Plenty of roles available at Eunice Players Theater

Auditions have been held for acting parts in the Eunice Players Theater’s next production but there are plenty of other roles still available
Theater board member Debi Crawford, in remarks to the Rotary Club, said volunteers are always needed to help with the myriad of tasks that have to be accomplished before the curtain goes up.
The next presentation, in September, of the theatre’s 45th consecutive year will be a reprise of The Diary of Anne Frank, last done by the Eunice troupe in the 1970’s.
And following that in November will be another classic done years ago by the Players -- Harvey, most familiar to many as a movie in the 1950s starring Jimmy Stewart.
Crawford reviewed for Rotarians some of the “hidden” expense that goes into the theater’s productions.
There are performance royalties to be paid (based on the number of performances and the seating capacity, scripts to buy (they can’t just be copied from one master), sets to build, period clothing to beg, borrow or buy, and other production expense out of the director’s budget.
On the theater budget side, there are such expenses as program and ticketing, mailouts, etc.
The total for both categories of the expense ledger comes to about $3,000 per production.
The good news is that most, if not all, of the 100 seats are filled for each of the seven performances.
There are about 550 season ticket holders ($20 for three productions) and any available tickets are also sold on performance nights.
And Eunice’s amateur thespians are accustomed to playing before full houses.
“We are very spoiled by our attendance numbers,” Crawford said, noting a house with only 30-40 percent capacity is more than norm in regional art houses.
“The community supports us. We used to do five-day productions, now it’s seven, and we fill it up,” she said.