Hotel California “ A Salute To The
Eagles”
Saturday May 17, 2008 @ 8pm
STARS THEATRE RESTAURANT
Dinner is available pre show for $18 at 5 pm
Tickets are 35,31,29
Call
661-325-6100 or visit our website at
www.bmtstars.com
The Spotlight Theatre 10th
Anniversary Season
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NOISES OFF!
DIRECTED BY JARRED CLOWES
Sept. 5th – Sept. 27th
The outlandish comedy portrays a director of a theatre
company desperately trying to get his production
together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the
crew, and Lady Luck. We follow the production from final
rehearsals, through opening night, and onto the tour: as
with any group of actors forced to work closely together
for any great length of time, romances and arguments are
bound to break out. Quite often, what's happening on
stage is nothing compared to what's happening backstage…
HIGH FIDELITY
DIRECTED BY HAL FRIEDMAN
Oct.10th – Nov. 1st
This musical based on the movie starring John Cusak, The
Spotlight is happy to present this off-Broadway premier
which follows the 'mid-life' crisis of Rob, a
thirty-something record-store owner who must face the
undeniable facts - he's growing up. In a hilarious
homage to the music scene, Rob and the wacky, offbeat
clerks that inhabit his store expound on the intricacies
of life and song all the while trying to succeed in
their adult relationships. Are they listening to pop
music because they are miserable? Or are they miserable
because they listen to pop music? This romantic comedy
provides a touching and whimsical glimpse into the male
view of the affairs of the heart.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
DIRECTED BY JUSTIN LAWSON BROOKS
Nov. 28th – Dec 20th
The Christmas classic comes to life on stage! George
Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams
for the good of his town, but on Christmas Eve, he is
broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan
and the machinations of the evil millionaire, Mr.
Potter. His guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth,
literally, and shows him how his town, family, and
friends would turn out if he had never been born.
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
DIRECTED BY HAL FRIEDMAN
Jan. 23rd – Feb. 14th
Taking place in New York City in 1922, this fantastic
musical tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who
has just moved to the city in search of a new life for
herself. It’s a New York full of intrigue and jazz - a
time when women were entering the workforce and the
rules of love and social behavior were changing forever.
Based on the popular movie, filled with frisky flappers,
dashing leading men and a dragon-lady of a villainess
audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie is
a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment.
EDWARD ALBEE’S THE GOAT or WHO IS SYLIVIA?
DIRECTED BY JARRED CLOWES
Feb. 27th – March 21st
A bold new play by legendary playwright Edward Albee
(Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf), that concerns an
architect that in the same week that he's received an
international prize, been awarded a lucrative contract
and celebrated his 50th birthday, finds he also has to
confess to his wife and son that he's involved in a
relationship which will probably ruin his life.
CAROUSEL
DIRECTED BY HAL FRIEDMAN
April 18th – May 9th
This classic musical takes place in a Maine coastal
village toward the end of the 19th century, the
swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow,
captivates and marries the naive mill worker, Julie
Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie
is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a
decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an
accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing
the certainty of prison, he takes his own life but Billy
is allowed to return to earth for one day, while fifteen
years have passed, he now encounters the teenage
daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless
child, now Billy must repair in both the child and her
mother a sense of hope and dignity in a dramatic
testimony to the power of love. It's easy to understand
why, of all the shows they created, this was Rodgers &
Hammerstein's personal favorite.
NEIL SIMON’S PROPOSALS
DIRECTED BY AMY HALL
June 5th – June 27th
Neil Simon at his best, this newest of plays written by
the legendary play write will tug at your heart strings
and send you laughing into the isles. Spend a weekend in
the Poconos with the Hines family as the generations
collide and love sends all into a dither. Full of
vibrant characters and witty dialogue this play will be
a joy to experience.
HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N ROLL IV
DIRECTED BY BOB KEMPF
July 10th – Aug. 15th
Summer Stock
At The Spotlight School of Arts
Sign up today!
The Spotlight School of Arts Summer Stock program is
an intensive theatrical experience for children ages
5-18. Whether it’s on stage or behind the scenes, there
is a workshop for everyone this summer!
Summer Stock at the Spotlight School of Arts has
five different sessions running from June 9 through
August 15, Monday through Friday.
INTENSIVE TECHNICAL THEATRE
CLASS
Session 1: June 16- July18
Session 2: July 21-August 15
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
July 21-August 15 from 1-4PM
AMERICANA!
June 9-July 3 from 8:30-11:30AM
A PLAY ABOUT A DRAGON
June 9-July18 from 1-4PM
DISNEY'S ALLADIN JR.
• Generously Underwritten by Kern Schools Federal Credit
Union •
July 7-August 8 from 8:30-11:30AM
Each session ends in a performance.
In addition to our workshop, ask about our weekly
classes for ages 3-adult.
Make sure to remember our weekly classes including
Broadway Babies 2 and Acting 1B. If your student has
taken Broadway Babies 1 or Acting 1A be sure to continue
with their training as the classes will be starting
right away! Our program continues throughout the year
including instruction in Acting, Musical Theatre, Puppet
Theatre, Improv Comedy, Stop Motion Animation and Art
classes for ages 3 - Adult!
To sign up today for Summer Stock in the Spotlight
School of Arts or for information about other classes,
call Spotlight School of Arts director Guinevere
Park-Hall Dethlefson at (661)634-0692.
Puppet show to raise money
for The Empty Space
Omnipresent Puppet Theater will perform its production
of “The Three Little Pigs” as a fundraiser for The Empty
Space Theatre in Plymouth Hall at the First
Congregational United Church of
Christ at
Real Road
and
Stockdale Highway
at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, June 14.
Admission to the show is $3.00 per person.
There will also be a number of raffles, including
a 26-inch mountain bike, an Omnipresent Puppet show for
your birthday party or event, and tickets for the
Bakersfield Condors. Doors open at
12:30 p.m. All proceeds go to benefit The Empty Space
Theatre.
The Empty Space, located at
706 Oak Street,
is
Bakersfield’s
only theatre company that relies on public donations.
Its purpose is to “keep theatre free,” giving people a
chance to afford to see theatrical performances they
might not be able to go to. Among
the productions in the theatre’s five-year run are
Shakespeare’s Macbeth,
the musical Hair and David Mamet’s
American Buffalo, as well as original plays written
by
Bakersfield
writers. It has played host to rock
bands, improv and sketch comedy troupes, stand-up
comedians, and Omnipresent Puppet Theater’s bi-monthly
public performances.
In addition to its stage plays, The Empty Space has had
benefits supporting such causes as the Kaiser Permanente
Latino Association funding mentoring and scholarship
programs, The Kern Lifeline Project-an AIDS program, The
Bakersfield AIDS Project, Bakersfield College Jazz
Ensemble, and also worked with the Save-A-Teacher
campaign to present The Miracle Worker at The Empty
Space. For the past four years, the theatre has taken
part in the Worldwide V-Day Campaign to end violence
against women and girls, and has raised more than
$14,000.00 for The Alliance Against Family Violence and
Sexual Assault in that campaign.
Omnipresent Puppet Theater,
founded in
Phoenix in 2003, has been
performing in
Kern
County
since 2006 at local libraries, schools, and other
community events, including functions for the
Bakersfield Association of Retarded Citizens (BARC) and
the Bakersfield Museum of Art.
For Further Information: Call Don or
Kamala Kruszka at 858-0831
TES Gallery
This month's gallery features more work from local
artist Grant Cross. Grant Cross is involved in
fantasy art, photo shop fine art, and sculpting. Grant
has been a featured artist in Heavy Metal Magazine and
Absolute Arts online, his sculptures have created
interest in the model making business, and he is
currently being processed for future distribution and
sales. He is accomplished in a variety of mediums,
including oils, water color, acrylic, pencil, sculpture,
and original computer-generated illustrations. This will
be Grant's 10th public exhibit in the past year.
Examples of his work can be viewed at
http://www.grantcrossgallery.org/
The Empty Gallery is
committed to bringing thought provoking and forward
thinking exhibits to our community featuring solo, group
and installation art shows. We honor professionalism,
integrity and creativity in our exhibits, performances,
and programs. Our gallery is open thirty minutes prior
to regular performance times and by appointment. To make
an appointment or for more information, please call
327-PLAY.
