THE ACTING COMPANY THE ACTING COMPANY BOX OFFICE Regular hours are Monday through Friday Noon to 2:00 P.M., exept holidays. During performanes, the Box Offie is open 30 minutes prior to showtime. 2019 season THEATER AND BOX OFFICE 815 B STREET YUBA CITY, CA 95991 (530) 751-1100 info@atingompany.org www.atingompany.org f /TheAtingCompany UNDERWRITTEN BY: CHUCK AND PATTY SIEVERS PREMIER PRINT & MAIL LAYOUT BY: PAT HILL Oliver, 2018 AtingCompany.org
SHARING THE MAGIC OF live theatre BY PRESIDENT DEBBIE COLLIER Our little theater is a plae of legay and magi. Our founders Curt Shroeder, Pat Hill and Dexter Blak began with a passion for theater, hildren, families and our ommunity. Their legay will be that they have, indeed, reated a theater where hildren, adults (often times the whole family), ome to learn, play and reate the magi of theater. All of our volunteers, regardless of the role they have served or ontinue to serve, will also have a legay. Every prodution they have helped produe has been a plae for them to touh our ommunity with the magi of theater. Some of our theater s youth have gone on and will go on to reate a legay not just here in our little theater but in ities from the west oast to the east oast. They ontinue the legay of reating magi in performane. Pat and Curt, thank you for your vision, passion and hard work to bring this legay to our ommunity. Thank you for the work you ontinue to do. Dexter has sine passed on, so to Dexter s family and friends, know that this little theater and our ommunity ontinues to thank him for what he helped reate. Sharing the magi of live theater. The Fou ounder ders CURT SCHROEDER PAT HILL DEXTER BLACK during your visit: Parking: As a ourtesy to our neighbors, please refrain from parking in front of any houses. We request you park in the Yuba City High Shool staff parking lot, whih is slightly west of the theater, or on the south side of B Street, aross from the theater. Lateomer Seating: As a ourtesy to our audiene and performers, late arrivals will be seated at an appropriate time. Call (530) 751-1100 if you are running late. We frequently have sold-out performanes, with patrons waiting in the lobby for seats to beome avilable. If we do not hear from you by opening urtain time, your tiket may be anelled and re-sold. You may always, in advane make arrangements to hange your tiket to a later date. Children: In onsideration of other patrons, hildren under four, inluding babies in arms, will not be admitted to the theater for Main Stage produtions. For our Magi Theatre produtions, please use your best judgement when bringing hildren under four years of age. Lost and Found: Please ontat the Box Offie at (530) 751-1100. Eletroni Devies: Patrons are asked to turn phones and other devies to silent. No photographi/reording equipment, ell phones, tablets, et., may be ative.
SEASON TICKETS Choose your favorite seat. Easy tiket exhanges should your shedule hange. Main Stage: $100 Inludes all six shows. Magi Theatre: Inludes all four shows. $30 General Admission $15 18 and under ACTOR S PASSES Buy five, get one free That s just $100 for a pak of six!. These passes get you disounted tikets that are flexible - you an use them, or pass them on. Ator s Passes make great gifts. Calendar Girls, 2018 GROUP DISCOUNTS Shedule groups of six or more, and get your tikets for $18. Call the Box Offie or go to www.atingompany.org and use the ode: GROUP BUY OUT THE HOUSE FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES Looking for an easy fundraiser? We provide the loation and entertainment, you sell the tikets! Call us at 751-1100 to shedule your Buy Out the House fundraiser, where you host a performane at the theater and raise funds for your organization. LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP Lifetime Members have one seat for every play at The Ating Company for life! Memberships are $1,000 and you know your generous purhase is greatly benefiting your ommunity theater. FRIENDS OF THE THEATRE Help bridge the gap between tiket sales and atual osts of our produtions. Donations also support our hildren s programs, whih provide the next generation of The Ating Company s ast and rew. auditions www.atingompany.org /TheAtingCompany Auditions are open to the publi. Attend auditions to beome involved in a show as an ator or helping behind the senes. Shawn Measles in volunteers The Seagull, 2017 Volunteers keep this theater alive. Opportunities inlude set onstrution, set painting, ostumes, props, lighting and sound, seamstresses, box offie, teahing, publiity, fundraising, tiket sales, speial event sales, selling advertisements and MORE! f
Monsterville, 2018 ma gi THEATRE INTRODUCING CHILDREN TO THE MAGIC OF LIVE THEATRE MAGIC THEATRE PERFORMANCES ARE SATURDAYS AT 1:00 AND 3:30 PM. Tikets: $5-18 & under $10 General Admission Best to make reservations in advane. Shows are speifially designed for hildren and families and feature ators of all ages. A BIG THANK YOU to the City of Yuba City and Sutter County for underwriting our hildren s programs! Our young people s theatre an be a life-hanging experiene as it builds onfidene, teamwork and leadership skills. We are proud to offer a hildren s program onsisting of four theatre produtions, Saturday morning ating lasses and a summer theatre workshop. Please note that all offerings are subjet to hange.
The A Musial DIRECTED BY: Kyle Waterbury & Corinna Hayes DIRECTED BY: Tanda & Mai Phelps AUDITIONS: Deember 10 & 11 AUDITIONS: April 8 & 9 PERFORMANCES: February 2 9 16 23 PERFORMANCES: May 25 June 1 8 A talk show host invites traditional fairy tale haraters who Ten-year-old Violet is determined to show the world how speial she is. With the help of her assistant Freddy, she beomes have been estranged for 20 years to reonile on live television. From Snow White and the Evil Queen to Cinderella aidentally extraordinary when she's struk by lightning and her middle-aged Ugly Stepsisters, this TV show parody twie. She gains ontrol over all things eletri, but ould asks the question, Can t we all just get along? lose everything when power goes to her head. magi theatre shows 2019 Season on of Givin iving,, Too DIRECTED BY: Jeff Graham & Teresa Aldridge AUDITIONS: February 4 & 5 PERFORMANCES: April 6 13 20 Two madap Narrators hronile the tale of the mixed-up lovers as they wander through a forest full of beasts and fairies dueling with bumballoon swords. This reimagining is how Shakespeare's magial tale might have played if Dr. Seuss had gotten his hands on it. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Betsy Johnson ORIGINAL MUSIC & LYRICS BY: Jim Ahilles AUDITIONS: September 23 & 24 PERFORMANCES: Nov. 23 30 De. 7 14 Our 2nd Season of Giving whereby kids beome the philanthropists raising funds for the A-TChildren's Projet. Hope ontinues to be an inspiration for her friends and ommunity who are bak for another Season of Giving. This time, Faith has organized speial surprises, too!
An Inspetor Calls, 2018 main COMEDY, DRAMA AND MUSICALS STAGE MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCES Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM Sundays at 2:00PM Tikets are $20. Best to make advane reservations. OPENING WEEKEND DISCOUNTS ONLY: $18 for Seniors, Students & Military Families. THIS IS YOUR COMMUNITY THEATER! Featuring your friends and neighbors, Yuba-Sutter s talent shines in our MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONS. We welome you to audition for a role or beome a behind the senes helper! Gypsy, 2018 Sherlok, in rehearsal 2018
DIRECTED BY: Betsy Johnson AUDITIONS: Deember 3, 4, 5 PERFORMANCES: January 25 - Marh 3 Pushed to the boiling point, three female o-workers onot a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistial, lying, hyporitial bigot they all their boss. Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy giving their boss the boot! While the boss remains "otherwise engaged," the women give their workplae a dream makeover and take ontrol of the ompany. Set in the late 1970s. this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thoughtprovoking and even a little romanti. DIRECTED BY: LAUREN AND MATT COATS AUDITIONS: January 28 & 29 PERFORMANCES: MARCH 29 - APRIL 21 A warm-hearted romp with some of Shakespeare s most lever and omedi haraters. When the spirited Sir John Fallstaff prolaims his love for two young ladies of title, but fails to keep them separated, the plot thikens. In revenge, the two young ladies jointly appear to enourage him, deviously triking him into a series of amusing and trying experienes! The wives are left with their reputations intat, but the orpulent knight is one again exposed for the fool he is. The funniest of Shakespeare s plays. You won t want to miss it!
DIRECTED BY: DAVID WHEELER AUDITIONS: April 1 & 2 PERFORMANCES: MAY 17 - JUNE 9 In Buks County, Pennsylvania, adult siblings Vanya and Sonia reside in their old family home, mourning their lost dreams and missed opportunities. Their movie star sister, Masha, arrives unexpetedly with young, sexy, boy toy, Spike, and the family is launhed into a rolliking weekend of one-upmanship, exposed nerves, and a lot of broken mugs. With wit and absurdity, Christopher Durang s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike blends Chekhov s famous ennui with the modern-day toils and troubles of elebrity, soial networking and age into a laugh-out-loud omedy that will tikle your funny bone and stimulate your mind. DIRECTED BY: FOSTER MCMANUS AUDITIONS: May 20 & 21 PERFORMANCES: JULY 12 - AUGUST 18 ABBA's hits tell the hilarious story of a young woman's searh for her birth father. This sunny and funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to disover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past bak to the island they last visited 20 years ago. This enhanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, reates an unforgettable show and a trip down the aisle you'll never forget!
DIRECTED BY: STEPHANIE BOLLINGER AUDITIONS: July 15 & 16 PERFORMANCES: SEPT. 20 - OCT. 27 With equal measures of pluk and positivity, little orphan Annie harms everyone's hearts despite a nextto-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City orphanage that is run by the ruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the orphanage, Annie esapes to the wondrous world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil mahinations...and even befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! She finds a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbuks, his personal seretary, Grae Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy. Annie the perfet family musial. CO-DIRECTED BY: CORINNA HAYES & STEPHANIE RODWELL AUDITIONS: September 30 & Otober 1 PERFORMANCES: NOV 22 - DEC 15 On Christmas Eve, George Bailey s guardian angel desends on Bedford Falls to save him from despair and to remind him by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born that his has been, after all, a wonderful life. With all your favorite haraters: George and Mary Hath, Clarene, Unle Billy, Violet, and, of ourse, the Srooge-like villain, Mr. Potter. This fine dramatization not only elebrates the faith of the season, it also elebrates the Amerian philosophy of life: hard work, fair play and the love and support of one's family and ommunity will be rewarded.
The Ating Company Established 1983 The Ating Company is unique in our ommunity. A nonprofit organization, we are a ultural resoure that provides intelletual stimulation, entertainment and eduation while enrihing the quality of life for our audienes, our partiipants and our ommunity. The Ating Company ontributes to the soial apital of our ommunity by developing skills, ommunity spirit and the artisti sensibilities of those who partiipate whether as produers or audiene members. The Ating Company involves more partiipants, presents more performanes of more produtions and plays to more people than any performing arts group in the area. The Ating Company is ruial to the ultural life of our ommunity offering quality theater produtions filled with inredible talent at an affordable prie. Our jewel box theater has beome a bright spot in our ommunity beause of YOU, our benefators. Together we will ontinue to grow and bring quality performing arts to our ommunity. Thank you for your generous support. Volunteers are the lifeblood of ommunity theater. Please join our endeavor. Look over the opportunities below, hek those of interest to you and return this form to the theater box offie. Name Set Constrution Assistane Set Painting Costumes Props Lighting and Sound Teah Classes Send Resume Publiity Poster Design House Manager During Performanes Advertising Sales Other... Daytime Phone # E-Mail (530) 751-1100 M-F NOON-2 PM