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Dance, sing, act! AUDITIONS YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Th

Dance, sing, act!
AUDITIONS
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
The Mel Brooks Musical
Book By: Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music By: Mel Brooks
Direction & Choregraphy by Susan Stroman
Directed by Joel Lewsaw
Asst Director Melinda Lewsaw
Choreographer & Vocal Director Becca Miinch
Technical Director & Producer Cyndy Silvius
AUDITION DATES:
Thursday May 22nd, 2025 | 6pm – 9pm
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 | 6pm – 9pm
Must email melindalewsaw@yahoo.ca to set up a 10 min audition time slot. Please put YF auditions in the memo line. For auditions, you must prepare 2 minutes of a Broadway song that best shows off your vocal abilities–it may be one from the show. You may also be asked to cold- read a scene for one or more characters during your audition.
DANCE AUDITIONS:
Monday, May 25th, 2025 | 6:30pm
There are several large dance scenes in this production, so anyone auditioning for a role in the show must also come for a dance audition. These will be done in several small groups at various time slots. Come prepared to tap -tap shoes not required for auditions. The show contains some bawdy humour and innuendo, so the recommended age for performers is 16+.
Young Frankenstein is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI) All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIshows.com
Sponsored by Municipality of Leamington and Chances Gaming Lounge
https://banktheatre.com/project/young-frankenstein-auditions/
PERFORMANCE DATES - OCTOBER 17-19 & 24-26

Be sure to pick up your copy of the Southpoint Sun

Be sure to pick up your copy of the Southpoint Sun to read all about WODL Festival 2025 hosted by The Bank Theatre. Many thanks to the WODL and The Bank Theatre Boards of Directors, festival committee, award nominees, award winners, casts and crews, volunteers and all of you patrons who joined us for encore adjudicated productions by Elmira Theatre Company ~ Forever Love, Theatre Woodstock ~ My Old Lady, and The Bank Theatre ~ Halfway There. Special thanks as well to Paula Wing, Trevor Smith Diggins, and Mark Mooney for the wonderful workshops, Out of Festival adjudicator Trevor Smith Diggins and In Festival Adjudicator Lindsay Price.
Wishing you all wonderful and successful upcoming seasons and much success wished to the 2026 WODL Festival committee and participants!
Full list of award - in festival - https://0901.nccdn.net/4_2/000/000/024/ec9/wodl-2025-in-festival-winners.pdf

Be sure to pick up your copy of the Southpoint Sun

Be sure to pick up your copy of the Southpoint Sun to read all about WODL Festival 2025 hosted by The Bank Theatre. Many thanks to the WODL and The Bank Theatre Boards of Directors, festival committee, award nominees, award winners, casts and crews, volunteers and all of you patrons who joined us for encore adjudicated productions by Elmira Theatre Company ~ Forever Love, Theatre Woodstock ~ My Old Lady, and The Bank Theatre ~ Halfway There. Special thanks as well to Paula Wing, Trevor Smith Diggins, and Mark Mooney for the wonderful workshops, Out of Festival adjudicator Trevor Smith Diggins and In Festival Adjudicator Lindsay Price.
Wishing you all wonderful and successful upcoming seasons and much success wished to the 2026 WODL Festival committee and participants!
https://southpointsun.ca/current_issue/
Full list of award - in festival - https://0901.nccdn.net/4_2/000/000/024/ec9/wodl-2025-in-festival-winners.pdf

This Saturday afternoon at The Bank Theatre please

This Saturday afternoon at The Bank Theatre please join us in support of Community Living Essex County as they present the award winning production of "The Downs" written and performed by Sheryl Scott!
The Downs tells the story of a Miramichi, N.B., farm wife, Millie Johnson, who has five daughters but no sons to help her husband on the farm in the 1940s. She then gives birth to a boy and finds unexpected joy, love and acceptance.
Tickets are $20 per person and are available online at https://banktheatre.com/project/the-downs/
Accessible seating is now very limited. Please contact Michelle at manager@banktheatre.com if you are in need of accessible seating.

These volunteers are what makes a festival or any

That is a wrap for WODL Festival 2025! Congratulat

That is a wrap for WODL Festival 2025! Congratulations to all of the nominees and those who took home the awards. WE are all winners in community theatre!
Many thanks to all of the WODL Board, all of the festival committee, all of the casts, crews and dedicated volunteers, workshop presenters, award presenters, adjudicators, opening ceremony and gala coordinators and our audiences! The Bank Theatre was honoured to host!
Maybe you would like to host WODL Festival in 2026?! We did try to pass the torch this afternoon with Dean Valentino running through the gala room to pass it on, but alas no such luck! Please contact WODL President Sue Garner if interested! We promise you'll work hard, but you'll also have an amazing experience, make new friends, be amazed with fantastic productions, excellent learning workshops and so much more! Good night everyone!

Today we wrap up the WODL Festival with the Awards

Today we wrap up the WODL Festival with the Awards Gala Brunch at the Best Western Plus Leamington. The nominees are many and we wish everyone good luck today! You are all winners!

The curtain fell last night at The Bank Theatre for three shows beginning Thursday night ~ Forever Love presented by Elmira Theatre Company, Friday night with My Old Lady presented by Theatre Woodstock and last night Halfway There was presented by The Bank Theatre. All shows received standing ovations for their quality well done productions! They were all amazing to work with!

The workshops have also now concluded and we thank Paula Wing for bringing us a playwriting workshop, Trevor Smith Diggins with the actors gym and Mark Mooney for bringing the stage to light!

Our deepest thank you to all of our volunteers at the hotel and The Bank Theatre, the festival committee and to all from WODL and the other theatres above for taking part! As always you go above and beyond for the love of community theatre. You all deserve standing ovations too!

Final theatrical production of the WODL Festival 2

Final theatrical production of the WODL Festival 2025 this time with the crew of Halfway There presented tonight by The Bank Theatre, loading in their set. So many interlocking pieces to a festival of this magnitude. There are some tickets still available for tonights show online at https://banktheatre.com/wodl-2025/

Special thanks to @soulartist90 whose work you will see on the set tonight and Rick Latam for the sign and Legacy Auctions & Retail for furniture.

Many thanks and big bravo to Elmira Theatre Company ~ Forever Love and Theatre Woodstock ~ My Old Lady, for their amazing casts and crews and well done productions! It's been an honour to host you and learn from such well established theatre companies! BRAVOOOOOOO!!!!

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