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COVID-19 has forced Brush Creek to cancel the 2020 season

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Brush Creek Playhouse: 2020 Season

Brush Creek Playhouse was forced by the COVID-19 emergency to cancel our 2020 season (following the first two weeks of The True Tale of the Sleeping Beauty). We made this decision reluctantly, but it was necessary both to comply with the state’s mandates and to ensure that our volunteers and audience members remain safe and healthy.

We have tentatively planned a three-show season for 2021, beginning with the children’s show in late Spring, rather than in Winter. We hope that we will be able to operate as planned and return to a full schedule in 2022.

Canceled — Final weekend of “Sleeping Beauty” (3/13-15)

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As we have continued to evaluate the overall situation regarding COVID-19, the Brush Creek Board reluctantly decided to cancel — or at least postpone — the final weekend of performances for The True Tale of the Sleeping Beauty.  We do hope to reschedule the performances when the situation stabilizes — so that more audience members can appreciate the hard work these young actors have put into their production!

Anyone who purchased tickets in advance should contact Michael Wood at mdwelpis@comcast.net or (503)508-3682 to arrange for a refund or for a credit to attend a future performance here at Brush Creek Playhouse.

“The True Tale of the Sleeping Beauty” opens Brush Creek’s 2020 season

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Brush Creek will be opening our 2020 season on Friday, February 28 with The True Tale of the Sleeping Beauty, written by Emily Wood and Michael Wood. Director Linda Zellner and her two complete casts of young actors are hard at work preparing the production for stage.

This delightful take on the classic fairy tale returns to the Brush Creek stage, where it first appeared in 2014. The production will run for three weekends, with evening performances at 7 pm on Fridays and Saturdays and matinees at 2 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets  cost $10 ($8 for children 12 and under, students, and seniors 60 and over) and are available at our two ticket-selling partners, Runaway Art & Craft Studio in downtown Salem and Books-N-Time in downtown Silverton). They will also be available at the door beginning 30 minutes before each performance.

The story of the Sleeping Beauty in her castle is a familiar one. The original tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm include some intriguing details — such as the lack of satisfactory tableware as the reason for the evil enchanter’s exclusion from the party (the original tale also includes a total of 13 “wise women” – Brush Creek’s production reduces that number to a more manageable seven).

The True Tale of the Sleeping Beauty gives each of the enchanters a personality of her (or his) own. The six “good” enchanters encounter mutual suspicion, misunderstanding, courage, and even nobility in the face of certain defeat by their powerful former comrade Crimson. Ultimately, though, the story remains the story of true love, and of the curse, which in turn provides a dramatic and powerful villain – a villain whose evil and magic ultimately must face the nature of love and the promises of past friendship.

The play is being produced by arrangement with Evander Dramatic Press.

 

Annual Brush Creek Membership Meeting to Take Place Sunday, Sept. 15

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The Brush Creek Board has scheduled the annual Brush Creek membership meeting to take place at 6 pm on Sunday, September 15. The meeting will include a report on Brush Creek’s activities and financial status, as well as elections for the 2020 President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary.

All members are welcome to attend and to participate in the decisions of the body. The general public is also welcome to attend and to participate in the discussion.

Brush Creek holds open auditions for “Dracula” and “Christmas Belles”

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Brush Creek is holding Open Auditions for not one, but TWO GREAT SHOWS — “DRACULA” and “CHRISTMAS BELLES” — at 6 pm, Monday, August 19, and 6 pm, Tuesday, August 20 — at Brush Creek Playhouse (11535 Silverton Rd, Silverton)

Brush Creek will be looking to cast the final two shows of the 2019 season with these open auditions. Interested actors — and would-be actors — are welcome to audition for either, or both productions.

The script for Brush Creek’s “Dracula” is the classic play, written by John L. Balderston, Hamilton Deane, and Bram Stoker (the author of the classic novel on which it is based). Norman Gouveia will be directing.

In the story, Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanatorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is finally laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. The play is intended for all who love thrills in the theater, and is appropriate for all groups.

The show itself will run Friday, Oct 18 thru Sunday, Nov 3, with a special Halloween performance as part of the production.

Norman can be reached at Norman@msnproperties.com.

The same two evenings, Brush Creek will also be holding open auditions for “Christmas Belles,” written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten. Brush Creek audiences have been delighted by Jones-Hope-Wooten comedies before, and this offering — directed by Franca Hernandez — promises a holiday basket full of laughs.

A church Christmas program spins hilariously out of control in this Southern farce about squabbling sisters, family secrets, a surly Santa, a vengeful sheep and a reluctant Elvis impersonator. There are parts for 7 women and 4 men. Most characters are between ages 40/50 with two in their 20s. If you have questions, please contact the director Franca Hernandez at francahernandez@hotmail.com. Let her know if you’d like a copy of the script and she will arrange to get one to you.

It’s Christmas time in small town Fayro, Texas and the Futrelle sisters – Frankie, Twink and Honey Raye, Fayro’s lively and wacky threesome are trying to make the best of a stressful holiday season. Frankie is way pregnant, Twink is in jail for acting out over an unfaithful lover, and Honey Raye, the town’s party girl, wants to redeem herself by putting on the best, brightest, liveliest, more colorful Christmas pageant ever – Bethlehem-a-Palooza! The scenes are fast, funny and wacky, the sentiments tender and we all learn the spirit of Christmas Texas style.