Upcoming: Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Zach Theatre, December 5 - 30

in the first-ever season in its new Topfer Theatre, presents the Austin premiere of 

WHITE CHRISTMAS

Based on the Paramount Pictures film written for the screen by NORMAN KRASNA, NORMAN PANAMA, and MELVIN FRANK

Music and Lyrics by IRVING BERLIN, Book by DAVID IVES and PAUL BLAKE


Musical Direction by Allen Robertson
Directed and Choreographed by NICK DEMOS

Original Set Design by CLIFF SIMON • Lighting Design by JASON AMATO • Sound Design by CRAIG BROCK • Properties Design by BLAKE REEVES • Costume Design by DEBORAH ROBERTS

Previews December 5-12 - Champagne Opening and Press Night is Thursday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m., followed by a reception with the stars of show
GLBT Wilde Party pre-show mixer is Thursday, December 6

Performances continue through December 30, 2012, Tuesdays - Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

in ZACH’s new Topfer Theatre, 202 South Lamar Blvd. (corner of Riverside Drive and South Lamar Blvd.)

To order tickets call 512-476-0541 ext. 1 or visit www.zachtheatre.org. Tickets range from $25-$75. Student Rush Tickets: $18 one hour before showtime (with valid ID). ZACH’s new, full bar opens one and half hours prior to showtime and remains open for one hour post-show.

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The Drowsy Chaperone, Zach Theatre, June 24 - August 1

When I got home, still bubbling from Zach's The Drowsy Chaperone, I was ready to write, "Run, don't walk, to the Zach box office to get your first set of tickets for this sparkling evening of music, comedy and light-hearted fooling, a clever reincarnation of Broadway at its wonderful beginnings."

That's hyperbole, of course. Because you don't need to run anywhere. You just tap zachtheatre.org into your browser, click a couple of times and give them your payment details.

I must have been hearing Walter Winchell or Hedda Hopper in my head, even though I'm far too young ever to have listened to the Broadway gossip on a crystal radio set or on a cabinet-sized Philco in the living room. Though I can remember, just barely, the advent of the first color television broadcasts.

The Drowsy Chaperone is a zinger because Lambert, Morrison, Martin and McKellar lovingly spoof those energetic, naive and amazing beginnings of what became American musical theatre, admired across the world, while giving us a contemporary moderator and chorus -- in the Greek sense. Martin Burke as the anonymous Man in the Chair hosts us for an evening alone in his apartment with LP recordings of that mythical 1928 musical.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .