RSVP Community Theatre
Our Mission:
Proudly positioned in Asheboro, North Carolina, RSVP Community Theatre is your ticket to live and lively theatre in Randolph County.
Our purpose: to produce a variety of shows year-round for the enjoyment of people of all ages. |
Announcing our
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Our Next Production:
Irving Berlin's
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Annie Oakley is the best shot around, and she manages to support her little brother and sisters by selling the game she hunts. When she's discovered by Col. Buffalo Bill, he persuades this novel sharpshooter to join his Wild West Show.
It only takes one glance for her to fall head over heels for dashing shooting ace Frank Butler, who headlines the show. She soon eclipses Butler as the main attraction – which, while good for business, is bad for romance. Butler hightails it off to join a rival show, his bruised male ego leading the way, but is ultimately pitted against Annie in a final shoot-out.
The rousing, sure-fire finale hits the mark every time in a testament to the power of female ingenuity!
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN scored a bull's-eye when it returned to Broadway in 1999, starring Bernadette Peters and sporting a revised libretto by Tony, Oscar, and Emmy winner Peter Stone. As Newsday reported, Stone's revisions "are sweetly ingenious, and the show is a dream." Stone reshaped the 1946 book to create a Wild West show-within-a-show that frames the ageless "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better" love story of sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Stone has added a secondary romance between the younger sister of Frank's bothersome assistant Dolly, and a boy who is (to Dolly's horror) part Native American. "The book has been updated in ways that pass p.c. muster," reported Time Magazine, "without losing all the fun." Joined to the new book, of course, is that amazing Irving Berlin score, featuring hit after hit after hit. "Irving Berlin's greatest achievement in the theater," wrote the New York Post, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN "will always be a musical for the ages, one of the Broadway theater's enduring triumphs."
Auditions:
Saturday, May 25, 10:00am - 1:00pm;
Monday, May 27, 7:00-9:00pm; and
Wednesday, May 29, 7:00-9:00pm -
at the Randolph Arts Guild, 123 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro
Performances:
July 26-28 and August 2-4, at Asheboro High School
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Annie Oakley is the best shot around, and she manages to support her little brother and sisters by selling the game she hunts. When she's discovered by Col. Buffalo Bill, he persuades this novel sharpshooter to join his Wild West Show.
It only takes one glance for her to fall head over heels for dashing shooting ace Frank Butler, who headlines the show. She soon eclipses Butler as the main attraction – which, while good for business, is bad for romance. Butler hightails it off to join a rival show, his bruised male ego leading the way, but is ultimately pitted against Annie in a final shoot-out.
The rousing, sure-fire finale hits the mark every time in a testament to the power of female ingenuity!
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN scored a bull's-eye when it returned to Broadway in 1999, starring Bernadette Peters and sporting a revised libretto by Tony, Oscar, and Emmy winner Peter Stone. As Newsday reported, Stone's revisions "are sweetly ingenious, and the show is a dream." Stone reshaped the 1946 book to create a Wild West show-within-a-show that frames the ageless "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better" love story of sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Stone has added a secondary romance between the younger sister of Frank's bothersome assistant Dolly, and a boy who is (to Dolly's horror) part Native American. "The book has been updated in ways that pass p.c. muster," reported Time Magazine, "without losing all the fun." Joined to the new book, of course, is that amazing Irving Berlin score, featuring hit after hit after hit. "Irving Berlin's greatest achievement in the theater," wrote the New York Post, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN "will always be a musical for the ages, one of the Broadway theater's enduring triumphs."
Auditions:
Saturday, May 25, 10:00am - 1:00pm;
Monday, May 27, 7:00-9:00pm; and
Wednesday, May 29, 7:00-9:00pm -
at the Randolph Arts Guild, 123 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro
Performances:
July 26-28 and August 2-4, at Asheboro High School
ANNOUNCING our 2013-2014 SEASON!
In celebration of the grand re-opening of the newly renovated Sunset Theatre, RSVP's 2013-2014 season will showcase the “Best of the Sunset” - reprising RSVP Community Theatre favorites from past seasons, including The Odd Couple, Steel Magnolias, and Always…Patsy Cline.
Additionally:
Additionally:
- Our Shakespeare-in-the-Park performance will be Much Ado About Nothing.
- Theatrical readings will include The Serial Killer’s Daughter and A Christmas Carol.
- The Best of the Sunset Season will conclude in Summer 2014 with all-time favorite The Sound of Music.
William Shakespeare's
Much Ado About Nothing
Auditions: Saturday July 13 at 10:00am, Monday July 15 at 7:00pm
Performances: August 30, 31, September 1
Pat Riviere-Seel's
The Serial Killer's Daughter
Auditions: Saturday, September 14
Performances: October 5 and 6
Neil Simon's
The Odd Couple
Auditions: Saturday Sept 14 at 10:00am, Monday Sept 16 at 7:00pm
Performances: October 25, 26, 27 and November 1, 2, 3;
Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol
Auditions: Wednesday evening, December 4
Performances: Friday, December 13, 6:00 and 8:00pm
Steel Magnolias
Auditions: Saturday January 4 at 10:00am and Monday January 6 at 7:00pm
Performances: February 21, 22, 23 and February 28, March 1,2
Always...Patsy Cline
Rehearsals start Monday March 1 with actors off-book.
Performances: April 25, 26, 27 and May 2, 3, 4.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's
The Sound of Music
Auditions: Saturday, May 25 at 10:00am; Monday, May 27 at 7:00pm; and Wednesday, May 29 at 7:00pm
Performances: July 25, 26, 27 and August 1, 2, 3
And ... one more fond look at Our Most Recent Production:
Neil Simon's
The Prisoner
of Second Avenue
Mel Edison finds himself jobless at age 47 and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He and his wife Edna confront the issues surrounding a crushing economic blow that sends Edna into the workforce and Mel onto the couch to watch talk shows. A burglary, a garbage strike, hostile neighbors, and well-intentioned but clueless attempts by Mel's siblings to help them through tough economic times add to the chaos in a Tony award-winning comedy written in 1971 that strikes a familiar chord today.
The Prisoner
of Second Avenue
Mel Edison finds himself jobless at age 47 and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He and his wife Edna confront the issues surrounding a crushing economic blow that sends Edna into the workforce and Mel onto the couch to watch talk shows. A burglary, a garbage strike, hostile neighbors, and well-intentioned but clueless attempts by Mel's siblings to help them through tough economic times add to the chaos in a Tony award-winning comedy written in 1971 that strikes a familiar chord today.
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The Cast:
Mel Edna Harry Pearl Pauline Jessie The Artistic/Production Staff: Director Stage Manager Props Mistress Stage Crew (cleverly doubling as Burglars) |
Travis Walsh Micki Bare Philip Shore Donna Barbre Hunter Trudy Davis Peggy George Kilburn Jim Langer Jordan Willis Michele Dawes Eve Fenberg, Anna Way |
 Mel and Edna begin their arduous journey. Photo by Paul Church, Courier Tribune. |
 The full dysfunctional family in rehearsal. Photo by Paul Church, Courier Tribune. |
 Pearl, Pauline, Jessie squabble over who remembers Mel the best. Photo by Paul Church, Courier Tribune. |
 Harry is left to puzzle over why stale cookies were unceremoniously shoved at him. Photo by Paul Church, Courier Tribune. |
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And we'd love to have you like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
Looking forward to seeing you at ... or IN ... one of our upcoming performances.
(Want to get involved? Click here!)