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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • AUGUST 1, 2018 • A 3 Auditions for CG Theatre’s production of ‘The Fantasticks’ set for Aug. 19 Cottage Th eatre will hold auditions on Sunday, August 19 at 6 p.m. for “Th e Fantas- ticks,” a touching fable about passion and innocence. Th is production, the fi nal show in Cottage Th eatre’s 2018 sea- son, will be on stage for three weekends, Nov. 30 through Dec. 16. Th e musical is directed by Kory Weimer. Auditions will take place at Cottage Th eatre, 700 Village Drive in Cottage Grove, and no appointment is necessary. Eight roles are available for men and women ages 16 and older. Th is timeless story has captivated the hearts and imaginations of generations of theatregoers. Written in 1960, and featuring enduring classics like “Try to Remem- ber” and “Soon It’s Gonna Rain,” “Th e Fantasticks” is a romantic, allegorical musical about a boy, a girl, two fa- thers and a wall. Th e neighboring dads trick their children into fall- ing in love by pretending to feud. Once Matt and Luisa discover their parents’ decep- tion, they reject the arranged love match and grow apart. Following a series of dis- illusioning experiences, they fi nally fi nd their way back to each other aft er realizing that, "without a hurt, the heart is hollow." “Th e Fantasticks” the lon- gest-running musical in the world with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity that transcends cultural barriers. Th e result is a touching fa- ble of love that is both nostal- gic and universal at the same time. Interested actors should prepare 16 to 32 bars of a song that demonstrates their vocal talents, and bring sheet music for the provided ac- companist. If actors are interested in the non-speaking role of Th e Mute, they should come to auditions prepared to tell a story without using words. Additional audition de- tails are available at www.cot- tagetheatre.org, or by calling the Cottage Th eatre at 541- 942-8001. Betty Kaiser’s Chatter Box: Mother Nature surprises city girls a month every summer in nearby Crestline. My grand- father wasn’t a fi sherman either but he loved trout. He would pile us kids in the car and off we would go to the trout farm where you paid to fi sh. Betty Kaiser Grandpa said it was the most expensive activity of the summer. Th ere, an s a former city girl, employee baited the hook I am constantly on your fi shing pole and the amazed at Mother fi sh would practically leap Nature’s surprises. Living out of the water into your in the country has been a lap. Fortunately, I not only whole new learning expe- didn’t have to bait the hook rience. My latest wildlife but someone else took the encounter had me shaking slimy, squirming fi sh off the my head and my heart line and put it into the buck- pounding. et for me. It seems worthy of sharing Fast forward a few decades on this hot summer day. Feel and I’m living at C.G. Lake free to sit back and laugh where fi shing is a regular with me. pastime. But not for me. I’m First, I am not a fi sher more like someone out of a woman. Th e closest I ever Justin Moore Country song: came to catching a fi sh was I can’t even bait a hook. at the Blue Jay Trout Farm Th at all sort of changed in the San Bernardino a couple of weeks ago. A Mountains. My family spent strong wind had blown A through our six acres of trees and branches were scattered on the deck and under the trees closest to the house. I got busy with my rake and wheelbarrow and began cleaning up. Th at’s when I saw what looked like a 12- inch log covered in mulch about three feet inside the tree line. I went over to pick it up and it moved! It was breathing. Yikes! I practically jumped out of my jeans! I gently nudged it with a stick and it rolled over and fanned out what looked like tail feathers. A bird? And it was still alive? Eek! I ran into the house, fi lled the tea kettle, dashed outside and poured water over the “bird.” Well, the bird was a fi sh and its gills were opening and clos- ing. I had to rescue it! I covered the fi sh with a damp cloth, laid it in a box, grabbed the car keys and drove over to the lake. At the boat ramp, I gently put the fi sh in the water, it briefl y swam a few inches and was still. A fi sherman was nearby with his little girl. I asked him if he knew anything about fi sh. Duh. Of course he did. He was fi shing. I told him my fi sh story and could tell that he thought I was a few bricks short of a load. Finally, he got curious, came over and said, “Doggone, it’s a Cat- fi sh.” (Or something like that.) He called his daughter over to check it out as he nudged it into deeper water. Th e fi sh, however, had other ideas and kept coming back onto shore! Th e fi sherman asked me where I found it. I told him it was covered in mulch un- der the trees but came alive when I poured water on it from a tea kettle. I still didn’t know how it got there. Th en it dawned on me. Th ere’s an osprey nest nearby. Sometimes other birds try to steal their fi sh when they’re coming home. Perhaps there was a tussle and he dropped it on our property — but three feet under the trees? By this time my fi sher- man’s daughter is asking questions and he is describ- ing the fi sh as identifi ed by its whiskers. Th en, hoping to get rid of me, he assured me that my fi sh was going to be fi ne and I drove home — still shaking — to ponder what had happened. Later, I was telling this story to my friend Emily who proceeded to confound me with her own Mother Nature story. She lives in a house on a city lot in Eu- gene. Her backyard has a nice big deck overlooking a little stream that runs into a pond. A small Blue Jay (slightly handicapped because of a chopped off tail!) has been Cottage Theatre presents A riveting story of love, loss, and healing Meet DON JOHNSON Don joined the service team at Brad’s in 2006 aft er work for General Motors for 47 years, and is the Parts Manager. Don in his free time he enjoys golfi ng, fi shing and hunting. Stop in and say Hi. frequenting the pond to drink water and check out the tadpoles. One day while Emily was relaxing outside, she noticed that the tadpoles were now frogs. Suddenly, a HUGE Bullfrog leaped out of the water, jumped on her bluebird and swallowed its entire head! Emily leaped into action and eventually was able to free her bird’s head from the bullfrog. Th e frog dove back into the pond and the bird has never been seen again. Emily will never trust her bullfrogs again. Evidently they are carni- vores that will even eat their own young. Th at’s Mother Nature at work. We city girls sure have a lot to learn. Contact Betty Kaiser’s Chatterbox at 942-1317 or email bchatty@bettykaiser. com August 10-26 By Joe Musso World Premiere Treehouse CLIP & SAVE • CLIP & SAVE • CLIP & SAVE OIL CHANGE SPECIAL $19.95 up to 6 qts of oil Gas Engines Only. Excludes Diesel Engines,Dexos & Synthetic Oils With this coupon offer good through 8/31/18 Not Valid with any other offer. Service Now Open Saturdays 8am-5pm 541-942-4415 2775 Row River Rd. • Cottage Grove www.bradschevy.com Sponsored by: Directed by Tara Wibrew Contains some mature themes. With support from: Part of the American Association of Community Theatre’s 2018 NewPlayFest Tickets available online, by phone, or at the door one hour before performance Thursday−Saturday 8:00 pm; Sunday 2:30 pm. $25 Adult, $15 Youth (18 and under) 541-942-8001 • 700 Village Drive • Cottage Grove www.cottagetheatre.org