Robert F. Benjamin
Los Alamos Light Opera
 

Los Alamos Little Theatre hosts play readings once a month during our regular season. Everyone -- listeners as well as readers -- are welcome to attend these informal events. Feel free to bring a snack or a beverage to share. Wine, chips, and dips are usually provided. Please use the (west) side entrance of the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar Street. Readings are held either in the "green room" or in the theater office area.

Play Readings:

Readings are typically scheduled on the second Wednesday of every month. For additional information, please contact Kaki Kelly. Our next scheduled readings include:

Script:	Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
Date:	Wednesday February 24, 2010
Time:	7:00 PM
Contact:	Dennis Powell
Characters:	4M, 4W , 4 flexible casting
Synopsis:	Before a murder is committed, events collude and juxtapose in such a fashion as to set up the scene of the crime; indeed, it is only a matter of time until the clock points towards zero and violent death occurs. The story begins as Lady Tressilian, an elderly woman living alone, invites several guests into her seaside home of Gull's Point for the summer. However, handsome playboy-sportsman Nevile Strange, former ward of Lady Tressilian's deceased husband, incurs her displeasure by re-uniting his new wife, Kay, and his ex, Audrey, under her roof, thus causing no end of romantic misunderstandings. But events soon take on a much less whimsical turn when murder is committed and Superintendent Battle, who is meant to be recuperating in the home of his nephew, Inspector James Leach, finds himself pawing his way along a labyrinthine maze of clues and deception. Maurice Richardson in the August 6, 1944 issue of The Observer wrote, "The new Agatha Christie has a deliciously prolonged and elaborate build-up, urbane and cosy like a good cigar and red leather slippers. Poirot is absent physically, but his influence guides the sensitive inspector past the wiles of the carefully planted house party, and with its tortuous plot twists this might well have been a Poirot case. How gratifying to see Agatha Christie keeping the flag of the old classic who-dun-it so triumphantly flying!" *********************************************************************
Script:	An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
Date:	Wednesday March 3, 2010
Time:	7:00 PM
Contact:	Dennis Powell
Characters:	4M, 3W
Synopsis:	The play is set in Edwardian England (1912) at a time when the class system still dominated society. All three acts are set in the dining room of the well-to-do Birling family where a pleasant social occasion is abruptly interrupted by the appearance of a police inspector. The inspector brings grave news concerning the suicide of a young working class girl. He then proceeds to interrogate the family one by one to reveal the roles that each of them played in the death of the unfortunate girl as they pushed her further and further towards the edge of despair and beyond. However, all is not as it seems with the Police Inspector, his methods are somewhat unconventional as is his focus on morality rather than legality. Perhaps there is more to him than meets the eye. Further information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inspector_Calls *********************************************************************
Script:	Seussical : Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Co-Conceived by Eric Idle, Based on the works of Dr. Seuss
Date:	Thursday March 18, 2010
Time:	7:00 PM
Contact:	Dennis Powell
Synopsis:	Now one of the most performed shows in America,"Seussical" is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty ("Ragtime", "Once On This Island") have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination-Jojo."Oh, the Thinks You Can Think" captures the show's spirit of imagination, as the colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos. Two Acts, Book Musical, Rated G, Original Broadway Version

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