Australia) production of “FRED” have reunited for a rehearsed virtual reading of the production that brought them together four years ago! Directed by TTS Artistic Director Ryan Thornhill, “FRED” was written by Wendy Waters with music by Wendy Waters and Ian Camilleri.

Three women living side by side in adjoining apartments in any crowded major city fantasize about an outside rescuer whilst ignoring the potential friend living right next door. However, when the power in the building fails an electrician called FRED is sent to fix it and as he fixes the fuses, he chats to each woman individually and comes up with a plan to unite them in friendship and purpose.

THORNHILL THEATRE SPACE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE REUNION REHEARSED READING OF “FRED” A NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL - PART 1️⃣

#virtualtheatre

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#musicaltheatre

#newmusical

The cast of the 2018 Tweed Theatre Company’s (New South Wales, Australia) production of “FRED” have reunited for a rehearsed virtual reading of the production that brought them together four years ago! Directed by TTS Artistic Director Ryan Thornhill, “FRED” was written by Wendy Waters with music by Wendy Waters and Ian Camilleri.

Three women living side by side in adjoining apartments in any crowded major city fantasize about an outside rescuer whilst ignoring the potential friend living right next door. However, when the power in the building fails an electrician called FRED is sent to fix it and as he fixes the fuses, he chats to each woman individually and comes up with a plan to unite them in friendship and purpose.

🎧AUDIO FRINGE #TTSFringe2 - “Little Ships”🎧

⛵️“Little Ships”⛵️

⭐️A Musical by Danny McAvoy

⛵️Set in 1940s the play follows the lives and adventures of Darragh and Sinéadh Geoghegan and their children Fergal, Néall, Meadhbh and Siobhán, and includes Darragh’s Irish father Sean Geoghegan and Sinéadh’s Irish mother Mary Rafferty, all of whom live together in Brixham, Devon, England. Darrah calls his children his “Little Ships” due to their familiarity with everything to do with the sea.

Darragh had a French mother, now deceased, and has a family in France including a brother called Didier Geoghegan, whose wife is called Cécile, and a sister called Émilie Bertrand.

Darrah returns from the Spanish Civil War where he fought against Franco in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. He feels compelled to join his French family to continue his fight against fascism at the start of the second World war. He goes to France and whilst there he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart Claudine.

As a member of the French 1st Army, Darrah is trapped in Lille defending the allied retreat to Dunkirk.

Darrah’s children, all of whom have spent their lives in and on the sea, sail their boats to Calais to bring their father home.

They stop off at some friends in Cornwall who join them on their quest. Their now three boats are then intercepted by the British Royal Navy and escorted to Ramsgate and become a part of the flotilla of little ships that go to Dunkirk to evacuate the British and French armies that are trapped there.

At Dunkirk one of the Geoghegan boats breaks off from the flotilla and sails up the canals and rivers from Dunkirk to Lille and, after some difficulties, brings home a wounded Darrah to Brixham.

The family is happily reunited and Darragh recovers. There is an unexpected twist at the end.

The play opens and closes in 2020 with Siobhán telling her great grandchildren a bedtime story about her great adventure saving her Dadda.

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Website: unitymusicals.com

🎧AUDIO FRINGE #TTSFringe2 - “The Student Who Knows”🎧

🚌“The Student Who Knows” by Benjamin Peel 🚌

🚍Two students Keira and Jake find themselves sat next to each other on a long coach journey.

⭐️With Katie Leonard as Keira and Frankie Espin as Jake.

⭐️Written & Produced by Benjamin Peel

🎵Music - Wind Riders by Asher Fulero and Twilight Train by Dan Lebowitz
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🎧AUDIO FRINGE #TTSFringe2 - “[Emerging Voices]”🎧

🌱“[Emerging Voices]”🌱

🎭A selection of short plays by Theatre students from Ruth Asawa School of the Arts: Hana Rudoff, Karen Ear, Colten Hitchcock, Lucia Pachynski-Hoopes, Phillip Wong, Itohan Ediae, Sally Meeks, and Lan Lan Honda-Rottler

Directed by Ariella Wolfe

Stage Management by J. Lynn Dutra

Featuring: Jasmine Washington, Edward Hong, Pilar Gonzales, John Cody Fasano, Stephanie Fields, and Scott Schwerdtfeger.

Produced by Sandcastle Theatre Company 🇺🇸

🌱[Emerging Voices] features eight short plays about relationships, forgiveness, waking up, and finding your voice, plus some twists and turns along the way. These stories take us from the everyday to the surreal and back again, inviting us to dig deep and reflect on what it means to be alive.

About the Playwrights:

The student-playwrights whose work we selected for this production were in the 10th-12th grade during the 2020-2021 school year. They wrote their scripts under the supervision of Aren Haun in the Theatre Department at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.

Music by Lyle Workman

Sandcastle Theater Company is an emerging theater company committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories.

Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.

Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode six of New Musical Monday as we present selections from the new musical “Uprising!”

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Danny McAvoy's musical Uprising! is about the 1549 peasants uprising in Norfolk, England. By the summer of 1549, angry people in many parts of England were protesting about the enclosure of common land by the barons for lucrative sheep farming. The baron’s hedges and fences were torn down and camps of armed protesters formed in many places, the largest was just outside Norwich in Norfolk.

Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode five of New Musical Monday as we present music from Paper Mache Theatre

Paper Mache Theatre is a company set up by a group of young people studying acting at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. This project started as an assignment, online, and became something that helped us and motivated us through lockdown. And has kept us excited about our craft when graduating into the industry seems more daunting than ever.

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Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode two of New Musical Monday with selections from the musical “Soviet Zion” by

Giles Howe, Katy Lipson and Roberto Trippini.

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The new musical drama SOVIET ZION tells the story of two families who each move to Siberia, participating in the real-life movement that sought to create there a Yiddish-speaking, Socialist utopia.

To learn more about Soviet Zion:

Instagram: @sovietzion

Website: www.sovietzion.com

Thornhill Theatre Space is proud to present the premiere episode of Season 2 of New Musical Monday.

Join TTS Artistic Director, Ryan Thornhill as he sits down, live and virtual, to talk to the members of the theatre company It’s A Little Musical.

LIVE ONLINE EVENT: Monday, June 7th @ 7pm EST (Locations: Thornhill Theatre Space Facebook Page and YouTube Channel)

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Thornhill Theatre Space presents episode 3 of our series New Musical Monday. Join us on February 1st as we present selections from the musical “Alexander” Book and Lyrics by Wendy Waters and Music by Ian Camilleri and Wendy Waters

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ALEXANDER is a book musical based on the life of Alexander the Great. The map of Alexander’s quest is well-known, less well-known is the map of his inner journey from inspired conqueror determined to unite the world under the banner of Democracy to the disillusioned narcissist who came to believe his own hype that he was a God and therefore invincible.

In this musical Alexander is seen through the eyes of the people closest to him, his mother Olympias whose ambition found traction in her genius son, Hephastion, his first great love and 2IC, Bagoas the gentle and wise houseboy whose loyalty was absolute and finally his wife, Roxanne who longed for his unrequited love.

The show is a fusion of ancient and modern dress and times. The overall statement is my strong belief that all wars are senseless and all empires crumble.

Thornhill Theatre Space presents the second episode of our series New Musical Monday with selections from “Do You Remember Me?” By Wilton and Barry.

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The story is influenced by Governments taking children away from their parents to be assimilated into the European Culture in church/state run schools in Australia and Canada and the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, where girls and young women deemed to be not normal, were forced into working and adapting to the Catholic faith.

Do You Remember Me tells the story of two children taken from their parents and their attempt to escape.

An exciting mix of songs ranging from rock to acoustic to haunting ballads, Do You Remember Me? has something for everyone, while highlighting issues that many people have no awareness of.

The waiting room" is a monologue inspired by real life events about the elusive sense of belonging, the ever-shifting perception of reality, and our modern day struggles of finding a place called home.

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