Upcoming: Wonderland, Easy Theatre at Bastrop Opera House, June 4 & 5

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Wonderland!
The Musical Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice
Book adapted by James DeVita
Music and lyrics by Bill Francoeur
Directed by Engela Edwards
Family musical performed for and by youth.

Saturday and Sunday, June 4 & 5 at 2 p.m.
Bastrop Opera House, 711 Spring Street, Bastrop, TX
and
June 8-12, Bryan Civic Auditorium, 800 S Coulter Drive, Bryan, TX 77803

Also available for your school, church, club, party, or library.

Wonderland! The Musical Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice will be performed in Austin this spring for hundreds of elementary school kids. It will also play for hundreds more this summer in College Station, where the cast will perform alongside 14 other youth companies who represent the best children's theaters from around the state. Contact director Engela Edwards at 512-303-5516 if you'd like to sponsor a 40-minute performance of Wonderland! at your school, church, library, or club this spring.

40 minute one-act. Rated G.

Upcoming: The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree, musical at Bastrop Opera House, January 14 - 23

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The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree

Book by Martin A. Follose

Music and lyrics by Bill Francoeur

Directed by Engela Edwards

Produced by special arrangment with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Englewood, Colorado

Rated G.

Fridays and Saturdays, January 14, 15, 21, 22, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 2 p.m.

Ye Ol' Tickets: $10 Adults; $9 Seniors 60+; $8 Students (High School and College), Active Military and Veterans; $5 all children 14 and under.
VIP Tickets: $12 (reserves best available seats at time of purchase.)
No added fees!

When Captain Jennings crew jumps ship upon sighting the pirates in the distance, he is left with a makeshift crew of motley prisoners and Fergus, a sailor who can't swim, to protect his wealthy passengers, the Prescots, from the inevitable attack. Bree and her lady pirates take over the defenseless Kayla May. This is a swashbuckling musical comedy with a host of hysterical characters on deck and a spectacular Bill Francoeur score.

Along with Captain Bree's hearty crew of mean and nasty mates (and a couple of new recruits in training who keep forgetting to be rough and tough), you'll find the haughty Professor Bidwell and the pretentious Madam Prescot constantly battling for special treatment and respect (ha!) from the pirates, Samuel Prescot masquerading as a girl to avoid becoming shark bait, and Julia Prescot bursting with desire to join the lady pirates — much to her aunt's dismay! After the pirates send Thomas, the cabin boy, out to sea with a ransom note demanding gold from the British in exchange for the Prescots' lives, they amuse themselves by auctioning off the male prisoners to do their dirty work and showing Julia the ropes of pirating. But what is in store when Thomas returns with a British fleet, set on hanging the pirates for their deeds? Madam Prescot and Bidwell are equally set on seeing Captain Jennings hang for his defenseless approach to the lady pirates. You'll love the swashbuckling ending as the two captains work together to save their crews from the British.

Bill Francoeur's zesty music adds the perfect touch of authenticity to this spirited pirate play.

See cast list and picture at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Wonderland, Bastrop Opera House Youth Production, January 28 & 29

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Bastrop Opera House Youth Productions present

Wonderland

The Musical Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice
Book by James DeVita
Music and lyrics by Bill Francoeur
Directed by Engela Edwards
Family musical performed for and by youth.

Wonderland! is an unabashedly silly adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, with hip-hopping music. It is an upbeat story that audiences of all ages will adore! You'll recognize some of your favorite familiar characters of Alice's Wonderland along with meeting dozens of new ones: a baseball team, a train conductor, star-struck tourists, knights, and much more. An eclectic mix of music that ranges from gypsy swing to doo-wop to bluegrass. Enjoy toe-tapping musical renditions of “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter” as well as other great numbers such as “Anything’s Possible,” “Step by Step” and the hysterical “I was a Good Egg But Then I Done Went Bad,” sung by Humpty Dumpty and the Dixie Chickens!

Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Englewood, Co.
January 28-29, 2011
at 1 & 5 p.m.

General Admission Tickets:
$5 for Seniors 60+, Students, Children, Active Military, & Veterans
$10 Adults; $12 VIP Reserved seating all ages
No added fees!

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