Henderson Civic Theatre to hold special audition
Friday, January 08, 2010
Most of the cast of Henderson Civic Theatre’s A Piece of My Heart will reunite in March for a special presentation.
“Unfortunately, one cast member will not be able to return to East Texas to join the reunion, so the theater will be holding a special audition at 6 p.m. Friday to fill the part of LeeAnn, an Amerasian nurse who thought she was going to be stationed in Hawaii where ‘everyone looks like’ her and instead wound up in the jungles of Vietnam,” said Alexa Duke, vice president of the theater’s board of directors. The production is somewhat of an decade-delayed encore. “In 1999, Henderson Civic Theatre did something it had never done before and has never done since – it extended the run of a play an extra weekend.” The play was Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart. “It is the story of six women who volunteered to serve in Vietnam and what happened to them and their lives when they came home” she said.
The production is scheduled March 26 and 27 at the Opera House in downtown Henderson.
Trinity Wheeler was the young director of the original production and is taking a break from his tour with the hit Broadway show Rent to return to Henderson to coordinate the reunion show. “The cast was exceptional, and a strong bond was formed between us while working on the project,” Wheeler said. “To this day I have never forgotten the times we shared together.”
“The play was such a memorable experience for the entire cast,” Duke said. “They jumped at the chance to reunite.”
A few of the other cast members will be there to read with people auditioning; no prepared monologues are necessary.
