A talented cast of 19 youth directed by Steve McBride, Jr. produced this show during the most challenging times of the health pandemic. The show is currently in film editing mode with Matt Moore and will be streamed several ways both online and in person in the summer of 2022.

Synopsis: Emma, a senior at Highbury Prep, is certain she knows what’s best for her classmates’ love lives, and is determined to find the perfect boyfriend for shy sophomore Harriet by the end of the school year. But will Emma’s relentless matchmaking get in the way of finding her own happiness? Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel, this sparkling new musical features the hit songs of legendary girl groups and iconic female singers from The Supremes to Katy Perry. Girl power has never sounded so good!

Congratulations to the cast!

James – Lucy Underwood & Mark Tessier (As is commonplace on Broadway for shows featuring child actors in vocally demanding parts, we are double casting the role of James.)

Ladahlord  – Isabella McDonald,

Grasshopper – Luke Tessier,

Ladybug – Kiera Pechiney,

Spider – Julissa Lambert,

Earthworm – Athanasius Byrne,

Centipede – Zachary Moore,

Spiker – Clare McKeown,

Sponge – Grace Tessier.

Ensemble – 
Mallory Kling (Matron Nurse, shark, agent)
Ellie Moore (Vagrant solo, cruise passenger, reporter)
Thomas Albrigo (Buzz, Cop, Joe, Shark, cruise passenger, Wonka)
Katie Pierce (Shark, Vagrant child, animal, agent)
Justin Balint (Buddy Mackenzie III, Garden Guild)
Anthony Palladino (Cop, Jake, agent)

Dance Ensemble – 
Therese Albrigo (Reporter 1, Passerby Woman)
Annie Tessier (Vagrant solo, reporter)
Kassidy Miner (Vagrant child, Oompa Loompa, agent, cruise passenger)
Marlee Ratcliff (Lucille Van Kooglesteine, Vagrant child, animal, agent)
Jane Judge (Shark, Vagrant child, Oompa Loompa, reporter)

Fauquier Community Theatre is delighted to have Steve McBride directing “Side by Side by Sondheim.” Auditions are on Saturday, February 19 from 10 am to Noon and Sunday, February 20 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Auditions will be held at the Gloria Faye Dingus Music Alliance located at 92 Main Street, Suite 104, Warrenton, Virginia. Pre-registration for auditions is required. Click on the Online Audition Form for more information and to register.

Side by Side by Sondheim – Original Broadway Version (1977) This revue celebrates the wit and genius of musical theatre’s most influential artist. Get ready to laugh, cry and fall in love with lyrics that are heartbreakingly true and music that captures the soaring emotions of a new generation with Side by Side by Sondheim. Simple and unpretentious, this Tony Award-winning musical is a perfect introduction to the work of this contemporary master and a must for diehard fans. Stephen Sondheim has been the leading composer of musical theatre for the past fifty years.

Now, with this award-winning revue of his earlier work, some of the most lush, unforgettable songs from this musical theatre master are presented in one magical evening. Featuring music from Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle and Pacific Overtures, not to mention the classics written with musical theatre giants, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne and Richard Rodgers, this dazzling array of some of Sondheim’s best-known songs demonstrates his masterful craft and astounding creativity. A small cast and two pianos allow the brilliant songs to shine.

FCT’s production of Side by Side by Sondheim is with special arrangement with Music Theatre International. Performances will take place on Fridays and weekends between April 29 – May 15, 2022 at the Vint Hill Theatre on the Green located at 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton, VA. Tickets are on sale now at www.FCTstage.org.

Gift the gift of theater and a night out on the town or a Sunday matinee performance. It is so easy to order online and send right away. Just click on FCT GIFT CARD. If you need assistance, email info@FCTstage.org or call 540-349-8760.

MUSICAL THEATRE SUMMER CAMP
ROALD DAHL’S WILLY WONKA JR.
JULY 11 – 22, 2022
Ages 10 – 17
FCT Summer Camp Registration Link

Fauquier Community Theatre’s Summer Musical Theatre camp takes place July 11 – 15 and July 18 – 22, 2022 with performances of Willy Wonka JR. on Friday, July 22 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, July 23 at 2 pm. The director of the summer camp is Jeff Walker who has directed over 30 productions and is a high school drama teacher. The musical theatre camp will take place at Fauquier Community Theatre: 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton, VA. For more information and to register click on FCT Summer Camp.

oald Dahl’s timeless story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir is a golden ticket to adventure. The delicious adventures of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory light up the stage in this captivating adaptation of Roald Dahl’s fantastical tale. Featuring the enchanting songs from the 1971 film, in addition to a host of fun new songs, Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka JR. is a scrumdidilyumptious musical guaranteed to delight everyone’s sweet tooth.

Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka JR. follows enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka as he stages a contest by hiding golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. Whomever comes up with these tickets will win a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of candy.

Four of the five winning children are insufferable brats, but the fifth is a likeable young lad named Charlie Bucket, who takes the tour in the company of his equally amiable grandfather. The children must learn to follow Mr. Wonka’s rules in the factory — or suffer the consequences. Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka JR. has a flexible cast size with many featured and ensemble roles, including the singing and dancing Oompa Loompas.

Fauquier Community Theatre has chosen Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach as their annual youth production for a cast of ages 7 to 17. Auditions for the musical are open to the public and will take place on Monday, February 21 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm and on Thursday, February 24 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Pre-registration is required and choice of dates and times are on the Audition Registration Form.  The show is directed by Jack Tessier and produced by Steve Hyland. Auditions will take place at the Gloria Faye Dingus Music Alliance located at 92 Main St #104, Warrenton, VA.

Roald Dahl’s fantastical tale of a boy, his insect friends and their amazing journey across the ocean on a giant piece of fruit. Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach is now a musical for the whole family to enjoy! Featuring a wickedly tuneful score by the Tony Award-nominated team of Pasek and Paul (Dogfight and A Christmas Story the Musical) and a curiously quirky book by Timothy Allen McDonald (Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley), critics rave: James and the Giant Peach is a “masterpeach!”

When James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that results in a tremendous peach… and launches a journey of enormous proportions. Suddenly, James finds himself in the center of the gigantic peach, among human-sized insects with equally oversized personalities, but after it falls from the tree and rolls into the ocean, the group faces hunger, sharks and plenty of disagreements. Thanks to James’ quick wit and creative thinking, the residents learn to live and work together as a family. The dangerous voyage is a success, but the adventure takes a whole new twist once they land on the Empire State Building.

A delightfully offbeat adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl adventure, the creative possibilities with James and the Giant Peach are endless. Actors will love playing the outlandish characters and performing brand new material from one of Broadway’s hottest duos.

General Information About Auditioning at FCT: Auditioning for a show can be both challenging and exhilirating. Just remember that the directors all want you to do your best and succeed. We try our best to make the experience fun and a time to meet new people. But there are things that you should know. Each director for each show may need to see and hear things in a different manner. This means that you should check the audition announcement carefully. For a straight (non-musical) play you will probably be asked to do cold readings from the script. Occasionally, you may be asked to prepare a short monologue to perform. For a musical, you will be given some pretty specific information about selecting and performing your audition song. You may be given a type of song to perform, a way to perform (with or without accompaniment or tracks), and a time to come depending on your age range. You will generally be asked to learn a short dance routine with a group and perform that. The audition form and sometimes a rehearsal schedule is generally available online.  We love all our performers and hope that you will join us for a show in the future.

Fauquier Community Theatre presents the World Premiere of Dr. Harry Kantrovich’s stage adaptation of the Holocaust documentary SHOAH Fridays and weekends from Jan 21 – Feb 6, 2022. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 pm, Sunday matinees are at 2 pm. The theater is located at 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton Virginia. While the theater is in a developed community now, in 1942 the 696 acre area was built as the United States Army Signals Intelligence site.

Shoah is another word for the Holocaust. It comes from Hebrew, and literally means catastrophic upheaval. The Holocaust, or Shoah, refers to the Nazi party’s attempt in the late 1930s and early 1940s to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe. Shoah is a French documentary film about the Holocaust directed by Claude Lanzmann.The film was released in April 1985, eleven years in the making, it was over 9 hours long. The film presents Lanzmann’s interviews, with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during his visits to Holocaust sites around Germany and Europe.

Lanzmann released the entire text of the film as an oral history of the Holocaust in conjunction with the release of the film in the United States.Dr. Kantrovich remarks, “World War II, in particular The Holocaust is a passion of mine. I lost family in the Holocaust and those that I knew who survived, I could always see the pain in their eyes, it never left. When I first saw the 9.5 hour documentary in 1985, I was mesmerized. As I got more enveloped in the theatre, I knew I wanted to adapt the transcript to stage.”

The month of January was chosen to debut the stage version at Fauquier Community Theatre since January 27 is designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). Since 2005, the UN and its member states have held commemoration ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism.

A special thank you to WILL Interactive Inc as the show sponsor for Fauquier Community Theatre’s production of SHOAH. Performances of SHOAH will take place on Fridays and weekends between January 21 – February 6, 2022 at Fauquier Community Theatre located at 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton, VA. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 pm, Sunday matinees are at 2 pm. Tickets may be purchased online here: SHOAH Tickets or by calling 540-349-8760.

Fauquier Community Theatre’s Gift of the Magi – The Musical continues as a stream online! After 9 highly successful shows live on stage in Warrenton, Virginia the show is now online for those who missed it or want to see it again. The film version is beautiful with close ups of the cast! Click HERE to go directly to Broadway on Demand to view information and to see the show online from December 28, 2021 through January 3, 2022. View the musical by one of the choices on Broadway on Demand of making a donation to the theater in the range of $12 – $25. Once on the Broadway on Demand site, click on “Play” to get started!

COVID and MASKS – Fauquier Community Theatre (FCT) requires that all audience members wear masks to prevent COVID-19 spread. (Additional safety protocols could be implemented. If so, ticket holders would be notified in advance and have a choice of using their ticket(s) or having a credit on file.)

COVID and SOCIAL DISTANCING – All ticket order purchases will have an empty seat on either side of each group of tickets ordered together. This is voluntary by Fauquier Community Theatre which reduces the theater capacity to about 70 percent. Concessions will take place outdoors only, weather permitting.

COVID Waiver: By purchasing tickets, myself and my entire group agrees that ourselves, our heirs, personal representative or assigns, do hereby release, waive, discharge, and covenant not to hold Fauquier Community Theatre liable or FCT’s directors, officers, employees and agents liable from any and all potential claims related to or resulting in personal injury or illnesses and property loss arising from any COVID-19 transmission that may from being present at performances and/or rehearsals.

As you shop for those special gifts, remember your theatre enthusiasts! Fauquier Community Theatre (FCT) gift cards make great presents and stocking stuffers! Gift Certificates are available for any amount and can be used to attend FCT performances, buy FCT apparel and merchandise, as registration for summer camp, and even for concessions. Choose any amount and customize your message. Gift cards may be sent via email right away! Balances can be accessed online at any time. Click FCT Gift Cards for more information and to order yours today!