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Nantucket astronomer Maria Mitchell focus of NEA grant-backed musical

NANTUCKET The White Heron Theatre Company will develop a musical about pioneering 19th-century Nantucket astronomer/scientist Maria Mitchell, a show that will be the cornerstone of its 10th anniversary season in 2022 prior to a New York City production.
The workshop to create the world premiere of “Miss Mitchell” will be funded in part by a $10,000 grant announced Wednesday by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Nantucket project was one of three grants awarded locally out of 1,100 grants nationwide, with money also funding projects for The Yard dance collective in Chilmark and Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole.
In an announcement about the grant, Lynne Bolton, artistic director at the island-based White Heron company, expressed thanks for the federal support and said that with the planned later New York show, it is gratifying to be able to bring a piece of Nantucket to the national scene.” ....

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Try out for a musical
Falmouth Theatre Guild will hold in-person auditions from 6 to 9 p.m. May 19 and 20, and 2 to 5 p.m. May 22 for the lead roles in its planned fall production of the musical
“Carousel.” Individual try-outs will be held at Highfield Theater, 58 Highfield Dr., Falmouth.
The show is due to run Oct. 22 to Nov. 7, and all involved with the production will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. While other auditions will be in August, the five leads in this romance are being cast early so actors will have months of access to rehearsal tracks and there can be summer work with the director. ....

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