ARCADIA was awesome, AVONLEA is opening, and the WONDERETTES moves into the theatre soon!

Good afternoon friends of the Little Theatre,

Thank you to everyone who came out this last weekend to see Arcadia, directed by Suzy Newman. The Ubu’s Other Shoe presentation was a great success. Thank you to everyone who was involved in making it happen.

Anne of Avonlea began technical rehearsals this weekend. Thank you to Pam Hester and John Battalino for spending all day Saturday at the theatre to set lights for this Academy of Creative Theatre production which opens this Friday, August 3^rd. Be sure to check out this Thursday’s TICKET to see a great preview of the play by Joan Crowder. You can get your tickets by clicking HERE.

Wonderettes moves into the theatre next week for staging/choreography. Get your ticket to the first production of our 66^th season by clicking HERE.

Good People, the next Ubu’s Other Shoe presentation directed by John Battalino, has secured a great cast. Good People plays on August 17 and 18 and tickets will be available soon. To read the New York Times review of Good People, please click HERE.

DO NOT MISS our open house/volunteer appreciation party this Sunday at 4:30 PM! It is going to be an incredibly fun event- join us to help celebrate our amazing volunteers and everything they made possible during our 2011-2012 season. RSVP HERE.

Here are the newest 2012-2013 member of the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre. If you know any person on this list, please THANK THEM for supporting our organization!

100	Virginia Bass
100	James & Linda Foss
200	Debbie Lagomarsino
300	Franklin Mognett
1,500.00	Alexander & Suzanne Morrison
25	Betty Reid
25	Lavonne & Ben Rodgers
1,000.00	Barry Ross
125	Arlene Sackman
1,000.00	Judy Stark (on behalf of Alaine and Richard Steuk)
125	Denise & Dan Turner

Thank you for everything that you do to make this organization work. As always, please let me know if there’s anything the Board or staff can do to make your time with us more enjoyable and rewarding.

Have a great week, everyone!

-Kevin

Are seeing ARCADIA tonight? Or tomorrow? Staying for NO SHAME?

Tonight and Saturday- Arcadia, directed by Suzy Newman. Get your ticket HERE.

No Shame Central Coast is happening tonight. Bar/submissions open at 10:30. Show at 11:30. 

Don't miss our annual OPEN HOUSE and VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION party on August 5. Mark your calendars. Come help us celebrate our 2011-2012 (65th anniversary!) season!

Have a great weekend, everyone! Hope to see you at the theatre.

-Kevin

Two nights only. Award-winning play. Awesome cast.

Click HERE for tickets.

Have a great Wednesday, everyone.

Kevin

Want to experience a entire evening of excellent theatre for only $10? Check out what going on THIS FRIDAY at the Little Theatre.

Hey there- do you have plans for this Friday night? Do you like bargains? OF COURSE you do. Check this out.

You can see Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard (directed by Suzy Newman) this Friday (and Saturday) at 7:00 PM. This plays has won almost every award that plays can win- don't miss it. Find out more about it HERE. Get your ticket HERE.

Arcadia is an Ubu's Other Shoe (readers' theatre at the Little Theatre) presentation. It'll cost you $10 to get in. ($7 if your a student or a senior.)

After Arcadia, go get a drink or quick bite and come back for NO SHAME THEATRE, the most unpredictable night of the month at the Little Theatre.

No Shame is an opportunity for anyone and everyone to write, perform and enjoy a variety of entertainment ranging from scenes to original songs to....you name it. No need to submit your work for approval. THE FIRST 15 SCRIPTS WILL BE PERFORMED. NO SCRIPT WILL BE TURNED AWAY as long as it follows these three simple rules:

RULE ONE: All work must be original. That means the performer(s) either wrote the piece or have permission from the author to perform the piece.

RULE TWO: All performances must be 5 minutes or less.

RULE THREE: Nobody may break anything... including the law.

FREE ADMISSION.  

BAR/SUBMISSIONS open at 10:30 PM.  

SHOW begins at 11:30 PM.

Want more information? Click HERE. 

So...long story short: Little Theatre is offering you a full evening (nearly 5 hours) of theatre for $10.00. Join us! See you this weekend.

-Kevin

Join us August 5th

Little Theatre members, guests, and community members who want to learn more about the Little Theatre and its programs are invited to our annual Open House and Volunteer Recognition Program.  It will be:

August 5, 2012

4:30 - 6:30 PM

At the Little Theatre

We'll have food and beverages.  Program and awards at about 5:45.

This week at the Little Theatre!

Good afternoon friends of the Little Theatre.

My Way finished its 4 week run yesterday- congratulations to the cast and crew. It was a pleasure working with all of you and we appreciate all of your hard work over the last few months.

We’re heading into an extremely busy week here at the Little Theatre- auditions for Good People are taking place tonight at the theatre. The Ubu’s Other Show presentation, directed by John Battalino, plays on August 17 and 18 at 7:99 PM. To find out more about the play, check out this New York Times Review by clicking HERE.

Arcadia, directed by Suzy Newman, is plays this weekend (July 27 and 28) at 7:00 PM. To find out more about this award-winning play by Tom Stoppard, please click HERE. Click HERE for tickets.

We’re heading into a full tech weekend for Anne of Avonlea. Pam Hester is going to be acting as lighting designer for the first time with this production. Congratulations to Pam--- be sure to get your tickets for this production by clicking HERE.

The Marvelous Wonderettes begin choreography and staging this week. To see a trailer for the show, please click HERE.

Thank you for everything you do to make this theatre work. As always, please let me know if there’s anything the Board or staff can do to make you time with us more enjoyable and rewarding.

Have a great week!

-Kevin

AUDITIONS GALORE AT THE LITTLE THEATRE! Be a part of it all!

Want to get involved? Want to get back onstage? Check out these great audition opportunities for everyone, regardless of your experience or availability!

Click HERE for more information.

Thanks, everyone!

-Kevin

AUDITIONS for THE BEST MAN!

Auditions for The Best Man will be held on August 27 and 28. Callbacks will take place on August 29. For full audition details, please click HERE.

One more weekend of MY WAY, season tickets are disappearing, and BEST MAN auditions are right around the corner. Monday at the Little Theatre!

Good afternoon friends of the Little Theatre,

The third weekend of My Way is behind us- it was the most successful of the run! Audiences are having a great time and the feedback we’ve been getting is great. If you haven't attended one of our famous martini nights, you have one more chance: this Saturday July 21! Click HERE to get your tickets before the all disappear.

Did you catch the great review in New Times last week? Click HERE to read what Anna Weltner thought of our production. My Way closes this Sunday, July 22. Due to the size of the cast, we will need some extra hands for strike on Sunday after the matinee. Feel free to swing by at around 4:15. I suspect strike will take about 60-90 minutes. Click HERE to RSVP for strike.

Auditions for The Best Man, directed by Brent Keast will take place on August 27 and 28 at the Little Theatre. Full audition details will be available tomorrow. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this Tony Award-winning play!

Anne of Avonlea has started daytime rehearsals in the theatre. Get your tickets now for this incredible Academy of Creative Theatre production by clicking HERE.

The Marvelous Wonderettes is wrapping up musical rehearsals and will move into the theatre soon to begin staging. The first season show of 2012-2013 opens on August 31 and runs through September 23.

Have your friends/family purchased 2012-2013 season tickets yet- encouraging them to purchase season tickets is one of the best ways you can support all of the programs our theatre offers to the community. Click HERE to check out our season. Click HERE to order your season tickets instantly online.

Thank you, as always, for everything that you so to make this organization work. Please let me know if there’s anything that the Board/staff can do to make your time with us more enjoyable and rewarding.

Have a great week!

-Kevin

Check out this revue review. Thanks to Anna Weltner and the New Times.

Click HERE to read Weltner's great review of My Way. 

Still haven't seen it? We're offering 2 for 1 walk-up tickets on Thursday and Saturday evening. Click HERE to get your coupon.

Have a great Thursday, everyone!

-Kevin

Peter O'Toole retires, leaves golden hairbrush and rocks glass behind!

Hello friends of the Little Theatre,

Yesterday, Sir Peter O'Toole released the following statement:

Dear All,

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

However, it's my belief that one should decide for oneself when it is time to end one's stay.

So I bid the profession a dry-eyed and profoundly grateful farewell.

Ever,

Peter O'Toole

Here are some of O'Toole's most memorable moments:

Click HERE for The Lion in Winter (1968.) 

Click HERE for What's New Pussycat (1965.)

Click HERE for O'Toole and Orson Welles discussing Hamlet (1963.)

Click HERE to see SNL's version of the famously drunk movie star.

Click HERE to see O'Toole's version of the famously drunk movie star.

Finally, click HERE to see the trailer for Lawrence of Arabia.

Have a great Wednesday, everyone!

Kevin

MY WAY continues to swing, ANNE OF AVONLEA enters the home stretch, ARCADIA begins rehearsals, and an AMAZING Ubu's Other Shoe season! Monday at the Little Theatre...

Good afternoon Board, staff, and artistic teams of the Little Theatre,

The cast and crew of My Way finished up their second weekend of performances on Sunday. The show is selling well and audiences have loved it. Our Martini Night performances have been a little light, so, if you do participate in any word-of-mouth advertising, please try to push Saturday evenings. REMINDER: we also begin Thursday night performances this Thursday.

After a three week conversation with Dramatists Play Service, I’m pleased to announce that the Little Theatre has secured to rights to SEVERAL of the most dynamic plays in American theatre today for Ubu’s Other Shoe 2012-2013 season. These plays include: Good People, Time Stands Still, After the Revolution, Photograph 51, and Red. What an amazing season- stay tuned for specific dates/times!

 

Don’t miss ANOTHER great play presented by Ubu’s Other Shoe: Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, directed by Suzy Newman. Arcadia plays on July 27 and 28 at 7:00 PM. Click HERE for your tickets.

 

Anne of Avonlea opens soon: August 3-12. Get your tickets HERE.

Be sure to catch John Laird on KSBY New tomorrow morning at 7:30 PM singing a song for My Way!

DATE TO REMEMBER: August 5--- this is the date of our annual Open House and Volunteer Appreciation Party. Come celebrate our 65^th anniversary season with the people that made it happen! More details to come soon.

Thank you everyone for everything that you do to make this theatre work. As always, please let me know if there’s anything that the Board or staff can do to make your time with us more enjoyable and rewarding.

Have a great week!

-Kevin

Will it work without Max Von Sydow?

Happy Friday friends of the Little Theatre,

Were you aware that THIS is happening?

In less than 3 hours, The Exorcist will open at the Geffen playhouse. This stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty's gore-filled novel and William Friedkin's soup-filled film stars Richard Chamberlain and Brooke Shields (as the mother and head priest dude, respectively.)

This is very exciting, for two reasons: first, the inherent risk of bringing an iconic horror experience to the stage is intoxicating...only if this fails, it will fail BIG. Personally, the idea of a stage adaptation of The Blue Lagoon seems like more a sure-thing, if only to have the illusion of getting between Brooke and her Calvins. For now, watching her shriek for 90 minutes will have to suffice. Second..this could be really good. Like, REALLY good. If it is, people will remember it as the production that changed theatre in 2012. Success for The Exorcist would certainly beget a flash flood of movie-to-play (not musical) copycats. Diner would be on this list. The Big Chill (starring Tatum Channing and Ryan Reynolds) would follow. Soon, the great white way will look like the discount DVD bin at Walmart, and I'll finally be able to fulfill a dream to simultaneously attend a Broadway show AND enjoy Joe Eszterhas's overthetopness. 

DON'T CALL HIM LEBOWSKI

One can dream. 

This will be a fun one to watch. Click HERE to see the trailer.

"THE POWER OF NAME RECOGNITION COMPELS YOU!"

Have a great weekend everyone,

Kevin

BEST MAN readthrough and SEASON TICKETS. Thursday at the Little Theatre.

Good afternoon friends of the Little Theatre,

I hope that everyone had a safe and enjoyable 4^th of July. My Way opened last weekend and audience response was great. Congratulations to the cast/musicians/crew. My Way plays for 3 more weekends (through Sunday, July 22.)

Anne of Avonlea is about halfway through is rehearsal process. Get your tickets now by clicking HERE.

Brent Keast is having an informal read-through of The Best Man on Monday, July 9. If you’re interested in reading (or just watching) come to the theatre around 6:30 PM on Monday.

Our Open House/Volunteer Appreciation party is coming up on August 5. Save the date!

We are in the middle of our annual Season Ticket drive. Word of mouth is one of our most valuable marketing tools. We would very much appreciate it if you could encourage your friends and family to support the Little Theatre be becoming a subscriber. You can order ticket instantly online by clicking HERE.

NO FORMAL PRODUCTIONS MEETINGS THIS WEEK.

Thank you for everything that you do to make this theatre work. As always, please let me know if there’s anything the Board of staff can do to make your time with us more enjoyable and rewarding.

Have a great Thursday,

Kevin

MY WAY had a great first weekend, and martini night tickets are going fast!

Congratulations to the cast/crew of My Way which opened last Friday. What a great opening weekend! Here's what Joseph Young had to say in the Tribune this morning:
 By Joseph Young | San Luis Obispo

Congratulations to the Little Theater for its great tribute to Frank Sinatra and his music. I must admit that I wondered how they would carry it off without the great big band backing by the likes of Neil Hefty, Billy May, Count Basie and others, but Steven Tosh did a marvelous job of arranging all of the music, directing the singers and playing all the accompaniment with his piano and trio.

This is a must see and hear for all who enjoyed the talent, phrasing, timing and musical interpretations of “The Master.”

Good seats are going away for this weekend's performances. Click HERE to get order your tickets instantly online.

Have a great 4th, everyone. Click HERE and witness the awesome.

-Kevin

Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/07/03/2129839/letter-solid-sinatra-show.html#storylink=cpy

Save the Date! - August 5

Little Theatre members from the 2011-2012 season as well as new members are invited to our annual Open House and Volunteer Recognition Program.  It will be:

August 5, 2012

4:30 - 6:30 PM

At the Little Theatre

More details to follow.