Audition no-shows and corny corn puns

Director Kelly Van Oosbree guest-hosts, plus an interview with ‘Shucked’ actor Ryan Fitzgerald and the Top 10 Colorado Headliners

 What’s the big deal if actors don’t show up for an audition slot? Plenty, says Kelly Van Oosbree, who joins hosts Toni Tresca and Alex Miller to talk about that and all she’s up to with shows at the Aurora Fox and Platte Valley Theatre Arts as well as her new role as artistic director at Performance Now Theatre Company.

Later in the episode, Alex catches up with actor Ryan Fitzgerald — a graduate of the Denver School for the Arts now in the touring Broadway production of the musical comedy Shucked. After getting his start at Jester’s Dinner Theatre in Longmont, Fitzgerald has been on the road for years, with an international tour of West Side Story and this tour of Shucked, which plays at the Denver Center Oct. 7-19 and ends next June in Las Vegas.

Also in the episode we run down our list of the Top 10 Colorado Headliners — upcoming shows that might be worth checking out. This week’s list, in no particular order:

• First Date, Vintage Theatre, Aurora, Sept. 29-Oct. 23
• The Vampire of Cripple Creek, The Butte Theater, Cripple Creek, Oct. 3-Nov. 2
• A Fine Monster You Are, Impossible Players, Pueblo, Oct. 3-18
• A Case for Black Girls Setting Central Park on Fire, Local Theater Company, Boulder, Oct. 2-25
• The Pumpkin Kid, Ballyhoo Table & Stage, Denver, Oct.
       4-25
• Misery, Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts, Oct. 3-12
• Dracula, Colorado Ballet, Denver, Oct. 3-12
• Hamlet, Merely Players, Durango, Oct. 3-12
• Alabama Story, Firehouse Theater at John Hand Theater,
       Denver, Sept. 27-Oct. 26.
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Denver Center Theatre Company, Oct. 3-Nov. 2