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Opening this thursday - Remember, "The Christians" is presented by Peppermint Creek Theatre in partnership with, AND PERFORMED AT, Sycamore Creek Church, 1919 South Pennsylvania Ave, Lansing. See you at church opening night? More info and tickets at http://www.peppermintcreek.org
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Michael Hays, director, is still looking for a lighting and sound designer(s) for the upcoming production of "White Buffalo", which opens February 22 on Riverwalk’s Black Box Stage. Both positions are very significant, and should be extremely rewarding. Please contact Michael at stage1actor@yahoo.com, or text him at (517) 703-3875, or on Facebook. In addition, music is required throughout the show, and Michael would love for all of the music...which is strongly Native American...to be live. If anyone is familiar with Native American chants, drum circles, powwows, flute and drum playing, please contact Michael, as well. This was something different for me —attending a “media event” at Wharton Center to find out about this upcoming LUNGS show. I learned that it will indeed be something different for the audience as well.
It features just two actors, no set, and some of the audience seated onstage. Patrons snagging those seats will have an extra intimate experience of this young couple’s relationship as they consider whether or not to have a child. The conversation spirals into a series of existential and often funny discussions about what they know life to be. This innovative new production rounds out Wharton Center’s new “Illuminate" series. LUNGS is directed by Bert Goldstein, MSU's director of Wharton Center Institute for Arts & Creativity. He has brought in two brilliant, professional actors now cramming their brains with a “challenging-in-the-best-way" script by playwright Duncan Macmillan. It is written in a realistic, overlapping style, complete with specific numbers of-um's-and a’s, so it fits together like poetry or music, creating "crackling dialogue with deep, universal resonance.” It was a pleasure to meet the two brave actors and eavesdrop on the interviews they taped with local media CAMTV which is available to view online on YouTube and Facebook and Meridian News Now at 11:30 Monday, January 29 on Comcast Channel 21 or HomeTV.net Eric Gilde (ericgilde.com) is a Yale-educated NYC actor with an impressive resumé. He auditioned via Skype and was “married” to his new stage wife Paige Hernandez. They just met a few days ago and are bonding over this “genius” script they both love. Paige is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, director, choreographer and playwright, previously directed by Goldstein at Wharton Center in the one-woman show, Shape of a Girl. With her company, B-Fly Entertainment, Paige continues to develop and tour original work. http://www.paigehernandez.com ONE WEEKEND ONLY: LUNGS on Wharton Center’s Pasant Stage Thursday, February 15-18, 2018 Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Location: Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre Tickets: from $19 Student and group discounts available Ticket Office:whartoncenter.com 517.432.2000 or 1.800.WHARTON There will be an Insight Preview before Friday’s performance inside the Pasant Theatre. 2/16-18 - The Blue Light Players are proud to present Annie! This classic musical, inspired by the popular comic strip character, Little Orphan Annie, is set in the Depression era of the 1930's. Annie (Katie Schupbach), an orphan living in Miss Hannigan's (Jean Burk) orphanage, finds herself living in the lap of luxury with billionaire tycoon, Oliver Warbucks (Mike Stewart). Unlike most of the other children at the orphanage, spunky Annie believes that her parents are still alive and will one day return to claim her. So when Mr. Warbucks offers to adopt her, she asks the most powerful man in America to help find her real mom and dad instead, and he agrees. Assisted by his lovely secretary, Grace (Kathryn Mulcahy), Warbucks offers a very large reward for anyone who can prove they are Annie's parents. The reward attracts the attention of con artists Rooster (Dale Williams), Lily (Caitlyn Christenson) and the wicked Miss Hannigan, who hatch a plot to kidnap Annie and take the $50,000 reward. However, there is nothing to fear, this family-friendly musical has a happy ending for Annie, Daddy Warbucks and the whole gang; including Annie's loveable dog, Sandy (Poppy). Performances are at 7pm on February 16th and 17th, and 4pm on February 18th at the Albert A. White Auditorium, 819 Abbot Rd., in East Lansing. Tickets are $15/each, and all seats are reserved. The seats are filling rapidly for this production, and you won't want to miss out on seeing our 49 talented cast members ranging in age from 7-70+ bring this musical to life. For more information, and to purchase tickets, please visit our website at: http://www.bluelightplayers.com February 2018
1/25 - 2/25 - 8 pm Thur/Fri/Sat; 3 pm Sat; 2 pm Sun - Our Lady of Poison by Joseph Zettelmaier, director: Shannon Ferrante - WT 2/1-4 & 8-11 - 8 pmThur/Fri/Sat; 1 pm Sun - The Christians by Lucas Hnath, directed by Chad Swan-Badgero, in partnership with, and performed at, Sycamore Creek Church 1919 S. Pennsylvania, Lansing, 48910 - PCTC 2/9-11- ice cream sundaes 7 pm; show 7:30; Sunday ice cream at 1:30 pm; show at 2 pm - Swingin’ on a Star swing-era musical revue director: Susan DeRosa, Beth Webb, Jeff Richards- STL 2/9-11 & 16-18 - Fri 7 pm; Sat 2 & 7 pm; Sun 2 pm - The Bridge to Terabithia by All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre directed by Shannon Bowen - RWT 2/11 - 8 pm - Sunday, Lucky’s episode 2, monthly series where audience votes on future plot line - DT 2/13-18 - 7:30 pm Tu/Wed/Thur; 8 pm Fri; 2 pm & 8 pm Sat; 1 pm & 6:30 pm Sun - On Your Feet, Cobb Great Hall - WTN 2/15-18 - 7:30 pm Thur; 8 pm Fri/Sat; 1 pm Sun - Lungs by Duncan Macmillan, director: Bert Goldstein - Pasant Theatre - WTN 2/15-18 & 23-25 - 7 pm Thur/Fri; 2 & 4:30 pm Sat; 2 pm Sun - The Magic Flute, director: Kathryn Willis, 1120 N. Pennsylvania Ave - 48906 - youth DT 2/16-18 - 7 pm Fri/Sat; 4pm Sun. - Annie - BLP 2/16-17 & 23-25 - 8 pm Fri/Sat & 2 pm 2/25 only - Let the Right One In, vampire myth love story, director: Andy Callis - Dart Auditorium - LCC 2/16-18 & 2/20-25 - Fri 2/16-8 pm; Sat 2/17-8 pm; Sun 2/18-2 pm; Tues 2/20-7:30 pm; Wed 2/21-7:30 pm; Thur 2/22-7:30 pm; Fri 2/23-8 pm; Sat 2/24-2 pm & 8 pm; Sun 2/25-2 pm - Thus With A Kiss I Die conceived and directed by Rob Roznowski, Fairchild Theatre and MSU Auditorium - MSU 2/22-24 - 6:30 Thur/Fri; 10 am Sat - AUDITIONS for (ages 9-18) Beauty and the Beast - Hannah Center - AECT 2/22-25 & 3/1-4 - 7 pm Thur; 8 pm Fri/Sat; 2 pm Sun - White Buffalo, director: Michael Hays - Black Box stage - RWT 2/27 - 7pm, Free staged reading of Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner, a Sort of Romantic Comedy by Alan Zweibel, directed by Shannon Bowen - PCTC 3/1 - 6 pm - PSST (Preshow Senior Second Thursday) free reception for ages 55+ before White Buffalo - RWT 2/23-25 - 3/2-4 - 8 pm Fri/Sat; 3 pm Sun - Beauty & the Beast - OCP Greater Lansing Ubiquitous Theatres *AAF - Audio Air Force - live “radio shows” - www.audioairforce.com - Dave Downing - 517-881-9746 **AECT - All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre - www.cityofeastlansing.com/allofus - 517-319-6957 - ecooke@cityofeastlansing.com AND - Andromeda Community Theatre, Charlotte, MI - www.andromedaplayers.org - info@andromedaplayers.org - 517-303-4576 **BLP - Blue Light Players - www.bluelightplayers.com, bluelightplayers@gmail.com, 517-490-4567 / 282-4699 DT - The Downeaster Theatre -1120 N. Pennsylvania Ave. - Lansing 48906; www.thedowneastertheatre.com **ELCT - East Lansing Community Theatre performing Shakespeare - see Facebook; mktip119@comcast.net GCT - Generations Community Theater (517) - 410 - 4356 generationstheater@gmail.com HGP - Homegrown Productions, St. Johns (989) 224-8982, “Homegrown Productions St. Johns” Facebook *IX - Ixion - ixiontheatre.com, ixionensemble@gmail.com, 517-775-4246 LCC - Lansing Community College Communication, Media & the Arts - www.lcc.edu/showinfo - 517-483-1488 • 517-483-1122 **MTC - Midway Theater Company - midwaytheatercompany.org - (517) 316-5272 MMFT - Mid Michigan Family Theatre - 517-339-2145 - www.freewebs.com/midmichfamilytheatre MSU - Michigan State University Department of Theatre - www.theatre.msu.edu - 517-432-2000 MSUO - MSU Opera Theatre, music.msu.edu/areas-studios/vocal-arts/msu-opera-theatre - 517-353-5340 OTL - Over the Ledge Theatre Company - Fitzgerald Park, Grand Ledge, www.overtheledge.org - 517-318-0579 OCP - Owosso Community Players - www.owossoplayers.com - 989-723-4003 PCTC - Peppermint Creek Theatre Company - www.peppermintcreek.org - 517-927-3016 RWT - Community Circle Players at Riverwalk Theatre, www.RiverwalkTheatre.com, 517-482-5700 **SPA - The Studio Performing Arts Ctr. - E.L Dance & Acting Co. - www.dancesingact.com - 517-336-4088 SOG - Singers on the Grand - see Facebook; 517-242-9207 STL - Starlight Dinner Theatre - 517-243-6040 - www.starlightdinnertheatre.com WT - Williamston Theatre - 517-655-SHOW (7469) www.williamstontheatre.org WTN - Wharton Center for Performing Arts at MSU - 517-432-2000 or 1-800-Wharton or www.whartoncenter.com * performs at Robin Theatre, 1105 S. Washington, 48910 ** performs at Hannah Center, 819 Abbot Rd., E. Lansing 2/9-11 - Starlight Dinner Theatre presents Swinging’ on a Star
What better way to spend Valentine's weekend then a trip down memory lane? Starlight is offering ice cream sundaes and musical revue of songs from the 30's and 40's by some of the most talented vocalists in the area. i.e. Stardust, Dream a Little Dream of Me, As Time Goes By, Steppin’ Out with My Baby and, of course, Swingin’ on a Star performed by local favorites: Marci Balogh, Kelly Bitz, Katie and Seth Burk, Bill Henson, Ellen Hoard, Rachel Mender, Bob Murrell, Charlotte Ruppert, Kelly Sandula-Gruner, Darryl Schmitz, David Sincox, Dan Templin, Marty Underhill, Tom and Beth Webb. We will also have a special tribute to our veterans and service men and women. All shows dessert only; ice cream sundaes. Directors Susan DeRosa and Beth Webb Music Direction Jeff Richards Choreography Fran Ludington (Sunday is already half full, so call (517) 599-2779 as soon as possible to insure your reservation.) Friday/Saturday dessert at 7: show at 7:30 pm Sunday dessert at 1:30; show at 2pm Waverly East Intermediate School 3131 W. Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48917 Reservations 517-599-2779 http://starlightdinnertheatre.com The Costume Shop managed by Riverwalk Theatre is looking for a Costume Shop Associate to help our new Costume Shop Manager, Kate Hudson Koskinen. Outgoing manager Katie Doyle has high praise for the new Kate's “…wonderful eye for period style, as well as top-notch organizational skills…thinking outside of the box when costume pieces need special attention to bring them new life.” Costume Shop Associate - 10 hours/week - $9:50/hr Are you an enthusiastic friendly person that wants to have fun being creative to fill our part-time Costume Shop Associate position? Must have some experience assisting persons to choose appropriate attire for a specific role or costume effect. 10 hours/week (17 hours/week during October) Business Hours are 3-6 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 10-2 on Saturdays. (Additional days and hours are may be required during the Halloween Season.) Mending ability a plus. If you have questions contact Kate at 517-484-9199 Complete job application at our website (http://www.rwtcostumeshop.com/employment.html) and send to: Riverwalk Theatre, 228 Museum Drive PO Box 12249, Lansing, MI 48901 E-mail RWT@riverwalktheatre.com 1/26-27 - 6:30 pm - Owosso Community Players present The Awesome 80’s Prom at D’Mar Banquet and Conference Center WINNER! 2006 Improv Theater Award – “Best Interactive Show” The Awesome 80s Prom is a blast-from-the-past party in the style of Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding, set at Wanaget High’s Senior Prom…in 1989! All of your favorite characters from your favorite ’80s movies are at THE PROM. From the Captain of the Football Team to the Asian Exchange Student, from the Geek to the hottie Head Cheerleader, they’re all competing for Prom King and Queen. And just like on American Idol, the audience decides who wins! Travel back in time and join the breakdance circle, or just sit back and watch the ’80s drama unfold.Dinner is included with the $36 per person ticket price. (Each ticket carries a $1.50 ticketing fee). A cash bar will be available. The music will be all the fan favorites from the 1980s, certain to take the crowd back into their “good old days,” said Windnagle. Tickets are on sale now in the Box Office 723-4003, or online at http://owossoplayers.com. Join All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre for a night of wine, music, and art by local artists available for auction. An auction paddle is $10 at the door and includes a wine glass and two drink tickets. All proceeds from the event go to AECT. Thursday, February 1 at 7 PM - 8:30 PM 7pm mix and mingle with wine and cheese; 7:30 pm live auction East Lansing Hannah Community Center 819 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, Michigan 48823 2/1-11 - Peppermint Creek Theatre Brings “The Christians” to Lansing
"The Christians", produced in partnership (and performed at) Sycamore Creek Church in Lansing, is a new play by award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath play focused on faith in modern America. The play centers around Pastor Paul who has spent 20 years successfully growing his church from a small storefront to a gleaming megachurch, but now he fears that there may be a crack in the theological foundation. As he shares his new belief in the nature of salvation, the message is met with surprise and then growing trepidation from his closest confidantes in the congregation, threatening to create a schism within the church. Playwright Lucas Hnath’s fascinating new play looks with great complexity and compassion at the relationship between belief and behavior—and its evenhanded, unbiased take on faith in modern America can be appreciated no matter what you believe. Artistic Director Chad Swan-Badgero raves about the play, “At Peppermint Creek, we are constantly looking for plays that will drive people to think more deeply, more intensely, and more bravely about the world and society we live in, while doing so in an even-handed way. The Christians is one of the most balanced and thoughtful plays I’ve ever directed (or read for that matter). I think most Americans have a pretty solidified approach to faith and organized religion. And yet this play manages to illustrate all sides of the faith topic in a way that pushes our thinking and boundaries in a gratifying, dramatic way. And we are thrilled to be performing this show, which takes place in a church, at a local Lansing church. Sycamore Creek Church has proven to be an excellent partner in this endeavor due to their curious, compassionate, and creative approach to faith.” "The Christians" will take place at Sycamore Creek Church’s south Lansing venue, 1919 South Pennsylvania This production is generously underwritten by Foster Swift Collins and Smith Law Firm, Sam & Mary Austin, and Joan & Jerry Mattson. This production features Blake Bowen, Bethany Jeffery, Heather Lewis, Zach Riley and Michael Shalley. Show Times & Tickets Thurs., Feb 1 – Sun., Feb 4, 2018 Thurs., Feb 8 - Sun. Feb 11, 2018 Thurs. – Sat. at 8 p.m., and Sun. at 1 p.m. $15 general admission $10 for students/seniors 65+ ORDER TICKETS AT: http://www.peppermintcreek.org Peppermint Creek Theatre Company Performing "The Christians" at Sycamore Creek Church 1919 S. Pennsylvania Ave Lansing, MI 48910 _____________________ |
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