Valparaiso Theatrical Company Helps Local Charities With The Showing of “Almost Maine”

“Almost, Maine”

By John Cariani with special permission from Dramatist Play Service Inc.

Directed by Joe Culley

A Friday night in the middle of winter in Almost, Maine can get pretty cold and snowy. But happy and not so happy romances seem as abundant as the stars twinkling in the deep blue sky that overarches actor turned playwright John Cariani’s vignettes. As groups of stars form constellations, so these brief episodes are connected by time and place (each occurs on a Friday night in the middle of winter in and around Almost) as well as their wistful charm, quirky humor and bracing sense of hopefulness.

Director Joe Culley has worked most effectively to bring his vision and the atmosphere of a tiny town where moving South for easier living doesn’t mean Florida but Vermont. You are sure to find this endearing little show just the ticket for escaping from cell phones and  tensions to a world where a kiss is not just still a kiss but a life changing big deal.

Each night the Valparaiso Theatrical Company will be spreading hope by donating to part of the proceeds to a different chosen charity.

Show Dates:

May 3,4,5 & 10,11,12 / 2013

Location:

The Buggy Wheel Pavilion at The Expo Center Porter County Expo Center and Fairgrounds

215 East Division Road

Valparaiso, IN 46383

To use your credit card and print your tickets at home:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/366898

OR  Tickets are $10.00 per seat at the door general admission seating

Charities that will benefit from this show are as follows:

May 3rd. NW Indiana Literacy Foundation

May 4th. Opportunity Enterprises

May 5th. March Of Dimes

May 10th. National Alliance on Mental Illness .

May 11th. PCASC (ramp building project)- Building handicap ramps for those who cannot afford them.

May 12th. Valparaiso Women’s Club

Our guest for today is …..

William Shakespeare

“Considered the greatest English-speaking writer in history and known as England’s national poet, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has had more theatrical works performed than any other playwright. To this day, countless theater festivals around the world honor his work, students memorize his eloquent poems and scholars reinterpret the million words of text he composed”. With works such as Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear and Hamlet. Shakespeare made the theater experience remarkable. These shows have withstood the test of time even after nearly 400 years since his death almost everyone can recite at least one line from one of his masterpieces.

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William Shakespeare check this article on History.com

Joseph is comong to Highland, IN

This summer Highland parks will be bring Andrew Loyd Webber’s

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to the gazebo in Main Square Park off of Ridge Road.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the “coat of many colors” story of Joseph from the Bible’s Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly.

Audition Information

When

Monday, June 3 from 6 – 8 pm

Where

Highland Parks & Recreation Lincoln Center
2450 Lincoln Street
Highland, IN 46322

Audition Infomation

Be prepared to sing a song (bring your own pianist or CD accompaniment) or sing a ceppla. We need a lot of male voices. You will also be taught a short dance routine that you will need to show how easily you pick up.

Initially the rehearsal schedule will be one or two nights a week from 6-9 pm for singing and two nights a week from 6-9 pm for dancing. As the show comes together the rehearsals will be M-Th 6-10 pm with the live musicians.

All singers must be 16 and up. We will not be auditioning anyone under age 16. Everyone must be able to make their scheduled rehearsal and be available for all nights of the performances. If you miss the audition night we will not be holding another

Crown Point Community Theater goes to Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Based on the books by Robert Fulghum

Conceived and adapted by Ernest Zulia

Music by David Caldwell

Directed by Becky Jascoviak

Crown Point Community Theater will present All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten written by Robert Fulghum.

The title of the book is taken from the first of fifty essays in the volume, in which Fulghum lists lessons normally learned in American kindergarten classrooms and explains how the world would be improved if adults adhered to the same basic rules as children, i.e. sharing, being kind to one another, cleaning up after themselves, and living “a balanced life” of work, play, and learning. The essays cover topics from Childhood to Death. In his introduction, Fulghum describes these as having been “written over many years and addressed to friends, family, a religious community, and myself, with no thought of publication in book form.”

If you  were asked “What did you learn in Kindergarten” what would your answer be?

“These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten):

1. Share everything.

2. Play fair.

3. Don’t hit people.

4. Put things back where you found them.

5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.

6. Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

7. Say you’re SORRY when you HURT somebody.

8. Wash your hands before you eat.

9. Flush.

10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

11. Live a balanced life – learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday  some.

12. Take a nap every afternoon.

13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup – they all die. So do we.

16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first workd you learned – the biggest word of all – LOOK.”

― Robert Fulghum

Crown Point Community Theater
1125 Merrillville Road
Crown Point, IN 46307

219-805-4255

Show Schedule

Friday, April 12, 13 @ 8 pm  Sunday, April 14 @ 3 pm

Friday, April 19, 20 @ 8 pm, Sunday, April 21 @ 3 pm