BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY THEATER PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE

FABULOUS 2008 SEASON

 

MAIN STAGE

 

Don’t wait as the 2008 season tickets guaranteeing choice seating for ALL FOUR Main Stage Shows are available now for only $50.00.  Contact us today to find out how to give yourself or someone special the gift that lasts all year through.  Place your order requests today by calling 706-632-9223 or visit us at www.blueridgecommunitytheater.com.

 

…And now on to the shows…

First up:

“Lend Me A Tenor” by Ken Ludwig, FEBRUARY 22nd – MARCH 16th; Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

 

Pictured Left to Right:

Back Row: Micah Stuart, Daniel Parrish, Wayne Roshaven, Mike Lacy

Front Row: Sophia Swain, Jode Hanson, Norma Bean, Beth Inman, Denver Clark

Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sonia Smith, is a clever and wildly entertaining contemporary farce that “sends audiences on a wild romp of desperate measures and compromising situations.”   In simple terms, farce is broad, basic comedy in which confusion, mistaken identity, innuendo and slapstick are key elements.  Max, Assistant to Mr. Saunders, goes on to give the performance of his life and win his heart’s delight, Saunders’ daughter Maggie.  But before a happy ending for all, chaos reigns in this spectacular “farce de résistance”.  Audiences are in for a delightful and amusing treat as one side-splitting adventure after another unfolds for this outrageous cast of characters. by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sonia Smith, is a clever and wildly entertaining contemporary farce that “sends audiences on a wild romp of desperate measures and compromising situations.”   In simple terms, farce is broad, basic comedy in which confusion, mistaken identity, innuendo and slapstick are key elements.  Max, Assistant to Mr. Saunders, goes on to give the performance of his life and win his heart’s delight, Saunders’ daughter Maggie.  But before a happy ending for all, chaos reigns in this spectacular “farce de résistance”.  Audiences are in for a delightful and amusing treat as one side-splitting adventure after another unfolds for this outrageous cast of characters. by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sonia Smith, is a clever and wildly entertaining contemporary farce that “sends audiences on a wild romp of desperate measures and compromising situations.”   In simple terms, farce is broad, basic comedy in which confusion, mistaken identity, innuendo and slapstick are key elements.  Max, Assistant to Mr. Saunders, goes on to give the performance of his life and win his heart’s delight, Saunders’ daughter Maggie.  But before a happy ending for all, chaos reigns in this spectacular “farce de résistance”.  Audiences are in for a delightful and amusing treat as one side-splitting adventure after another unfolds for this outrageous cast of characters. by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sonia Smith, is a clever and wildly entertaining contemporary farce that “sends audiences on a wild romp of desperate measures and compromising situations.”   In simple terms, farce is broad, basic comedy in which confusion, mistaken identity, innuendo and slapstick are key elements.  Max, Assistant to Mr. Saunders, goes on to give the performance of his life and win his heart’s delight, Saunders’ daughter Maggie.  But before a happy ending for all, chaos reigns in this spectacular “farce de résistance”.  Audiences are in for a delightful and amusing treat as one side-splitting adventure after another unfolds for this outrageous cast of characters. by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sonia Smith, is a clever and wildly entertaining contemporary farce that “sends audiences on a wild romp of desperate measures and compromising situations.”   In simple terms, farce is broad, basic comedy in which confusion, mistaken identity, innuendo and slapstick are key elements.  Max, Assistant to Mr. Saunders, goes on to give the performance of his life and win his heart’s delight, Saunders’ daughter Maggie.  But before a happy ending for all, chaos reigns in this spectacular “farce de résistance”.  Audiences are in for a delightful and amusing treat as one side-splitting adventure after another unfolds for this outrageous cast of characters. by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sonia Smith, is a clever and wildly entertaining contemporary farce that “sends audiences on a wild romp of desperate measures and compromising situations.”   In simple terms, farce is broad, basic comedy in which confusion, mistaken identity, innuendo and slapstick are key elements.  Max, Assistant to Mr. Saunders, goes on to give the performance of his life and win his heart’s delight, Saunders’ daughter Maggie.  But before a happy ending for all, chaos reigns in this spectacular “farce de résistance”.  Audiences are in for a delightful and amusing treat as one side-splitting adventure after another unfolds for this outrageous cast of characters.

Next:  

The Blue Ridge Community Theater and Cast and Crew of The Foreigner would like to inform you of the

NEW SHOW DATES for our production of

The Foreigner  by Larry Shue.

After triumphing over a series of unfortunate events, including a hospitalized cast member, this cast and crew have come together to bring you what is sure to be one of the funniest nights of theater you will ever see here at BRCT!

The show will still run for four weekends, every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 and Sunday at 2:00 but

we will be opening on May 23^rd instead of May 16^th.

The new show dates are May 23^rd through June 15^th.

We have made every effort to contact everyone who had reservations for opening weekend and reschedule them but if we missed you somehow, please forgive us. You can call the box office to reserve tickets any time. Just leave a message if itʼs after hours and weʼll get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you so much for your support, patronage and understanding.

“The Foreigner” by Larry Shue, MAY 23 – JUNE 15.  

It is a stormy night in spring as two Englishmen, Staff Sergeant "Froggy" LeSueur and his friend Charlie Baker, enter the log cabin fishing lodge owned and operated by Betty Meeks in Tilghman County, Georgia, two hours South of Atlanta. Every year, Froggy serves as a munitions instructor for the American army, and this year he has brought his shy and sad friend, Charlie, who is now terrified about being left alone for three days with strangers while Froggy leads his training sessions. Froggy introduces him as a "foreigner" who can't speak or understand English. Overhearing the plot of the Reverend David and Owen Musser to buy Betty's lodge and turn it into a meeting place for the Ku Klux Klan, Charlie ultimately leads Betty, Catherine, and Ellard in a successful fight against these villains that is uproariously zany comedy. It’s fun for the whole family.

 

The third show of the season will be:

“Our Town” by Thornton Wilder   AUG 29 – SEP 21.

The Stage Manager shows us glimpses of several days in the life of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire in 1900, 1903 and about nine years after that. The Webb and Gibbs families live next to each other and their children Emily and George are childhood sweethearts who eventually decide to marry. The Stage Manager examines everyday life from several points of view, all of which prepares us for a harsh lesson: The living seem barely aware of the miracle of their lives, and even less aware of how fleeting a lifetime can be.

Thornton Wilder brings us a profound, strange, unworldly significance with “Our Town”. This is less the portrait of a town than the sublimation of the commonplace; and in contrast with the universe that silently swims around it; it is brimming over with compassion.

 

The final show of the 2008 season is:

“GREETINGS!” by Tom Dudzick NOV 7 – NOV 30.

The plot of Tom Dudzick’s 5-character comedy begins simply enough.  A young man brings home his Jewish atheist fiancé to meet his very Catholic parents on Christmas Eve, paving the way for what seems to be a most interesting (and explosive) family occasion.  All of this is soon changed however by a truly incredible event that will make all concerned realize that there is a bond between them and helps them realize that instead of focusing and what makes them different and distanced from each other, they must first face the truth of what ties them together. It’s an antidote, not only for pre-holiday anxiety, but for the apathy of modern life. “Greetings!” is a comedy, a domestic drama, a fantasy and the kind of play that comes along all too rarely. Don’t miss it!

2008 Act One  Workshop Series:  

 

July 18 - 27

Oct. 3 - 12

 

Tickets:  $10 per person

Sunny D Children's Theater:

 

Spring Play:

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

From the Writings of Lewis Carroll

Adapted by Tim Kelly

March 28 - April 6

 

Christmas Play:

"The Hobo and the Miracle"

by John Kassik

December 12 - 21

 

For questions or additional information contact: Elizabeth Hunt, Blue Ridge Community Theater, 11 Mountain Street - Hampton Square - Blue Ridge , GA 30512 - 706-632-9223 or email at info@blueridgecommunitytheater.com .