Fiddler on the Roof Opens this Thursday
This Thursday we open the final show in our 2004 season, Fiddler on the Roof. Presale for Fiddler is very strong and this is a very limited three week engagement, so I urge you to make plans to see this production and purchase your tickets early so you don’t miss out. Also for this production, we have a very different performance schedule we are performing our usual Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m., but in addition we have two
Thursday performances at 7 p.m. (November 11th and 18th), and one Sunday evening performance at 7 p.m. (November 21st). So start this holiday season with a warm, funny and moving performance of Fiddler on the Roof and I’ll see you at the theatre! Tickets for Fiddler on the Roof are $16 Adults, $14 for Students and Seniors and $10 for Children 12 and under. Groups for this show are also $10 for 12 or more. For tickets visit us on line at www.runawaystage.com or call the box office at (916) 207-1226.
This production features a very talented cast that I know you will fall in love with, and a very special performance by my lovely wife of 20 years, Lillian, who will be playing my wife Golde in the show, I know this is a stretch for us to play husband and wife, but I hope you will enjoy it as much as we will.
In 2002 I had the pleasure of portraying Tevye the dairyman for American River College’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, and now two years later I am pleased and honored to be reprising the role of Tevye for Runaway Stage Productions. During the 2002 production, in which I worked outside of RSP – a rare occurrence, I made many new friends and brought new talented people into RSP, people that have helped to make RSP the quality community theatre that it is today. Fiddler on the Roof is a special show for me - one that I can relate to, and one that I find incredible and moving. I hope you too will find our production of Fiddler on the Roof one that you will remember for a very long time to come. I invite you to join us for this 40th anniversary production of a very special show Fiddler on the Roof.
-- Bob Baxter
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STEEL MAGNOILIAS SET TO OPEN THE 2005 SEASON OF BROADWAY SHOWS AT RSP
Opening January 7th for a four week run at the 24th Street theatre is one of the modern stage’s best-loved plays – Steel Magnolias. Runaway Stage Productions is proud to present this heart-warming show as the opening production of our 2005 season of Broadway productions. Steel Magnolias ran for 1,126 performances, reached Broadway, and was made into a 1989 hit movie with Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Darryl Hannah and Olympia Dukakis.
The play centers on six “steel magnolias” (southern women with flowery outsides but inner strength) who have made Truvy’s Beauty Salon an unofficial social center in little Chinquapin, Louisiana. The close-knit women at Truvy's Beauty Salon have lots of time to gossip. Their husbands - - absent, depressed, or dead - - have made sure of that. Consequently, visitors to the salon get more than a wash and cut.
The wise-cracking Truvy, with the help of her new glamour technician Annelle, dispenses shampoo with liberal doses of free advice and gossip to the town's curmedgeon, Ouiser; an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, and the local town social worker, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby, is on the verge of marriage.
Alternately hilarious and touching, the play focuses on the comaderie of these six Southern women who talk, gab, gossip, chitchat, needle and harangue each other through the best of times - - and cry, caress, comfort and repair one another through the worst. They're soul mates in a rarefied way that assumes a cult of femininity - - sisters come hell and high water. Pushing laughter and pain together, Steel Magnolias pulls tears from even the most cynical eyes.
The women at Truvy's beauty parlour are the steel magnolias of the title: Southern belles, flowery on the outside, but strong enough inside to survive any challenge, many of which are presented through the course of the narrative.
Steel Magnolias performs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. January 7th – 30th, 2005. For tickets to this very special show please contact the box office at (916) 207-1226 or visit us on-line at www.runawaystage.com
“Suffused with humor and tinged with tragedy”
New York Post
“Sharp, funny dialog… the play builds to a conclusion that is deeply moving”
New York Daily News
“A skillfully crafted, lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in the small-town South”
Drama-Logue
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