BONNIE AND CLYDE, musical McCallum Fine Arts Academy, September 18 - 22, 2013

[5600 Sunshine Drive -- click for map]


presents
BONNIE & CLYDE: A NEW MUSICAL

TEXAS PREMIERE!

Music by Frank Wildhorn, Lyrics by Don Black, Book by Ivan Menchell
September 18th-21st at 7 p.m. Sunday 22nd at 2 p.m.
McCallum Arts Center Mainstage
Tickets $6 students, $10 seniors, $15 adults
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MacTheatre is proud to announce that we are one of only a handful of theatre companies across the nation to be granted special permission to produce this thrilling new show before it goes on national tour! Direct from Broadway BONNIE AND CLYDE is a thrilling, edgy, biographical musical account of Texas’ most infamous couple.

At the height of the Great Depression two small-town nobodies in West Texas become America’s most renowned folk heroes and the Texas law enforcement’s worst nightmares. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, their electrifying story of love, adventure and crime captured the excited attention of an entire country. Now, the most notorious couple of the twentieth century takes on a whole new adventure: the stage.

 

When BONNIE AND CLYDE meet, their mutual cravings for excitement and fame immediately set them on a mission to chase their dreams. Their bold and reckless behavior turns the young lovers’ thrilling adventure into a downward spiral, putting themselves and their loved ones in trouble with the law. Forced to stay on the run from every southern state’s police force, the lovers resort to robbery and murder to survive. As the infamous duo’s fame grows bigger, their inevitable end draws nearer.

 

BONNIE AND CLYDE is an exciting, cutting-edge musical with a non-traditional score, combining blues, gospel, bluegrass and rockabilly music. Our production will feature a large ensemble cast, spectacular scenic design, rocking live orchestra, and a recreation of the infamous Bonnie & Clyde 1934 Ford V8 death car! Please be advised that this production, based on true events, does depict some instances of violence.

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2013-2014 MacTheatre Season, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, Austin, TX

2013-2014 60th Anniversary Season

BONNIE &CLYDE

September 19-22 McCallum Arts Center Mainstage


Fearless, shameless, and alluring, their electrifying story of love, adventure and crime captured the excited attention of an entire country. Now, the most notorious couple of the twentieth century takes on a whole new adventure: the stage.
BONNIE AND CLYDE is an exciting, cutting-edge musical with a non-traditional score, combining blues, gospel, bluegrass and rockabilly music. Our production will feature a large ensemble cast, spectacular scenic design, rocking live orchestra, and a recreation of the infamous Bonnie & Clyde 1934 Ford V8 death car!








TRENCHCOAT IN COMMON:
A BLOG TURNED INTO A PLAY 

November 6th-10th 
Fine Arts Theatre

A teenage girl, too smart and inquisitive for her own good, starts to publish a blog about her new tenant-in-common apartment building. Living in the cottage with her dad in the back, she enjoys a clear view of the building’s rear windows. From her room, she captures her neighbors’ private moments on her cell phone and publishes them online, with commentary. At first, she thinks she’s just writing for herself — but when strange, menacing events begin to take place at her home, it becomes evident that her journal isn’t going unnoticed. Someone is reading, someone is watching, and everyone is in danger.






LES MISERABLES

February 26th-March 2nd
McCallum Arts Center Mainstage


Broadway’s legendary musical has been specially adapted to meet the needs of young performers. This author-approved edition has been abridged to a running time of just over two hours, while carefully maintaining the integrity of one the greatest musicals ever written. *Special Saturday Gala performance celebrating the 60th Anniversary of McCallum Fine Arts Academy.







IS HE DEAD?
April 3rd-6th
Fine Arts Theatre

Jean-Francois Millet, a young painter of genius, is in love with Marie Leroux but in debt to a villainous picture-dealer, Bastien Andre. Andre forecloses on Millet, threatening debtor’s prison unless Marie marries him. Millet realizes that the only way he can pay his debts and keep Marie from marrying Andre is to die, as it is only dead painters who achieve fame and fortune. Millet fakes his death and prospers, all the while passing himself off as his own sister, the Widow Tillou. Now a rich “widow,” he must find a way to get out of a dress, return to life, and marry Marie.
An elaborate madcap comedy that registers high on the mirth meter and reaches especially giddy comic heights!




THE 39 STEPS
May 15th-18th
Fine Arts Theatre

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4? 8? 10? 12?), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance!

A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure pleasure! The 39 Steps was Broadway’s longest running comedy, and played its 500th performance on Broadway, May 19th, 2009!






THE REP:
STUDENT-DIRECTED SERIES
April 25th & 26th

Black Box Theatre

McCallum Fine Arts Theatre Program Profiled in BroadwayWorld.com, October 25

Jeff Davis's feature on the Mac Theatre program:

Young Artists Thrive at McCallum Fine Arts Academy in Austin TX

 

by Jeff Davis, October 25, 2012

There’s no doubt about it. Educational arts programs are almost always in crisis mode. No matter what city or state you’re in, arts courses always seem to be under-funded and in dire need of support, and sadly the lack of funding usually has a disastrous effect on the student population. Some get far less exposure to the arts than they want or need. Others get no exposure at all as their school’s arts programs vanish.

McCallum High School in Austin is a rare exception. Its unique Fine Arts Academy thrives despite the current economic pinch.

The Fine Arts Academy program at McCallum provides high school students with both a traditional high school education and a fine arts focus. Students are broken up into majors, including Band, Choir, Dance, Classical Guitar, Orchestra, Theatre, and Visual Arts. While they may specialize in arts courses, the students are required to take the standard core classes with the general school population. By doing so they add an element of creative thinking which benefits the entire McCallum student body, whether they be artistically inclined or not.

Read more at www.austin.broadwayworld.com

Upcoming: Disney's Beauty and the Beast, MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, September 6 - 9

McCallum Theatre, 5600 Sunshine Drive, presents

Disney's Beauty and the Beast

 Step into the enchanted world of Broadway’s modern classic, Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Become transported to the heart of provincial life in a lovely French town. When Maurice becomes lost in the woods on the way to the fair, he seeks shelter in an old castle, but the master of the castle is a horrible beast that takes him captive. Maurice’s daughter, Belle, must then give up her freedom to save his life.

Belle’s taming of the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation back into a handsome prince enthralled Broadway audiences for over 13 years. This “tale as old as time” is filled with spectacular costumes and sets and brings the entire community together for family theatre at its best.

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Upcoming: Disney's Beauty and the Beast, McCallum Theatre, September 6 - 9

McCallum Theatre, 5600 Sunshine Drive, presents

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
 

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2012 - 2013 Theatre Season at MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy

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2012-2013 Season

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - SEPTEMBER 6-9, Fine Arts Theatre

Step into the enchanted world of Broadway’s modern classic, Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Become transported to the heart of provincial life in a lovely French town. When Maurice becomes lost in the woods on the way to the fair, he seeks shelter in an old castle, but the master of the castle is a horrible beast that takes him captive. Maurice’s daughter, Belle, must then give up her freedom to save his life.

Belle’s taming of the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation back into a handsome prince enthralled Broadway audiences for over 13 years. This “tale as old as time” is filled with spectacular costumes and sets and brings the entire community together for family theatre at its best.

HARLEQUINADE - OCTOBER 25-28, Black Box Theatre

This is a play in one act and concerns a professional theatre company presenting Romeo and Juliet. The opening night is in the town of Brackley in the English Midlands. The principal characters are Arthur and his wife Edna (who play Romeo and Juliet) and the stage manager Jack. Arthur is horrified to be confronted by his grown up daughter (Muriel) and grandchild, of neither of whose existences he had been aware. To discover that he’s a grandfather just before playing Romeo is too much for him. They later learn that he’s still married to Muriel’s mother (Flossie) and that he is bigamously married to Edna. There are a number of other threads running through this play, such as Jack’s attempts to leave the theatre and do a ‘real job’ and the humdrum world of bit players and the attempts in post war Britain to bring culture to the masses. It is a funny farce which has a strong satirical element to it.

THE SECRET GARDEN - NOVEMBER 8-11, McCallum Arts Center Mainstage

Living in a lonely manor house in 1906 England, Archibald Craven yearns for his beautiful, late wife. He blames his crippled son, Colin, for his wife’s death and has left him neglected and isolated. Their quiet routine is turned upside down when young Mary Lennox, a rich, spoiled child, is sent to live with them following the death of her parents by cholera in India. While living at the manor house, Mary discovers a secret walled garden hidden in the grounds and releases the magic and adventures locked inside, changing their lives forever. A truly haunting musical with a lush broadway score.

OKLAHOMA! - FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 3, McCallum Arts Center Mainstage

Inspired by the toughness of the prairie, MacTheatre sets this production in the robust world of territory life filled with a dynamic cast as rich and complex as the great tapestry of America itself. With Rodgers and Hammerstein’s timeless music, Oklahoma! celebrates the vigor of America’s pioneering spirit with athletic dance and boot-stomping energy. Chock full of classic tunes such as “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” and “People will Say We’re in Love,” this muscular production will thrill audiences young and old. Join us for our Saturday Evening Gala performance that celebrates the talent of each strand at McCallum Fine Arts Academy in a Texas-sized production with a cast and crew from each MFAA major as well as faculty, & alumni!
ROMEO AND JULIET - MARCH 21-24, Fine Arts Theatre

Two star-crossed lovers with feuding families will cross bitter divides and risk everything to be together, as a new generation strains against the limits of a world their parents have defined. Directed by Louisville native Joshua Denning, this swift, traditional staging of Shakespeare’s masterpiece brings to life one of the most famous love stories ever written with all of the immediacy, danger and romance that have made it endure for centuries.

Upcoming: The Twelfth Labor by Leegrid Stevens, Tutto Theatre and MacTheatre, August 10 - September 1

Tutto Theatre presents

in Co-Production with MACtheatre

The Full-Stage Premiere of

The Twelfth Labor

 

 

 

By Leegrid Stevens

(Click for AUTHOR BIO)

Directed by Gary Jaffe

10 August – 1 September 2012

WEEK 1—Friday and Saturday
WEEK 2—Thursday through Saturday
WEEKS 3 & 4—Wednesday through Saturday

All Performances are at 7:30 p.m.

The Laboratory Theater, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, 5600 Sunshine Drive, Austin, TX 78756

Thursdays – Saturdays: $15 General Admission
(GACA/Senior/Student: $12 & Priority Seating: $25)

LIMITED SEATING, Reserve Yours TODAY.

Wednesdays are Pay-What-You-CAN
Name Your Own Price w/ Donation
of Non-Perishable Canned Food Item(s) to benefit
Hope Food Pantry at Trinity United Methodist Church
[Price without donation is $12]

Featuring the award-winning artistic contributions of actors: Helen Allen, Wray Crawford, Trey Deason, Chris Humphrey, Skip Johnson, Content Love Knowles, Megan Minto, Rebecca Robinson, Erin Treadway, Fred Winkler, and introducing Annamarie Kasper; the set design of Ia Ensterä; the lighting design of Natalie George; the costume design of Benjamin Taylor Ridgway; and the hair and make up design of Austin M. Rausch.

Leegrid Stevens’ evocative new play, The Twelfth Labor, is epic, utilizing the myth of The Twelve Labors of Hercules to explore the inner workings of a hardscrabble World War II era family in Idaho. We follow a single day in the life of an Idaho farm family, October 15, 1949, as seen through the uniquely damaged mind of the family's eldest daughter, Cleo. Through her fragmented memories, often prophetic dreams, and swirling language, we come to understand the price she and her family have paid for a little dignity, as they await the return of their long absent father, lost somewhere in the war, half a world away.

In addition to the myth of Hercules, The Twelfth Labor draws upon the popular culture (music, literature, and film) of Cleo’s childhood, which frames and colors her experience of the real world—an outer shell of Realism surrounds an inner-shell of Surrealism, which together generate what The Des Moines Register (speaking of the second workshop production) called an “[…] elemental magnetism […]” which pulls the audience in and keeps them thinking of the play days and even weeks after.

McCallum Fine Arts Academy Announces 2012-2013 MacTheatre Season

We are very proud to announce our 2012-2013 season of shows.

In August: Our co-production with award-winning Tutto Theatre of The Twelfth Labor, a new play.

In September: Beauty and the Beast goes on tour across town, across the state and hopefully across the continent.

In October: Faculty Emeritus William Staples directs Harlequinade

In November: The Secret Garden takes the stage as our fall musical.

In December: Whatcrackah?! 2.0 leaps into your life with our fresh take on the classic ballet.

In February: 53 years ago the Royal Court Players produced the largest high school musical ever seen in Texas. This year we will remount Oklahoma! And it's going to be just as big!

In March: Shakespeare's immortal love story Romeo and Juliet comes to McCallum.

In April: Student directed 10-minute plays will take over the program.

In May: The boy who never grew up has an origin story all his own in Peter and the Starcatcher.

Keep an eye open for all these and so much more, season tickets, and a few extra surprises.

Upcoming: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, McCallum Fine Arts Theatre, May 19

presents

DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG

by Josh Whedon, Zach Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen

directed by M. Scott Tatum 

McCallum Fine Arts Academy, 5600 Sunshine (click for map)

May 17 - 19 at 7 p.m. AND 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 20 at 2 p.m. AND 3:30 p.m.

Tickets $6 students, $10 seniors, $12 adults (click to purchase online via www.mactheatre.com)

Dr. Horrible, an aspiring super-villain with his own video blog, is attempting to join the prestigious Evil League of Evil (led by the legendary “thoroughbred of sin”, Bad Horse), but his plans are usually foiled by the egotistical superhero Captain Hammer. Horrible’s life is thrown for a loop when he falls in love with Penny, a beautiful and optimistic advocate for the homeless he meets at the laundromat, a situation which complicates itself even further when Penny begins dating the boorish, oafish Hammer after he apparently saves her life. Faced with the task of impressing the League, can Horrible overcome his own incompetence to ruin the day, kill the hero, and still get the girl? Rated PG

Images by John Gusky: MacTheatre's Rumors by Neil Simon, March 22 - 25

Some images from a portfolio by John Gusky for

and

Rumors

by Neil Simon

March 22 - 24 at 7 p.m., March 25 at 2 p.m.

MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy 5600 Sunshine Drive

Directed by Guest Director Beryl Knifton. Affluent couples gather in the posh residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their hosts’ tenth anniversary. When they arrive, they discover there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the host – the deputy mayor of New York City - has shot himself through the earlobe. Complications arise when, given everyone’s upper class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening’s events from the local police and the media. Rated PG. RSVP on Facebook

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Click 'Read more' to view additional photos by John Gusky for MacTheatre's Rumors . . . .

Upcoming: Rumors by Neil Simon, Royal Court Players, MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, March 22 - 25

presents

Rumors

by Neil Simon

March 22 - 24 at 7 p.m., March 25 at 2 p.m.

MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy 5600 Sunshine Drive

Directed by Guest Director Beryl Knifton. Affluent couples gather in the posh residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their hosts’ tenth anniversary. When they arrive, they discover there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the host – the deputy mayor of New York City - has shot himself through the earlobe. Complications arise when, given everyone’s upper class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening’s events from the local police and the media. Rated PG. RSVP on Facebook

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Reviews from Elsewhere: Cabaret, MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, February 23 - March 4, reviewed by David Glen Robinson

Review published by David Glen Robinson at the Tutto Theatre blog, March 8:

Macademy produced Kander and Ebb’s renowned Cabaret in their new arts center and made of it a giant party, a song festival, a design exhibition and homage to the powerful artists who staged this show in the past.

Perhaps the essential stroke of genius in this play is Kander and Ebb’s setting of it in Berlin, 1931/1932, drawn from Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories. The potential themes on which a production could touch in “Cabaret” range from libertinism, to sexual and religious liberation/oppression to the rise of fascism. Touching on too many of them, depending on one’s resources, can give a production of Cabaret the feeling of a play at war with itself (What are you, Cabaret? Are you a historical romance, an anthology piece on club life, a musical revue, a screed on Nazis or all of these?)

The Royale Court Players [of McCallum Fine Arts Academy] in their youthful enthusiasm succumbed to the play’s temptations and tried a little too much, giving us a two hour and forty minute show with one 15-minute intermission. The attempt, however, was laudable, verging on glorious. At the end, the audience was happy and cheering as it rushed out to the restrooms.

The show was well designed from top to bottom, and primary credit for its success starts with directors Courtney Wissinger and M. Scott Tatum. All of the design elements seemed well coordinated. [. . .]

The action of the play roared across this set. The story of the Kit-Kat Club on New Year’s Eve 1931 and into 1932 is familiar to theatre- and movie-goers alike. The story dances through its many themes, all in lace and feathers, and easily escapes becoming merely the story of the romance between club singer Sally Bowles, played by Annamarie Kasper, and American writer Clifford Bradshaw, played by Connor Barr.

The dynamo of the show is actually the Master of Ceremonies, played by John James Busa in the role immortalized by Joel Grey. Director Wissinger and Mr. Busa addressed the high standard and dominating image of Grey’s characterization wisely by seeking another dynamic. Their efforts were successful. Busa’s Master of Ceremonies combined the punk and goth esthetics, with a flavor of the vampiric. Busa’s Master of Ceremonies was snide, dominating, darkly threatening, seductive and sarcastic. In the end, too, he was tragic and suffering. He borrowed nothing from and owed nothing to Joel Grey. Delightful work, Mr. Busa.

[image: MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy]

Read more at the Tutto Theatre blog . . . .

Upcoming: The Twelfth Labor by Leegrid Stephens, Tutto Theatre, August, 2012

Tutto Theatre Company & McCallum Fine Arts Academy are proud to announce

THE TWELFTH LABOR

written by Leegrid Stevens, directed by Gary Jaffe.

Featuring the acting talents of Helen Allen, Travis Dean, Chris Humphrey, Skip Johnson, Tyler Jones, Annamarie Kasper, Content Love Knowles, Megan Minto, Rebecca Robinson, Erin Treadway, and Frederic Winkler.

Also Featuring: Set Design of IA ENSTERÄ; the Lighting Design of Natalie George; the Costume Design of Benjamin Taylor Ridgway.

---COMING AUGUST 2012 ---

www.TuttoTheatre.org

— with Content Love Knowles, Skip Johnson, Tyler Jones and 17 others.

Performance Images of Cabaret at MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, February 23 - March 4

Images posted at Flickr.com by

for the spring musical

Cabaret

score by Kander and Ebb

February 23 - March 4, Thursdays - Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
directed by Molly Wissinger
MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, Sunshine

Tickets $6 for students, $10 for seniors, $15 for general admission (click to purchase on-line)

(Click images to view larger versions)

Click to view additional images from McCallum's Cabaret at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Upcoming: Cabaret, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, February 23 - March 4

Found on-line:

presents the spring musical

Cabaret

score by Kander and Ebb

February 23 - March 4, Thursdays - Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
directed by Molly Wissinger
MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, Sunshine

Tickets $6 for students, $10 for seniors, $15 for general admission (click to purchase on-line)

Based on John Van Druten‘s 1951 play I Am a Camera. Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the 19-year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub which serves as a constant metaphor for the tenuous and threatening state of late Weimar Germany throughout the show. An experience on par with any musical we’ve ever produced is waiting when you enter the Cabaret. Rated PG-13

Arts Reporting: Joshua Denning Accepts Interim Post at McCallum Fine Arts Academy

Posted today at the MacTheatre blog, McCallum Fine Arts Academy:

Award-winning Actor, Director Josh Denning Accepts MacTheatre Interim Post

Maybe you saw him as Angel in ZACH Theatre’s RENT or as Seaweed in last summer’s HAIRSPRY. Or maybe your first look at his incredible artistry was when he blew it out the rafters as Jim Conley in MacTheatre’s PARADE last month.

Now, the very talented JOSHUA DENNING is appearing in classrooms at the McCallum Fine Arts Academy, leading performance theatre instruction while the search continues for a permanent hire to be named next spring.

Mr. Denning, who holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theater from Wright State University, brings to this new role teaching and directing experience at Zach Theatre, as well as broad international and regional stage experience.

His international credits include The Lion King (Simba) Hamburg, Germany; We Will Rock You (Brit), Zurich, Switzerland; Best of Musical (Principle Soloist), Vienna, Austria. Mr. Denning’s regional theatre credits include Seaweed J. Stubbs in Hairspray at ZACH Theatre, also at ZACH Theatre: Angel in RENT (for which he won the Austin Critics’ Table Award for Best Supporting Actor); Carousel (Billy Bigelow), Mary Moody Northern Theatre; In The Blood (Reverend D), Altered Stages; Rent (Benny), The Weston Playhouse; Miss Saigon, Theater Under The Stars; West Side Story and A Little Night Music, The Human Race Theater Company.

His film work includes Convergence (Michael), Abrupt Decision (Aaron), Sick Daze and Bernie.

He’s also performed in Hot Summer Nights, Stage One, The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, and Seaside Music Theater.

Upcoming: The What-Cracka?!, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, December 8 - 11

Received directly:

presents

The WHAT-CRACKA?!

December 8 - 11, Thursday - Saturday at 7 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.

MacTheatre, 5600 Sunshine Drive (click for map)

TICKETS online at www.mactheatre.com Adults $15 | Students $6 | Seniors $10

Start off your holiday season all merry and bright with an evening of music and dance that is not to be missed. The WHAT-CRACKA?! roars onto center stage Dec. 8 – 11 at the new McCallum Arts Center Theatre.

A collaboration of the Dance and Theatre departments at the McCallum Fine Arts Academy, this ain’t your grandmother’s Nutcracker!

It’s an innovative, G-rated urban take on the Christmas classic about a girl, a prince, and how they solve their rat problem.

Featuring a score mixed and mastered by Brian Ramos — of Grammy Award winning Grupo Fantasma fame — and choreographed by a slew of hip hop, latin, and modern dancers, this new twist on the Tchaikovsky favorite will have you dancing in the aisles.

Come see why the WHAT-CRACKA?! just might become a new Austin tradition!

Upcoming: Tommy, the musical by Peter Townshend, McCallum's MacTheatre, February 24 - March 6

Found on-line:

McCallum Fine Arts Academy

presents

Tommy

by Peter Townshend

Thursday, February 24 - March 6

Thursdays - Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

MacTheatre, 5600 Sunshine (click for map)
Click for on-line ticketing

Peter Townshend’s tale of a young boy’s journey from pain to triumph is the most electrifying evening of rock and roll ever to play in a theatre! After witnessing the accidental murder of his mother's lover by his father, Tommy is traumatized into catatonia, and as the boy grows, he suffers abuse at the hands of his sadistic relatives and neighbors. As an adolescent, he’s discovered to have an... uncanny knack for playing pinball, and when his mother finally breaks through his catatonia, he becomes an international pinball superstar. Expect an approach that is as innovative as any previous McCallum musical.