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The Probe Says Farewell to St. Louis
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT - May 20th, 2007
4pm and 8pm (Reception following 8pm performance)
The Centene Center For The Arts, 3547 Olive St. ( Map)
HotCity Theatre Company's 2006 world premiere Greenhouse production of The Probe: An Inquiry Into the Meteoric Rise and Spectacular Fall of Orson Welles in Hollywood is heading to Prague on May 24th to perform at the Prague International Fringe Theatre Festival. In preparation for these performances, HotCity and Theatre Belle Bete offer two final opportunities for St. Louis audiences to see the show. The Probe continues to garner praise from the St. Louis theatre community and recently received the 2007 Kevin Kline award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play as well as being nominated for Outstanding New Play.
The St. Louis performances will feature a revised version of the script and will also mark the debut of HotCity Associate Director Jason Cannon in the role of Hollywood gossip-columnist Hedda Hopper. Cannon will be replacing cast member, and former HotCity Managing Director, Chris Manelli. The rest of the ensemble remains the same and includes Kathi Bentley, Chuck Harper, Terry Meddows, Donna M. Parrone, Julie Venegoni and Carrie Hegdahl as Orson Welles.
The final St. Louis performances will be on Sunday, May 20 at 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm at the Centene Center for the Arts and Education, 3547 Olive St. Suggested donation is 20$ and the proceeds of this performance will go toward the ensemble's travel and lodging in Prague. Reservations may be made throught the HotCity Box Office at 314.289.4060. Seating is extremely limited.
We especially thank the following people who underwrote an actor's plane fare: The Regional Arts Commission, Favi & Gary Blase, George and Jodi Harper, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and Fontbonne University as well as the many other donors who helped with flying us to Prague.
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By age twenty-five, Orson Welles had directed and starred in four Broadway hits, recorded the most famous radio program ever broadcast, and filmed the greatest American movie of all time. He then spent the last fifty years of his life in impoverished obscurity - shunned by the Hollywood community that he helped create. The Probe explores Welles' strange saga using the tools that he understood best: mood, movement, music, montage and magic. Created entirely from existing Welles material, including interviews, screenplays, radio-plays and original sources, and told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe peels back layer after layer of this "mystery inside history" trying to answer the question: "Who killed Orson Welles?" This performance is a co- production with St. Louis' dance/theatre ensemble Theatre de la Belle Bete.
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