Julia Child Fake-Off at Winds and Little Art

Julia Child “Fake-Off”
Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:30pm
the Little Art Theatre

followed by the Yellow Springs premiere screening at 8:00pm of
Julie & Julia
& preceded by “Cocktails with Julia” at the Winds Café 6:30pm.

Dress up as Julia Child to enter the area’s first “Fake-Off” Contest in conjunction with the Little Art Theatre screening of Julie and Julia. The event begins at 6:30pm with “Cocktails with Julia” at the Winds Wine Cellar with Julia Child inspired hors d’oeuvres and cash bar. Then head down the street to the Little Art Theatre for a Julia Child “Fake-Off” Contest at 7:30pm. To enter, contestants will dress as Julia Child and offer a favorite Julia quote, cooking tip, or short skit. The screening audience will judge the contestants. The character, Julia-Jean Child (actress, Rani Crowe), will serve as the master of ceremonies for the contest and host the cocktail hour at the Winds Café. Winners will receive food related gift prizes. Come as a contestant or spectator. Event tickets are $20 and includes cocktail event, contest and screening. Call the Winds Wine Cellar to reserve your “Cocktail with Julia” (937) 767-9441. Contest and Yellow Springs premiere screening of Julie and Julia is only $7.50. Winds Café, 215 Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs; Little Art Theatre, 247 Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs.

Julie & Julia, The Movie (taken from the film website)
Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powel in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme. Based on to true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Rani Crowe as Julia-Jean Child
Rani Deighe Crowe has a BA in theater from Antioch College. She has studied humor writing at the New School for Social Research, Monologue Writing at New York City’s the Writer’s Voice, and Stand Up Comedy with the Stephen Rosenfield’s Stand Up Experience performing at Caroline’s, Stand Up New York, and Don’t Tell Mama. Locally, she recently directed Miracle on 34th Street at the Dayton Playhouse, and wrote an adaptation of James Howe’s Bunnicula books for the stage for the Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse. Her local acting roles include Glenda in the Brookville Community Theater’s recent production of the Wizard of Oz, Polly in The Gnadiges Fraulein in the Antioch Amphitheater, the King in Ivona, Princess of Burgundia at Antioch. She is currently producing audio recordings of monologues from the Spoon River Anthology for Migiwa Orimo’s upcoming public art piece The Telephone Booth Project, coming to Yellow Springs in October, 2009.

For more information or to buy tickets to the event please contact Winds Wine Cellar at 937-767-9441 or www.windscafe.com