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The Drama Workshop proudly announces its 2005-2006 season

Kick off the season and the summer with TDW's production of Swing! a Broadway style musical event celebrating song and dance in the 20th century. The Drama Workshop will be performing the local community theater premiere of this incredible show. Swing! is directed by Dan Doerger, co-produced by Dan Doerger and Gretchen Roose, with choreography by Greg Underwood, vocal direction by Linda Abbott and orchestration by Charlie Wilhelm. Swing! will be performed at the newly renovated Westwood Town Hall Theatre for a limited engagement weekend June 9, 10, 11 and 12. Bring your whole family to enjoy this spectacular event.

TDW's regular season begins with its production of Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, directed by Ginny Chizer. Picking up where Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues ended, part three of Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy finds Eugene and his older brother, Stanley, trying to break into the world of professional comedy writing while coping with the breakup of their family. Their efforts to come up with an idea for a comedy sketch sparkle with hilarity. When the material is broadcast on the radio the first time, the family is upset to hear the comedy rendition of their trials and tribulations. Eugene and Stanley continue on with their writing careers while their family life dissolves around them. Broadway Bound will be performed November 11-19 and will require 4 men and 2 female actors.

David Auburn's Pulitzer prize winninng play, Proof will be directed by Tom Fox. On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with hew own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: how much of her father's madness - or genius - will she inherit? Proof will be performed February 24 - March 4 and will require 2 men and 2 women.

David Lindsay-Abaire's comedy, Kimberly Akimbo will be directed by Dan Doerger. Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, Kimberly Akimbo, is a hilarious and heart-rending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt and her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love. Kimberly Akimbo will be performed in May 5 - May 13 and will require 2 men and 3 women.

All performances will be at the newly renovated Westwood Town Hall on the corner of Montana, Harrison and Epworth in the heart of Westwood.

Auditions for all the regular season shows will be held the week of June 27 with callbacks on Wednesday July 6. More information will be available closer to the audition dates.

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