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It's Black History Month and XANADU is coming!! - February 2012
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and the audiences didn't want to leave the building because they were so excited
to talk about what they had just experienced. We don't want you to miss this
remarkable play directed by donnie l. betts, so please order your tickets soon.
Call Bobbie at 303-739-1970!
of onstage seats for each performance. If you're interested in being up close and personal, we suggest you make your reservations now: 303-739-1970.
(that's one musical ride you don't want to miss!)
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Aurora Fox - Xanadu First Rehearsal
(featuring Andrew Diessner as Sonny) |
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Now Showing ... Crumbs From the Table of Joy | |
In celebration of Black History Month, we are presenting Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a memory play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage (author of Ruined which was recently produced at the Denver Center). Through the eyes of 17-year old Ernestine Crump we meet an African-American family from the Deep South that has moved to bustling Brooklyn in 1950.
After facing the death of their mother, they must also face significant changes in their lifestyle - a very progressive aunt, a new stepmother who happens to be white AND German a new culture, new friends, new expectations, their religious views, their social views and the changes that come simply with growing up.
Review of Crumbs from the Table of Joy
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Now through February 19, 2012
February 4 - talk-back with director, donnie l. betts
February 10 - talk-back with Dr. Rachel Harding of UCD
February 19 - talk-back via Skype with author Lynn Nottage
And you might just happen to hear some really spectacular tunes
before and during the show. Like this, for example:
 | | Dizzy Gillespie - "Salt Peanuts" - 1947 |
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Sign Up for Spring Classes and Summer Auditions | |
Spring classes start soon. AND we will be taking audition appointments for our Summer Youth Theatre productions beginning February 10th. Check out our website for details about our summer shows and audition requirements!
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Kids learn cool stuff and
make new friends! |
Storybook Alive!
All the World's a Stage
Audition Intensive
Aurora Fox Television
Comedy Performance
Playwrighting
Teen Auditions
For class details and to
register for classes, call
303-326-8650 or visit our
Spring Recreation Guide.
We also strongly encourage everyone to take a look at our new Aurora Fox Education Page on Facebook . We are open to any comments or suggestions you may have. Check there for the latest informatino regarding youth auditions, special events, performance information, class information, anecdotes, resource materials, etc.
If you have something to share you may post it or send to Lisa Mumpton at lmumpton@auroragov.org
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Our Staged Reading Series Continues... |
Please join us Tuesday, February 7 at 7pm in our Studio Theatre for a staged reading of Blackbird by David Harrower. Directed by Laura Adducci, Blackbird is about a sexual relationship that transforms, cripples and paralyzes and renders the characters fully exposed.
What is completely stripped away, in a process as unavoidable as it is painful, is a full armor of defenses that a man and woman have assembled with watchful care in the 15 years since they last saw each other when Ray was around 40 and Una was 12. Labeled by society as "abuse" their affair plays out with an innocence that suggests "love".
Nevertheless, the consequences are shattering.
"Blackbird is theater at its most elemental: one man, one woman, and a head-to-head confrontation, about events long past, that occurs in real time. Its characters are not well spoken or even particularly insightful. What emerges as truth - which is less a matter of facts than of feeling - occurs despite themselves". - The New York Times
Not intended for young audiences. Admission is free for season subscribers. Just $5 for the general public. For more information, call 303-739-1970. |
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Amistad - presented by Grand Design | |
Grand Design, Inc.presents Amistad IV (directed by Hugo Sayles) at the Aurora Fox Theatre for five performances only, February 9th, February 10st and February 11th, 2012.
Amistad IV recounts the 1839 escape of 53 Africans who had been abducted by Portuguese slave hunters from Sierra Leone and shipped to Havana. Fearing for their lives, the Mendi Tribesmen seized the La Amistad, killed the captain and the cook and ordered the navigator to sail the ship back to Africa; however, they were deceived about the ship's course. Meanwhile, a British Navy ship discovered and took over the La Amistad and brought both the Africans and the Portuguese slavers to America, where they were imprisoned in Connecticut.
$25 for Adults, $15 for students and seniors.
Visit: www.TicketWeb.com to purchase tickets online
More details available on the show poster below!
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Some Great News from a Former Little Fox... | |
...who participated in the Fox's Youth Theatre for many years. Carthage sophomore Mikaley Osley, of Centennial, Colo., was selected to compete in KCACTF's One Act Play Festival.
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Mikaley Osley |
Her play, The Ferris Five, is one of six plays chosen for the competition. It follows siblings as they move their oldest sister and her fiancé into their new apartment. It will be read at the festival by six Carthage students. Two of the six plays in the One-Act Play competition will be chosen for the KCACTF National Festival in April in Washington, D.C.
She is the youngest (and only female) playwright selected to be read. She is obviously very excited to be receiving this recognition
"It's amazing to receive such recognition at my age for something that I want to make a career out of," Mikaley said. "Writing is a huge part of my life, and this is a wonderful opportunity to share my writing with others, one that I am grateful for and humbled by."
Congratulations, Mikaley!
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Wanna Get Involved? | |
Read and Rant continues this month with Consider the Oyster by David MacGregor, The Night Season by Ellen Graham and Unmarried in America by Kristin Carlson.
 We'll be meeting on Tuesday, February 21st
at 7pm at The Aurora Fox to discuss readers' thoughts and opinions about whether these plays are a good fit for The Fox to consider for production in future seasons.
The group is still open to new members, so if you would like to participate, please send a quick note to Patricia. We'll get you started this month!
In addition to Read and Rant, we'll be starting a one-night-per-month opportunity for you to hang out and work in the scene shop. We haven't settled on a name for this
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Brandon, our handsome Technical Director |
group, so we're calling it Tuesday Tool Time, aka Wood Butchers, aka Shop Club! We'll meet the first Tuesday of the month from 6pm - 8pm so our first get together will be March 6th. No experience necessary.
Our Technical Director, Brandon, will lead the club
and assign carpentry, painting, organizing tasks based on your interest. Send a quick email to Brandon if you're interested in joining the club. And bring a friend. It'll be a fun time! |
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We'd also love it if you would forward this newsletter to friends and family. They can easily opt in or out of receiving it in the future, but we're pretty sure they'll find something fun in each issue.
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FREE BEER
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Tilt one on the house!
Next time you're at The Fox, stop by our bar and have a drink on us. And if you don't like beer, we have soda, wine, Skittles and cookies! There's always something unexpected at The Fox. Share the experience!
See our website for a list of shows in our upcoming season: www.AuroraFox.org.
| | Offer Expires: June 1, 2012 |
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