​The time has come to award those wonderful people who have been involved in productions from the last season! Nominations are due on Wednesday, February 23rd at 6pm. Copy and paste the list of categories and submit your nominations to info@leducdramasociety.com with the subject line Olive Award Nominations (you don't have to fill out every category).
To be eligible, your nominee should have been involved in any of the following shows from the last season(ish): The World Goes 'Round (both attempts), A Bowl of Soup, All Together Now!, and Drinking Habits 2.
To top of this night of fun, we'll have trivia!!

And the categories are...
Running with the Bulls Award (biggest risk taker)
Theatre Matriarch/Patriarch Award
Biggest Diva/Divo Award
Sassy Sauce Award (spices up a rehearsal every time)
Drama Duracell Award (brings a ton of energy)
Top Stage Monkey Award (techie)
Excellence in Expletives Award (knows a lot of #@&!! words)
Ostrich Award (aka Head in the Sand Award....has no idea what’s going on around them most of the time)
Squirrel Standout Award (most likely to be distracted by....Look, something shiny!!)
Duct Tape Award (ability to be a fix for anything)
Most Surprising Performer Award (hmmmm...I didn’t expect that from them)
Kool and the Gang Award (for excellence in group/ensemble work)
Baby’s Bottom Award (smoothest in times of stress)

​We are looking for a pianist to take on the role of accompanist for our spring musical 'Cry Baby'. This show will run May 12-14 at the Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts. If you know anyone who would be interested or if you yourself are a skilled pianist, please send an email with your experience and availability to president@leducdramasociety.com as soon as possible
Rehearsals will most likely run 3 days a week (tentative schedule Sunday afternoons, Monday and Wednesday evenings) and you must also be available for the entire week of May 8th for tech and dress rehearsals. This is going to be a super fun show!
*please note this is a volunteer position*

​Call for Directors!
Spring Musical: Cry-Baby
Venue: The Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts
Tech Week & Performances: May 8th - 14th 2022

If you are interested in directing 'Cry-Baby the Musical', now is the time to throw your hat in the ring! Deadline for application is December 30th. In your application please include any directorial experience and why you would like to be considered for the role of director. Please email Emily at artistic@leducdramasociety.com to apply, or with any questions.

*Preference will be given to current Leduc Drama Society members in good standing.
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It's 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He's a bad boy with a good cause – truth, justice and the pursuit of rock and roll. Cry-Baby and the square rich girl, Allison, are star-crossed lovers at the center of this world. Fueled by hormones and the new rhythms of rock and roll, she turns her back on her squeaky clean boyfriend, Baldwin, to become a "drape" (a Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry-Baby's moll. At the other end of the topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 America, Baldwin is the king of the squares and leads his close-harmony pals against the juvenile delinquents, who are ultimately arrested for arson, sending the drapes all off to prison. It's Romeo and Juliet meets High School Hellcats.

Join me in congratulating Erin McLean, the director for All Together Now!

AUDITIONS

Theatre is back and in a big way!! Join us for a worldwide event All Together Now!

A musical revue to get your toes tapping, heart pumping and maybe just a little nostalgic for all the things we missed during these strange times. Show songs include gems like “ Be Our Guest”, “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” and “ Seasons of Love”!!

Auditions are open to anyone 16 years of age and up. Rehearsals will take place Sundays (time to be determined) and Wednesday evenings. Please prepare your favourite musical theatre piece and come on out to the Leduc Drama Society Playhouse to show your stuff Sunday August 22nd 1-4 or Wednesday August 25th 6-9.
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To book your audition please email director Erin McLean at e_mclean@live.com. If necessary call backs will be held Sunday August 29th 1-4.

It was a new experience for me to be attend a dramatic production by way of Zoom. Certainly, the normal physical connection between the cast and the audience was not possible but, nevertheless, I was pleasantly surprised that my senses of hearing and sight were all the more engaged while watching Leduc Drama Society’s new production, “A Bowl of Soup”, directed by Emily Rutledge.

The setting/presentation of the play, with each character framed and sitting in their own separate kitchens was a bit counter-intuitive to me at first - I didn’t get it. But then, I did, and then it was time to listen.
Each character tells a story. Yes, it was all about food. Well, it was also about family. Actually it was also about memories and hardship and learning. Each vignette is about simple things that turn out to be very meaningful parts of our life. The play was food for the soul.

Becky Gray plays Ashby, who was able to make you actually feel the warmth of gumbo in her body when she spoke. Megan Wagner played Esther who conveyed a welcoming and genuine spirit, and told a touching story. Sharon Reichert was natural and unpretentious in her role as Milly, while Darryl Bleau effectively brought the audience into his world. Eric Laroque was mature, grounded and believable in his portrayal of Oscar. I was touched by emotion as I listened to his story.

A Bowl of Soup reminds the audience that the family that eats together, builds memories together. It shows how soup and stories and hardships can bind us all together in ways we can never predict and which can last a lifetime. And not to be forgotten, that food is good!
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Hats off to the Leduc Drama Society for their commitment to the Arts, even when conditions have been Covid tough. This group shows the same tenacity that the Drama Society showed in years past when their Playhouse was out of service and they had to rehearse in all types of strange venues. Life can be tough but this group show us all how to perservere – as long as someone brings something to eat!

Come and join us for two evenings of great live performances! There will be singing, dancing, and a variety of theatrical performances.

Tickets are $20 per evening. To purchase tickets, e-transfer to treasurer@leducdramasociety.com and indicate which evening you would like to attend.

Covid-19 protocols will be in place in accordance with current AHS guidelines. Masks are mandatory for all audience members.

Here is the full schedule of performances so you can decide which night(s) you would like to attend:

Friday November 20th 7pm Show Time

• Candy Store - Heathers (Trio)
• Always Starting Over - If/Then (Erin McLean)
• Medley on the Art of Nature (Martina Ochsner)
• Piano and Voice Performance (Susanne Ritchie)
• (5 min break )
• Howl’s Moving Castle Guitar Performance (Kenneth Johnson)
• You Can Drive A Person Crazy - Company (Trio)
• I Know Him So Well - Chess (Erin McLean & Sonja Gould)
• I’m Breaking Down - Falsettos (Melanie Dobos)
• (5 minute break)
• Hard Time (Leduc Devon Calmar Play Reading Group)
• Duologue (Fiona and Emily Rutledge)
• Holding Out For A Hero - Footloose (Trio)
• Vocal and Guitar Performance (Fiona Rutledge)
• Piano Performance (Rebecca Gray)

Saturday November 21st 7pm Show Time

• Original Music (Deonna Fetzko)
• Vocal Performances (Keith Gummer and Erin McLean)
• (5 min break)
• Chicken Shoot (Emily Rutledge and Lee-Anna Semenyna)
• (5 min break)
• Electro Swing Dance Solo (Taren Ochsner)
• The Vegetarian’s Nightmare - Poem Reading (Martina Ochsner)
• Hallelujah - Vocal Performance (Martina, Taren , Suzannah and Rachel Ochsner)
• The Common Cold - Poem Reading (Martina Ochsner)
• (5 min break)
• Inaccurate Conceptions (Leduc Devon Calmar Play Reading Group)
• (5 min break)
• Ghost of a Chance (Leduc Devon Calmar Play Reading Group)

Ready to get back to creating, singing and dancing?
GREAT! So are we!!!

We are now casting for men and women to join our production!

The World Goes Round, a musical review featuring magnificent songs from popular musicals such as “Cabaret”, “The Rink”, “Chorus Line”, and many others. This show promises to be full of dancing and singing. A musical spectacular, while following the AHS safety regulations as best as we can! While safety is our concern, we also want to put on the best show possible, so get your dancing shoes, your best antibacterial hand sanitizer and show us your love for Kander and Ebb musicals.

We are looking for
Any gender
Age 17+
Singers and dancers
We need both. So if you can’t carry a tune in a bucket, but you can follow the rhythm, we want you.
If you can wail but got 2 left feet, we want you!!

Rehearsals would be at
Leduc Drama Society in Leduc (4701A 44 St)
Sunday 1-4
Monday 630-9
Wednesday 630-9
Starting in September observing the long weekend.
Show runs Jan 29, 30, 31 and Feb 5 and 6 of 2021 at the Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, also in Leduc.

Director -Christina Estillore
Choreographer- Arman Estillore
Musical Director- Erin McLean

In person auditions are at Leduc Drama Society
August 23rd 12-3pm, 24th 6-8pm and 26th 6-8pm

Singers:
Please prepare your most favourite Broadway or Disney musical song. You can bring your phone in for musical backing.

Dancers:
Please bring shoes and clothes you can dance in and prepare to learn minor choreo. Be prepared to stay for a while.
For those who intend to show us they can do both.. WONDERFUL!! Get your song and dress for dancing!!!
Also be prepared to stay for a while.

Safety protocols will be observed at auditions. Please arrive wearing a mask and your temp will be taking upon arrival.

Please email interest, resume if you have one, or at least a short blurb about your experience, and a headshot to splashwalk@hotmail.com along with your preferred availability.

​Thank you. We look forward to seeing you!

Leduc Drama Society is proud to announce the cast and crew for the spring musical "World Goes ‘Round" opening May at the Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts.
Cast:
Susanne Ritchie
Megan Wagner
Amelia Gilese
Angelina Matheson
Jas Meyer
Morgan Leblanc
Kelly Thompson
Miriam Veugelers
Deonna Fetzko
Maya Molly
Stacey Nagiff
Tahir Nagiff
Ayden Nagiff
Reece Woycheshyn
Director: Christina Estillore
Choreographer: Arman Estillore
Musical Director: Xera Shwetz
Stage manager: Jacob Rempel
Producer: Peter Dickhout
**We are still looking for more male actors, if you are interested, please email a headshot, experience, and a video of you singing your favourite Broadway tune to Christina at splashwalk@hotmail.com **