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Theatre Lovers:
Members of the year-round Theatre Arts Department, and our colleagues in our sister company, Summer Repertory Theatre, are so proud to represent Santa Rosa Junior College. Together we offer you year-round, high quality entertainment at a very reasonable price. In turn, you have demonstrated your unwavering commitment to our theatre students. Thank you for coming to see our shows, for writing letters of support, and for giving your generous, much-needed donations!
As always, our upcoming season offers something for everyone. We begin and end our season with two weirdly irresistible theatrical events! We open with Charles Mee’s comic dance-theatre piece, Big Love. We close the 2011-2012 Season with Sweeney Todd, by the genius of the American musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim. Between these performances, we offer you one of the most delightful musicals ever written, My Fair Lady. In springtime, we celebrate Our Town in a fresh interpretation of the beloved American classic.
Like you, we believe the performing arts are essential to creating a better society. With you, we celebrate our common humanity and walk away from the theatre with a greater understanding of our place in this world.
In the midst of national cuts to arts education, the members of the Theatre Arts Department stand with you to passionately reaffirm that ART MATTERS!
Leslie McCauley
Theatre Arts Artistic Director
The SRJC
Theatre Arts Department welcomes
you and would like to give you a preview of this season's
productions. If you are interested in purchasing
tickets
to
our performances ahead of time, eliminating box office
lines, please use our online
ticket order system or the printable
ticket order form. We
have listed this season's performance dates and times for
your convenience
under
each performance
title.
Thank you for your patronage and enjoy your theatre experience.
Leslie McCauley
Fall 2011 Theatre Arts Artistic Director |
Laura Downing-Lee
Spring 2012 Theatre Arts Artistic Director |
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Announcing Our Fabulous
2011-2012 Theatre Arts Season!
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- Season tickets will go on sale starting Wednesday, September 7, 2011. For more information
call the Box Office at 527-4343.
- SRJC Faculty and Staff are
entitled to one (1) $1.00 for each production. Members of Associated Students Plus are entitled to one (1) free voucher for each production. Present ID at the box office when purchasing tickets.
- We offer a special $5 Saturday matinee for each production.
Please see the link to online
tickets for more information.
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Directed by Leslie McCauley
Choreographed by Melecio Estrella
“50 brides for 50 brothers!”…but the brides want nothing to do with them! The battle of the sexes rages in this explosive comedy-drama, described by The New York Times as an “MGM musical in Technicolor, a circus, and, believe it, a Greek tragedy.” A very contemporary adaptation of one of the western world’s oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus, this wild adventure is guaranteed to be unlike any theatre experience you’ve ever had! (Not to be confused with the HBO television series.)
Recommended for age 18 and above. Contains nudity and strong language.
Presented by special arrangement with International Creative Management, Inc.
Burbank Auditorium
October 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 at 8:00 PM
October 8, 9, 15, 16 at 2:00 PM
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Music by Frederick Loewe
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Directed by Laura Downing-Lee
Music Direction by Janis Dunson Wilson |
Choreography
by Lara Branen
Vocal Direction by Jody Benecke |
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One of the brightest gems in the treasury of musical theatre, My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle—a spunky, “diamond-in-the-rough” flower girl—who is transformed into a lady by Professor Henry Higgins. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1912 play, Pygmalion, this sparkling classic set in Edwardian London still sheds light on timely issues, such as social status and the power of language, while dazzling you with memorable songs, including “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “On the Street Where You Live”.
Recommended for age 7 and above.
Produced by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.
Burbank Auditorium
November 25, 26, December 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 at 8:00 PM
November 26, 27, December 3, 4, 10 at 2:00 PM
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by Thornton Wilder
Directed by John
Shillington
Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1938, Our Town has become one of the most produced American plays of the 20th century. In this fresh, modern staging of this cherished classic, Wilder’s characters come to life in the new millennium. With the wry stage manager as our guide, we travel through the ordinary lives of the residents of a small town, Grover’s Corners. At times funny, philosophical, and deeply moving, this timeless treasure reminds us of the simple pleasures of life and the ties that bind us to one another.
Recommended for age 10 and above.
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., New York City.
Burbank Auditorium
March 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 at 8:00 PM
March 10, 11, 17, 18 at 2:00 PM
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Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an adaptation by Christopher Bond
Stage, Music and Vocal Direction by Leira Satlof
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street stalks the Burbank boards in this musical thriller by an American master! Darkly suspenseful and howlingly funny, Sweeney Todd is the tale of an unjustly incarcerated barber who returns to Victorian London to seek bloody revenge. Soon, customers are lining up in droves downstairs to buy the mysterious new meat pies baked by his landlady, Mrs. Lovett. Including the songs "Not While I'm Around" and "Pretty Women,” this macabre masterpiece inspired the hit film starring Johnny Depp.
Recommended for age 18 and above. Contains strong language, adult content, and stylized violence.
SWEENEY TODD
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
www.MTIShows.com
Burbank Auditorium
April 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, May 3, 4, 5 at 8:00 PM
April 21, 22, 28, 29, May 5 at 2:00 PM
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This performance is not part of the Theatre Arts subscription series 
~ ALSO ~
The
Theatre Arts Department, in
collaboration with
the Department of Kinesiology, Athletics, and Dance
Proudly Present
Burbank Auditorium
May 11, 12 at 8:00pm
May 12, 13 at 2:00pm
For tickets call (707) 527-4343
Or buy online at our Online Box Office
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This performance is not part of the Theatre Arts subscription series
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Written by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor
Performed by our own world-famous instructor, Reed Martin
A Benefit Performance for SRJC Theatre Arts
Laugh until your belly hurts, while supporting the SRJC Theatre Arts Department, at this benefit performance of their latest hit show by the same hilarious team that brought us Completely Hollywood (abridged)!
"Wildly funny. Masterful!" — Los Angeles Times
“Welcome to the Olympics of silliness!” — San Jose Mercury News
“A fast-moving and deeply funny farrago, a neo-vaudevillian sendup that manages to be both merciless and affectionate.” — Boston Globe
“Absolutely hilarious, non-stop laughs!” — WUML Radio
Recommended for age 12 and
above.
Burbank Auditorium
March 27 at 8:00 PM
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Box Office opens one hour before curtain on performance
dates.
Please also see the calendar and online ticketing for this year’s curtain times.
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