in beautiful Fort Wayne, Indiana

Jeannette Jaquish, Firehouse Director's scripts website: theaterfunscripts.com
Share the Stage - Make a Profit!!! $$$

Map to the Firehouse Theater

Protecting Your Right to Shout
"THEATER!"
in a Crowded Firehouse!

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Promote the Firehouse - Pass out posters!
Write a Letter to the Editor telling about our shows!
The Firehouse must have ongoing Crew Leaders: Snackbar, Publicity, Costume Put-Away, & Housekeeping. Can be paid.

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Dr. Ron Paul - Re-founder of the Constitution - video link <--

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Actors needed for Lucky the Leprechaun:

Teens or adults to play TV Crewperson, Animal Rights Liberators, and CNN announcer. Just a few lines but they are good.
This is a very absurd funny script with a good experienced cast.
It performs July 12, 15 & 18 at 7pm and July 20 at 3pm.
Call Jeannette at 750-9013.
Get the script at www.theaterfunscripts.com/lucky.html

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LAST WEEKEND

June 28 & 29, July 5 & 6
Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm

"Sorry, Wrong Number", by Lucille Fletcher
& "You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore", by Jeannette Jaquish

"Sorry, Wrong Number" had its origins as a radio play of the same title written by Lucille Fletcher and was first broadcast on the program "Suspense" on the CBS radio network, May 25, 1943. Agnes Moorehead starred as the protagonist Leona on that first broadcast—one that was so popular that the program was re-broadcast annually for ten years.

In 1947, author Lucille Fletcher was approached by Hal Wallis—at that time an independent producer with a working relationship with Paramount—to develop a screenplay based on the radio play. Film production, which began in early January 1948, lasted eight weeks. The completed film was premiered in New York in September 1948.

Leona Stevenson is a wealthy New York invalid confined to her room with only the telephone to connect her to the outside world when her husband Henry and her maid are away. One day, she tries repeatedly to contact her husband at his office, but always gets a busy signal. She contacts the operator to try to get connected. Leona then finds herself connected to a seemingly unrelated phone conversation between two men who are planning to murder a woman that night. When she tries to follow up with the operator and then the police, nobody takes her seriously.

"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" is a session of marriage counseling but neither the wife nor the therapist realize that the husband's recent bad behavior is because he has become a zombie.


Tickets: Free or donation.

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Fort Wayne Newspapers Three Rivers Festival Shows:

Wizard of Oz

– July 12 & 13 @3pm, July 16 & 19 @7pm

With expanded flying monkey antics and Toto played by a real dog.

The Wizard of Oz story was adapted for stage by Jeannette Jaquish, melding the original book by Frank L. Baum, the MGM movie and her imagination.

Adaptations include a Munchkin reenactment of the History of Oz, the Witch singing “Monkey Brats” to the tune of “Little Girls” from “Annie”,
A new occupation for the Professor/Wizard in the Kansas scenes, Dorothy’s gang climbing the “mountain to The Witch’s castle” through the audience,
and a flashback explaining why two powerful witches were killed by such trivial forces as a falling house and splashed water, and a lot of surprises, humor, and absurdity.

Starring:
Valerie Gallagher as Dorothy
Jeannette Jaquish as the Witch
Alec Steele as the Wizard of Oz
Tim Adams as The Scarecrow
Collin Barnes & Chelsi Kerns as the Lion
John Sandfort as the Tin Man

Cost: $7-teens & adults, $5-kids; $2 off with TRF button
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"The Strange Saga of Lucky the Leprechaun"
&
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore"

“The Strange Saga of Lucky the Leprechaun”, written by local author and Firehouse director, Jeannette Jaquish, is an extrapolation of what would happen if Lucky, the Lucky Charms mascot started to grow, and how General Mills would try to ease (or pop him into a pillow case and drag) him out. Further complicating a simple downsizing story, are a spate of breakfast attacks around town, and the revelation of why the Trix Rabbit doesn’t try harder to get Trix cereal. Contractual Obligation? or Eating Disorder?

During a call to Dr. Laura, Lucky is kidnapped to the Lucky Charms Marshmallow Mines where he discovers why leprechauns, seemingly never write him fan mail.

Congressional hearings reveal the cruel testing lab origins of the Trix Rabbit and the Animal Liberation Front’s anti-human bias (no news there).

In the final climactic scene the villain is revealed but if the law cannot touch him (or her?) where will justice come from?

Jeannette Jaquish created the Firehouse Theater from Enginehouse #10 at 1245 E. State. Since June 2006, they have produced over 40 shows or events and 193 performances. Always struggling to pay the bills, never soliciting grants, the Firehouse has nearly closed many times, but always survived.

– July 12, 15 & 18 @7pm, July 20 @ 3pm.
Tickets: Free will donation.

**Performed at the Firehouse Theater

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THEATER CAMP


RESERVE A SPOT IN THEATER CAMP BY CALLING JEANNETTE
AT 750-9013. You can pay the first day of camp.
Theater Camp “Hansel & Gretel & the Incredible Falling Elves”
July 21 – Aug 1, Mon-Fri, Noon-4:30pm.
Performances to fit actors’ schedules.
Ages 5 ½ to 12. $160 – lunch included.


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24 Hour Comedy Playhouse

– Open to anyone with theater experience
Friday, August 1, 7pm –Directors, Playwrights, Actors & Crew meet and form casts. Overnight playwrights write scripts. The next morning, they all meet and actors and directors start rehearsing. 24 hours after we began…
August 2, 7pm – Performance!
Tickets: Free or donation.


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Independent Troupes Earn $
Apply to join the Mystery Theater Troupe,
the Home School Troupe,
The After School Troupe,
and the Puppet Troupe,
all independent troupes which can earn money. Call Jeannette at 750-9013.
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We need volunteers and crew. If you are skilled and dependable you can be paid.
Call Jeannette at 750-9013.

*** IMPROV SHOWS :
Open to new members:
Adult Improv Group - Call Andrew Baltes at 1-765-532-9153
Teen Improv Group - Call Scott Kiser at 385-4167
Beginners & Kids Improv - Call Jeannette at 750-9013

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Share the Stage at the Firehouse Theater and make a profit!
Rent the Firehouse for your Wedding or Event!

The Firehouse Theater Management seeks a responsible individual or group to pass on the theater platforms, lights, equipment, costumes, etc. to continue theater operations.

Share the Stage or Inherit the Firehouse INFO

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Past Productions

2006
End of June (2 shows): Open House: Spoiled Baloney Man, Flight of the Vultures, Calvin & Hobbes and more
July 7 - 23 (9 shows) Dr. Frankenstreudel's Lemon Fresh Laboratory of Horrors
July 28 - Aug 6 (6 shows) Sci-Fi Blast-Off Theater
Aug 11 - 27 (9 shows) Monty Python's Flying Circus
Sept 1 - 17 (9 shows) The Frog Prince and the Princess Brat; and Hansel & Gretel
Village Idiots - Conne Artists Festival (3 shows)
Oct 7 - 22 (9 shows) Auditioning a Ghost, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oct 27- Nov 12 (5 shows) Recipe for a Nightmare
Dec 9-31 (10 shows) A Christmas Carol, by Dickens
2007
Feb 17 - Mar 11 (8 shows) Alice in Wonderland
Mar 17 (1 show) St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun Laugh-In
Mar 24 - April 7 (5 shows) Fairy Tales on the Mars Frontier, & If Shakespeare Wrote the Theory of Relativity
Date Unknown (4 events) Asylum for the Comically Disturbed - Funhouse Tours
April 20-May 6 (6) Senseless Acts of Comedy - The Strange Saga of Lucky the Leprechaun, Vandals, Land Shark
June 1-17 (6) Hansel & Gretel and The Youth Improv
June 2007 Theater Camp (3 weeks) created "Wizard of Oz" show
July 6-21 (6) Stars & Stripes Forever Musical Revue
July 8 -Aug 5 (7 shows) Wizard of Oz
Aug 31 - Sept 23 (7 shows) Alice in Wonderland
Sept. 21, 9:30 pm - "Improvatron 20/20" (4 shows including other dates)
Sept 22 - Senseless Acts of Comedy Open Mic Contest
Sept 28, 29 - (2 shows) "A Girly-Girl’s Life" and "Harry Potter and the Obnoxious Voice"
Oct 6 - 30 (7 shows) Auditioning a Ghost, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oct 20 24-hour Haunted Playhouse (1 show)
Nov 3, Project Improv Panic Night (including another show = 2 shows)
Nov 10 - Beginners Acting and Improv Classes begun Saturdays
Nov 18 - 30 (4 shows) "Quirky Plays Festival"
Nov 23 - Dec 8 (4 shows) "Amazing Magic" with regional magicians
Dec 14 - 30 (5 shows) "A Christmas Carol"
Jan 4-20 (8 shows) "The Frog Prince and the Princess Brat"
Jan 19 - Puppets & Stuff Games Night
Jan 26 - Go Bonkers Comedy & Magic Conte$t
Feb 2-22 (8 shows)- Dr. Frankenstreudel's Lemon Fresh Laboratory of Horrors
Feb 29 - Improvysteria & Magic and Escapes of Joey D.
Mar 1-15 (6 shows) Edgar Allan Poe and Other Dark Authors (in progress)
March 23 Easter Egg Hunt with Bobo the Bunny (Collin Barnes) and Leprechaun Helpers (Natalie & Veronica Bone & Zephyr Jaquish)
March 28 - April 26 (10 shows) Wizard of Oz
March 29 - Improvysteria & The Magic of Joey D
April 19 - Improvysteria & the Magic of Joey D
May 3-18 Spoiled Baloney Man + Magic & Improv (6 shows)
May 24-June 8 (6 shows) Al Capone & Me
June 28-July 6 (4 shows) Sorry, Wrong Number & You Don't Bring Me Flowers

TOTAL so far: 42 plays or events, and 195 performances in 24 months
(Does not count band shows.)

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Please park at the library a short walk to the east. Please do not park at the Rib Room or on the street -- we need to get along with our neighbors. Thanks!

We still need lots of help.
Please call right now to volunteer to join one of these crews:
*Publicity (low key typing, printing and distribution, phone calling)
*Outreach & Public Stunts (high key going out, meeting people, wearing costumes, sometimes being silly)
*Backstage Crew (change sets, shove around platforms and chairs, run lights and curtain)
*Costume: (wash or organize or sew or buy - what you can)
*Production: (Make sets, scenery, set lights, help the director)
*Housekeeping: (Straighten up the building, Clean)
*Supervision: (Watch events, open up and close the building)
*Parking Lot Supervision
***** And most importantly COME TO A SHOW!!

The Firehouse does not take grants - we depend on a paying audience to decide if we should exist. If you want to donate, your money will be used on free tickets to the needy.

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fIREHOUSE fUTURE
Director Jeannette Jaquish says:

July 3, 2008: Our first weekend of Sorry, Wrong Number and You Don't Bring Me Flowers had a good show with small audiences again. It was donations so anyone could afford it. 5 members of an actor's family at Sunday's show plus a volunteer's family who shouldn't have paid but did. $85 & $38 for the weekend. We need $500 a weekend.

There are many actors in town. Please come forth and discover the Firehouse and do shows here! Form your own troupe!

June 13, 2008: I paid all the June 12 rent with my family's money.
All the Firehouse earned in the past month went to paying April's rent late, a week at a time (along with $700 of my family's money), so we had $400 when rent was due again and I needed that for utilities and insurance.
Al Capone & Me was a great show. The audience was mostly the public (usually we have mostly family of actors in the audience). They laughed and enjoyed the show and complimented us afterwards. Unfortunately, there weren't enough of them.
I've corrected every problem I can see. Our shows have been works to be proud of lately. Creative, bold, well acted, clear voices, good costumes, and the audiences enjoy them. We are listed in the newspapers and thousands see our sign every day. I will no longer blame myself. This town will not give us a chance.
And I cannot get ongoing volunteer help besides Hope Gallagher who has shown up for many shows to run the ticket table and brings homemade baked goods to sell. Thank-you Hope.
If you want to be in a show or see a show at the Firehouse, do it now.

June, 6, 2008:
Al Capone & Me is a wonderful show. Unfortunately, audiences have been small and it has not covered expenses. For May's rent I paid $700 of my own money. What we have earned from Al Capone & Me hasn't even covered printing, utilities and other expenses. Rent of $1400 is due June 12, so we have one more weekend of performances to earn it. There is a big electric bill due the 16th. Why won't people come see our shows?

May 7, 2008:
I will use my family's money to pay for listing 3 shows in the Three Rivers Festival Affiliated Events Listing. We got large crowds from that last year, showing that our real problem is people do not know we exist or do not think of us when they are looking for something to do.
We have $350 in the bank and one more weekend of Spoiled Baloney to earn $1600 rent due May 12, $185 in electric bill and whatever other utility bills come forth. Spoiled Baloney last weekend got two small audiences, less than $50 for the weekend. The last weekend of Wizard of Oz got two medium audiences, about $350 for the weekend. We need over $600 per weekend to pay the bills. Last month I emptied the snack bar and season ticket fund to pay the rent and paid it one weekend late to use that income. The month before I used $1,000 of my family's money to pay the rent.
If people came to see our very entertaining shows we'd be fine.
What do I do when rent is due and I don't have the money?
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April 28, 2008:
We have three directors besides myself working on Spoiled Baloney, Al Capone & Me, and The Mystery Troupe, but I still need help with the crews to run the buildings and supply the shows.

April 3, 2008:
And just as suddenly, things are looking up.
Wizard of Oz had a great first weekend, earning over $200 each of 2 shows, and a good improv show in between.
Brian Stoner a Comcast producer, created a great 30 second spot using footage from our shows and his own camera work on Oz. He got us a sponsorship swap with Comcast and the spot begins April 4.
The spot has clips including leprechauns beating Lucky the Leprechaun, the Frog peeing on the visiting princesses, Marley terrifying Scrooge, Dr. Frankenstreudel and Eyegore chasing Alexis, and Malfoy zapping Dumbledore with Avada Kedavra. Watch for it on Comcast Cable.

March 2008
"Edgar Allan Poe and Other Dark Authors" had its first weekend - very creatively macabre. First show was rough, second was much better. Few were in the audience.
We are not close to having the rent.
We need three nearly sold out shows this weekend to pay the rent, due the 12th.
Performances have been looking good, and upcoming shows are sure to please, but as usual, I am working myself ragged doing most everything. We do have a second director, Brian Stoner who is a Comcast commercial producer, a 14 year old boy, Daultin Keller who has loves power tools and keeps the stage in shape, and a few adult volunteers, but the Firehouse needs a permanent stage, costume, housekeeping and publicity crew -- especially publicity. Our shows are good but not enough people come to see them. Weekly I hear, "Oh, I didn't know you existed."

I need people who come here often enough to learn how to do things, who can be handed an assignment and figure out how to do it.

If we were filling the house at performances we could pay. For that I need a publicity crew who get the posters out all over the city.

I don't know how much longer I can carry on.

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PARKING
--PLEASE, do not park in the Rib Room parking lot! However, they have told us we can on Sunday when they are closed. You may park in the lot right behind the Firehouse, at Waves Hair Salon when it is closed, or at the Tecumseh Library to the east.
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VOLUNTEER
Firehouse Theater needs volunteers to run lights, curtain and be the Costumes Master, Stage Manager and Makeup Artist for each show.
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CONTACT LIST
PLEASE, give us your phone number and email address for updates. Call Jeannette at 484-5946 or email firehousetheaterfw@yahoo.com .

ENGINEHOUSE #10 TRANSITIONS TO A COMMUNITY THEATER
This building's many attributes make it a great theatre. Because two firetrucks were parked in it, it has a large central room, 37' by 35', with a ceiling 14' high. The acoustics are wonderful and no microphones are needed.
Immediately backstage is a row of built-in closets, used by the firemen as lockers. These are perfect for storing props and costumes. Right next to that walk-on area are two bedroom-size rooms that have become the mens and ladies dressing rooms. And in between the actors and audience areas are two clean, large and very nice restrooms.

The building has a small kitchenette in the hose tower, a tall tower where the firemen hung the hoses to drip dry. Standing next to the window, one can gaze upwards the height of the tower, lit at night by soft colored lights. This is now the Hose Tower Cafe and Snackbar.

We have built platforms for the stage and have five rows of tiered audience seating.

There is a large attic for storing costumes, props and furniture and a large rehearsal space the same size as the stage. And a basement for painting, cutting and construction. It is wonderful.

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Actors, Directors, Crew Needed! Get on our contact list! To be notified of auditions, or to volunteer to help us build the stage, organize costumes, paint signs and all of that, please email below or call Jeannette Jaquish at 750-9013.

Please check back to this website for updates!

Email: firehousetheaterFW@yahoo.com