Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect the health and well-being of our students, staff and the public, the American River College Campus has been closed, classes have moved online, and public events on campus are changed to online.  At this point we are rehearsing and presenting our productions online through Zoom.  Please check back through the semester.  We will post information when we know it.  

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THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE

Written by John Olive

Directed by Sam Williams

The Voice of the Prairie explores the early days of radio when a broadcaster could be a one-man road-show radio station.  With Davey as the accomplished storyteller, a radio salesman who has set up an unlicensed radio station, hears him and convinces him to tell his tales over the airwaves.  Out go stories about his boyhood travels across the plains jumping trains with Frankie, and the public is hooked.  

Join us on this journey filled with warm, tender and comedic echos from the nostalgia of youth and first love in the 1890s , to adventures across the years and the wide open plains,   to the new fangled radio times of the 1920s.  It is sure to warm every heart.

AUDITIONS:  Will be done over Zoom. January 3 & 4, 2021.

You must sign up for a specific audition time slot via email:  willias@arc.losrios.edu.

Please select one of the audition days below:

Sunday Jan. 3, 2021 from 6p-9p.  Auditionees will need to select a 1 hour time slot: 6pm, 7pm or 8pm.   (Zoom meeting # 915-4267-7073   Passcode:  Prairie)

Monday  Jan. 4, 2021 from 6p-9p.  Auditionees will need to select a 1 hour time slot: 6pm, 7pm or 8pm.   (Zoom meeting # 980-7505-8191   Passcode:  Prairie)

You will need to memorize a 1 to 2 minute monologue (preferably  "upbeat") for the audition.  Be prepared to stay the entire hour of your audition slot.  In order to stay informed of ARC news, please connect with American River College Theatre " ARC Theatre Majors, Minors and Maybes" Facebook group.

Callbacks are scheduled for Jan. 5 from 6-9pm.

Cast size is 11 characters.  

We also need singers, guitarist, and fiddle players for the music of the prairie.

The rehearsal / production period is from Jan. 6 through Feb. 25, 2021.

Live performances will be streamed Feb. 26, 27, 28, March 5, 6, 7, 2021.

Please go online to find out more info about the beautiful "storytelling" of life on the American Prairie in the early radio days

For more information, contact Sam Williams at willias@arc.losrios.edu.