Auditions for two productions at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre will be held Sunday and Monday, October 10 and 11, at 7:30 p.m.

"A Christmas Story" (adapted for the Stage by Philip Grecian, based on the Original Novel and Screenplay by Jean Shepherd). Presented on the MainStage in conjunction with the Youth Theatre. Roles for five boys, three girls, one man, and two women. The play is directed by Maria Chattin-Carter. Production dates December 10 - December 23 and includes some daytime performances.

"Times Square Angel" (by Charles Busch, author of "Psycho Beach Party"), An alternative holiday comedy for adult audiences. Roles for two women (one of them African-American) and five men. The play is directed by LeBron Benton. Production dates are Friday and Saturday evenings December 3 - 18.

Times Square Angel, a campy melodramedy, is a satire of the Hollywood fantasy films of the 1940s such as It’s A Wonderful Life and The Bishop’s Wife with a bit of A Christmas Carolthrown in there. It's the story of Irish O'Flanagan, a street urchin who has her dreams dashed by cruel fate, grows into a big burlesque star, and chooses financial security over true love, closing off her heart until the fateful Christmas Eve when she gets one last chance to make things right. Like a steaming lilac-scented bubble bath or an embarrassingly large molten chocolate dessert, the best way to enjoy Times Square Angel is to sit back, turn off the plot-following part of your brain, and just let the sweet, sweet cheesiness flow over you. Suddenly you'll realize that Irish O'Flanagan and her chorus boys are singing a medley of Christmas carols in which they impugn each other's age, appearance, talent, and virtue, exactly like a couple of Ann Miller and Debbie Reynolds impersonators on a sketch comedy show. And it won't be a bad holiday after all.