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The Wizard of Oz closes this week. The final shows are Friday at 8:00 PM, Saturday at 3:00
PM AND 8:00 PM and the final performance is Sunday at 3:00 PM. Everyone who has seen the show has enjoyed this production,
the audiences have been buzzing about the flying effects for the witch and the wizard! Come out and see this marvelous production
of Frank Baum's classic tale. The Wizard of Oz will run for 1 weekend and 4 performances.  Friday, February 24, at 8:00PM
Saturday, February 25, at 3:00PM
Saturday, February 25, at 8:00PM
Sunday,
February 26, at 3:00PM
Tickets are available now! |
| | Don't forget our Dinner/Theatre
Package with Vince's Italian Restaurant of Palatine. For an additional $17 you can enjoy a fine Italian dinner, and then come see the show. |  |
| |  At each performance of "The Wizard of Oz" you'll have the opportunity to purchase a 3 lb tub of cookie dough for
just $16. For $16 you will get a voucher for a 3 lb tub of oookie dough that comes in a variety of flavors. At your convenience
you can redeem the voucher, the cookie dough will then be delivered to your door! |
| | Our 2011-2012 Season |
|  |  | ? | October
7 thru November 6, 2011
A joint production with
Theatre Nebula | February 11, 2012 thru February 26, 2012 | June 2, 2012 thru June 17, 2012 | |
|  Join us Saturday March 17, 2012 at the First United Methodist Church, 1903 E Euclid Ave, Arlington Heights, IL 60004 for
our Spring Cabaret "Colors of the Seasons" fundraiser. Doors open at 6:30 PM, entertainment begins at 7:00 PM.
Enjoy food, drink, music and a silent auction. Tickets are $15 in advance and can be purchased online on our website by
following this link or $20 at the door. |
| The eagle-eyed amongst
you may have noticed the abscence of the "Damn Yankees" logo from our season, the sparrow-eyed should have at least
noticed the large black question mark. We have had to cancel our scheduled production of "Damn Yankees". And here's
where your jolly old editor will be skating on thinnish ice. Because I asked the members of Music on Stage's board if we
should tell the reason why we cancelled "Damn Yankees". It's my opinion that we should explain why we cancelled
it. People, (you guys and gals reading this, for example), our season ticket holders and other people in and out of community
theatre in general are interested in knowing why a show is cancelled. Like I said, I asked the members of the board
and got 3 specific answers back. One agreed with me and thought we should say why we cancelled "Damn Yankees".
Another said that no one is interested and if they are they can ask us. And the third thought we could use "Due to
circumstances beyond our control...", which is fair enough, the reason we cancelled was beyond our control.
As
one of the producers of "Damn Yankees" I know exactly why we cancelled the show. Very simply, we held 2 nights
of auditions and 1 night of call backs and did not have nearly enough people audition to cast the show. "Damn Yankees"
is a baseball-themed show and requires a certain number of young to early middle-aged men to be the members of the baseball
team. We had 2 men that fit that description. The "certain number" I alluded to in the previous sentence was not
2, it was considerably larger. In the past if we were short 1 or 2 or 3 or even 4 people we'd move forward and start making
phone calls, contacting past performers, etc. We were short 2 leads plus 4 or 5 others and we'd already made calls to past
performers and not enough of them were available. So we made the difficult decision to cancel the show. After all, we can't
force people to be in our shows and wouldn't want to if we could. The low audition turnout was beyond our control. As one
of the producers I'd love to know why the turnout was so low. If anyone knows, please contact me via our website's questions page.
That said - we WILL be replacing "Damn Yankees" with another production that will run June 2 thru
June 17 instead of the April timeslot that "Damn Yankees" was to run in. We pushed the show dates further into
the year in order to have more time to acquire the rights and get a production team in place. We have selected the show and
are currently awaiting word on the availability of the rights. As soon as we know, we'll post it on our website. All of
the presold tickets for "Damn Yankees" will be honored with the June production.
If you don't hear from
me again...then most likely the Wrath of the Board has come down on me and I'll have been well and truly muzzled. |
| | You can order tickets through the mail by downloading this form
, print it out, fill it out, and mail it to the Cutting Hall Box Office
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| | | | Dracula 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 | | "Wizard of
Oz" show is produced by arrangement with, and the music and dialogue material furnished by TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY,
INC. 560 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022 | | |
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