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The State Theatre of Ithaca is host to over 60 events each
year, including concerts, theatrical productions, Broadway tours, dance performances, lectures, readings, and community performances. |
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Archive Link to for the season of 2007 - 2008. Ithaca Entertainment.
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Hangar Theatre Announces 2007 Mainstage Season
This summer, five professional productions—a hit Broadway drama, two beloved musicals, a world-premiere
plucked from the history books, and a comedic send-up of the classics—will make up the Hangar Theatre’s 2007 Mainstage
Season. From June 6th to September 2nd, the Hangar will present Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Hair, Bleeding Kansas,
All the Great Books (abridged), and a recent hit Broadway drama still to be announced.
According to Artistic Director,
Kevin Moriarty, it’s a season unlike any in the theatre’s 33-year history. “For the first time we’re
presenting two large, classic musicals in one season, as well as a world premiere drama, an incredibly silly, witty and engaging
comedy, and a recent hit Broadway play that we can’t announce until February 1,” enthuses Moriarty.
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season kicks off on June 6th with the regional premiere of a recent Broadway play from an award-winning playwright. “We’re
excited to be the first theater in the region to share this exciting play, fresh from its Broadway run, with our audience,”
explains Moriarty. “Unfortunately, we can’t announce the title until February 1. All I can say is that this script
features beautiful writing, complicated and compelling characters, and a surprising story. I’m certain our audience
will be fully engaged by this wonderful play.”
From June 21st to July 7th, the Hangar asks families to be their
guest, as it presents the enchanting Broadway musical classic, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Associate Artistic Director
Wendy Dann will direct this magical musical, based on the award-winning animated film. “The timeless story of young
Belle—a voracious reader who yearns for adventure—and the lonely Beast who must learn to find beauty beyond appearances
has delighted children for years. Young audiences will rejoice in seeing their favorite characters live on stage, while adult
audiences will take pleasure in the Hangar’s ability to approach each musical from a fresh perspective,” says
Dann. “The Hangar’s history of reinterpreting classic musicals like Cats continues with Disney’s Beauty
and the Beast.” With captivating characters and award-winning songs by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s
Beauty and the Beast will have the young and the young at heart humming along both in and out of the theatre.
Beginning
July 12th, the Hangar lets the sunshine in with a three-week run of the one and only “American Tribal Love Rock Musical.”
Even though the award winning musical was originally produced on Broadway in 1968, Moriarty thinks the time has never been
better for the Hangar to let down its Hair. “Written at a time when the nation was fighting an unpopular war oversees
while battles over family values, sexuality, equal rights and patriotism raged at home, Hair is one of the most unique, celebrated,
and important works in musical theatre history,” he explains. “I’m thrilled to engage a new generation of
audiences with this vibrant, joyful, confrontational rock musical, which promises to be more surprising, bracing and energetic
than any show I’ve directed.” With a script from James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot, Hair
continues to provide an irreverent stab at the status quo almost forty years later.
The Mainstage Season continues
with a world premiere drama set on America’s great frontier. From August 1st to the 11th, Bleeding Kansas will take
audiences back to 1856 and a hard-livin’, hard-drinkin’ time before Kansas became a state. As homesteading farmers
fight the elements to start a new life, a violent battle over ideology explodes around them. Abolitionists and pro-slavery
factions descend on the territory, and a fledgling nation takes a dangerous step towards civil war. Moriarty will direct the
new script by Kathryn Walat, whose play Know Dog was presented in the Wedge in 2002 and whose play for young audiences, Androcles
and the Lion was commissioned and produced the Hangar Theatre as a School Tour production in 2004. “Kate is one of the
most dynamic and exciting emerging playwrights working in the American theatre,” Moriarty explains. He sites her compelling
voice, witty sense of humor, and empathetic characters as hallmarks of her work. “In this fresh new play, Kate revisits
a vital moment in American history to tell an original story about political conviction, moral belief, and love of country,
all told with her unique sense of humor, dramatic action and sharp insight into real people,” Moriarty says. “Bleeding
Kansas will be a play that will entertain our audiences and have them grappling with and talking about its characters and
ideas long after they’ve left the theatre.”
On August 15th, the Hangar finishes up the summer by rummaging
through the classics of literature with All the Great Books (abridged). From the creators of two past hit comedies at the
Hangar—The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) and The Complete History of America (abridged)—this three-man
show is a goofy, prat-fall filled, whirlwind tour of 86 classic books. Moriarty thinks Books will be a perfect ending to a
great summer: “Everyone loves a good laugh, and this wacky play, filled with witty puns, fast-paced humor, and audience
interaction, will have our audience rolling in the aisles with its wild energy and sharp intelligence.” Equal parts
Monty Python, “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?”, and Cliffs Notes, All the Great Books (abridged) will run for three
weeks through September 2nd.
Subscription packages for the Hangar Theatre’s 2007 Mainstage Season are currently
available by visiting the Hangar Business Office, by calling (607) 273-8588, or by downloading a subscription form at www.hangartheatre.org.
Single tickets for the 2007 Season will go on sale on May 1st at the Ticket Center at Clinton House.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / Contact: Brett Bossard Hangar Theatre, Marketing Manager 607-273-8588
x402 brett@hangartheatre.org
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| June / July 2008 |
Summer
in the Kitchen -
the conversations continue... |
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SOUVENIR opens on the Main Stage | |
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Directed
by Sara Lampert Hoover
If "music is the food of love," then Florence Foster Jenkins is the surprise
dessert. SOUVENIR, a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins by Stephen Temperley, is an enormously funny and
moving tribute to a woman who followed her dreams - no matter how misguided.
Stephen Temperley's delightful
memoir of another time is told through the biting wit of Ms. Jenkins' talented accompanist Cosme McMoon. Sitting at the piano
late one night, he remembers how his life was changed by an amazing friendship with an unlikely partner. From Gershwin to
Mozart, it was the love of music that carried the two of them on a crazy, not-so-melodic ride.
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Rachel Lampert's THE SOUP COMES LAST | |
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Directed
by Margarett Perry
THE SOUP COMES LAST is writer/performer Rachel Lampert's hilarious
and heart warming memoir of her 1997 trip to China to stage a production of WEST SIDE STORY with an all Chinese speaking cast.
Her one-woman play is filled with tales of cross-cultural missteps, lost translations, and life changing events all driven
by the dictum "the show must go on!" Love, humor, backstage dramas and the universal desire to reach one's dream are the ingredients
of Lampert's Soup.
TWO WEEKS ONLY
Thursday July 3, 7:30
Friday July 4, 8:00
Saturday July 5, 8:00
Sunday July 6, 4:00
Wednesday
July 9, 7:30
Thursday July 10, 7:30
Friday July 11, 8:00
Saturday July 12, 8:00
Sunday July 13, 4:00
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08-09 Subscriptions Now Available! | |
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Guarantee
the seats you want
before single tickets go on sale August 1st!
Our 6-Play Main Stage Season will run from mid-August 2008 to mid-July
2009. We are thrilled to note that four of the plays will be receiving their first full stagings. There are two additional
productions happening during the 2008-09 season. First is a limited two-week run of THE SOUP COMES LAST in July 2008
before our official season starts. The second is an encore performance of the popular musical TONY & THE SOPRANO,
just in time for the Thanksgiving and December holiday season. Don't forget we are year-round with 170 performances on the
Main Stage!
For more information about the season and a subscription form, follow the link below. We hope you'll join
us again for more important conversations in our 18th Season.
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The Kitchen Theatre Company has a Facebook
page?
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| March 2008 |
With
Spring come exciting KTC events
We hope you will join us! |
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OLD TIMES opens on the Main Stage | |
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Directed
by Margarett Perry 
Kate (Camilla Schade) and her husband, Deeley (Greg Bostwick),
live in an isolated farmhouse by the sea. The mundane harmony of their lives is disturbed when Kate's old friend Anna (Leigh
Keeley) comes to stay. A night of reminiscing between the married couple and the old friend becomes a struggle to discover
the truth in memory, desire in love, and to whom the past belongs. A battle for possession begins in which past and present
merge with shattering consequences. March 20 through April 13.
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Brian Dykstra's THE JESUS FACTOR | |
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Four
performances only! 
He's back! Due to popular demand, and following his successful run
at Barrow Street Theatre (NYC), Brian Dykstra returns to the Kitchen to do four more performances of
THE JESUS FACTOR,
his impassioned indictment of the religious right, directed by long-time collaborator Margarett Perry.
Sunday March 30, 7:30 PM
Monday March 31, 7:30 PM
Sunday April 6, 7:30 PM
Monday April 7, 7:30 PM |
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Lenelle Moïse's EXPATRIATE | |
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On
Kitchen Counter Culture 
A new musical drama by Lenelle Moïse exploring race, friendship, addiction,
art and infamy. Claudie and Alphine are African-American performing artists and long-time sister-friends. Disillusioned by
grief, homophobia and "the black glass ceiling," the two flee to Europe to realize their starved American dreams. In Paris,
they quickly rise to fame and fortune. But Claudie and Alphine soon discover that for some black artists living abroad, stardom
comes at a price. Will their friendship survive the pressures of their newfound success?
Directed by Tamilla Woodard.
Starring Karla Mosley and Lenelle Moïse
April 18, 19 & 20
Friday and Saturday
at 8PM, Sunday at 4PM |
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Our Annual On-Line Auction runs through March 28th! | |
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Check
it out at www.ktcauction.com
The Auction provides a great way to support the Kitchen Theatre Company while
getting some really great stuff.
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Steppin' Out of the Kitchen Monday, April 28th | |
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Our
2008 benefit gala at Za Za's Cucina
An incredible dinner at your table with wine, salad, and choice of entrée
and dessert and entertainment directed by Rachel Lampert featuring members of the cast of BED NO BREAKFAST and other Kitchen
veteran performers. Songs, Comedy and Surprises!
Call Jody at 272-0403 or email Jody@kitchentheatre.org for more information on this wonderful event. |
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SCOOT, SIZZLE & SLIDE April 26 - May 11 | |
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A
collaboration of movement and music 
Rachel
Lampert has gone back to her choreographer roots and teamed up with composer Sally Lamb to produce this wonderful piece. What
do you get when you bring together a swingin' composer, a jumpin' choreographer, and a whirl of dancers? Something that's
hard to put into words, but that certainly sizzles. This new movement piece will make you want to scoot, sizzle & slide
along.
Composer Sally Lamb
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Did know that the
Kitchen Theatre Company has a Facebook page?
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| September 25, 2007 |
The
Kitchen Theatre Company will kick off both the Family Fare and Kitchen Counter Culture series this weekend with laughter
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Indian American Comedian Vijai Nathan | |
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On the Kitchen
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