Overture...curtains, light. This is it! You'll hit the heights! And, oh! What heights you'll hit...

Happy, happy opening to Danielle Mendoza, Caitlin Fuller, Michelle Hansen, Lizz Premer, and Jessica Quandt. Read about the show HERE. 

Get your tickets today! Show are already selling out! Click HERE to order them instantly online.

Take it away BUGS and DAFFY.

Have a great Friday, everyone.

-Kevin

Our WONDERETTES make the front page!

Check out our lovely Wonderettes on the front page of THE TRIBUNE and the cover of the TICKET. Thanks to Sarah Linn and David Middlecamp for the great coverage. Click HERE to read the article.

The Marvelous Wonderettes opens tomorrow night and plays through September 23. Get your tickets HERE before they're all gone.

Have a great Thursday, everyone!

-Kevin

Oh how do we love Keith and Debbie at Costume Capers...let me count the ways...

Good morning friends of the Little Theatre,

Our Artistic Teams love Keith, Debbie, and Costume Capers. (And oxford commas.) They have been Emerald Corporate Sponsors of the Little Theatre for well over a decade. Each season, Keith and Debbie donate approximately $7,000-$10,000 in costume rentals (not to mention hours and hours of time) to our productions.

This halloween, it's easy to do the right thing: shop at Costume Capers. How many reasons do you need?

-They're local (and have been for over 25 years.)

-They are an incredible supporters of non-profits in the area, including the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre.

-If you don't shop there, Keith will make more faces like this one:

Put your halloween money where it count. Show Keith and Debbie that you appreciate their support of the local arts.

Have a  great Wednesday,

Kevin

The WONDERETTES has entered the building, we have a new website, and THE BEST MAN jumps into auditions. This week at the Little Theatre!

Good afternoon friends of the Little Theatre,

We had great tech rehearsals for The Marvelous Wonderettes this weekend and we’re ready to add the actor in the mix. Wonderettes opens in just five days and you can get your tickets HERE.

We had a fantastic readthrough of It’s a Wonderful Life last Thursday. Thank you to director Lisa Woske and the 20+ actors that came out to work on the script. Auditions will take place 9/10 and 9/11. More details to come soon.

The Best Man will hold auditions tonight and tomorrow night at the Little Theatre. Get all of the details HERE.

 Are you interested in volunteering? If you aren’t already signed up, click HERE to get on our Volunteer email list. Are you already signed up, click HERE to check out what shifts are open for The Marvelous Wonderettes. We’d love to have you at the theatre!

I will be taking a vacation after the opening of The Marvelous Wonderettes (from 9/1-9/12.) During this period, Kerry DiMaggio will be in charge. Please contact her if anything urgent comes up. I will not be online or checking messages during this time period. Thanks!

Here are the newest members of the Little Theatre. Please- if you know them- thank them for supporting our organization! Thank you, as always, 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 your time with us more enjoyable or rewarding.

100	Della Carrillo
50	Wendy & Keith George
30	James Kelty
100	Maureen Staunton

Thank you, as always, 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 your time with us more enjoyable or rewarding.

Have a great week, everyone!

-Kevin

Happy Wednesday from 1969!

Click HERE. There a lot going on here. A lot.

-Kevin

THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES is coming!

Have you heard of The Marvelous Wonderettes?

Check out this great promotional VIDEO about the show! You won't want to miss it. Get your tickets now by clicking HERE.

Have a great Tuesday, everyone!

-Kevin

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

The Board of Directors will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday, August 22nd at 6pm at the Little Theatre. Members are welcome to attend. View the Agenda

WONDERETTES moves in, GOOD PEOPLE rocks the house, and AUDITIONS GALORE! This week at the Little Theatre!

Good morning friends of the Little Theatre,

Good People, an Ubu’s Other Shoe staged reading, took the stage on Friday and Saturday night. Congratulations to the cast/crew and director John Battalino- what a great play! Audiences were strong and the response to the play was great. Thank you to Anet and Charley Carlin (www.thewebgame.com) for making the production possible and Season Sponsors for Ubu’s Other Shoe.

The Marvelous Wonderettes is beginning its final week of rehearsals before tech. The show is looking great- get your tickets now for this incredibly fun trip back to the 50’s and 60’s. Get your tickets by clicking HERE.

We have several auditions coming up for upcoming shows.  After the success of and feedback from our reading of THE BEST MAN, the Little Theatre is having a pre-audition read-through of our holiday production, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, directed by Lisa Woske. Interested in meeting the director and learning more about the play before auditions? This is the best way to do it. Come on by the theatre- we'll have scripts- and we'll divide up the parts and read the script. Easy. Fun.

The read-through will take place on Thursday, August 23 at 6:00 PM. It's a Wonderful Life opens on Friday November 30 and plays through Sunday, December 23. Click HERE to RSVP.

Auditions for The Best Man will take place on Monday and Tuesday, August 27 and 28 at the Little Theatre. Actors will be asked to read from provided sides. San Luis Obispo Little Theatre is proud to have the exclusive rights to The Best Man directly after the popular Broadway revival closes. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this remarkable show. Gore Vidal’s play- set in 1960- provides an incredible challenge to all actors. Please do not look at the movie. Scripts are available for check-out at the Little Theatre. The Best Man puts you in the front row of one of the most heated, vicious presidential campaigns ever imagined. William Russell, is a wit and scholar with high liberal principles. Joseph Cantwell is a ruthless and hard-driving young man, a dirty fighter who will let no scruples stand in the way of his ambitions. On the eve of the convention, Cantwell has got hold of papers indicating that his rival has a secret which he cannot wait to use in order to destroy his opponent. This Tony award-winning play set the bar for all political thrillers. Don’t miss it. Click HERE for all audition information.

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

50	Mr. & Mrs. George Bardizbanian
100	Robert Brown
100	Linda Butler
100	Jan Carsel
25	Mary Griffith
100	Mary & David Stornetta

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 tie with us more rewarding and enjoyable.

Have a great Monday, everyone!

-Kevin

Happy, happy opening to GOOD PEOPLE. Don't miss this incredible play. Two nights only.

Happy opening night to Good People, an Ubu's Other Shoe staged reading directed by John Battalino. 

Margie Walsh can’t catch a break. Laid off from her job at the dollar store, Margie is faced with the reality that South Boston is providing her the same level of opportunity it always has: none. Wry, rough around the edges and ready to make a change, she goes to seek out the one who got away – both from “Southie” and from her. Instead, she finds herself in the burbs and out of her element, facing the question – is opportunity granted or earned? Nominated for a 2011 Tony Award for Best Play, Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People takes an affectionate look at the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ through the eyes of characters who won't be ignored.

Don't miss this play. Get your tickets by licking HERE, or buy them at the door. Show begins promptly at 7:00.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

-Kevin

We have new seats, GOOD PEOPLE takes the stage, and the WONDERETTES are are right around the corner. THIS WEEK at the Little Theatre!

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

Sorry for the delay in getting this message out- on Monday Jim Chernoff called us to let us know that we had to pick up our new theatre seats from the PAC on Wednesday morning at 8:00 AM. We hadn’t planned on making the switch for a week or two. Dave immediately began removing our old seats on Tuesday morning (with the help of Ron Burkhart and Franklin Mognett). On Wednesday morning, Dave, Bryce Engstrom, Richard Luckett and I arrived at the PAC and transferred 118 seats to the Little Theatre on a flatbed trailer. They were installed before rehearsal for The Marvelous Wonderettes began at 5:00 PM that evening. Thank you, everyone, for your help over the last 36 hours. Our new seats look great!

Good People, an Ubu’s Other Shoe staged reading will take place this Friday and Saturday, August 17 and 18 at 7:00 PM. Don’t miss this wonderful play directed by John Battalino. Get your tickets by clicking HERE.

We’re having a preliminary readthrough of It’s a Wonderful Life this Thursday, August 23^rd. If you’d like to meet the director or get to know the pay before auditions, come on by and read (or just listen.) Very casual. Click HERE to RSVP.

The Marvelous Wonderettes has moved into the theatre and the girls sound great! Don’t miss this incredibly fun production, directed and choreographed by Jake MaGuire. Click HERE for tickets.

The Little Theatre is collaborating with The New Times and bringing the newspapers’s famous 55-word stories to life on Wednesday, September 19. Keep checking our website and the New Times for more information.

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

100		David Bauer
100		Margaret ( Peg) Brown
100		Robert Brown
300		Laura Hopkins
500		John Laird
2,500.00		Rabobank, NA
250		Renaissance Charitable Foundation
100		Armida & Richard Robb
250		Nan & Michael Salmon
100		Ron Tindall, R.N.
30		Vivian Walker
100		Kathleen & Dale Wolff
25		Linda & Raymond Zeuschner

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 tie with us more rewarding and enjoyable.

Have a great Friday, everyone!

-Kevin

A rough week for art. Safe home, Marvin Hamlisch, Judith Crist, Robert Hughes, and David Rakoff.

Happy Friday friends of the Little Theatre,

Rough week--- 4 great artists (yes, critics, on occasion, count) passed away. 

Click HERE to see Marvin Hamlisch discuss his audition for Julliard. (He was only seven.)

Click HERE to see David Rakoff talk about why writing sucks.

Click HERE to see a nice piece on Hughes and Crist. 

Have a great Friday, everyone,

-Kevin

Life is better than death, I believe, 

if only because it is less boring, 

and because it has fresh peaches in it.

WONDERETTES is coming soon, one more weekend of ANNE, and UBU is on facebook. Wednesday at the Little Theatre.

Good afternoon friends of the Little Theatre,

With our 2011-2012 season officially behind us (our year-end celebration/volunteer appreciation party was last Sunday) it's time for the staff to finish out the summer preparing for our 66th anniversary season. The Marvelous Wonderettes moves into the theatre next week and rehearsals are going great! You won't want to miss this trip back to the 50's and 60's as the OWnderettes serenade you with the most popular tunes from the golden age of rock 'n' roll. Get your ticket today by clicking HERE.

Only one more weekend of Anne of Avonlea- bring your whole family to this magical production presented by our own Academy of Creative Theatre. Check out these production shots (courtesy of Devon Myers) and get your ticket HERE.

DO you UBU? Ubu's Other Shoe, our staged reading series at the Little Theatre, now has its own facebook page. Click HERE to get the latest information on Ubu's auditions, productions, and volunteer opportunities.

Have a great Wednesday, everyone!

What a great OPEN HOUSE, AUDITIONS galore, and SAFE HOME, Marvin Hamlisch. This week at the Little Theatre.

Happy Tuesday friends of the Little Theatre!

Thank you to everyone who attended our OPEN HOUSE/VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION PARTY this last Sunday- what a fun celebration of our 2011-2012 season and the volunteers who made it all possible. Congratulations to our 2011-2012 Annual Volunteer Award Winners:

JIM CHERNOFF AWARD: Ron Tindall

JESSI RAY SPOTLIGHT AWARD: Sharon Woodside and Karen Miles

JOHN GROSTICK AWARD: Franklin Mognett

JOY AND RALPH HANSON AWARD: Michelle Roberson

PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Jerry Chirpich

Thank you to all of our amazing volunteers!

Anne of Avonlea opened on Friday and had a great weekend of shows. Don’t miss the final four performances this weekend. Shelagh Garren has put together a remarkable cast of young actors. To get your tickets, please click HERE.

 

Auditions for Time Stands Still, an Ubu’s Other Shoe presentation directed by Jill Turnbow will take place on ONE NIGHT ONLY, Sunday, August 12 at 7:00 PM. For complete audition details, please click HERE.

Auditions of The Best Man, a mainstage season production directed by Brent Keast will take place on August 27 and 28 at the Little Theatre. For complete audition details, please click HERE.

The Little Theatre will be hosting a read-through of It’s a Wonderful Life before auditions in September. Please continue to check the website, blog, or facebook for the date.

Good People, an Ubu’s Other Shoe presentation directed by John Battalino plays for two nights only, August 17 and 18 at 7:00 PM. Click HERE for tickets.

As many of you know, Marvin Hamlisch passed away yesterday. Click HERE to hear some of his greatest contributions to the stage and screen.

I have listed the names of our newest LITTLE THEATRE MEMBERS/DONORS below. Please look over the list and note if you see any familiar names. Consider taking the time to thank these people for supporting our organization. Thanks!

Lloyd G. Anderson	2,500.00
Concettina & Allyn Arnold	1,500.00
Marilyn Blake	25
Sandy Chertok	50
Jerry & Sharynn Chirpich	250
Diana Cornelius	50
Dawna Davies	150
Cynthia & Earl Hatt	25
George Havale	36
Bertha & Max Helf	50
Esther Laver	25
Anita & Jerry Martin	100
Sandy McComas	30
Carol & Courtney Miles	29.99
Destry Ramey	25
Ann & Lou Robinson	500
Ernest & Tawn Roide	500
Carol Rowsemitt	100
Mark & Lynn Schoennauer	50
Jessica Schultze	25
Kenneth Schwartz	300
Joyce Seligson	500
Madeleine Sinclair	60
Robert Spurr	75
Robert & Nancy Taylor	50
Roger Welles	25
Stuart Wenger	30
Marion & Paul Wolff	100

Thank you, everyone, for everything that 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 your time with us more enjoyable and rewarding.

Have a fantastic week, everyone!

-Kevin

ANNE OF AVONLEA opens, The Tribune writes great articles, and, boy oh boy, could Gore Vidal get under people's skin or what? Happy Friday from the Little Theatre!

Good morning friends of the Little Theatre!

In 9 hours, 28 young actors will bring Anne of Avonlea to life on our stage. Check out this GREAT COVERAGE by the Tribune. Get your TICKETS today- it's a perfect show for the whole family.

As many of you know, Gore Vidal passed away two days ago. Vidal was a master provocateur- click HERE to see him make steam come out of William Buckley's ears. Click HERE to see another famous exchange between these two wonderful blowhards. (Can you imagine, today, a playwright being welcome- or rather, INVITED- to participate in a televised political debate?) Vidal is the author of The Best Man, a wonderful political play we will be producing later this year (directed by Brent Keast.) 

Our OPEN HOUSE/VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION PARTY is just over a week away! You won't want to miss this incredibly fun event. Come help us celebrate the success of our 2011-2012 season. Click HERE to rsvp.

Have a great weekend , everyone!

-Kevin