Upcoming: Kiss Me, Kate!, Vandegrift High School, February 2 - 4

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Kiss Me, Kate!

by Cole Porter

directed by Aaron Stahlecker

February 2 - 4, 7 p.m.

Vandergrift High School, 9500 McNeil Drive (click for map)

Tickets $8 general admission in rear of hall, $12 reserved seats available on-line

The Vandegrift High School Theatre has added the musical Kiss Me, Kate! by Cole Porter to its third season. The production is running February 2-4 at the Vandegrift High School Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. each night, with tickets available online from www.vhstheatre.com. The "show within a show" is based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. It is directed by Mr. Aaron Stahlecker, Theatre Arts teacher and technical director of the VHS PAC, and features almost 50 students. Support your local theatre by spending an evening at Vandegrift High School for "Kiss Me, Kate!"

Anything Goes, Lee Colee's Broadway Bound Theatre Camp at Wimberley Playhouse, June 17 - 26

The 'Broadway Bound' theatre boot camps run in Wimberley each summer by Lee Colée have become so popular that for the just-completed production of Cole Porter's 1934 musical comedy Anything Goes, she was instructing and directing a cast of 39 young persons ranging in age from 8 to 18. The turnout was so strong that she took the initiative of organizing the players into different configurations for "odd" performance dates (with the older players in the principal roles) and for "even" performance dates (with the younger members taking the leads). I attended a performance of the "even" cast, which had an extraordinary feel, very similar to that of Alan Parker's Buggsy Malone, the 1976 film in which a star cast of children including Jodie Foster and Michael Jackson did a gangster musical.

Cole Porter put a gangster or two on board the cruise ship U.S.S. American, but they were harmless or inept. The story is straight out of the Depression-era dreams of glamor and glitter, as earnest and underpaid Billy seeks to court heiress Hope Harcourt, prying her from the surveillance of her mother and from the attentions of her stuffy English presumptive fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakleigh. Mix in a missionary bishop back from China with a trio of Chinese converts, assorted pretty girls, woman evangelist-turned-nightclub-singer Reno Sweeney, and a whole lot of white-clad sailors, and you can keep the decks full of silliness and celebration.

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Upcoming: Anything Goes by Cole Porter, Lee Colee Broadway Bound Summer Camp at Wimberley Playhouse, June 17 - 26

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Lee Colee's Kids Theater Boot Camp

Anything Goes

Written by P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay
Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter

Wimberley Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley, TX 78676

June 17 - June 26, 2011
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday Matinees 2:30 p.m.

Special Ticket Pricing - $15

Tickets available on-line at www.wimberleyplayers.org or through the box office at 512-847-0575; please leave a message if no one answers.

The S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, carries an unusual group of passengers. Included amongst them are a gangster, a wealthy debutante, her mother, a nightclub singer, a wealthy New York businessman...and his stowaway assistant. All are involved in a series of comedic happenings that will leave you laughing and your toes tapping!

Be sure to come and watch these kids take the stage and wow you with their talent!