I'm a recent college graduate, 23, and fairly new to the Boston area.  Now that I'm in the "real world," I need a hobby that I'm passionate about to contrast my mundane cubicle life.  I would love to get involved with community theatre.  I don't have a lot of experience, but I've loved singing and dancing throughout my life.  As for the minimal experience that I do have...I've been on stage in a small community theatre production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat (but I was only 8 at the time!), I played Winifred in Once Upon a Mattress during high school, I worked as a dance teacher for 2 summers at a sleep-away camp in Maine, and last summer I was the drama department's choreographer/assistant director for their production of Annie.  That's about it. 

Does anyone out there know of any welcoming groups in the Boston area?  I've already contacted a theatre and volunteered to help them build their set this weekend.  I figured that would be a good way to inch my way into the community theatre scene.  Does anyone know of any specific places that could use an enthusiastic and reliable gal like myself?  Please post a response or email me at: mailto:KateTheBabysitter@yahoo.com - KateTheBabysitter@yahoo.com

Thanks!!

Kate,  If you walk in and offer to work on a set for a group you have never met, you will endear yourself to them immediately! Offer to sew some costumes and they will believe there is a Santa Claus and he brought Christmas early this year. Really, I think you have come up with the best plan to elbow your way into a community theatre group all by yourself! Good luck and if they don't appreciate you there, move to Iowa where we can use people like you!

Kate, I'm partial to the Walpole Footlighters. They're about to do "Proof"--auditions are the 16th & 17th. Check out their site at http://www.footlighters.com - www.footlighters.com

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Kate, check out http://www.netheater411.com - http://www.netheater411.com , they have lots of info and links to area community theatre. I'm somewhat partial to Arlington Friends of the Drama ( http://www.afdtheatre.org/ - http://www.afdtheatre.org/ ). And Vokes Players (which is not at vokesplayers.org, by the way) is a wonderful group, too ( http://www.members.aol.com/vokesplays/index.html - http://www.members.aol.com/vokesplays/index.html ).

And if you're a dancer, I'd definitely look at Walpole - they still need female dancer/singers for "Pal Joey" ( http://www.footlighters.com/auditions/index.html - http://www.footlighters.com/auditions/index.html ).

And I agree with Eva B - if you show up willing to work on a set or sew costumes or anything like that - you're golden!

If you want to, feel free to e-mail me at: mailto: mailto: KgrK13@excite.com - mailto: KgrK13@excite.com