Budding Travoltas sought for Grease show

AUDITIONS for Grease Lightning: Due to over whelming demand for the return of Youth Theatre in Macroom, Lee Valley Enterprise Board are delighted to invite all youths over 12 years of age from the Lee Valley region to participate in our specially created song and dance production of Grease Lightning, directed by Margo Carlisle of Carlisle Stage School, Cork with musical director, Macroom’s own Ann Buckley.

This will be an amazing opportunity for young people to develop their artistic skills as they enjoy vocal training, acting, and choreography as well as socialise and work as a team on and off the stage. Auditions (12 years of age plus) will take place on Sunday 20th August at 5:00pm at Riverside Park Hotel.

Audition participants will be required to sing any song of your own choice from a musical and may be required to read lines for character parts. All queries to can be directed to Ann Dunne at ann@macroom.ie. Performances will take place on October 6th, 7th & 8th.

Auditions for ‘Sir Henry’: Auditions for the exciting new musical ‘Sir Henry’, written by Alan Kiely and Kevin Connolly & directed by Cathal MacCabe (RTE), will take place onAugust 27th at 5:00pm in Riverside Park Hotel Macroom.

All are welcome to attend. Based on true events, this show tells the farcical story of the misadventures of Sir Henry Browne Hayes, the notorious playboy who sought to gain the hand of the young heiress Mary Pike as a sure cure to his financial woes, this story caused scandal throughout the British Empire in 1797.

Performance will take place on October 27,October 28, October 29, November 4 and November 5.

Any profits the Lee Valley Enterprise Board make from these shows will go back into local projects, including the restoration of the Church of Ireland in Macroom to create a cultural and tourism amenity.