We're getting closer to visiting Grandma's house

The comedy "Over the River and Through the Woods" is getting closer and closer.

The comedy about family opens on Friday night, February 24, at 8 p.m. -- Kernersville Elementary School, Fitzpatrick Auditorium (free parking in the lot adjacent to the auditorium).

Additional shows are Saturday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 26 at 2 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3 at 8 p.m.; and closing show on Sunday, March 4 at 2 p.m.

For ticket prices and other information about the show, visit www.kltheatre.com.

Interested in helping KLT select plays? Play reading meets Monday, Jan. 30th.

Now that the 2012-2013 season shows have been firmly set (see below), it's time for our all-volunteer play reading committee to start the process for 2013-2014. The play reading committee reads a wide range of scripts and develops a narrowed field of recommendations for the KLT Board to contemplate.

The first meeting of the new "season" of play reading will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Monday night, January 30. It will be held in the Kernersville Senior Center, located on the basement level of the Paddison Memorial Library, East Mountain Street, Kernersville. The meeting is open to the public, and especially to people who may be interested in volunteering to read and review play scripts for possible KLT production.

The 2012-2013 season is official!

And we have our next season!

All contracts are now in place for the season that begins later this year at the Folly, as follows:

Fall 2012, Korner's Folly: "The Woman in Black"
Christmas Show 2012: "The Gift of the Magi" and "Believe"
February-March 2013: "Drinking Habits"
June 2013 Musical: "The Drowsy Chaperone"

More details will be forthcoming, but that's the plan!

"Over the River and Through the Woods" cast is announced.

And we have a cast!

KLT will present Joe DiPietro's family comedy, "Over the River and Through the Woods," in late February and early March at Fitzpatrick Auditorium, Kernersville Elementary School - directed by Stan Bernstein. The cast is:

Dick Strohmeier - Nunzio Cristano
Judith Gillis - Emma Cristano
Jordan Googe- Nick Cristano
Janel Jernigan - Caitlin O'Hare
Kay Shelton - Aida Gianelli
Norm Birdsall - Frank Gianelli

Hope to see you at the show!

Same school, different room for auditions on December 15th

OK, due to a recently-uncovered scheduling conflict, we need to make an adjustment to the announcement of OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS auditions.

On the FIRST night of auditions - Thursday, Dec. 15th - auditions will be held in ROOM 122 at the elementary school rather than the auditorium. Enter as you normally would, through the doors to the lobby of the auditorium (auditorium on your left), but turn right down the hallway to the area of the rest rooms. There will be KLT volunteers there on Thursday night to help you find Room 122. (There's a meeting in the auditorium, so don't go there!)

On the SECOND night -- Friday, Dec. 16 -- sign-ups will be in the auditorium lobby and auditions in the auditorium, as originally announced.

Auditions are Dec. 15 and 16 for "Over the River ..."

Auditions for KLT's upcoming production of OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS, a comedy/drama by Joe DiPietro, will be held on Thursday, Dec. 15 and Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, at 7 p.m. Location: the auditorium at Kernersville Elementary School, 512 West Mountain Street. The show is directed by Stan Bernstein of Winston-Salem.

About the play: Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents have retired and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he’s been offered a dream job that would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. The news doesn’t sit so well.

Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely--and single--Caitlin O’Hare as bait.

Roles are: Nick Cristano, in his late 20's to mid 30's; his grandparents: Nunzio Cristano in his 70's and his wife Emma in her 70's, and Frank Gianelli in his 80's and his wife Ida in her 70's. And Caitlin O'Hare, in her 20's to early 30's.

Questions? Call the KLT office at 993-6556 or visit us online at KLTheatre.com - click on auditions.

Opening night is here!

It's opening night! The Doris Baizley adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" starts tonight at 8 p.m., at Main Street Baptist Church in downtown Kernersville. Tickets are available at the door until all spaces are filled. But if you have to miss tonight, there's tomorrow night (Sat., Dec. 3, at 8 p.m.), plus Thursday-Friday-Saturday, Dec. 8-10 at 8 p.m., and a closing performance on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 3 p.m. Come and get in the holiday spirit! For more details, www.kltheatre.com.