Anything Goes!
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Original Book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse - New Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman
Directed by Roy Bracken
Choreographer: Michael Dennis
Musical Directors: Vicki Baroco 
Vocal Direction: Marilyn Shugart
Conductor: Don Snowden
Costumes: Edee Green
Technical Director: Robert Gandrup

Auditions: Monday and Tuesday, September 17 and 18, 7:00pm, Ashmore Auditorium
PLEASE PREPARE ONE VERSE of a Broadway style song. An accompanist will be provided. (A CD player will be available to those who will be using background tracks). 
WEAR COMFORTABLE CLOTHING, as a dance audition will take place immediately after the vocal auditions. COLD READINGS from the script will be done on Wednesday, September 19 for Call Backs only.

Performances: November 9 - 11 and 15 – 18, 7:30pm Friday and Saturday; 2:30 pm Sunday

Synopsis: The S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, carries an unusual group of passengers. Included amongst them are a gangster (Moonface Martin), a wealthy debutante and her mother (Hope and Evangeline Harcourt), a nightclub singer (Reno Sweeny), and a wealthy New York businessman and his stowaway assistant (Elisha Witney and Billy Crocker). It turns out that Hope is Billy's long-lost love. Unfortunately, she is now engaged to a wealthy Englishman, Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. After a series of comedic happenings, Billy manages to win back Hope. Meanwhile, Billy's friend, Reno, manages to seduce and win Lord Evelyn. All this happens while Moonface Martin attempts to escape the law and Hope's mother strives to maintain her social status.

Brutal Imagination
A Pensacola Junior College Lyceum Presentation
by Cornelius Eady
Directed by Rodney Whatley

Auditions: Wednesday and Thursday, September 19 and 20, 7:00 pm, Bldg. 8, Room 851. Cold reading auditions will be held.

Performances: November 13 & 14, 7:30 p.m., Amos Performance Studio

Synopsis: Eady received the 2002 Oppenheimer Award for most impressive New York debut for Brutal Imagination. Based on his book of poetry, the play imagines nine days of confrontation between baby killer Susan Smith and the black stranger she creates to shift blame for the deaths of her children. Eady is coming to PJC in November to do a poetry reading and observe the production of Brutal Imagination directed by PJC Theatre.

The Hairy Ape
by Eugene O'Neill
Directed by Rodney Whatley

Auditions: Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15, 7:00 pm, Ashmore Auditorium. Cold reading auditions will be held.

Performances: February 22-24 and February 29-March 2, 7:30 pm Friday and Saturday; 2:30 pm Sunday

Synopsis: The Hairy Ape tells the story of a brutish, unthinking laborer known as Yank, as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. At first Yank feels secure as he stokes the engines of an ocean liner, and is highly confident in his physical power over the ship's engines. However, when a weak but rich daughter of an industrialist in the steel business refers to him as a "filthy beast," Yank undergoes a crisis of identity. He leaves the ship and wanders into Manhattan, only to find he does not belong anywhere; neither with the socialites on Fifth Avenue, nor with the labor organizers on the waterfront. Finally he is reduced to seeking a kindred being in the gorilla in the zoo and dies in the animal's embrace.

M.A.S.H.
by Tim Kelly from the book by Richard Hooker
Directed by Rodney Whatley

Auditions: Monday and Tuesday, April 7 and 8, 7:00 pm, Ashmore Auditorium
Cold reading auditions will be held.

Performances: May 16-18 and 23-25, 7:30 pm Friday and Saturday; 2:30 pm Sunday

Synopsis: M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and joining it are two unpredictable madcaps, Hawkeye and Duke. They can't be dealt with casually, however, because they are also two of the best chest surgeons in South Korea. They decide to wage a campaign to get a young Korean to the United States and entered in a good school. The thread of this effort helps tie together the pileup of comic adventures that pyramid right before the eyes of your astonished and hysterical audience! Hawkeye has a scene with a woman psychiatrist who believes he's been trying to lobster-trap mermaids in a rice paddy! There's a jolly encounter with the baby-talking Bonwit sisters, the worst tap-dancing act the U.S.O. ever sent overseas. A sergeant is selling dumb GIs fishing rights in the Bay of Phum. Radar O'Reilly, a soldier with incredible hearing, anticipates things before they happen. The proprietor of a painless dental clinic is cured of dark moods by the recreation of an old monster movie—and a monster! It's all here, including a little romance mixed in with dramatic moments and a genuine love of life. Oh, yes—the Korean boy does get his education in the United States!

The 2008 Summer High School Onstage Workshop (S.H.O.W.) presents
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
Music & Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Directed by Rodney Whatley

Auditions: Monday and Tuesday, June 23 and 24, 8:00 am, Ashmore Auditorium

Performances: August 1-3 and 8-10, 2008