Lethbridge Musical Theatre is looking for a few good men, aged 20-50 with a song in their hearts and who are comfortable with their bodies and who are willing to “risk it all ”for their  Fall, winter production of  The Full Monty.

 Auditions are Sunday, June 25 from 1-5 p.m. and Monday June 26, 5-9 p.m. for the production, which will run Oct. 26-28 and Nov. 1-4 in the Yates Theatre.

 The musical, based on the hit 1997 British movie was Americanized and debuted on Broadway in 2000.

 Director Andrew Andreachuk is excited to work with musical director Jillian Bracken and choreographer, New West Theatre veteran Jessica Ens on a show Lethbridge has never seen before.

“I worked with Jillian in 9 to 5 and have been in several Lethbridge Musical Theatre musicals. Jillian was passionate about the show so we brought it to the board who were excited to work with us,” Andreachuk said.

“It’s a very smart show that explores body image issues.  Which is even more important today. The music is great and it subverts traditional roles as it’s the men who have to bare all to make it work. LMT hasn’t done anything like it,” he said.

The show takes place in Buffalo, where a group of laid off steel mill workers  decide to present a strip act after seeing their wives get  excited over a touring Chippendales act.

There are a number of plays being staged in the fall and winter, so if you want to have some fun, meet a lot of great people and  be a star, your chance is coming up.

Playgoers of Lethbridge  winds up their 100 anniversary celebrations with a pair of great shows in October and  November.

The long standing theatre troupe is staging a dinner theatre of  Ken Ludwig’s 2012 comedy “ The Games Afoot below the Keg, Oct. 17-21 .

 Auditions are this Thursday, June 22 in the casa community room.

 Hatrix Theatre staged the production in 2016, but director Rita Peterson in 2016 but didn’t see it.

“I really love Ken Ludwig.  He has several plays, like  ‘Leading Ladies’ and ‘Moon Over Buffalo’ and a lot of others that are very funny,” Peterson said, adding Playgoer’s mainstay Shelly David, who produced Hatrix’s  production of the play, brought The Game’s Afoot to her attention. It‘s been about 10 years since they did it,” Peterson said.

“It’s a period piece. it takes place in 1936, and I don’t usually like to go back that far, but it’s such a cute play,” Peterson enthused.

The Game’s Afoot is about theatre veteran  and playwright William Gillette, who has written a long running play about Sherlock Holmes, and who sees himself as being like Holmes,  who  invites his friends in the cast to his mansion for Christmas Eve in 1936 in the middle of a storm as a poison pen theatre critic named Daria Chase pays them a visit, which leads to complications and hilarity as they hold a seance to find out who attempted to murder Gillette as well as the doorman at the theatre where they were performing.

The cast includes three men and five women aged 20 to 70 plus.

Theatre Outré winds up their tenth season as well as their tenure at Didi’s Playhaus, June 15-17, with an original auto-fictional play by Lethbridge playwright Liam Monaghan.

The play, Strange/  Familiar is an embellished story about Monaghan’s  experience growing up queer and adopted in Alberta.

“This show is about my experiences as a queer and adopted in Southern Alberta. It is about family, both the chosen, like the family at  Theatre Outré and  biological,” said Monaghan, whose play “How To Leave” was one of the first shows staged by Theatre Outré in 2014.

He has also been part of a variety of Theatre Outré shows particularly singing in their cabaret and tribute nights to queer icons like Dolly Parton, Cher and Judy Garland.

“ There is a lot of cabaret music in the show,” Monaghan said, noting he grew up  in Lethbridge , lived in Vancouver and  was looking back on his experience while working towards in his MFA at the University of Alberta.

“ I was thinking about  what to write about and thinking of adapting my life into this play,” he said.

“ It’s a very personal play about my experience,” he said. He has been involved with Theatre Outré for a long time, so it means a lot for Theatre Outré  to feature his play as their last in the downtown space upstairs on  Fifth street and 4th avenue south.

“It‘s about Liam, who  has just moved in with  his new boyfriend, who gets a letter from his birth mom, saying, his father has passed on and has left him something in his will,” Monaghan summarized.

 The show, starring some familiar local theatre personalities, Monaghan, Kathy Zaborsky and Graham Mothersill spans several genres including comedy, drama and music including some original compositions by Monaghan.

“ and there will be some theatrical surprises,” said Monaghan, whose favourite  Theatre Outer memories are performing in the cabarets.

 Opening night, Thursday, June 15 is sold out but there are still tickets available for Friday and the two shows  on Saturday.

 After the Lethbridge run, the show goes to Edmonton for three nights, June 22-24