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Foothills Performing Arts
Foothills Performing Arts announces its 31st Annual Willy
Awards Banquet to be held on
The Willy logo (a stage screw) is a piece of theatrical hardware used
for securing scenery supports on a versatile stage.
Artistic director, Bill Wilson, chose the symbol in 1978.
Up for awards for Best Production are
You’re A Good Man, Charlie
Brown based on the Charles
Schultz comic Snoopy and
directed by Corrie Davis /
Stephen King’s
Misery
directed by Scott Woodard /
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa
Claus directed by Joshua Scott/
Lying In State, written
by David C. Hyer and directed by Michael Philyaw
/ John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men,
directed by Keith Smith / and
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey
Business, based on the books by Barbara Park and directed by Amber Ellis.
Awards will be given for Best Character Actress and Actor, Best
Supporting Actress and Actor, and Best Leading Actress and Actor for
adults and children categories. Also presented will be the Eliza F.
Bishop Award for Volunteer of the Year.
Information will be available on our 2008-09 Season which includes:
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate
Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth
written by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr.
/ The Raindrop Waltz written by NC storyteller Gary Carden
/ A Tuna Christmas by Ed
Howard, Joe Sears & Jaston Williams
/ The Memory of Water
written by Shelagh Stephenson
/ Cheaper By the Dozen based on the book by Frank Gilbreth &
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey / and
Neil Simon’s
Lost In Yonkers.
Positions are available for Artistic and Technical Direction.
Audition information is available on-line
www.foothillspeformingarts.org
Mooresridge will provide a catered dinner for the banquet consisting of
roast beef, chicken, tossed salad, roasted potatoes, rolls, dessert and
drink. The cost is $10.00
per person. Please RSVP by
Our
For more information please call (828) 726-2318 or mail your reservation
to Foothills Performing Arts,
“The Mission of Foothills Performing Arts, Inc. is
to promote, encourage, and develop appreciation of theatre and
involvement in the performing arts.”
The Board would like to thank all that have supported community
theatre in