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What's Happening at the San Juan Community Theatre

Running the week of April 8, 1998 -- San Juan Community Theatre
(Classified Category 2000 in the Journal and Sounder, published Wednesdays)

ELEGANT EDIBLES, a fundraiser for C.A.T.S. (Community Arts Theatre Society), is planned for Saturday, April 11 from 10 am to Noon in the Gubelman Theatre. If you love to bake -- donations will be gratefully received (call Ruth Hill at 378-4349). If you love to eat yummy baked goods -- be there!
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ATTENTION PLAYWRIGHTS -- The deadline for the 1998 Dan Weber Memorial Playwrights Festival entries is June 15. Call 378-3211 for a "Rules of Entry" form, or stop by the Theatre business office to pick one up.
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BIG BAND DEVOTEES are getting tickets to the Saturday, April 11 appearance by "The Certificates" of San Francisco. The 8 pm event is a fund-raiser for the Animal Protection Society. "The Certificates" are a knock-your-socks-off band whose members played with such greats as Benny Goodman, Claude Thornhill and Les Brown. Money raised goes toward a recently established A.P.S. endowment fund.
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THEATRE MEMBERS MEETING is planned for Saturday, April 18. See a cutting from "Sound of Music", hear from the Playwrights Alliance, share in a Public Forum, get an update on the 1999 Play Season, visit with friends and catch up on Theatre news. Tickets are required, but free. Pick them up in the box office.
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Anyone interested in being involved with a production of GODSPELL this summer please contact Dawn Nivinski at 378-2055. Looking for guitarists, drummers, pianists, singers /actors from age 16 to whatever! Show will rehearse in May and June, runs every Friday beginning July 10 thru Sept. 4.
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We are looking for a few pieces of outdoor sculpture to display at the Theatre during SummerFest/98. Must be heavy enough to require heavy loading equipment to place. If you or someone you know might be willing to display at the theatre this summer -- (July 4 to Labor Day), please let us know by calling 378-3211.
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Thanks -- Debbie Emery -- 378-3211

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UPCOMING EVENTS THROUGH SummerFest/98 [Jazz Festival too!]:

CATS Elegant Edibles, April 11

The Certificates, a benefit for animal shelter, April 11

San Juan Community Theatre Membership Meeting, Saturday, April 18

Sound of Music, April 24 through May 9

Balfa Toujours (cajun music), Tuesday, May 12

CATS Home and Garden Tour, Saturday and Sunday, May 16 & 17

Natalie MacMaster, Monday, May 18

Richard Evans (on Pacific Northwest Composers), Wednesday, May 20

May M.U.S.I.C. Festival (local music teachers), Friday, May 22

Soni Ventorum (UW Wind Quintet), Saturday, May 23

Dance Happy, Saturday, June 20

The Missoula Children's Theatre will be in residency from Monday, June 29 through Friday, July 3 and will have two performances of Cinderella on Friday, July 3. Likewise it will be here from Monday, August 17 through Saturday, August 22 with two performances of Beauty Lou and the Country Beast on Saturday, August 22.

SummerFest/98

A fun-filled summer of entertainment from July 4 to Labor Day!

[Watch for more details to be added over the next few weeks!]

Saturdays, (Classical Music), 8 p.m. (Tentative Roster)

July 4, North Cascades Concert Band, Sousa

July 11, Chamber Music San Juans, "American Musical Chronicles"

July 18, Sotto Voce

July 25, Sound Arrangement,

August 1, TBA

August 8, Kinza Tyrrell, Pianist from Victoria

August 15, Frederick Matthews, Opera Singer from San Francisco

August 22, The Mollys, One Piano, Four Hands

August 29, Adina Mornell, Pianist from Berlin

September 5, Chamber Music San Juans, "From Russia with Love"

Sundays, Love Letters, 8 p.m.

It is a two character play by A. R. Gurney (also, Dining Room, Sylvia, etc.) Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner are lifelong friends. They have written letters to each other since 1937, when Andy is invited to Melissa's birthday party and presents her with a copy of "The Lost Princess of Oz." They have known each other since the second grade (the opening of the play). Love is never easy. When it is true, it runs deep. When it is honest, we can not bear it. When it lasts a lifetime, it is a miracle. In his concluding speech Andrew says: "I don't think there are many men in this world who have had the benefit of such a friendship with such a woman. But it was more than a friendship, too. I know now that I loved her. I loved her even from the day I met her, when she walked into second grade, looking like the lost princess of Oz. In these letters, exchanged between two life-long friends and lovers, A.R. Gurney has captured the essence of how it feels to care for someone so much that it hurts. Unique and honest, Love Letters touches that secret place in all of us that forever remembers the very moment we first saw our one true love.

Mondays, Dark Night

Tuesdays, Dark Night

Wednesdays, (Historical), Major General George Pickett, 8 p.m.

June 26, Pickett on Picket

July 8, Pickett on San Juan Island

July 15, Pickett on San Juan Island

July 22, Pickett on San Juan Island

July 29, Pickett on Pickett

August 5, Pickett on San Juan Island

August 12, Pickett on San Juan Island

August 19, Pickett on San Juan Island

August 26, Pickett on Pickett

September 2, Pickett on San Juan Island

Thursdays, (Folk/Heritage Music), 8 p.m.

July 9, James Cotton

July 16, Mike Cohen and David Brown

July 23, Lira Franck and Tom Phillips

July 30, Cactus Kate

August 6, Stanley Greenthal

August 13, Gary Haggerty and Friends

August 20, Randall Bays

August 27, Olga Symphony

September 3, Daniel Finn

Fridays, (Musical Theatre) Godspell, 8 p.m.

Including: Playwrights' Festival, Eth-Noh-Tec, A Tribute to Mario Lanza, Seattle Opera, Laurie Lewis, Annual Meeting, Sylvia, Chamber Music San Juans, Festival of Trees, San Juan Singers, Teddy Bear Tea, Glenn Yarbrough (Forgotten Carols), and the New Year's Eve Gala.