Bus Barn Stage Company 2008 - 2009 Season
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Aug 22 - Aug 23, 2008 |
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Bus Barn Stage Company proudly announces a sneak preview of a film by Board member Michael Afendakis entitled DELTA RISING, A BLUES DOCUMENTARY on August 22 and 23, starting at 7:30 PM. The evening also includes a pre-show performance by Chris Cotton, SF blues musician, and closes with a discussion with filmmaker Michael Afendakis.
Set in Clarksdale, Miss, the film deftly explores the origins and influences of the blues style in what many consider the "home" of the blues, a place that gave us the likes of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Clarksdale has long been a mecca for rock and blues musicians, which is why actor Morgan Freeman started his own club there, calling it Ground Zero. DELTA RISING features interviews with Morgan Freeman and Willie Nelson, woven together with music of regional blues musicians and fascinating anecdotes about cotton picking, front porch parties and drinking corn whiskey, not to mention more serious elements of the blues such as poverty, depression and its racial overtones. See DELTA RISING now before it hits the festival circuit!
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Oct 09 - Oct 11, 2008 |
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Yes, there's bad news on the front page, the financial page and even the food page as stocks drop, homes are foreclosed, the salmon season is canceled and pols behave like fools. Laugh your troubles away for three nights only! This fundraiser takes shots at the local scene, the election season, keeps you humming AND raises funds for Bus Barn while entertaining you with musical satire and pre- and post-show food and wine. Ask about Sneak Peek Wednesday available to subscribers only!
Tickets: $50 Preview Thursday, $80 Opening Night Friday, $95 Gala Saturday.
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Erik Jackson and Ben H. Winters
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Sep 04 - Oct 04, 2008 |
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Book by Erik Jackson and Ben H. Winters
Music by Neil Sedaka
Lyrics by Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield and Cody Philip
At Esther's Paradise Resort in the Catskills, Lois and Marge are searching for romance over one crazy Labor Day weekend circa 1960. Recently jilted at the alter, Marge falls for Del Delmonaco, the lounge singer, while Gabe, all around dogsbody at the resort and secretly brilliant songwriter, longs to make Marge his own. Hijinks abound in this sweetly comic musical that features 18 Neil Sedaka classics such as "Where the Boys Are", "Calendar Girl", and of course the chart-topping title song. Don't miss this West Coast Premiere!
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Alan Ayckbourn
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Nov 20 - Dec 20, 2008 |
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A group of family and friends gather for an old-fashioned Christmas celebration that quickly degenerates into three days of slapstick holiday angst. A sloshed cook, an epic puppet show of The Three Little Pigs, and a spectacularly botched up tryst under the Christmas tree all add to the fine sense of chaos in the Bunker household. Sophisticated and silly at the same time, SEASON'S GREETING'S by prolific playwright Alan Ayckbourn is guaranteed to ring your Christmas chimes!
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William Inge
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Jan 29 - Feb 21, 2009 |
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In the midst of a howling blizzard, a busload of passengers holes up in a roadside diner outside Kansas City. On the bus is a nightclub chanteuse named Cherie who is being pursued by Bo, a cowboy who wants to sling her over his shoulder and carry her off to Montana. Overnight, the owner of the café and the bus driver begin a long-overdue friendship, an aging scholar learns a valuable lesson, and love appears unexpectedly in this classic romantic comedy by one of America's greatest playwrights.
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Hugh Whitemore
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Apr 09 - May 02, 2009 |
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Eccentric genius Alan Turing was known for breaking the complex German code called Enigma, thus enabling allied forces to foresee German maneuvers, an endeavor that led to victory in World War II. In this tragic and moving story of one of the world's most brilliant mathematicians and father of the first computer, Turing is illuminated as a man with many secrets, a man who broke more than one code and paid for it with his life.
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Ken Ludwig
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May 21 - Jun 13, 2009 |
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Two British actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing scenes from Shakespeare on the Moose Lodge circuit in Amish country. When they learn a wealthy dying woman is searching for her long-lost relatives to bequeath all her money, the down-and-out actors decide to masquerade as her nieces. Enter two lovely local ladies and all goes amiss in a classic comedy of mistaken identity! Ludwig's frenzied antics do not disappoint when the local premiere of LEADING LADIES hits the Los Altos stage.
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