December 23, 2015

2016 Season Ticket On Sale

Looking to start 2016 on the right foot? Then join The River City Community Players and become one of our valued patrons.

This community theater group has been producing plays, musicals, music revues and workshops to benefit our neighbors and youth.

Our 2016 season promises to be very successful. Beginning with The Red Velvet Cake War; followed by You're A Good Man Charlie Brown; Miracle on South Division Street; and then we put the finishing touch with The Addams Family, A New Musical, which will feature a Halloween night performance.

With admission price at the door rising to $12 per adult; the patron season ticket will provide you with a 27.5 percent savings.

Our patron season tickets are a great gift idea anytime of the year.

We have kept our season ticket package the same as last year and feel there is a suitable package for you:

Our Gold level for $300 - Gives you 10 tickets to each show, Newsletter, Acknowledgement in the program and in the lobby.

Our Silver level for $240 - Gives you 8 tickets to each show, Newsletter, and Acknowledgement in the program.

Our Bronze level for $120 - Gives you 4 tickets to each show, Newsletter, and Acknowledgement in the program.

Our Copper level offers the Double for $60 or Single $30. The Double gives you 2 tickets for each show and the Single gives you 1 ticket for each show.

The current home of the RCCP is the Leavenworth Performing Arts Center, housed in the Hollywood Theater. Built in 1938 as a movie theater, the theater is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its distinctive Art Deco style.

Our continued success would not be possible without your support. Only with your generous financial support can we continue our work in the community through live entertainment.

Get into the act! Be an active participant in the River City Community Players' 40th Anniversary season! We'd love to see you there, in the audience or on the stage!

Forms are available at the theater or send an email to ronrccp@yahoo.com and a ticket flyer will be sent to you.

Make checks payable and mail to:
The River City Community Players
The Leavenworth Performing Arts Center
500 Delaware Street
Leavenworth, KS 66048

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December 17, 2015

Open Audition Call - The Red Velvet Cake War

The River City Community Players begins their 40th season with The Red Velvet Cake War by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten

Auditions will be held Jan 4-5 from 7 - 9 p.m.

Directed by Melanie Marcec.

Come prepared to perform cold readings from the script. Bring a complete list of conflicts from January 4 – February 28. A current resume and head shot are welcome, but not required.

Also, please arrive 10-15 minutes prior to the start time to complete your audition information form.

Auditions will be held at the Leavenworth Performing Arts Center located at 500 Delaware Ave., Leavenworth, KS.

In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins—Gaynelle, Peaches, and Jimmie Wyvette—could not have picked a worse time to throw their family reunion. Their outrageous antics have delighted local gossips in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out. Having "accidentally" crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband's girlfriend's doublewide.

Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular meltdown. Peaches, a saucy firebrand and the number one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it's time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead. And Jimmie Wyvette, the rough-around-the-edges store manager of Whatley's Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum's newest widower. But the cousins can't back out of the reunion now.

It's on, Gaynelle's hosting it, and Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided that its success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle's sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist.

Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado season. Things spin hilariously out of control when a neighbor's pet devours everything edible, a one-eyed suitor shows up to declare his love, and a jaw-dropping high-stakes wager is made on who bakes the best red velvet cake.

As this fast-paced romp barrels toward its uproarious climax, you'll wish your own family reunions were this much fun!

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December 11, 2015

The Annual 6 x 10 Festival arrives at The Barn tonight!

The Barn Players 8th Annual
6 x 10: Ten-Minute Play Festival

Six Original Plays
Six Local Playwrights
Six Directors
One great evening of theatre!

December 11 - 13
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm


THE PLAYS:

Five Dollars
By Thomas L. Willoughby
Directed by Amanda Beeler

In the Eyes of Men
By Lindsay Adams
Directed by Taylor Hudson

A Might-Have-Been Meeting
By Deborah Ground Buckner
Directed by Geri Eicher

(Not) Another Bedtime Story
By Philip Reavis
Directed by Diane Bulan

The Bell-Ringer
By Emma K. Carter
Directed by Valerie Dykes

Promposal
By Jim Moore
Directed by Jason Hagg

FEATURING:
Joanthan Allee, Justin Barron, Emma Basco, Andy Brown,
Deborah Ground Buckner, Michael Bunn, Richard Burt,
Kelsie Clark, Meghan Deveroux, Kennedy Forshey,
Jacob Funke, Frank Lillig, Keirstyn Mascareno, Andy
Massey, Zach Matthew, Michael Moore, Brooke Myers,
Erica Crane Ricketts, Stephanie Spalding, Rex Temlin,
Jack Torline, Scott Turner & Adam Winney

All performances are at:
The Barn Players Theatre, 6219 Martway, Mission, KS.
Ticket pricing:
ALL SEATS - $10.00
The box office opens one hour before curtain time.
Visit our website at www.thebarnplayers.org

WE ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS!
VISA, MASTERCARD & DISCOVER!

Production support provided by…
The Mainstreet Credit Union
Northeast Johnson County Chamber of Commerce
St. Pius School of Mission

Media partner support provided by…
94.9 KCMO
710 AM / 103.7 KCMO Talk Radio

The Barn Players embraces diversity in all aspects of our
organization. Non-traditional and equal-opportunity
casting is encouraged.


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December 9, 2015

A Christmas Carol Gone Amuck

The River City Community Players, under the auspices of the Leavenworth City Parks and Recreation Deparment present a one weekend only showing of A Christmas Carol Gone Amuck.

Written and directed by Eric Van Horn.

A small radio station, WBRK, in the northeast has hired an acting troupe to come in and present a reading of "A Christmas Carol" for broadcast. All of the advertising has been sold and the performance is drawing near.

Because the tightwad station manager booked the acting troupe's accommodations at a rustic idle camp in the woods they break an axle on their bus and are stranded.

They are not able to make it to the reading. The station manager does not want to give the advertising money back and after several crazy ideas are floated it is decided that the station personnel will present the reading.

So the station announcer, his nine months pregnant wife, the station manager and his pushy wife, Bob the janitor and the doorman set about providing the entertainment.

Craziness and hilarity ensues. Doc, the doorman, who the script describes as "very subtle, a whatever kind of guy, not so smart".

Featuring Linda Finch, Mike Forsythe, Edd Hingula, Gary Linhart, Carrie Mills and Joshua Shockey.

Performances will be at the Leavenworth Performing Arts Center at 500 Delaware in downtown Leavenworth Friday, December 11th at 7pm, Saturday, December 12th at 7p.m., and Sunday, December 13th at 2p.m.

Admission is by free donations ($5 suggested) are accepted.

If you are looking for a holiday pick me up, this show is for you. It runs less than 90 minutes.
Reservations are not being accepted.

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A Christmas Carol Gone Amuck

The River City Community Players, under the auspices of the Leavenworth City Parks and Recreation Deparment present a one weekend only showing of A Christmas Carol Gone Amuck.

Written and directed by Eric Van Horn.

A small radio station, WBRK, in the northeast has hired an acting troupe to come in and present a reading of "A Christmas Carol" for broadcast. All of the advertising has been sold and the performance is drawing near.

Because the tightwad station manager booked the acting troupe's accommodations at a rustic idle camp in the woods they break an axle on their bus and are stranded.

They are not able to make it to the reading. The station manager does not want to give the advertising money back and after several crazy ideas are floated it is decided that the station personnel will present the reading.

So the station announcer, his nine months pregnant wife, the station manager and his pushy wife, Bob the janitor and the doorman set about providing the entertainment.

Craziness and hilarity ensues. Doc, the doorman, who the script describes as "very subtle, a whatever kind of guy, not so smart".

Performances will be at the Leavenworth Performing Arts Center at 500 Delaware in downtown Leavenworth Friday, December 11th at 7pm, Saturday, December 12th at 7p.m., and Sunday, December 13th at 2p.m.

Admission is by free donations ($5 suggested) are accepted.

If you are looking for a holiday pick me up, this show is for you. It runs less than 90 minutes.
Reservations are not being accepted.

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December 7, 2015

needing a leading man for upcoming 80's revue

Slightly Off Broadway Theatre
(Community)


Back to the 80's!- An original music revue by Joe Caronia and Colonsay Selby: Dec 7-31: 12 pm Sun-Sat
The show is a music revue set in the 80's at a local theatre. The leading lady owns the theatre and our leading man comes in to evict her but instead ends up auditioning and they fall in love during the show. Of course, his secret gets out and her feelings are hurt. Our show is like every 80's movie and reference wrapped up in one show! Directed by Colonsay Selby. We are looking for a leading man, mid 20's or older. Needs to be able to play wholesome heartthrob! Must be able to sing. Songs are possible from any genre during the 80's. Dance experience could be helpful but not necessary. Actors interested MUST CONTACT THE DIRECTOR BY EMAIL @ sassyselby1@yahoo.com Feel free to send pictures and resumes. She will then make arrangements to meet on a case by case basis. The show will run Feb 12,13,14,19,20,21,26,27,28 2016
Slightly Off Broadway Theatre, 114 N Marietta St, (816) 637-3728, www.esctheatre.org

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December 5, 2015

The Annual 6 x 10 Festival arrives at The Barn next Friday!

The Barn Players 8th Annual
6 x 10: Ten-Minute Play Festival

Six Original Plays
Six Local Playwrights
Six Directors
One great evening of theatre!

December 11 - 13
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm


THE PLAYS:

Five Dollars
By Thomas L. Willoughby
Directed by Amanda Beeler

In the Eyes of Men
By Lindsay Adams
Directed by Taylor Hudson

A Might-Have-Been Meeting
By Deborah Ground Buckner
Directed by Geri Eicher

(Not) Another Bedtime Story
By Philip Reavis
Directed by Diane Bulan

The Bell-Ringer
By Emma K. Carter
Directed by Valerie Dykes

Promposal
By Jim Moore
Directed by Jason Hagg

FEATURING:
Joanthan Allee, Justin Barron, Emma Basco, Andy Brown, Deborah Ground Buckner, Michael Bunn, Richard Burt, Kelsie Clark, Meghan Deveroux, Kennedy Forshey, Jacob Funke, Frank Lillig, Keirstyn Mascareno, Andy Massey, Zach Matthew, Michael Moore, Brooke Myers, Erica Crane Ricketts, Stephanie Spalding, Rex Temlin, Jack Torline, Scott Turner & Adam Winney

All performances are at:
The Barn Players Theatre, 6219 Martway, Mission, KS.
Ticket pricing:
ALL SEATS - $10.00
The box office opens one hour before curtain time.
Visit our website at www.thebarnplayers.org

WE ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS!
VISA, MASTERCARD & DISCOVER!

Production support provided by…
The Mainstreet Credit Union
Northeast Johnson County Chamber of Commerce
St. Pius School of Mission

Media partner support provided by…
94.9 KCMO
710 AM / 103.7 KCMO Talk Radio

The Barn Players embraces diversity in all aspects of our organization. Non-traditional and equal-opportunity casting is encouraged.


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December 3, 2015

KC Improv Company and Harvesters partner for Happy Hour for Harvesters

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michael Foster, Marketing Manager
816-806-4000
foster@kcimprov.com

Kansas City, MO, December 3rd, 2015

The KC Improv Company Donates to Harvesters

The Comedy Group Donates a Portion of Sales for Every "Happy
Hour" Ticket Sold in December

The KC Improv Company is encouraging comedy fans to give back
this holiday season. The comedy group will be donating a portion
of every ticket sold for its Happy Hour shows in December.
"Happy Hour for Harvesters" begins its run on December 4th and
continues every Friday at 6:30pm in December (with the exception
of Christmas).

"We are very excited to be partnering with Harvesters," says
General Manager of KCIC, Michael Foster. "They have a great
organization that does tremendous work, and we are happy to use
our passion to benefit the community."

"Harvesters is grateful for community partners like the KC Improv
Company," says Sarah Biles, Harvesters' Communications
Director.  "With everyone's help, we can continue our mission of
providing food for the hungry in our region."

Happy Hour for Harvesters will showcase short-form, Whose Line
Is It Anyway? style improv games as well as long-form improv at
the Kick Comedy Theater. Every show will feature different games,
cast members, and signature formats.

December 4th, 6:30pm- Happy Hour for Harvesters with Swipe
Right
December 11th, 6:30pm- Happy Hour for Harvesters with Hell's
Donut
December 18th, 6:30pm- Happy Hour for Harvesters with Presto!
A Musical

Tickets can be purchased online or at the door. There is a $5
minimum donation.
www.kcimprov.com
www.facebook.com/kcimprovco
www.facebook.com/kickcomedy/events

Kick Comedy Theater
4010 Pennsylvania Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64111

You deserve some fun.
KC Improv Company. Laugh Loud

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December 1, 2015

Holiday Dance Celebration with the City in Motion School of Dance!

To celebrate The Holidays in performance,
The City in Motion School of Dance will bring a fabulous variety
of dance and more to the stage at the Uptown Arts Bar,
Thursday, December 17, 7:00 - 9:00.

This Season, we will feature our instructors and students of:
Gypsy, World Dance, Hip-Hop, Krump, Clown, Indian, Modern, Flamenco, Tap, Burlesque and MORE !
Join us for the fun of the season!

At the Uptown Arts Bar
3611 Main, KCMO 64111

$10 at the door
There will also be raffle drawings!
All proceeds support the classes at The City in Motion School of Dance.

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Celebrate Christmas with Billie Mahoney and Co. THIS Sunday!

The Billie Mahoney Dance Troupe
will be presented in the Rotunda of Union Station Kansas City Inc.
Sunday, December 6, 2015, from 12:00 - 1:00 - FREE!

The Billie Mahoney Dance Troupe, which was formed in the late '90's, consists of tap dancers over the age of fifty
and is directed and choreographed by Billie Mahoney.
Billie was identified by Gregory Hines at the Folly Theater in the year 2000, as "a legend in tap dance".
Dancers from her classes at the Kansas City Ballet Todd Bolender Center and The City in Motion School of Dance,
will join together in ushering in the Christmas Season.

Dance companies from the City in Motion Studio have been invited to participate:
World Dance will be demonstrated by:
Nikoria with Mid-Eastern Dance,
Ole' performing Flamenco

The performance will conclude with a special tribute to Pearl Harbor Day by The Billie Mahoney Dance Troupe.

For more information about Billie Mahoney, go to bmahoneyontap.wordpress.com
Click here to find this event on Facebook!

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