Calling all cast and crew to our kick-off company meeting for this year's production. (7:00, Tappan auditorium). Hear about the designs and plans for the production, sign up to sell ads, pay dues, talk to your crew heads! There will be a meeting of the leads with the directors following the meeting this year, but the read/sing through is TBA!

The cast list is posted. Congratulations to everyone who tried out!

The callback list is posted!

Auditions are as follows:
Mon, Oct 12 7:00-10:00 p.m. Singing/Dancing
Tues, Oct 13 Acting
Thur, Oct 15 Callbacks

All auditions take place in Tappan Auditorium. We have not been given any special instruction from the choreographer regarding dance steps to learn, etc. Here is a PDF of the music. The songs you will have to choose from are Guys and Dolls, Follow the Fold, or 16 bars of a song of your choice from the show. (Disregard the "Adelaide meets Sarah" page.) If you would like to be considered for a particular part, you could choose a song that character sings in the show. However, this does not guarantee you a callback for that particular part.

Margaret Punch has filed a Burns Park Players story at AnnArbor.com. Check it out: http://www.annarbor.com/neighborhoods/burns-park/

Hello one and all,

Once again it's that time of year! The Burns Park Players will be having our annual fall meeting on Tuesday September 22nd - 7:30 pm in the TAPPAN Auditorium.

This year's show is GUYS AND DOLLS - production dates will be the
weekends of February 4-6 and 11-13. Auditions will take place October 12, 13, with callbacks on October 15 and possibly 16.

Hello Burns Park Players,

The Board has updates for you. We wanted to let you know the following:

1. Publicity and Marketing Subcommittee.
We are forming a new subcommittee of the Board - the Publicity and Marketing Subcommittee. A primary goal for this year is to increase our ticket revenue without increasing ticket prices - in other words, to sell more tickets/sell-out all of our shows. Given the loss of the Ann Arbor news, which has traditionally been one of our primary way of communicating with the public, we want to be very creative about are marketing strategies this year. We want to tap into the creativity and expertise of BPP membership in our planning. So... if you are
interested in serving on the Publicity and Marketing Subcommittee, please let L. Harris know.

2. AnnArbor.com
The Burns Park Players will have a presence on the new AnnArbor.com. Jay Pekala will be our official "contributor" to the Community section blog. So watch for us when the site goes live on July 20th!

3. Facebook
We also have a new Facebook group ("Burns Park Players") - so sign up!! Margaret Punch is the Facebook administrator of the group.

4. One more producer!
Debi Haller has officially joined the Producer team for Guys and Dolls. She has always offered her expertise literally and figuratively behind the scenes, and now we are making it official - so welcome aboard!

5. Ann Herman memorial bench and garden.
As you know, we lost a dear Burns Park Player last year, Ann Herman. A memorial bench and garden is being created by a group of her friends to honor and remember her. Cindy Blum is
organizing this effort - please be in touch with her directly if you would like more information, or would like to contribute perennials or other things to this effort. The garden will be on one of the traffic islands in Ann Arbor Hills, near Ann's home. Though this is not a Burns Park Players project per se, we thought that many of you would like to know about this, and hope you will forgive our use of the BPP mailing list to inform you.

6. Election of officers
Officers (President, Secretary, Treasurer) were determined at the June Board meeting, and are unchanged from last year: President – L. Harris; Treasurer – Margaret Punch; Secretary – Aprille McKay. The remaining Board members at large are Tom Bourque, Deb Odem Stern, Jay Pekala and Jim Wallace.

Great news from the Burns Park Players Board:

First, and most important, we've picked a show, a director and producers!

We're doing Guys and Dolls! Its a musical about small time gamblers and the Salvation Army believers who try to reform their evil ways. The show features fabulous music by Frank Loesser and our staging will make special efforts to integrate the children in fun ways and give women songs to perform in that might be as fun as the ones the men get (although it's hard to top Luck Be a Lady!)

The Ann Arbor News published a fun preview of the show by Roger LeLievre: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/01/ann_arbor...