Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, Closes Doors with Final Variety Show on March 1, 2013

Salado Silver Spur Theater Closes Permanently on March 1  

Professional theater shuttering after eight years of shows, concerts, events, weddings

  For more than eight years, the Silver Spur Theater and its diverse band of entertainers – The Spuradical Players – delighted in reviving a bygone era of family entertainment, offering its trademark blend of vaudeville acts, live music, stage plays and classic cinema.

Business conferences, reunions, concerts, fundraisers and field trips also filled the first class venue, lovingly renovated in the historic Guest & Sanford Grain & Feed Co. at 108 Royal St.

In the Village of Salado, a major IH-35 tourist destination long known for its Stagecoach stop and inviting Hill Country creek, park museums, art galleries, B&Bs and festivals, the Silver Spur Theater was a bastion of night-time entertainment.
 
Even President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura had “tripped the light fantastic” within its walls for the wedding rehearsal after-party for daughter Jenna Bush and fiancée Henry Hager. 

Now it’s time for the last dance. The theater’s final performance will be a one-night-only variety show, “Schtick Happens,” at 7 p.m., Friday, March 1. Admission is $18 for adults; $15 for senior citizens, military personnel and students with ID; and $10 for children aged 12 and under.
 
For directions or more show info, visit www.saladosilverspur.com. Reservations recommended for the 150-seat venue. Also, the theater will offer expanded food choices in its lobby.


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Upcoming: Christmas Is On The Air, Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, December 1 - 22

Christmas Is ON the Air 2012

at Silver Spur Theater, Dec. 1 - 22

An Oasis of Laughter Amid Holiday Chaos

Seasoned Spuradicals make merry in WSPR-Radio’s annual holiday broadcast

Weekends this holiday season find the hilarious crew of fictional WSPR Radio back “on the air” – and on the Salado Silver Spur Theater stage – readying for its annual live Christmas Eve broadcast. Naturally, nothing goes as planned, and hilarity ensues.

“‘Christmas Is On the Air 2012’ is chock-full of the side-splitting slapstick and comedy routines that have made the evolving, annual holiday show a must-see for the entire family and their visitors," said Grainger Esch, Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Silver Spur Theater.

"This holiday show guarantees relief from shopping overload, decorating duties and party planning," Esch emphasized. “Think of the Spur as a safe, family oasis of laughter far from the chaos of Christmas which is on comedic display on our stage.”

The Spur, located at 108 Royal St., is in the renovated Guest and Sanford Granary & Feed Co., a recently designated historic site in Salado, a CenTex holiday shopping destination. The playhouse, with feed signs clearly visible, is a few blocks from the bustling IH-35 Corridor.
Theater patrons will be right in "the studio audience" for the music, merriment and memorable, mirthful staging of an "on-the-air" radio variety show, Esch explained.

The holiday scenario has been conceived, written and performed by The Spuradicals, the theatre’s cast of seasoned actors who continue the Silver Spur's tradition of homespun, heartfelt, original family entertainment.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, with 2 p.m. Saturday matinees: Dec. 1 (eve. only), Dec 7-8, 14-15, 21-22. Admissions are $18 for adults; $15 for senior citizens, military personnel and students with ID; and $10 for children aged 12 and under for evening shows.

Matinees, tickets are $10. Group rates are available. For reservations, call the box office at 254-947-3456. Reservations are strongly recommended for the 150-seat venue. For directions or more info, visit www.saladosilverspur.com.

The eight-year-old professional theater will serve hot cider and expanded food choices at evening shows (only) at The Spuradical Social Club in the lobby. http://www.spuradicalsocialclub.net/

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Upcoming: Oh, Grace!, Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, March 9 - 17

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Oh, Grace!

by Laurel Aarsvold and Diana Richardson

directed by Tony Blackman

March 9 - 17, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.

Silver Spur Theatre, 108 Royal Street (click for map)

Admissions are $15 with $12 discount tickets for seniors, military and students. Group rates are available. For reservations, call the box office at 254-947-3456.

Due to subject matter, parental discretion is advised.

She was a decorated WWII pilot, a fashion maven, a high society wife and ultimately a savvy business woman. Now, the late Grace Rosanky Putnam Jones, who rocked the couture world with her runway looks and A-list clients, is the subject of a new play premiering a block from her former small-town, destination shop.

“Oh Grace!” a fictional drama by Californians Laurel Aarsvold and Diana Richardson, is based on the colorful owner of “Grace Jones of Salado,” an internationally successful ladies wear salon famous for its exclusive clientele of politicians, international designers, celebrities and First Ladies.

The adventures of the bigger-than-life fashionista are explored in a promising new production that will have its world premiere at the Salado Silver Spur Theater (108 Royal St.) at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, March 9-10 and 16-17. The playwrights will be in attendance.

For directions or more info: www.saladosilverspurtheater.com. Wine, beer, cider and expanded food choices will be available at the evening shows through The Spuradical Social Club in the lobby. (http://www.spuradicalsocialclub.net/ )

The six-member cast of veteran actors includes four Temple, TX, residents: Sharon Smith as Young Grace/Salado Grace; Jimmie Vernon as Elderly Grace; Emily Garza as Nurse Agnes; and Steve Smith as Grace’s husband Jack. Saladoans Will Lowery is Charlie, and Grainger Esch, co-founder of the Silver Spur and its Executive Director, portrays John Rosanky, Grace’s nephew.

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Upcoming: Christmas Is On The Air, Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, November 26 - December 17

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Christmas Is On The Air

November 26 - December 17, Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Silver Spur Theatre, 600 Royal Street, Salado (click for map)

Evening admissions are $15 for adults; $12 for senior citizens, military personnel and students with ID; and $8 for children aged 12 and under.

Matinee tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for all others. Group rates are available. For reservations, call the box office at 254-947-3456. For directions or more info, visit www.saladosilverspur.com.

Post-Thanksgiving weekends this holiday season find the hilarious crew of fictional WSPR radio back on the air – and on the Salado Silver Spur Theater stage. The station’s annual Christmas Eve broadcast, naturally, never goes as planned.

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Upcoming: Gone to Seed, a summer melodrama, Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, July 29 - August 27

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Gone to Seed -- or

The Fiendish Financier's Nefarious Food Factory Fiasco

July 29 - August 27

Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

108 Royal Street, Salado (click for map)

The seventh chapter in the Silver Spur Theater's annual melodrama series -- "Gone To Seed...or the Fiendish Financier's Nefarious Food Factory Fiasco" -- has the peaceful agrarian village of Salado facing a food crisis brought on by villainous Bartholomew B. Badseed.

The "melo" opens for a five-weekend run at 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 29, complete with popcorn, pie-fights and pernicious ploys plus the locally-made "movieola" (silent film) and John Maverick magic.

Maverick, a well known magician from Austin, portrays the new agricultural agent Badseed. Can Ranger Grainger save Maezy Moonflower and the Salado citizenry from the peril that ensues? This and other questions are answered with a healthy dose of slapstick, song and satire plus the old-style movie in which many of the town's citizens and businesses speed the plot along.

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Upcoming: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Silver Spur, Salado, July 8-16

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield

July 8 - 16, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Saturday matinees at 2 p.m.

Silver Spur Theatre, 108 Royal Street, Salado (click for map)

Evening shows are $15 for adults; $12 for senior citizens, military personnel and students with ID; and $8 for children aged 12 and under. Matinees admission is $12, $10 and $8, respectively. Group rates also are available. For reservations, call, 254-947-3456.

Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield may be the riotous trio of playwrights for “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” or (TCWOWS), but veteran actors Grainger Esch, Tony Blackman and Stetson Gilchrest are the rowdy trio of actors who will revive the comedic send-up of the Bard’s many works.

“TCWOWS,” which has had healthy runs previously at the Silver Spur Theatre, (108 Royal Street, in Downtown Salado, blocks of IH 35), is a bit like ice cream: sometimes a second or third helping is even more enjoyable. The fast-paced, laugh-filled show is at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays with 2 p.m. matinees on Saturdays for two weekends only: July 8-9 and 15-16.

For more info, visit www.SaladoSilverSpurTheater.com. Wine, beer, cider and expanded food choices will be available at evening shows only through The Spuradicals Social Club in the lobby: SpuradicalsSocialClub.net

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Upcoming: The Fourth Wall by A.P. Gurney, Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, April 8 - 30

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Gurney’s Comedy ‘The Fourth Wall” Opens

2011 Silver Spur Theater Season, Fridays & Saturdays, April 8-30

Clever writing serves up debonair, thought-provoking, funny evening of entertainment

SALADO, TX (April 1, 2011) – The Silver Spur Theater kicks off its “Our Whole Bloomin’ Season" at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 8, with A.R. Gurney’s absurd comedy, “The Fourth Wall.” The play will run Friday and Saturdays evening through April 30, with no matinees.

“This four-character play, with its Cole Porter songs, is like a love letter to the theatre,” said Grainger Esch, Executive Director and Co-founder of the Silver Spur (108 Royal St.), a few blocks from Interstate 35.

Do You See What I See?, Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, November 27 - December 19

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Yuletime comedy

Do You See What I See?

at Salado Silver Spur Theatre
November 27 - December 19

Zany staff at WSPR-TV are tasked to 'save the day' with national Christmas Eve simulcast

The Silver Spur Theater at 108 Royal St. in historic Salado takes audiences back to the "Golden Age of Television" this Yule season with a sleigh-full of holiday hilarity in Do You See What I See, an original comedy running Nov. 27 through Dec. 19 in the renovated Sanford and Guest Granary & Feed Co., a first class, 150-seat proscenium venue between Temple and Georgetown, just off Interstate 35. Theatre patrons will be right in "the studio audience" for the music, the merriment and the memorable, mirthful staging of an "on-the-air" variety show. This seasonal scenario was conceived, written, and performed by a cast of veteran performers, continuing the Spur's tradition of homespun, heartfelt, original family entertainment.

On Christmas Eve at the small broadcast facilities of WSPR-TV, the production crew and maintenance staff are busily preparing for a live holiday simulcast with network affiliates in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Unexpected technical difficulties place the show's success squarely on their shoulders, tasking them to present an excerpt from The Nutcracker, as well as the Canadian Brass performance. Frivolity ensues as they try to save the day and discover their own hidden talents that will bring holiday cheer for the audience and viewers. Song, satire, sentiment and slapstick are among the gifts from the Spur-radical players’ bag of goodies.

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