Raw, powerful, visceral.
Sweet, tender, quiet.
Rowdy, funny, bawdy.
It's the energy that draws you forward in your seat.
It's the pulse that makes you engage.
It's the spark that makes you think.
Mohonk Mountain Stage Company
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Celebrating 15 Years!
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January 18, 2009
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Prologue
MMSC's mostly monthly newsletter
 "You'd think by now evolution could've at least evolved us to the place where we could change ourselves."
Trudy, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner
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Greetings!
What a week!
When Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe took Broadway by storm in 1985, both FaceBook and Barack Obama weren't even specks on the horizon. Now, this week, we will be swearing in our first president of the digital age.
In Jane Wagner's award winning play, a group of space aliens relays their view of mankind to us through the visions of their earth chum Trudy, a New York City bag lady. They can't understand why earthlings don't get that everything is connected; as they say " we all time share the same atoms - every particle affects every other particle everywhere."
And here we are, a mere 23 years later, proving that Trudy's space pals might have been on to something.
First, we now have the infinite capabilities for interpersonal interconnection made possible by the digital universe and exemplified by Facebook. With Facebook, we literally can be connected with everyone everywhere simultaneously.
(In our last newsletter, we asked for reaction to our idea of starting a Facebook page for MMSC. Opinions ranged from the excited to the unprintable. We'll report later.)
Second, we have elected a president who seems to understand that interconnectedness - -and who uses Facebook.
Are we on the threshold of a new phase in the evolution of our species? Will Trudy's vision ("people as a whole-what a good idea") become reality?
Please help us celebrate this momentous week by tuning in to Trudy's extraterrestrial wavelength and sharing her vision of the future - or perhaps, we might hope, the present.
From
Bob and All the Good Folks At MMSC!
Mohonk Mountain Stage Company, Inc.
845-380-0155
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Update on Facebook.
We have received numerous responses to our question posted in the last issue of Prologue: If we build it, will you come? (If you didn't read the article, click here and read the previous January issue and write in with your response.)
As we contemplate our next move, rest assured that you will continue to get your MMSC news via these periodic emails, regardless of what we decide to do about Facebook. We want to stay in touch with you in the way that makes the most sense for you. Stay tuned. Bob and all of the very groovy and hip folks at MMSC info@mmstageco.com
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About Us
MMSC celebrates ideas, imagination and ingenuity through its award-winning Readers Theatre Group, a literary journal, customized audio recordings and an annual theatre scholarship award. 
"It is so simply done. Actors sitting side by side sharing an earthly soul-to-soul saga."
Daily Freeman
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Mohonk Mountain Stage Company, Inc.
Robert G. Miller, Producing Director
New Paltz, New York 12561
845-380-0155
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Coming in April
 The Year of Magical Thinking
A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir
Sometimes, one person seated on a stage can illuminate a world. One of America's greatest
writers, Didion both adapts and expands upon her award-winning,
bestselling memoir about the year following the sudden loss of her
husband, John Gregory Dunne, to also tell about the unexpected death of
their only child. Didion transforms her most personal story of love and
loss to touch us all with astonishing intimacy, surprising humor, and
language that is fresh and new.
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Soup or Art?
 "Art or Soup?" "Soup or Art" In Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the wacky bag lady, Trudy, has a recurrent motif; she keeps trying to remind herself that there is a difference between art (as exemplified by Andy Warhol's silk-screened prints of Campbell's Soup cans) and the soup itself. "Art or soup?" she ruminates. What do you think? Tell us. Send us your thoughts.
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15 Years Ago (almost)
 MMSC's Readers Theatre Group kicks off with G. B.. Shaw's Don Juan in Hell. February 1995. Unison Arts Center.
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Ten Years Ago
 MMSC's production of Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward plays at Rhinebeck Center for the Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, NY. February 1999.
Celebrating 15 Years of Mohonk Mountain Stage Company.
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Five Years Ago
 MMSC's three-part series, Uncle Bob's Sleeptime Bedtime Series, put our audience, young and old, to sleep. Intentionally. February 2004 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
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Winter Encore Series '09
 Back By Popular Demand! |
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NEXT UP!
Encore #2
From Our 1998 Season
January 23 & 24 Unison Arts Center - 8 PM  by Jane Wagner Directed by Robert Miller Featuring Janet Nurre, Ann Citron, Elizabeth Barrows and Christine Crawfis. Winner of the New York Drama Desk Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and a Tony for Best Actress for Lily Tomlin, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe ran to nonstop standing-room-only crowds for almost two years on Broadway and in Los Angeles.  A wonderfully comic and painful dose of
truth direct to the heart. The play begins as Trudy, the
bag lady, tries to explain our modern American material society to a fact-finding committee from outer space. The play ends with a hymn to the
creative spirit.
"A work of genius and compassion." -Gloria Steinem
"Search...is a living anthropological exhibit. That makes it funny, grab-your-sides funny. But it is also a chronicle of the human heart, trying to mend its bruises and ease its disappointments. And that makes it sublime, catch-your-breath sublime." Washington Post
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Encore #3
From Our 2000 Season
February 6 & 7 Unison Arts Center - 8 PM  by A R Gurney What if your dog could talk? Our # 1 requested encore! Read more. |
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Encore #4
From Our 2008 Season
Feb. 20 & 21 Unison Arts Center - 8 PM  by David Rambo Filled with bon bons, bon mots, bubble baths and Chanel No. 5, this warm and engaging one-woman show brings us an Ann Landers we've never seen before.  Read more. |
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MMSC - On The Road
February 12 - Just for Laughs - Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz
February 28 - Just For Laughs - Whittaker Hall. Mount St. Mary's College, Newburgh
March 8 - Making The Light Shine - Mohonk Mountain House
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Happy Birthday MMSC!
15 Years and Counting.
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 Ann CitronFeatured in Search for Signs of
Intelligent Life in the Universe |
Also featured  Janet Nurre
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Newsletter Archive
Want to see past on-line issues of Prologue? Check it out! Click on Bob. 
Mohonk Mountain Stage Company, Inc.
Robert G. Miller, Producing Director
New Paltz, New York 12561
845-380-0155
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