Auditions for Pima Theatre's next musical, The Spongebob Musical, are happening NEXT Monday, 12/6 at 6 pm, in the Black Box Theatre at Pima West campus.
Anyone student can audition as long as they're planning to attend Pima during the Spring semester.
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From: Pima Arts <centerforthearts@pima.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 4:41 PM
Subject: December 1st kicks off our Fall Performing Arts events
DEC 7 AT 3:45 PM – DEC 9 AT 3:45 PM
Fall Music Theatre Workshop
Free Admission
Center For The Arts, Recital Hall
Pima West Campus, CFA, Recital Hall
Directed by Dr. Darryl King, this end of the semester showcase features scenes from "A Chorus Line," "Wicked,"
"Little Women," "The Beautiful Game," "The Phantom of the Opera," "Spring Awakenings," and more.
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1301376113621103/?ref=newsfeed
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From: Unscrewed Theater <UnscrewedTheater@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 10:01 AM
Subject: ✡🎄❄ December News to Use From Chris 🎅🤶
Watch Our Shows
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or 
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December Shows
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Early Bird Special Ends on 12/4!
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Puppetry Workshop!
with Jessica Spenny
Comedy & Magic
Breaking Reality
with Benny James
Elves Gone Bad - 
A Pirate's Christmas!
Fridays After Dark
Improv (and more!) Variety Show
Adults ONLY!
Unscrewed Family Hour
Improv for Kids!
Proof of Vaccination OR Negative COVID-19 test
& Face Masks Are Required Inside The Theater
Get caught up
on your shots!
Two Shows On Christmas!
Bring the family!
Ten Minutes
with Dawn
Fridays on Facebook
UNCENSORED!
Twice A Month!
Unscrewed Theater
4500 E Speedway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85712
Unscrewed is Tucson's ONLY 100% volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit community theater dedicated to the fun and healing laughter found in improv comedy.
Do us this favor.
TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE BACK LIVE & IN PERSON - with shows AND classes.
REALLY.
EVERYONE.
While we love your generous donations, we'd MUCH rather take your money because we were able to spend the evening entertaining you and your family, friends, and neighbors. Just like we did in the before times.
Cuz laughter is the best thing ever.
If you can see your way clear to donate, too, well that's just icing on the cake.
Just smoosh this button, and we'll say THANKS!
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From: Christine Fapp <cfapp66@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 9:46 AM
Subject: Ironwood Ridge High School Theatre
Come do something fun this Thursday, Friday, or Saturday! A personality-filled whodunnit! The IRHS Advanced Drama students are excited to share their first play of the season with you! Head to www.irhstheatre.com or follow the QR code to purchase premium tickets, or get tickets at the door!
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December 12, 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:30pm
VENUE: Fox Tucson Theatre
Join award-winning director and University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television Adjunct Instructor Brian Levant for a 25th anniversary screening of his film Jingle All the Way at the Fox Tucson Theatre on December 12, 2021!
Jingle All the Way stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad as two rival fathers, workaholic Howard Langston (Schwarzenegger) and postal worker Myron Larabee (Sinbad), both desperately trying to purchase a Turbo-Man action figure for their respective sons on a last-minute shopping spree on Christmas Eve.
There will be a “Movie Magic: How Did They Do That?” discussion with film director, Brian Levant before the movie that will include never before seen footage straight from the Director of this classic family holiday feature!
INFO AND TICKETS AT FOX TUCSON THEATRE
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December 3, 2021 to December 5, 2021
VENUE: Tornabene Theatre
THIS WEEKEND, join us for EVERYBODY, the inaugural production of the Next Performance Collective, a new initiative of the Theatre Studies Division and BA students.
Everybody is dying, starting now. But in the meantime, they must account for their life in a public presentation. Can Friendship or Kinship help? Maybe Beauty, Strength, or Mind? Or will these virtues abandon Everybody in their hour of need? Follow a nimble ensemble of actors, cast by lottery at each performance, through this playful allegory on the meaning of life and the mystery of death.
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Subscriptions and single tickets available now at tickets.arizona.edu.
https://tftv.arizona.edu/events/everybody/
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LTW's Education 2021/2022 Classes and Camps
Registration is open for Session 3 and 4 classes. When registering for classes and/or camps please double check that you are clicking into the right session as we have multiple sessions listed.
The Live Theatre Workshop’s OnStage! Education Department was developed and continues to develop as a center for teaching the theatre arts in a friendly and creative setting. Weekly classes and summer and winter drama day camps are taught by trained, experienced teachers, actors, and directors from the Tucson community. The program ranges from introducing theatre through the process of producing a script all the way to advanced technical and acting roles, as well as internships. The OnStage! Education program is a great place to begin and develop as a theatre artist.
Information and registration: https://www.livetheatreworkshop.org/education/classes.html
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You've heard of elves on a shelf, but what about elves in the black box?
Elf Elegies coming at ya next weekend! Shows will be Dec 4 at 5:00pm and Dec. 5 at 1:00 pm in the Black Box Theatre. Seating is very limited so we ask attendees to come early.
Tickets and info: https://www.pima.edu/community/the-arts/center-for-the-arts/index.html
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From: Dennis Tamblyn <dennis@sapactucson.org>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2021 5:39 PM
Subject: Plaid Tidings opens in ONE WEEK!
Plaid Tidings Opens in ONE WEEK!
The Plaids are back! But they don't know why...
Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings is a holiday show that offers the best of Forever Plaid, tied up in a nifty package with a big Christmas bow on top! Filled with Christmas standards that have all been "Plaid-erized," our boys are back to do their Christmas Special.
At first, Frankie, Jinx, Smudge and Sparky aren't sure why they've returned to Earth for another posthumous performance, but a phone call from the heavenly Rosemary Clooney lets them know that they're needed to put a little harmony into a discordant world. Sprinkled among the Christmas offerings are audience favorites, like their riotous three-minute-and-eleven-second version of The Ed Sullivan Show – this time, featuring the Rockettes, the Chipmunks and The Vienna Boys Choir, as well as a Plaid Caribbean Christmas that puts the "Day-O" in Excelsis!
This truly "heaven-sent" holiday treat will lift audiences' spirits and fill them with nostalgia for a bygone era of classic music sung in perfect harmony.
The cast includes all of your favorite performers from the original production! This includes Xander Mason, Topher Esguerra, Liam Boyd and Danny Fapp.
Put yourself in the holiday mood and see this show that will fill your hearts with joy, laughter and music!
Directed by Xander Mason
Music Direction by Alexis Burrows
Choreography by Liam Boyd
Three Performances in Tucson only!
Cabaret Theatre at the Temple of Music and Art
December 4th, 3pm and 7pm
December 5th, 3pm
Community Performance & Art Center
*Masks must be worn for the performance*
Visit our website at www.sapactucson.org or call our box office at 401-594-4895. If you have any questions the please email our box office at boxoffice.sapac@gmail.com
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From: Darwin W. Hall <darwinner@earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2021 2:29 AM
Subject: Sons of Orpheus Food Bank Benefit Concert PSA
Sons of Orpheus Food Bank Food Bank Benefit Concert
Who: Sons of Orpheus, the Male Choir of Tucson
What: Benefit Concert for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
When: Wednesday December 1st, 7:00 pm
Where Berger Performing Arts Center on the Campus of A.S.D.B.
Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd., Tucson
As the holidays approach, we know that there are many hungry people in Tucson for whom the holidays -- and every day -- are a challenge. Now for the 23rd year to lend a hand, Sons of Orpheus -- the Male Choir of Tucson along with the students of the Arizona Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (A.S.D.B.) conduct a food drive to help the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona accomplish their wonderful mission. In the last 14 years alone, Orpheus' efforts have raised over $100,000, gathered over eight tons of food, and touched the hearts of the citizens all over Southern Arizona.
Our quest for donations and food culminates on December 1st with a special Holiday Concert at the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway, on the campus of A.S.D.B.
The concert features inspiring, heart-warming performances by students from the School for the Blind, a mix of holiday favorites by Sons of Orpheus; "Mariachi el Quinto Sol," and other Special Guest performers.
Wednesday, December 1st, at 7:00 P.M. Admission is a non-perishable food item or preferably a check made out to the Community Food Bank. With every dollar you donate, the Food Bank can purchase four meals or $9.00 in food. Donations to our Virtual Food Drive can also be made on line at: www.communityfoodbank.org/Sons-of-Orpheus
Please save the date, Wednesday, December 1st, at 7 P.M., and join us for the most heart and stomach-warming concert of the holiday season.
P.S.: Each of us knows where our next meal is coming from; some of our neighbors are not so fortunate.
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By Chuck Graham, TucsonStage.com
photo from Broadway in Tucson
The fabled vigor of "Hamilton" fills the national touring company that's playing in Centennial Hall. Now we know what all the fuss has been about.
It's true, the first national touring production of “Hamilton” to reach Tucson is worthy of the Lin-Manuel Miranda show's barrier-shattering reputation world wide.
Everything good that you've heard about the breakthrough rap dialogue and defiant hip hop rhythms of this multi-cultural hit drawn from our nation's history are all up there on the Centennial Hall stage at the University of Arizona.
The voices are strong and the sound is good. That towering, whacked-out stage design by David Korins looks exactly like it does in all the Broadway photos of this barn burner.
Stretching wide from wing to wing, defined by the brown-toned wood scaffolding and stretched out stairways, balconies and railings, the silent details add a somber enormity to the soaring scale of such a larger than life spectacle.
There is plenty of room for the remarkably agile cast of 25 actors, singers and dancers to fill. And fill it they do.
Julius Thomas III is in complete control as Alexander Hamilton, bulging with brilliance and ambition to match. Equaling his talent is Donald Webber, Jr., playing Aaron Burr.
Polar opposites in their objectives as energetic young firebrands that history has put upon the threshold of America's founding, they are also motivated by opportunities of wealth defying an ordinary imagination.
You don't need to know much about history to appreciate “Hamilton.” Miranda didn't set out to tell a story about one of our lesser-celebrated forefathers so much as he wanted to create an emotional experience on stage, driven by muscular music powered by street rhythms of compelling urgency.
Key to this heart-felt frenzy is the swirling choreography of Andy Blankenbuehler. There are no still moments. For a full two hours and forty five minutes the music is nearly continuous, generating a throbbing thrusting feeling, like everyone is moving with purpose, having a definite place to go.
For sure it's no place for people to just sit around talking. The program lists 34 separate musical numbers, rolling across the stage like waves of emotion, each one building on the last one, sweeping crescendos pushing us toward the one historical moment everyone does know – Hamilton's fatal dual with Burr, his nemesis.
Just know, this is no warmed-over road show reproduction. The Broadway heart of “Hamilton” is shining in Tucson. This one feels fresh and strong and vigorous.
Broadway in Tucson has also worked out the mechanics of moving people through its COVID protocols. Be sure to have document proof of you vaccinations or a negative COVID test result in the last 72 hours. Also bring a comfortable mask, which must be worn at all times (except when eating or drinking).
There's also a list of items you can't bring, such as large handbags. Check the Broadway in Tucson website for the full requirements. Arrive about an hour before curtain to avoid that rushed feeling.
By Chuck Graham, TucsonStage.com
photo by Gawne
Mamma Clause (Ruthie Hayash) and Santa Clause (David Orley) encourage their tall elf Dudley (Randall Walter) to go for it.
If you think that joyful Christmas spirit comes in a bottle – you could be correct, sir! At least in so far as the Gaslight Theatre gang is concerned in their holiday special “Elf'd.”
This stage theatrical does bear some resemblance to the movie that's so similarly named. At least, the elf costumes are similar and Santa Clause looks almost exactly the same as he does on the big screen.
As for the bottle, that's a uniquely Gaslight invention. A slender container smaller than a Coke bottle is filled with a secret formula for Christmas Spirit, cleverly devised by Dudley, the only human ever raised by the industrious little people who run Santa's workshop at the North Pole.
At the Gaslight, all the shows are double and triple cast, so at the performance I attended, Dudley was played by Randall Walter. Dudley is a curious human, orphaned at birth, now determined to meet his true father, who turns out to be a captain of industry living at the top of a tall building in New York City.
Dastardly forces led by hulking Brad Hawkins (Mike Yarema) in an intimidating dark gray overcoat are determined to destroy every child's Christmas happiness by seizing control of the North Pole's toy making facilities, thus bringing all the workshop's output to a complete halt!
Only by using the meanest Yuletide chicanery imaginable, Hawkins has taken control of that little bottle of Christmas Spirit.
That's about all of the plot you need to know. This is the Gaslight Theatre, after all, where a happy ending is guaranteed at every performance.
Wally (Jacob Brown) is gloweringly good as Hawkins' evil associate. So is Heather Stricker as Hawkins' ambitious secretary.
Joining forces on the sweet side of this snowy conflict are Erin Thompson as Polly the most optimistic elf ever. She keeps pumping up insecure Dudley, insuring him he is definitely not a “fluffer nutter noodle noggin.”
Janee Page is the tough New Yorker trying to get hired as a department store elf for Christmas. She even has her own elf costume. Which pretty much convinces Dudley she really is another human elf, just like him.
Ruthie Hayashi, meanwhile, brings genuine maternal warmth to her role as Mama Claus.
Caught in the middle is Todd Thompson as Billy, who just wants to do the right thing.
David Orley gets the plum role of Santa, with his big laugh, bigger beard and resplendent red velvet suit trimmed in white.
While most Christmas plays hold off on introducing Santa until the very end, in “Elf'd” Santa makes an early appearance and pops up frequently during the show, which is always extra fun for all the children.
Just in case you are still not feeling the full-on Gaslight Happy Holidays, mistletoe and pumpkin-pie-in-the-oven joyfulness yet, the aftershow olio takes us back to that long-ago December in the big-box-small-screen television era of the Andy Williams Christmas Special.
Yes, of course there is a special number for knee-high elves who sing, and another for singing reindeer with cloven hooves and black noses.
Jokes? Well, sure. The woman who was obsessed with everything Christmas was diagnosed as being “too Santa-mental.”
While the little kid who ate all the decorations for the Christmas Tree ended up with “tinsel-itis.”
Meanwhile, the even smaller child who was fearfully afraid of Santa came down with “Claus-trophobia.”
Can you hear the laughter? I guess you just have to be there.
“Elf'd” continues through Jan. 2 with multiple daily performances most days. Reservations are absolutely necessary.
None of the actors are masked, but all of the staff wear masks at all times. Audience members may unmask to eat and drink.
For ticket details and full COVID requirements, go to www.thegaslighttheatre.com, phone 886-9428, or visit the Gaslight Theatre box office, 7010 E. Broadway.
