Deadline to submit the application has been changed to Sunday, June 14, 2019. The term of this position runs from Sept. 1, 2019 through Aug. 31, 2020. More details can be found in the WDI bylaws, which can be found on our website. Other specific questions can be sent to wdipres2017@gmail.com.
Wheaton Drama (WDI) proudly announces auditions for the hilarious comedy, Murdered to Death, by Peter Gordon. Directed by Annie Walker-Bright and produced by Rebecca Poole-Dumper.
Auditions will be held Sunday, January 6 and Monday, January 7, 2019 starting at 7pm, with callbacks as needed on Tuesday, January 8that 7:30 p.m. Auditions will be held at Wheaton Drama’s Playhouse 111, located at 111 N. Hale Street, Wheaton, Illinois. Auditions are open, with no appointments required. Cold readings from the script and sides will be provided for each character at auditions.
Murdered to Death will run March 22 through April 14, 2019; Thursdays/Fridays/Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm. Performances will take place at Wheaton Drama’s Playhouse 111, located at 111 N. Hale Street in downtown Wheaton.
Murdered to Death is the first in the ‘Inspector Pratt’ trilogy of spoofs of the Agatha Christie ‘whodunnit’ genre, with a dash of Inspector Clousseau thrown in for good measure.
The play, set in the 1930s, takes place in an English manor, slightly worse for ware, with worn out decor and furnishings. It introduces the inept and bungling Inspector Pratt, who battles against the odds and his own incompetence to solve the murder of the house’s owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet; will the miscreant be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom or will the audience die laughing first?
Mildred– Late fifties. Moderately wealthy owner of Bagshot House.
Dorothy– Mildred’s niece. Late twenties and rather plain but very appealing.
Bunting– The butler. Sixties. Pedantic and rather creepy.
Colonel Charles Craddock– Early sixties. Dresses in tweeds. Confident but over the top bluster.
Margaret Craddock– The long-suffering but acerbic wife of Charles.
Elizabeth Hartley-Trumpington – Mid twenties. Attractive and stunningly dressed. Very high society.
Pierre Marceau– A french art dealer in his early thirties. An exaggerated french accent. Will need to hear cockney from this character as well. Aha!!!!
Joan Maple – A spinster in her sixties. Amateur sleuth. Think of all the Miss Marples you have ever seen and this is Joan Maple.
Constable Thomkins– Young, bright uniformed village policeman, but well aware of Inspector Pratt’s pratness!!!!
Inspector Pratt – Inept, posing and clumsy. Thinks he so clever but we know better. A master of malapropism, but this is not intentional.
Contact Director Annie Walker-Bright with questions at Bebrightannie@aol.com.
Wheaton Drama is a non-equity theater and offers no pay. Cast members will be required to complete membership with Wheaton Drama in order to participate.
As per our bylaws, there can be additional nominations made at the meeting, but any person being nominated must be present and agree to be nominated.
Questions? contact Past President Mike Boyna at pastwdipres2017@gmail.com.
The Board of Governors seeks a talented visual artist to be its next Design Director, beginning with work for the 2018-19 season.
The Design Director is responsible for the concept to completion of all print and online promotional materials for Wheaton Drama.
These include a unique concept and design for each season, based on the shows to be produced, in the form of a large banner, brochure, etc. Each individual production will require a unique design, as well as multiple print and web pieces based on that design.
This six-week workshop is designed to strengthen acting “muscles.” Through acting games and exercises, students will work each week on a different aspect of acting technique including: movement, voice, characterization and pantomime. Teamwork, focus and listening are added benefits that youngsters can derive from this workshop.
To apply the skills they’ve learned, students will also rehearse a short 15-minute skit to be performed at the end of the final class.
New sessions will be posted throughout the year as registration opens (roughly a month before the class starts).
Grades 1–4: 4 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.
Note: Classes are subject to change based on enrollment. Registration for each class will be open one month before the class begins. If there are not enough students enrolled in any given session, the class may be canceled. Notification of a canceled class will be sent out one week prior to the start of class; all money will be refunded.
Staff: Cindy Bolds is excited to join us again this year as our after-school instructor. Cindy is a longtime WDI member who taught most of the after-school classes last year. She is a certified teacher’s aide.
All instructors undergo an extensive background check.
For more information, please contact Elyse Willis at wdieducation@wheatondrama.org, or call 630.260.1820 and leave a message about registration.