Sam Bass Theatre New Season Includes
Shakespeare, Steel Magnolias, More
Round Rock's Sam Bass
Community Theatre launches their 30th anniversary season this
year, including the debut of an original production. The
2010 - 2011 season of performances includes "a little bit
of everything," producers said.
Inspector Pratt returns to
Bagshot Manor in the season opener, Seconday
Cause of Death, and directed by
Lynn Beaver. Playing September 24th through October 16th,
the murder mystery by playwright Peter Gordon provides a
follow-up to the theatre's hit production of last season - Murdered to Death -
which earned two Applause Awards from
AustinLiveTheatre.com.
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The holiday season brings Dashing Through the Snow, running December 3rd through 23rd. Andy Brown
directs the regional premiere of the show from the team of
Jones, Hope and Wooten - who created last season's popular
Christmas Belles and The Dixie Swim
Club.
Olin Meadows
directs the Southern classic Steel
Magnolias, by Robert Harling, for
a revisit to Truvy’s Beauty Salon on January 28th through
February 19th, 2011. Then an eccentric troupe of
commedia dell'arte actors are commissioned to improvise the
History of Man - from the Garden of Eden to the Voyage of
Odysseus - as they battle one another for the spotlight in
George Herman's A Company of Wayward
Saints, directed by Veronica Prior
and running March 25th through April 16th, 2011.
Frank Benge directs the
Sam Bass original production The
Tempest Project, running May 20th
through June 11th, 2011. The season concludes with the
Youth Guild comedy productions of Macbeth
the Musical Comedy and Shakespeare Unshackled, directed by Megan Henderson and Bailey Vick, and
running July 22nd through August 13th.
Season tickets -
which offer packets of six pack of tickets for the price of
five - are available for $75 per person, and $65 for seniors
and students. Tickets may be used for any combination of
shows in the new season, but must be used for at least two of
our six individual productions.
The Sam Bass Community
Theatre is located at 600 Lee Street in Round Rock's Memorial
Park. For more information and reservations, call (512)
300-9254 or visit www.SamBassTheatre.org.
(Steel
Magnolias image courtesy
Broadway World)
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