When you look around the dinner table, do your kids remind you of the Cratchit children? You know, from "A Christmas Carol."
Would your kids like to hang out with Ebenezer Scrooge? How about the Ghost of Christmas Past?
The Milwaukee Rep is seeking applications from boys and girls ages 7 to 13 who are interested in performing in the company's production of "A Christmas Carol" this year. Children who are cast will be expected to attend special workshops from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 15, 22, 29 and Nov. 5.
Parents should provide a separate photograph of each interested child along with this information: height, weight, age, shoe and clothing size, address, and parents' home and work phone numbers. Send it to: Children Auditions, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 108 E. Wells St., Milwaukee, WI 53202. The deadline is Aug. 15.
Damien has been around so long, he was at Summerfest the night George Carlin was arrested for speaking the seven dirty words you can't say on TV. He was also at the Uptown Theatre the night Bruce Springsteen's first Milwaukee concert was interrupted for three hours by a bomb scare. Damien was reviewing the concert for the Milwaukee Journal. He wrote for the Journal and Journal Sentinel for 37 years, the last 29 as theater critic.
During those years, Damien served two terms on the board of the American Theatre Critics Association, a term on the board of the association's foundation, and he studied the Latinization of American culture in a University of Southern California fellowship program. Damien also hosted his own arts radio program, "Milwaukee Presents with Damien Jaques," on WHAD for eight years.
Travel, books and, not surprisingly, theater top the list of Damien's interests. A news junkie, he is particularly plugged into politics and international affairs, but he also closely follows the Brewers, Packers and Marquette baskeball. Damien lives downtown, within easy walking distance of most of the theaters he attends.
