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Table 8 Productions presents the World Premiere of the raunchy, rockin’ comedy
Summer Camp! The Musical
Book by Troy Heard, Music by Angela Chan, Lyrics by Heard and Chan.
Opening Night: Friday, August 10, 2012Plays at 8pm Fridays through Sundays through August 26The Onyx Theatre in Commercial Center 953 E. Sahara Ave. #16
Directed by Heard with musical direction by Chan.
It’s Summer 1982: Reagan’s in the White House, the Russians are building the bomb, and rustic Camp Tigglebitties is a hormonal hotbed where ubernerds Nolan and Dwight vow to lose their virginity to the gorgeous Lacey St. Clair...at the possible expense of their friendship. Serious questions are raised: can Dwight enlist help from Obi-Wan? Who will win the Kotex 500? And what IS The Mook?
“Summer Camp! is a musical homage to the classic genre of the early 1980s cinema popularly known as the Teen Sex Comedy,” says Heard, who was selected Best Director of 2011 by NPR’s Desert Companion magazine. “I remember staying up late many Saturday nights to watch Porky’s, Meatballs and Revenge of the Nerds on HBO. And like any red-blooded, prepubescent male I always thought there was way too much story between the shower scenes. This is my chance to fix that...while amping the awesomeness by adding musical numbers in different 80s rock-and-roll styles.”
“We’ve also jumped on the audience interaction bandwagon with this one,” Heard says. “There’s a splash zone, of course, but since this is a sex comedy and not a horror spoof like Evil Dead, Summer Camp! is definitely adults only!”
Tickets are $15.00 and are available at the door and on www.onyxtheatre.com.
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August 14-19, 2012The Smith Center for the Performing Arts
Winner of three 2010 Tony Awards® including the award for BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL, this hilarious new production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES was the biggest hit of the 2010 Broadway season, leaving audiences in stitches night after night!LA CAGE, starring George Hamilton, tells the story of Georges, the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges’ son brings his fiancée’s conservative parent’s home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! LA CAGE is a tuneful and touching tale of one family’s struggle to stay together … stay fabulous… and above all else, stay true to themselves!With a glorious score of hummable melodies and a dynamite cast featuring the “notorious and dangerous Cagelles,” LA CAGE is an indisputable musical comedy classic… and this extraordinary new version shows you why!AGE RECOMMENDATION: 10+http://www.thesmithcenter.com/events/la-cage-aux-folles/
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August 16-18 at 8pm and August 19 at 3pmCabaret Jazz in Boman PavilionThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts“Barbara Cook is the Greatest Theatrical Singer in concert at the moment.” – The London TimesBarbara Cook’s silvery soprano, purity of tone, and warm presence have delighted audiences around the world for more than 50 years. Considered “Broadway’s favorite ingenue” during the heyday of the Broadway musical, Miss Cook has since then launched a successful second career as a concert and recording artist soaring from one professional peak to another.
Tickets: $40-$70
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The Nevada Conservatory Theatre Presents:
God Lives in GlassReflections of God as seen through the eyes of children
August 25 and 26 at 2pmUNLV Judy Bailey Theatre
Tickets: $25
"A powerful and astonishing work...will blow you away...Keith Thompson's score is a revelation...provocative, original, and - quite simply - amazing."
Featuring performers from The Lion King, Love, Jersey Boys, "O", Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular, Menopause The Musical, Vegas! the Show, Surf the Musical, and the UNLV Music and Theatre Departments.
The events of September 11th, 2001 inspired the writing and the original production of "God Lives in Glass" as a way of reaching across racial, cultural and religious boundaries to promote global unity acceptance of cultural diversity.
The musical is based on a book by the same title, written by the head of Drama Therapy at New York University, Dr. Robert J. Landy, Ph.D. The book contains drawings, stories, and reflections about God that were created and shared by children from all around the world, from different cultures, races, and religions. The insights and visions of these young spiritual thinkers are funny, moving, entertaining, and often enlightening.
Shortly after the events of 9/11, Dr. Landy collaborated with Composer Keith Thompson (conductor of "Jersey Boys" in Las Vegas) and Director/co-conceiver Greg Ganakas to bring musical and theatrical life to the book as a way of promoting cultural and spiritual healing and understanding.
Contrary to what the title suggests, "God Lives in Glass" is not a religious musical, or a piece of children's theatre, even though it does take a whimsical look at religion and different ideas about who or what God might be as seen through the eyes of young people from all over the planet. The Musical never attempts to instruct or promote any ideology or doctrine. It merely holds up the "glass" as a mirror that allows us a reflection of ourselves, and as a window that lets us view the world with wonder, humor, and imagination; as seen through the eyes of a child.
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Atlas Theatre, in conjunction with The Box Office (located in the famed Arts District downtown), is proud to announce the upcoming Las Vegas premiere of Patrick Marber’s
CLOSER
Sad, savvy, and often funny, CLOSER casts a steely, unblinking gaze at the world of relationships and lets you come to your own conclusions. Four lives intertwine over the course of four and a half years in this densely plotted, stinging look at modern love and betrayal, in which this quartet struggle to find intimacy but can't seem to get closer.
Variety called the play:"Brilliant and bracingly adult, bruising and beautiful, shatteringly funny and devastatingly sad. It cuts like broken glass…full of bitter, intelligent, unvarnished truth.
Newsweek called it:“A powerful, darkly funny play about the cosmic collision between the sun of love and the comet of desire."
And NY Magazine said:"CLOSER does not merely hold your attention; it burrows into you."
CLOSER features Ryan Remark, Jessica Afton, Alex Olson, Breon Jenay, and is directed by Chris Mayse
Performance Dates are: Friday, August 31st (8pm), Saturday, September 1st (8pm), Thursday, September 6th (8pm), Sunday, September 9th (4pm), Monday, September 10th (8pm- Industry Night), Thursday, September 13th (8pm), Friday, September 14th (8pm), Saturday, September 15th (8pm). All shows take place at The Box Office (1129 Casino Center Blvd. Las Vegas, NV. 89104)
For more information about CLOSER and Atlas Theatre’s Entire Upcoming Programming, please go to www.atlastheatre.org. To speak to someone directly, contact Chris Mayse at atlasartisticdirector@yahoo.com, or call (702) 884-5190
