Dear Extended Guild Family,

It has been three weeks since we have shuttered our incredible production of Jesus Christ Superstar. I do want to thank those who attended our Friends & Family performance on Monday evening, our opening night on Wednesday, as well as Thursday that first week. I apologize for the rough times we had those first 3 performances due to major sound issues. We were very fortunate, through your continued generosity, to have been able to purchase all new wireless body microphones for our entire cast of twenty-one, only to have them arrive the afternoon of Friends & Family! We never had time to fire them up, hold a sound check with the cast, or rehearse with them. Circumstances forced us to go out there on Monday night with only a wing and a prayer; and in my opinion, we failed in the sound department miserably.

With a cast of twenty-one on a revolving stage of various levels, it took our cast...

A play that has changed the world and is being reinvented at the VBTG this spring with a dynamic cast directed by Jon Putzke.  Jesus Christ Superstar won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival and got rave reviews.  Did you know that the music from Jesus Christ Superstar was originally an album and the play was written around the music?

This spring, The Vero Beach Theatre Guild is bringing Andrew Lloyd Weber’s music and Tim Rice’s lyrics to Vero on a revolving stage designed by Jeff hall and built by the Vero Beach Theatre Guild fabulous construction crew.  Jon Putzke’s artistic vision of the play is creative and mesmerizing.  Don’t miss the performance that captures complex emotions as the performers bring the characters alive and move them straight from their hearts leaving you singing many of the songs as you walk out of the theatre.  Buy tickets now!

The Vero Beach Theatre Guild is excited to announce an auditioning class taught by Michael Naffziger. This workshop is designed for either the beginner, intermediate or experienced actor who wishes to learn more about his or her craft.

Registration can be done in person or by phoning the box office Monday thru Friday between 10 am and 2 pm. The box office will accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover card, cash or check. A $2 service fee applies to online registrations.  Class size is limited to 25 students and enrollment is on a first come, first serve basis. Registration deadline for this class is Wednesday, February 5th.

February 8, 2020

10 am to 2 pm with a brown bag lunch break

(bring your own)

16 BARS! MUSICAL AUDITIONING 101

Most musical theatre auditions call for 16 bars of music and a short monologue. This class is to help the actor not only master their audition music, but prepare the audition as a whole. Students wh...

“Everything I ever did, I did across a barrier of fear.”  --Eleanor Roosevelt 

Across a Barrier of Fear: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt is a one-woman performance written by Sharon Whitney and starring Jane VanBoskirk. The play’s title is born of a quote by the former First Lady who comes alive in Whitney’s script.  The play traces her life from her childhood as an orphan and her schooling in London, to her marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and beyond.  It takes the audience through political campaigns, four terms as First Lady and, finally, to Eleanor’s place on the world stage after her husband’s death.  

Refreshments will be served in the courtyard before the performance.  This event is sponsored by the Vero Beach American Association of University Women, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.  All proceeds support scholarships, grants and programs for women and girls in Indian River County....

The rain may never fall till after sundown,

By eight the morning fog must disappear.

In short there’s simply not

A more congenial spot

Than here in Camelot!

Who can forget the lush musical sounds of Lerner & Loewe’s beloved score from Camelot? Those unforgettable melodies from the legendary Broadway hit will fill the Vero Beach Theatre Guild’s cozy auditorium when the show opens on November 13 at 2020 San Juan Avenue, Vero Beach just in time to celebrate the coming holidays.

Under the direction of Alex Martinez, with musical direction and choreography by Beth McKenzie-Shestak, the cast of the round table are rehearsing for a brand new adaptation recently released by Music Theatre International of New York. This idyllic version will be presented for the first time in Florida and newcomer to the Guild John Caterina as King Arthur and soprano favorite Caitlin Harris as Queen Guenevere are honored to be the first royal coup...

JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL TOWN HALL MEETING
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2019, AT 1:00 P.M. 
IN THE THEATER

MEET THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE 2019 - 2020 SEASON

JOIN US AS WE GIVE YOU A FINANCIAL REPORT. LET US SHARE OUR PROGRESS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THIS PAST YEAR.

WE WILL ALSO ANNOUNCE OUR 2020 - 2021 SEASON OF STAGE PRODUCTIONS

THERE WILL BE A QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Q&A) SESSION

ADJOURNMENT

October 4-6, 2019 The Guild will feature a Reader's Theatre production of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," directed by Tevin Brown. 

Set in Massachusetts during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, the story captures a time when paranoia, hysteria and deceit gripped the Puritan towns of New England.  Now considered modern classic theater, Miller’s play was written during the “Red Scare,” using the witch trials as a metaphor for the “witch hunts” for communists in America. 

Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.

The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 2...