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Tuesday’s Miscellaneous Goodness…

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There’s a terrific article, all about the Williamston Theatre, that was recently published by the Livingston Post. Written by Susan Parcheta, it says a whole bunch of nice things about us!

Check it out here: “Williamston Theatre Amazes”

This fake movie trailer from Jimmy Kimmel is hilarious, and has a ton of stars enjoying being ridiculous!

“Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren.  In a hovercraft.”

In other Tuesday news, my friend and colleague Joseph Zettelmaier is featured in the March edition of American Theatre!  A nice 4 page article about him as a playwright, and it discusses the production of Dead Man’s Shoes that we just ran at Williamston Theatre.  There’s no online version yet, but here’s a picture of the cover with his name!  Nice publicity for a great writer and a great guy.

And today’s last Tuesday tidbit – we’re in rehearsals now for The Usual: A Musical Love Story, and it’s a ton of fun. I did some recording of the cast going through some of the music, and maybe I’ll try and post a snippet of it sometime this week… in the meantime, here’s a shot of more research we’ve been doing for the show…

No, seriously, the way the taps attach to the wall, how they look, the various types of tap handles you can get.  I’ll post pics of the final version from the set in a few weeks!

HAPPY TUESDAY!

Sunday Quotes: Graciousness

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Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in our own.
-Adam Lindsay Gordon

It’s called gracious professionalism. The idea is to be open and help more people learn.
-Chuck Gosdzinski

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
-Anthony J. D’Angelo

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
-William J. Bennett

Realize that when you get older, you either get senile or become gracious. There’s no in-between. You become senile when you think the world short-changed you, or everybody wakes up to screw you. You become gracious when you realize that you have something the world needs, and people are happy to see you when you come into the room.
– Carlos Santana

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
-William Shakespeare

Announcing the 2012-2013 Williamston Theatre Season!

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by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Sep 20 – October 21.
 “Sex to Change the Course of the World”—A grad student’s online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of “no strings attached” sex. But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will they survive? What about the fish in the tank? And who is that woman pulling levers and playing the timpani? An epic and intimate comedy that spans over billions of years, boom explores the influences of fate versus randomness in the course of one’s life, and life as we know it on the planet.

Ebenezer 

by Joe Zettelmaier
Nov 15 – Dec 23
A World Premiere
It’s a cold Christmas Eve in London, and Ebenezer Scrooge sits in a hospital room. 15 years have passed since his miraculous transformation by the Ghosts of Christmas. Now renowned for his generosity and selflessness, his spirit still yearns to bring cheer to the world, but his flesh is weak. Such a little thing isn’t likely to stop the old man, though, for he has a plan up his sleeve that he hasn’t shared with his two troubled companions – Miss Poole, the nurse assigned to his care, and Tim Cratchit, recently returned from war in America.  Over the course of the evening, these two lost souls bear witness to events they do not fully understand as the spirit of Christmas descends on Ebenezer once again.

End Days 

by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Jan 24 – Feb 24
Sixteen year old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn’t changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close, personal relationship with Jesus. Her new neighbor, a sixteen-year-old Elvis impersonator, has fallen for her hard. And the Apocalypse is coming Wednesday. Her only hope is that Stephen Hawking will save them all.  “Both poignantly redemptive and hilariously funny, it begs the question of what we would hold most sacred if we knew the end was near. And it brings to life our broad range of choices, including laughter, and the treasured traveling companions who are there even when we face our own personal Armageddon.” – Huffington Post

“…rapturously funny play about a family trying to survive in a world hurtling toward Armageddon, proves that the right playwright can inspire healing laughter in even the most sobering subjects.” – The Miami Herald

Shirley Valentine 


by Willy Russell
Mar 21 – April 21
What can you do when you realize that you’ve hit middle age, and your life has been shaped by choices made by everyone except you?  The heroine in this actor’s tour-de-force is an ordinary middle class English housewife. As she prepares chips and egg for dinner, she ruminates on her life and tells the wall about her husband, her children, her past, and an invitation from a girlfriend to join her on holiday in Greece to search for romance and adventure. Ultimately, Shirley does escape to Greece, has an “adventure” with a local fisherman… and begins the process of shaping her life into something wonderful. This one-woman play became an instant classic the minute it premiered!

“Absolutely smashing.”-The New York Post
“A joyful, captivating piece of theatre.”-The New York Daily News

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by Annie Martin
May 16 – June 16
A World Premiere
The worst part of a hospital waiting room is normally the waiting but, in the midst of a prolonged family medical crisis, Kathryn Fuller regards the waiting room as a welcome refuge from her increasingly chaotic life. However, the real world quickly invades her new home away from home, and she’s surrounded with her over-the-top family life, rebellious, love-struck daughter and a mysterious stranger who, oddly, shows up at the same time every night.  What happens when the universe decides our lives need a shaking up, whether we like it or not?  Will Kathryn get drawn into the ridiculous comedy, drama, and potential romance swirling around her beloved waiting room, or will she burrow deeper into her seclusion from the world?

Tuna Does Vegas


by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard
July 11 – August 18
Tuna Does Vegas re-unites the lovable and eccentric characters from the ‘third smallest town in Texas’ as they take a rambling romp in Sin City. The hilarity begins when oddball-conservative radio host Arles Struvie announces on air that he and his wife Bertha Bumiller are heading to Vegas to renew their wedding vows…but everyone in Tuna, Texas goes along for the ride!  Tuna Does Vegas is both an affectionate comment on small-town life as well as a hilarious satire of the same. The eclectic band of citizens that make up this town are portrayed by only two actors, making this send-up on life in rural America even more delightful as they depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna — men, women, Vegas showgirls, Elvis impersonators and more!