Two shows for one price! Loving and living in the Lone Star state!

Tickets for this production can be purchased at http://tickets.atthegrand.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=121

For the Feb 19-21 Love Letters performances, you may purchase tickets via atthegrand.org

Love Letters Benefit

1 tix for Feb 26 @ 8pm $15.00 2 tix for Feb 26 @ 8pm $20.00 1 tix for Feb 27 @ 8pm $15.00 2 tix for Feb 27 @ 8pm $20.00 1 tix for Feb 28 @ 2pm $15.00 2 tix for Feb 28 @ 2pm $20.00 Prepaid Drink Tickets $10.00

Like most of Fugard’s dramatic work, Boesman & Lena is a small cast play set in rural South Africa depicting the devastating effects of apartheid on the lives of the author’s countryman.

Tickets available online atthegrand.org

David Judson is in the unusual position of directing “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and portraying Simeon, the brother who sings “Those Canaan Days” in the Andrew Lloyd Webber show.The dual titles, though, are only part of what makes the production at Tracy Grand Theatre Center for the Arts unique.

“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” which runs Friday through Sunday, is the first performance by Tracy Performing Arts Foundation as the theatre’s resident company; it’s the only show it will perform on the facility’s main stage, and the first time the foundation has collaborated with another theater company.

October 15, 2009 12:01 AM

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‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’

When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday

Where: Tracy Grand Theatre Center for the Arts

Tickets: $20 at (209) 831-6858, www.atthegrand.org or the box office, 715 Central Ave., Tracy.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat staring the kids from the Tracy Community Choir and our Resident Theatre Company. This will be the best show to hit Grand Theatre Stage…get your tickets now because they are going fast! Oct 16-18. Don’t miss it! It will be the best $20.00 you’ll spend this month!

Grand Theatre Center for the Arts
Friday & Saturday, September 18 & 19 – 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 20 – 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $15.00 – www.atthegrand.org (209) 831-6TKT

ABOUT “TRACY, OUR TOWN U.S.A.”:
Tracy, Our Town U.S.A., written by City Councilmember Evelyn Tolbert
celebrates the heroes, heroines, icons and misfits that are part of Tracy’s
history.  Even with its “racy” past, the City of Tracy is a product of
immigrants from around the world. Very special women stepped up and did what
needed to be done to help make this city what it is today.

This year’s production of Tracy, Our town U.S.A.. is a musical celebration
of the lives of women like Mrs. Laura Mathews, Dorothy Zanussi, Bessie
Jones, Amelia “Hazel” Broedell, and Mamma Lee. Without the efforts and
contributions of these women, Tracy would not have its local newspaper,
hospital, industries, and government.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Council member Evelyn Tolbert was first elected to the Tracy, CA City
Council in November 1998 after having served on the Tracy Planning
Commission.  Tolbert represents the City of Tracy on the Deuel Prison
Citizen Advisory Committee, the San Joaquin County Library Task Force, and
the City-Chamber of Commerce Liaison Committee.

Tolbert founded the Tracy Performing Arts Foundation that produces the
musical she creates each year entitled “Tracy, Our Town, USA.” Evelyn writes
the storyline, the song lyrics and the music for the  musical, which is
produced each September  in honor of Founder’s Day, with all proceeds going
to support Tracy performing arts. Evelyn Tolbert, in conjunction with the
Tracy Performing Arts Foundation Board, created the “Star Quest” and the
Tracy Performing Arts Foundation Scholarship programs.

Drama Camp finished up 2009 with an amazing performance of The Big Bad Musical along with Nursery Crimes last night at the Grand Theatre. What a fantastic show, everyone was so great, what an impressive pool of talent we have here in Tracy. There is a set of pictures from last nights show that I took and posted to our Flickr site, if you have pictures that you would like to share with us, we would love to add them to the collection, please send them our way to pics@tracyperformingartsfoundation.org

Congratulations to the cast and crew for a fine performance! -dp

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracyperforms/sets/72157621926656464/

Photo By Glenn Moore/Tracy Press

One of TPAF’s resident company members has made the Spotlight of the Tracy Press. Visit this link to learn more about one of our key team members!

Kelly Baker auditioned for her first play two years ago with low expectations.

She came away with a starring role and new sense of self-worth.

“Theater transformed me,” said the 18-year-old aspiring actor-director-playwright-theater company-owner. “Stepping onto that stage was like home to me.”

Since her first theater role as Willy Loman’s enabling wife, Linda, in “Death of a Salesman,” Baker has worked in various productions as a director, producer, costume designer and, this summer, a teacher at a children’s drama camp.
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