Our Next Main Stage Show!
"Nunsense"
by Dan Goggin
A comedy directed by Mark Britton.
Show Dates: October 9-12, 16-19, 2008
Winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off Broadway Musical
in its original New York production, this hilarious international hit was
revived in New York with a male cast Nunsense A Men!. The show is a fund raiser
put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidently
poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Up dated with new
jokes, additional lyrics, two new arrangements and a brand new song, this zany
musical has been videotaped for television starring Rue McClanahan as the Mother
Superior.
"A hail of fun and frolic! Wacky and outrageous with a hysterical anything goes sense of fun!" N.Y. Times.
"You don't have to be Catholic to love Nunsense!" Entertainment Tonight. "Inspired madness! Go see it!" Jewish Post and Opinion.
"Guaranteed to lift your spirits.... Very, very funny." National Catholic News.
Purchase tickets online!
We want to thank everyone who auditioned and encourage them to
audition
again for our other shows!
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Our Next
Auditions!
The Rented Christmas
by Norman C. Ahern, Jr. and Yvonne Ahern.
A melodrama directed by Mary Hill.
Show Dates:
December 4-7 and 11-14, 2008.
Audition Dates:
October 13 and 14 at 7:00 PM
There are parts for 4 women, 2 men, 1 male teen, 2 female teens, 1 boy, 1 girl, and children carolers.
For more information, click here.
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Volunteers Needed!
We need volunteers for acting, taking tickets, building sets, and many
other jobs. The Pocket Theatre operates on volunteer effort and we need
more help. Please help to keep theatre a strong part of the Hot Springs
art community by joining in the fun and volunteering. Anyone interested
in volunteering can contact
Volunteer Coordinator
by email or by mail at
The Pocket Theatre, Inc.
P.O. Box 20577
Hot Springs, AR
71903-0577
or by phone at
501-623-8585
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Pocket Theatre, Inc.
The Pocket Theatre is a non-profit, volunteer based, live production theatre
located at the corner of Ramble and Ravine Streets just off
of Park Avenue in downtown Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The Pocket Theatre is located at 170 Ravine Street in a building that was once
the auditorium of the Ramble Elementary School. The building is a two story structure
with a large auditorium, lobby, restrooms in the lobby and backstage, rehearsal hall,
kitchen, workshop, storage rooms, and a fenced-in, paved parking lot!
We have been working to get our own building for over a decade and we are so happy
to have finally realized our goal. We want to thank all the volunteers who have worked
so hard to make this possible. From those who worked through the years to put us in a
position to be able to afford a building. To the volunteers who put in a great deal of
time and effort getting the building ready. We couldn't have done it without them.
Our mission statement is to provide quality productions at reasonable prices for the
citizens of Hot Springs and surrounding communities. We want to build for the future by involving young people today.
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Next at the Pocket Black Box Theatre!
To Be Announced.
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Pocket Black Box Theatre!
Thanks to the hard work of two "strapping" young men,
Christopher Powers and Joshua Williams, the Pocket Theatre now has
two theatres in our building. The new theatre is The Pocket Black Box
Theatre, a black box theatre located in the basement of our building
at Ramble and Ravine and accessed through a back door located down a
flight of steps at the rear of the building.
The purpose of the new theatre is to allow actors and directors an
opportunity to explore challenging and meaningful productions that
may not have the support or popularity to be considered for the main
Pocket Theatre stage. It should be noted that some of these plays are
modern dramas and comedies which are written from a very frank and
modern viewpoint. Therefore the emotions expressed and language used
can be raw and mature in nature.
In particular, Back Pocket Productions, also founded by Christopher
Powers and Joshua Williams, seeks to produce plays that specifically
appeal to young adults, with the hopes of getting more young people
interested in theatre. With the production of their first four plays,
‘W.A.S.P.’ by Steve Martin, ‘Naomi in the Living Room’
by Christopher Durrang, ‘The Problem’ by A.R. Gurney Jr., and
‘Boy’s Life’ by Howard Korder, it has definitely given our
young actors further experience, and based on the audiences, we have
seen more young people drawn to the theatre.
We are proud of this new theatre and the contemporary art forms it
promotes and we hope it continues to thrive and help the Pocket Theatre
in its general growth as well.
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