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Pandora 2008

21 Plays in 5 Days

Presented by the Arizona
Women's Theatre Company
at the Scottsdale Center for
the Performing Arts

May 15th - June 1st
The Pandora of the Arizona Women’s Theatre Company will host the
world premiere of a concert/reading of a new musical about world-
class, bisexual athlete Babe Didrikson. There will be performances on
Friday, May 16 and Friday, May 30 at 7PM at the Scottsdale Center for
the Performing Arts, 7380 East Second Street. Tickets are $12 in
advance at www.azwtc.org, and $13 at the door, and $40 for a Pandora
Pass. For more information, call 480-607-7107.  
    Babe: An Olympic Musical is the result of a two-year collaboration
between playwright Carolyn Gage and composer Andrea Jill Higgins.  
Higgins, a Scottsdale resident, has been involved in over 200 musical
theatre/opera productions, as either composer, arranger, musical
director, conductor, coach, or accompanist. She is also an
internationally known composer of liturgical choral music.  “I have
always loved the challenge of composing show tunes,” says Higgins,
“because of the element of drama.”  
    Carolyn Gage is the author of fifty-five plays and six books. Her work
is associated with strong, non-traditional roles for women, and
especially roles featuring lesbian or bisexual historical figures.  “Babe
Didrikson was fascinating to me, because she broke all the rules for
women,” says Gage. “As a masculine woman, she had to face down a
lot of discrimination, but in the end, she changed the world of women’s
sports forever.”  
    The Arizona Women’s Theatre Company (AZWTC) was founded in
2003, with the mission of producing work focused on women’s lives
and providing an innovative forum for women’s voices.  The 2008
Pandora Festival, running from May 16 to June 1, highlights the work of
twenty different women playwrights from Arizona. With funding from
the Scottsdale Cultural Commission, the Arizona Commission on the
Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the company has
continued to grow.  
    The cast includes Lynn Timmons, Jin Cha, Christy Welty, and
Bethany Giff, and the show traces Babe’s journey from her high school
in Beaumont, Texas, to her triumph in the 1932 Olympics, her crushing
loss of amateur status, and remarkable come-back as a world-class
golfer. It also tracks a woman’s struggle for self-acceptance and
recognition in a homophobic world. The numbers include a high school
beauty pageant, the Olympic track warm-up, a women’s basketball
game, and a golfers’ tango.  
    The Arizona premiere of Babe is the first in a series of developmental
performances for a musical headed for first-class production. The play
is scheduled for a second concert/reading in Minneapolis later this fall.  
“We could not have asked for a more exciting, protective, and
supportive producer for our world premiere than AZWTC,” according to
Gage. “This is a company that believes in women and is willing to take
risks.  And that is what Babe Didrikson was all about.”
Th [sic] Sense Sketch Comedy Troupe
     Th* [sic] Sense is a live sketch comedy group in downtown Phoenix .  A new original show
is performed every “First Friday” weekend at Soul Invictus Gallery & Cabaret, each month.  
With minimal costume, props & set pieces, some of the best comedic actors in town give life
to original material that is created for each month’s show.  Adults only and definitely not for
the easily offended!  We’ve already generated a lot of word of mouth in the community with
our March and April shows, come and see what the buzz is about.
    Th [sic] Sense’s next show is on June 6th at 10pm and June 7th at 8pm and 10pm at Soul
Invictus Gallery and Cabaret, 1022 NW Grand Ave , Phoenix , AZ.  Tickets are $8.00 per show
and it is a “first come, first seated” event.  Language, some nudity and adult situations are
prevalent.
    Born from the idea of Executive Producer, Franc Gaxiola, the rotating cast includes Joe
Kremer, Johanna Carlisle, Courtney Weir, Amanda Schaar, Franc Gaxiola, Courtney Lato,
Danette D’Anjou, Slade Hall, Brandon Boone, Pat Russel, Robert Topping and Stacie Stocker.  
Original sketches are written by the cast as well as Kevin Frei, Kane Anderson, Tracy Payne,
Greg Hynes, Andi Watson and Mark Turvin.  Shows are directed by the twisted legend, Greg
Hynes.
    For more information call 602-214-4344, email at phxsicsense@yahoo.com, visit the
myspace page at http://myspace.com/phxsicsense, or visit the website www.soulinvictus.
com.