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Michael Wanzie Executive Producer/Show Procurement	Kenny Howard Artistic Producer/Show Procurement
Booking Agents Producers Playwriting Contest Current & Upcoming Attractions
BOOKING AGENTS/SHOW PROCUREMENT
Wanzie Presents functions as the sole booking agent for theatrical productions and other attractions presented in the Footlight Theatre at the world famous Parliament House Resort located in Orlando, Florida. Such plays, musicals, and solo performers are most often presented during the 8PM theatrical time slot on Saturday evenings year round. Wanzie Presents is not affiliated with/nor handles bookings for the weekly female impersonation shows presented later in the evening in the same venue. Wanzie Presents accepts and considers submissions from producers who have a show they may wish to present at the Footlight Theatre. Selected independently produced shows are then presented and publicized under the “Wanzie Presents” moniker, which is recognized by the Central Florida theater-going public as Wanzie’s and Kenny Howard’s personal stamps of approval on any given production to which the moniker has been attached. “Wanzie Presents” acts as the Good House Keeping Seal Of Approval for theatrical productions. The words “Wanzie Presents” above the title does not imply that Wanzie himself has had a hand in creating or mounting the production being presented, but rather that the show was carefully selected by Wanzie and Howard and is heartily endorsed by them as having great entertainment value in keeping with Wanzie’s somewhat off-beat sense of humor and his own particular style of writing.
PRODUCERS
Wanzie Presents often produces its own shows primarily, but not limited to, plays and musicals written by Michael Wanzie or by Rich Charron (Music) & Michael Wanzie (Book & Lyrics) respectively. Almost exclusively, critically acclaimed director Kenny Howard guides Wanzie Presents Productions from script reading to opening night. When a show is actually being produced by Wanzie Presents, rather than simply presented by the entity, the words above the title will read “ A WANZIE PRESENTS PRODUCTION,” which most often will be followed by the words “Directed by Kenny Howard.” Wanzie Presents has established and is nurturing a continuing relationship with Orlando-based D-Squared Productions – a multi faceted convention entertainment and production company – and will at times partner with D Squared Productions as co-producers of a given attraction. Such shows are presented as “A WANZIE PRESENTS/D SQUARED PRODUCTION.” D-Squared owner Doug White will often choreograph as well as contribute design work for these co-produced attractions. The costumer of choice for most Wanzie Presents Productions is Orlando –based costume designer and fabricator Marcy Singhaus. The theater of choice for the presentation of most Wanzie Presents Productions is the Footlight Theatre at the Parliament House Resort in Orlando, Florida. Wanzie Presents Productions are often available for bookings in other markets.
PLAYWRITING CONTEST
Beginning in 2010, Wanzie Presents will solicit the submission of new works from unpublished American playwrights for its annual Off-The-Wall Playwriting Contest. The winning playwright will receive a cash award, in addition to a fully produced production of his or her play at the Footlight Theatre by Wanzie Presents, and complimentary lodgings should the playwright elect to attend the show but does not live in the greater Orlando area. Further details will be included here as they become available. The contest will also be announced in the WANZeGRAM, Orlando area newspapers, various trade magazines, and in the annual Dramatists Guild catalogue.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING ATTRACTIONS
Wanzie Presents a David Lee Production HAZEL AND THE BUGMAN Hazel Brown has a nasty bug problem, but an even nastier appetite for the hot and hunky new Bugman! This kooky kitchen sex comedy is ripe with all things Bob Barker, Karen Carpenter, Iraq, and Fast Food Drive-Thru! You'll be giggling so hard the Bugman might just have to spray you down! This totally off-the-wall comedy will feature the fabulous Anitra Pritchard and a yet-to-be disclosed major hunk of a man. HAZEL AND THE BUGMAN A kitchen sink comedy by David Lee Saturdays July 18 & 25 and August 1 & 8 7:30 PM Footlight Theatre Tickets go on Sale Friday, June 26 $12: www.WANZIE.com/boxoffice Wanzie Presents TheatreMania Productions THE WELL OF HORNINESS Five incredibly talented and beautiful actresses bring nearly 40 characters to life in this high-camp lesbian murder mystery told in the cliff-hanging style of an old-time radio soap opera. This production was the winner of the Brown Venue AUDIENCE PICK AWARD at the 09 Orlando International Fringe Festival. This laugh-out-loud, sexually charged comedy features such well-known actresses as Heather Leonardi, Lisa Hodos, and Robyn Pedretti-Kelly, among others. THE WELL OF HORNINESS Saturdays, August 15, 22 & 29 and September 5 8PM Footlight Theatre Tickets go on sale Friday July 24 $10: www.WANZIE.com/boxoffice A Wanzie Presents World Premiere Production THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME Building on the success of his one act dark comedy written for this year’s Play In A Day event (Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays), Wanzie marries two all new one-act comedies to his well-received Wizard of Oz-inspired play he created overnight for the afore mentioned Play Fest challenge. “Home” is the thematic thread that ties together the evening of three one-act plays. The first play – *A KRIG BREWS IN BROOKLYN, revolves around the efforts of the grown daughter of an elderly Jewish mother to transition “ma” from her Brooklyn brownstone to an assisted living facility against her wishes. The second play - SO THIS IS HOME* (in which Wanzie will appear), is a love-at-first-sight romantic comedy that takes place in a gay bar in Orlando, Florida. The finale piece – *THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME, sees the real-life Judy Garland visiting the land of OZ during a 1970’s drug overdose-induced hallucination. THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME* An evening of three short comedies by Michael Wanzie Featuring WANZIE Saturdays, September 12, 19, 26, and October 3 8PM The Footlight Theatre Tickets go on sale Friday, August 14 $12: www.WANZIE.com/boxoffice
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