In The Wings...

We Can Feel the Tropical Breezes Swaying already...

            Once on This Island Opens April 16th!

                Limited Seating. Get your reservations now at www.SlidellLittleTheatre.org

Take a Leading Role                                                

Slidell Little Theatre is looking for a few committed volunteers to join our Board of Directors. Directors serve a 3-year term and must be members of the organization (You must have or obtain a paid membership in SLT). You need not be a “theatre person.” We need people from diverse backgrounds and/or with a variety of practical or managerial skills to provide direction and support to guide SLT into the future. These are challenging but rewarding positions. Candidates will be interviewed in advance of the annual May elections. Terms begin July 1. 

Open positions: 

            President 

            Vice President for Marketing 

            At-Large Positions (2) 

For more information, or to nominate yourself or others contact 

            Adam Landry at vpoperations@SlidellLittleTheatre.org

May the 4th is GIVE NOLA DAY 2021. 

Make a difference by joining SLT and along with all area non-profits for 24 hours of giving. Now in its 8th year, GiveNOLA Day is a 24-hour event hosted by the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Together, let’s inspire people to give generously so that we can make our region stronger and creating a theatre community for all.

This year, SLT will direct all of its donations to help repair and replace our roof - a much-needed capital improvement project.

Let's Raise the Roof together!!

Online Donations open April 20th

To donate: go to Give NOLA/SLT

 

Renew Your SLT Membership Now!

Early bird membership prices open April 16th. 

Renew, Retain and Recruit New members Now!

Invest in SLT's future by becoming a member, patron, or business patron 
Pricing for students and seniors
See the SLT website for full details

For prices and perks visit:

https://www.slidelllittletheatre.org/membership?pageid=167627

Broadway Bakin'

Broadway Brownie Bars

OK - so they are not an actor's recipe...but they're a HIT every time!

Ingredients

• FILLING:                                                                     
• 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 large egg, room temperature, lightly beaten
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• BROWNIE:
• 1/2 cup butter, cubed
• 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate
• 2 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• TOPPING:
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 2 cups miniature marshmallows
• FROSTING:
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup 2% milk
• 2 ounces cream cheese
• 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate
• 3 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, combine the first 6 ingredients until smooth; set aside.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and chocolate. Remove from the heat and let cool. Stir in eggs and vanilla. Add sugar, flour, baking powder and nuts, stirring until blended.
• Spread batter in a 13x9-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Spread filling over batter. For topping, in small bowl, combine chocolate chips and nuts; sprinkle over filling.
• Bake until almost set, about 28 minutes. Sprinkle with marshmallows; bake 2 minutes longer.
• For frosting, in a large saucepan, heat butter, milk, cream cheese and chocolate until melted, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat; stir in confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Immediately drizzle over marshmallows. Chill well; cut into bars.

And to wash it down, we give you:

The Leading Role Cocktail        

    

Ingredients

• 3/4 oz. Jameson Irish Whiskey
• 3/4 oz. 12-year Glenfiddich
• 1/2 oz. Pimm’s No. 1
• 3/4 oz. lime juice
• 1/2 oz. agave syrup
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Preparation

1. Combine all ingredients and shake over ice.
2. Double strain into a coupe glass, garnish with a lime slice and enjoy!

 Thank You to Our Audiences, Cast & Crew!!

Thanks to everyone who made our first post-Covid production of 

Little Shop of Horrors

such a GREAT success!

We had fun, and we hope you did too!

We Can Already Feel the Tropical Breezes Blowing!

The cast and crew of Once on This Island, under the direction of Jennifer Baptiste, are sailing "full steam ahead" on the next SLT Productions, Once on This Island, which opens April 16th. Stay tuned for details on how to reserve your seats soon!

Speaking of seating...

Slidell Little Theatre will soon be kicking off its 2021-2022 season Membership Drive. Membership does indeed have its privileges - including advanced preferred seating and recognition in production programs, depending on the category of membership. There is a season membership for every price range. Best of all, you will be doing your part to keep live theatre alive in our community. Be a part of our reunion of friends and family in 2021-2022. 

YATS Registration Opens April 1st! 

Get your young actors signed-up quickly. 
 Enrollment limited due to COVID-19 precautions. 

We now have a Donation page on our website. We are grateful to those who wish to make a tax-deductible donation to SLT or to remember friends and family of the SLT community as a memorial gift. You can set up a specifically-directed gift or donate to the general operating fund by scrolling down on the SLT main website or by using this link:
https://www.slidelllittletheatre.org/general-donations?pageid=168542

PANDEMIC PICKS

Moulin Rouge!

 Nicole Kidman earned her first Oscar nomination as Satine in Moulin Rouge!, opposite Ewan McGregor as Christian. The Baz Luhrman musical follows the couple’s love affair as the Moulin Rouge attempts to stay afloat by putting on a musical, funded by a rich and jealous client, The Duke. Richard Roxburgh plays The Duke with Jim Broadbent as Harold Zeigler and John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec.

BROADWAY BAKIN'

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Audrey II Cupcakes

Author: Kathleen Siegle
Serves: 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes

• 3 tbsp strawberry jam or preserves
• ⅓ cup chopped fresh strawberries
• 1¼ cups flour
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1¼ tsp baking powder
• ¾ cup of sugar
• ½ cup of unsalted butter, softened
• 3 egg whites
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 4 drops pink food coloring
• ⅓ cup milk

Vanilla Buttercream

• 1 cup room temperature unsalted butter
• 6-8 cups powdered sugar
• ½ cup cream
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3-4 drops green food gel dye

Instructions

Cupcakes

1. Set oven to 350 F.
2. In small bowl mix together fresh chopped strawberries and preserves.
3. In another bowl mix together flour, baking powder, and salt.
4. In another bowl cream together butter and sugar.
5. Add egg whites, vanilla extract, and food coloring into fully incorporated.
6. Add dry ingredients with milk, beating on low speed.
7. Fold in strawberries and preserves.
8. Fill cupcake liners to ¾ full and bake for 25 minutes.

Vanilla Buttercream

1. With your paddle attachment of your electric mixer, beat butter until light and fluffy.
2. Add 6 cups of the powdered sugar with cream and vanilla.
3. Mix slowly until its blended well, then beat on high for 2-3 minutes.
4. Add more sugar one cup at a time until desired consistency.
5. Beat in green food dye.
6. Sprinkle with oreo crumbs and monster strawberries

...AND TO WASH IT DOWN

 

SOLD OUT!!!

   Larry Johnson, Jr and Derrick Schlembrecht

Derrick Schlembrecht, Larry Johnson, Jr., 

Skylar Broussard, and Theresa Sharp

Theresa Sharp, Jennifer Bullock, and Rachael Knaps

The first weekend of Little Shop of Horrors saw a sell-out house! You have only two more weekends to see this great show. March 5-7 and March 12-14. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. Sundays at 2:00 p.m. 

Contact www.SlidellLittleTheatre.org to make your reservations now. Due to COVID-19 precautions, all tickets must be reserved in advance. No tickets sold at the door. All parties will be socially-distanced. Masks required.

...and IN THE WINGS

Director Jennifer Baptiste is beginning rehearsals for the next SLT production, Once on This Island. With music and lyrics by Lynn Aherns, Once on This Island is an exciting Broadway musical inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid. The story is deceptively simple. It takes place on the island of Haiti.  A peasant girl has fallen in love above her class and this is told around a fire by a group of Caribbean peasants as they wait out a terrible storm. However, as the story unfolds, themes about social classes, dreams, family and love, all combine to create a magical tale.

YATS STAFF

Do you like working with Theatre for Young People? Looking for a summer job? Consider a staff position with Young Actors Theatre of Slidell (YATS)

We are now taking applications for 2021 YATS Staff members!

If you are interested in enriching the lives of the local youth through theatre, please apply here: https://forms.gle/b7tVGEch2ZhRmc5A6

Applications are due March 7th!

 

ANOTHER GREAT SLT TRAINING WORKSHOP

Don't miss our next great workshop 3/15 @ 7:00 PM CST.

You can register for this free workshop by going to slidelllittletheatre.org and scrolling down to the event.

PANDEMIC PICKS

Noises Off

This film follows the rehearsal and performance of a dreadful farce called Nothing On, a hit British show that is preparing for its American debut in  Des Moines, Iowa, with a second-rate,  Broadway-bound theatrical troupe under the direction of Lloyd Fellowes.

 An all-star cast fills Peter Bogdanovich's film including Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Nicollette Sheridan, Julie Hagert, and Mark Linn-Baker. Among the characters are a fading star Dotty Otley (Burnett), a hot-tempered and scatter-brained Garry Lejeune (Ritter), an insecure matinee heartthrob Frederick Dallas  (Reeve) the myopic leading lady Brooke Ashton (Sheridan), the bubbly Belinda Blair (Henner), and an alcoholic character actor Selsdon Mowbray (Elliott). Frantically working behind the scenes are Tim Allgood (Linn-Baker) and Poppy Taylor (Hagerty). Michael Caine leads as director Fellowes. 

BROADWAY BAKING

No-Knead Christmas (or Anytime) Loaf from Dear Evan Hansen’s Michael Park

The recipe:
3 cups All Purpose flour
1 3/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp rapid rise yeast
1 1/4 cup room temp water
1/2 cup room temp lager (I like Guinness actually)
2 Tbsp white vinegar

While the kiddos are still asleep... Mix all ingredients in a bowl with the handle end of a wooden spoon until all flour is blended in—about 5 minutes. Transfer to a greased bowl, cover tightly with plastic wrap and let sit in a dry warm place for the day (approximately 8 hours, but you’ll see the dough rise to twice its original size). With a spatula, scrape the dough from the bowl to a floured surface to shape. Using your thumb and fore finger gently pinch the “4 corners” of the dough, lift and bring to the center. You will then flip the dough over and place on a sheet of parchment paper. Using the parchment as a sling, transfer the dough and parchment to a cast iron Dutch oven. (You can grab one of these online for only $25 and they are super useful!!) Let the dough proof for another couple hours. Prepare the oven. I like to preheat to 500 degrees, if your oven only goes to 450, that's fine. While the oven is preheating take a sharp knife and score an “X” in the top of the loaf. Once the oven is ready, place the Dutch oven in the oven with the top on for 20 minutes. Remove lid and bake for another 20 minutes. Let the loaf cook for at least 30 minutes before cutting to serve.

AND TO WASH IT DOWN…