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Resident Artists and Theater Companies: Michigan Classical Repertory Theatre Some of our friends and colleagues: Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority Ypsilanti Convention and Visitors Bureau Ann Arbor Area
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Riverside Arts Center, Fall, 2007, Newsletter Eastern Michigan University’s TeenBiz (Teens in Business Through the Arts) presents P.T.D. Productions presents Set in California in 1941 and 1951, Hollywood Arms is the funny and moving story of three generations of women living on welfare in a one-room apartment, one block north of Hollywood Boulevard. The cast of characters included a tough, funny, yet tender pill-popping Christian Scientist grandmother; a beautiful wide-eyed and distant mother who is struggling to be a writer, but drowning her ambitions in a bottle; a loving but absent and alcoholic father; and a young girl whose only escape is up on the roof of their run-down apartment house where she creates her own magical world at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. Finally, Hollywood Arms is a story about shattered hopes and realized dreams. It is moving, it is funny, and it is so worth seeing. Carol Burnett is well known for her comic genius as witnessed by millions for many years on The Carol Burnett Show. Now she and her daughter have joined together to bring us this wonderful moving play. Performances Thursday through Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 2 p.m. Please see www.ptdproductions.com for details. PTD reservations: 483-7345. People Dancing presents Save the date, dance and theatre lovers!! People Dancing presents its fourth season of eclectic modern dance at Riverside Arts Center -- Dynamic Dancing 2007. Audience members can catch one performance or two, as this year there will be an “A” and “B” program. Fabulous professional dancers, stunning performances, new music, guest artists and more will pepper this delightful event. For more information, reservations, or just a friendly hello, visit www.peopledancing.org or contact Christina at 734-368-7573. Michigan Classical Repertory Theatre presents MCRT will present the medieval morality play Everyman , directed by Isaac Ellis. The play portrays a complacent Everyman who is informed by Death of his approaching end. As he seeks to find friends to accompany him on his final journey, he looks to Fellowship, his Kindred, and Goods; they all desert him, one by one. Even his personal attributes (Strength, Discretion, Beauty, Five Wits, and Knowledge) leave him. The only one who is willing to stay by him to the end is Good Deeds. Everyman progresses from despair and fear of death before reaching an acceptance of his fate and, finally, redemption. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. General admission tickets are $18, $15 for students and seniors and $12 for groups of six or more. Thursdays are pay-what-you-can. Tickets can be purchased at the door with cash or check or online by credit card at www.MCRTTKTS.org. For more information or to reserve tickets call (734) 214-6600. Redbud Productions presents Redbud Productions presents Robert Anderson’s award-winning examination of parent-child (and father-son) relations, I Never Sang for My Father , the Tony-Award nominated play which became a 1970 Gene Hackman /Melvyn Douglas Oscar-nominated film. It is the story of Gene (Larry Rusinsky), a middle-aged widower, with an elderly mother (Erica Dutton) whom he dearly loves, and a rapidly aging father (Jon Elliott), whom he has never loved, as hard as he tried. For Gene, it is still not possible to “sing” for his father––to understand and be understood, to give the love he so wants to give, and to feel it will be accepted and appreciated. His father, a former mayor of their small Westchester County town, is a difficult man who does not show affection and who drove his daughter Alice (Cassie Mann) away because of her marriage to a Jew. Gene is faced with the responsibility of parental caretaker, just at a time when he is facing a positive crossroads in life - he wishes to remarry a woman he loves and move to California. Redbud’s talented cast also features David Barker, Mary Franceschi, Thom Johnson, Jenny Pritchett, Emily Rogers and Richard Sherburne as local townspeople affected by the family conflict. $16 for adults; $12 for students & seniors - call 734-663-7167. Group rates are available, as well as discounts for pre-show dining at Haab’s Restaurant. Please call for more information or check out the website at redbudproductions.com
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