Jones Theater Summer 2008 Season

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Season Tickets: $65
Single Tickets: Adults $10 and $15
Evening Performances: 6:30, 7:00 or 7:30 pm
Matinees: 2:00 pm
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SHAKESPEARE IN THE SANGRES:
“OUTDOOR THEATER Amphitheater next to the Jones TheaterAT ITS BEST”

New this 2008 Season! We present two of Shakespeare’s most famous plays on alternate evenings in a dramatic outdoor setting. Directed by Chris Tabb.
Our first play is “Romeo and Juliet”. The play tells of the son and daughter of rival families who fall in love, causing age-old grudges to resurface to harm the star-crossed lovers. “West Side Story” told the tale in modern terms, but come and enjoy Shakespeare’s original version. Our second play is “Taming of the Shrew”.

The hero, Petruchio, decides that Kate, the beautiful girl with the awful temper, will make a wonderful wife once she is tamed. Kate fights him tooth and nail and wants nothing to do with any suitor. The stormy courting—through the final taming of the shrew—is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable comedies.
 
You can enjoy these two performances at 6PM on alternate evenings, in the new amphitheatre and park behind the Jones Theater. Come as early as 5:00 PM and bring your picnic basket to dine on the lawn before the show. Or have dinner first at the adjacent Feed Store Pub and Grill. Any way you decide to do it, you are certain to have a memorable evening.
 
Shakespeare in the Sangres opens with “Romeo and Juliet” and “Taming of the Shrew”
in June and July on alternate evenings.
 
Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun, June 19, 20, 21 & 22 at 6:00 pm
Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun, June 26, 27, 28 & 29 at 6:00 pm
Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun, July 3, 4, 5 & 6 at 6:00 pm
Tickets $15. Included in your Season Ticket.

“ROUNDING THIRD”Rounding Third Little League Play

We open our 2008 Season with the insightful comedy by Richard Dresser. Starring members of the Westcliffe Players. Directed by Dick Senf.
“Rounding Third” is the heartwarming and tumultuous journey of two Little League dads who are coaches through an entire season, from their first tentative meeting to the climactic championship. Here is what other people have said about the play:
 
“This play reflects the passions, the joy and the pain that fills the heart of any person who has ever loved a child who was competing for anything, from sports to spelling bees to talent shows”.
 
"Every time something serious Don or Michael says threatens to take the play into a touching emotional space, it is immediately defused with a brilliantly funny punch line”.
 
"Their clash of styles and wills drives this funny, acerbic and touching play through the bumpy terrain of fatherhood and baseball”.

Thu, Fri & Sat, May 29, 30 & 31 at 7:30 pm
Fri & Sat, June 6 & 7 at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee, June 8 at 2:00 pm
Tickets $10. Included in your Season Ticket.

Creativity Camp"CREATIVITY CAMP FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS"

This year we will have two sessions: June 16 thru June 27 and June 30 thru July 11.
Children and teens from 7 to 16 learn all aspects of stagecraft from theater games, improvisation and makeup techniques as well as how to design their own sets and costumes for their final productions. These are presented for parents and friends on the last day of each class, at noon, in the Jones Theater.
 
Sessions run from 9 am to 12 noon, Monday through Friday in Studio 2, adjacent to the Jones. Costs are $75 for each participant for two weeks (30 hours) and $70 for the second child from the same family. Some scholarships are available. If your young person is interested in attending, please call the Jones Theater at 783-3004.

“THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOONMan-in-the-Moon Marigolds MARIGOLDS”

Directed by Dan Hiester. Our prize winning fourth play of the Season. It is a family comedy/drama that will make you laugh and tug at your heartstrings at the same time. Winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize, the Obie Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as Best American Play of the season.
 
Frowzy, acid-tongued Beatrice Hunsdorfer is supporting herself and her two daughters by taking in a decrepit old boarder. She wreaks a petty vengeance on everybody about her. One daughter, Ruth, is a pretty, but highly-strung girl subject to convulsions, while the younger daughter, Matilda, plain and almost pathologically shy, has an intuitive gift for science.
 
Encouraged by her teacher, Tillie undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds that wins a prize at her high school—and also brings on the shattering climax of the play. And yet, as Tillie's experiment proves, something beautiful and full of promise can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil. This is the timeless lesson of the play and the root of it’s moving power and truth.
 
Thu, Fri & Sat, July 24, 25 & 26 at 7:30 pm
Fri & Sat, Aug 1 & 2 at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee, Aug 3 at 2:00 pm
Tickets $10. Included in your Season Ticket.

The Mikado Poster“THE MIKADO”

The Youth Theater Musical is performed by graduates of this year’s Creativity Camp and other local children and teens.
Open auditions for the musical will be held on Monday, July 14 at 2:00 PM in Studio 2 adjacent to the Jones Theater.
 
Gilbert and Sullivan's wit takes aim at an Oriental love story, complicated by class distinctions, an erratic legal system, and a befuddled government. 
 
Audiences will laugh at the many twists and turns our ill-fated couple must endure before they are allowed to marry. Enjoy such engaging tunes as "I've Got a Little List", "Three Little Maids From School” and “A Wandering Minstrel,  I".
 
Thu, Fri & Sat, Aug 14, 15 & 16 at 7:00 pm
Sunday Matinee Aug 17 at 2:00 pm
Tickets $10. Included in your Season Ticket.

Quill Pen“NEW ROCKY MOUNTAIN VOICES”

Award Winning One-Act and Ten-Minute Plays. Plays are selected for their excellence and ability to be produced by our Theater. Performed by the Westcliffe Players. Directed by Steve Miller.
This year for the first time, we will feature ten-minute plays as well as award winning one-act plays by authors from the Rocky Mountain States. Unpublished plays may be submitted before May 1, 2008. Please email wcpa@ris.net for complete details.
 
Friday and Saturday September 5 and 6.
Tickets $10. Included in your Season Ticket.