After auditions and interviews, Garza was selected to join PCPA, a company of 185, including students, equity actors, and professional directors. Garza worked with the designers in building sets for both theatres. Garza hopes to return to PCPA next summer as Stage Manager, and then head for graduate school. With musical theatre, that is. After years of piano lessons and performances, a friend talked Carianne into auditioning for The Wizard of Oz at Chico City Light Opera.
Audiences are delighted with the change.
Her credits include The Secret Garden, The Marriage of Figaro , and Death by a Thosand Lies . She was a member of the Court Theatre troupe this past summer and will be featured as Kathie in The Student Prince opening September 9. Director Timothy Herman cast Wrona in the lead because of her exceptionally beautiful voice and strong acting abilities. She will help set a precedent for the calibre of musical theatre students we are aiming for at CSU, Chico. Wrona is one of five students to receive the Marilyn Warrens Musical Theatre Performance Awards for 1998-99.