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The Valencia Character Company is the main theater-producing entity at Valencia Community College. Productions are held either in our 588-seat Performing Arts Center, or our more intimate Black Box Theater, both located on the East Campus.

The season runs from August through June each school year, and we produce four major productions each season, with variety and educational opportunities for both students and audiences driving the selection of plays. Recent productions have included major musicals, avant-garde plays, classical drama, contemporary Broadway hits, and favorite revivals. Valencia’s theater program also sponsors an annual competition among playwrights who reside in Florida. We solicit never-before-produced manuscripts each fall, which are read and evaluated by a committee of readers. One script is selected, and after extensive “workshopping” with staff, students and writer, it is presented as a fully staged production in the Black Box Theater. Acting and directing students also produce two sets of student-directed one-act plays that are offered on consecutive Wednesday afternoons in April.

AUDITIONS: FOR THE MUSICAL ANYTHING GOES: Auditions will be held by apopointment only on Tuesday, September 2, 2008, on the East Campus in the Black Box Theater. Auditionees should be prepared to sing 16 bars of an upbeat song and 16 bars of a ballad. An accompanist will be provided. To schedule an appointment, please call the box office, 407-582-2900, AFTER August 4. Call-backs will be held on Sept. 4, and a dance combination will be taught at that time. Production dates are Oct. 17-26, 2008, and rehearsals will begin on or around Sept. 7. Please call the director, Julia Gagne, at 407-582-2296, or email her at jgagne@valenciacc.edu, for further information.

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