Richland Celebrates 35 Years
Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (September 14, 2011) - Richland Performing Arts Center announces its 35th anniversary season of musical theatre, drama, and more in its 2011-2012 Season.
The history of Richland’s Performing Arts has always been a hallmark in the community and since 1977 has been celebrating the joy of live performances through drama, song and dance.
Our spectacular season celebrates the performing arts with something for everyone. Children of all ages will enjoy “The Musical Adventures of FLAT STANLEY.” Take a nostalgic trip to Las Vegas with the professional acts “An Evening with the RAT PACK” or relive your school days with Sister in the original production directly from New York – “Late Nite Catechism.” Don’t miss the chilling classic dramas presented in October or the dramatic musicals “Oklahoma!” and “A Little Princess.” We will end our season on roller skates with a trip back to the 1970s in the hilarious production of “Friday Knight Fever.”
"The 2011-2012 Season will feature all of our student performers and professional actors on our stage for our 35th Anniversary Season. We have a production line up that we hope will allow patrons of all ages to come and enjoy an evening with us in our theatre," explains Scott D. Miller, Executive Director. "Our season includes theater classics from dramas to musicals to children theatre. We will also be celebrating this year’s 35th anniversary season with a few season special productions, which we have yet to unveil, but will guarantee an exciting evening.” Our mission this season is to encourage cultural and intellectual activities for the benefit and enjoyment of the community in the performing arts. Throughout the season audiences are guaranteed a great night out to the theatre for a price that makes this important art form accessible to all of our neighbors.”
We are grateful of the overwhelming support of the community and afar. With over 2500 returning season ticket subscribers; patrons travel as far as Pittsburgh and Harrisburg to visit our theater every year. Thanks to our Richland School District Board of Directors, senior citizens (62+) living in the Richland School District are welcome to join us for every Richland School District performance free of charge with their Gold Cards.
Our 35th Anniversary Season opens October 21 at the Richland Performing Arts Center and will include the following:
ALIVE ONSTAGE!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011 at 7:30 pm
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2011 at 7:30 pm
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm
The Richland Drama Series chillingly presents Alive OnStage, a series of four productions in one to showcase our outstanding talent of actors and actresses in this dramatic series. Productions include classics The Necklace, The Monkey’s Paw, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
FALL FINE ARTS DAY
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM
The Richland Performing Arts Band, Orchestra, Chorus, and Art Departments present an afternoon of free festivities with A Fall Fine Arts Day! This is a celebration of music, song, artwork, and fall foliage. Join us as we ring in the fall throughout our many stages located throughout the Performing Arts Center that showcases the talent of all of our students in the arts.
THE RAT PACK – CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM
The Richland Performing Arts Center Club proudly sponsors this fundraising production The Reflections of Frank, Dean, and Sammy; A Christmas Celebration, an evening with The Rat Pack! This production will take us all back to the years of The Rat Pack. Although they may no longer be with us, their music is more popular than ever. Rat Pack impersonators Tony Sands, Dave Michaels, and Geno Monroe bring us back to a time when seeing Frank, Dean, and Sammy in Las Vegas was considered the ultimate event in show business. After watching these performers, you will leave the show feeling as though The Rat Pack is still going strong after all these years.
YULETIDE FESTIVAL
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2011
2:00 Pm (Festival) 3:00 pm (Concert)
The Richland High School Performing Arts, Music, English, and Drama Departments proudly present this new production of A Yuletide Festival. This celebration is a bi-annual event celebrated in our grand hall and theatre. The afternoon is full of court jesters, the royals, and the peasants. We transform and deck our halls with festive food, drinks, acting, and of course live music. The Richland High School Concert Choir, Orchestra, and Band will perform live onstage for our festival concert. The Yuletide Festival begins one hour prior to the concert, and you may sample historic hors d’ourves and interact with Medieval and Renaissance personages. Please join us for our madrigal performance and support our classical adventure back in time.
OKLAHOMA!
THURSDAY, FEBUARY 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 at 7:30 pm
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012 at 7:30 pm
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2012 at 2:00 pm
The Richland High School proudly presents the Tony Award Winning Musical in a new production of Oklahoma!
Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today.
Set in a Western Indian Territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!
A LITTLE PRINCESS
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012 at 7:30 pm
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012 at 7:30 pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 at 2:00 pm
The Richland Junior High School proudly presents this new production of A Little Princess, The Musical. This engaging musical adaptation of the classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett opens with a happy Sara Crewe, heiress to a large fortune. Enrolled at Miss Minchin's seminary in Victorian England, her life takes a dramatic turn when she receives news of the loss of her father, and her fortune. Sara is forced by the greedy Minchin to become a servant and live in a wretched attic room.
When a mysterious gentleman from India moves next door, curious things begin to happen. Sara even discovers that her fortune has been retrieved. A touching and beautiful score adds a magical touch to this enchanting show.
"The Best Gift of All," "A Proper English Girl," "A Sunny Day in London," and of course the title song, “A Little Princess.”
We hope you join our company for this family production of love and belief!
THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLATS STANLEY
FRIDAY, MAY 11 2012 at 7:30 pm
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Richland High School Performing Arts Club proudly presents this Children’s Musical Production Sensation, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley.
Flat Stanley, the beloved children's book written by Jeff Brown in 1964 has become a literary and pop cultural phenomenon delighting readers and travelers all around the world. And now, we are taking everyone's favorite two-dimensional hero and giving him a new life on the stage. Stanley Lambchop is your ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill ten-year-old normal mom and dad, normal little brother, normal life. That's just the problem...for Stanley, life is too normal. He wants to travel the world, do something amazing, something no one's ever seen before. Careful what you wish for, Stanley!
Children of all ages, as well as parents, grandparents, and friends are encouraged to attend our production to bring out the inner child in you.
LATE NITE CATECHISM - Las Vegas
SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Saint Benedict's Church and Richland Theatre Boosters with Entertainment Events, Inc., proudly present this fundraising production of Late Nite Catechism: Sister Rolls the Dice is the latest class in the sinfully funny Catechism series. The convent needs a new roof, so the order has decided to pool their salaries together and send Sister with teaching her certificate in-hand, (along with her extensive gambling experience running the Church Bingo for the last 25 years) to Las Vegas! Sister will tackle topics ranging from Magicians and Show Girls to live animal acts. Her new class will cover the entire history of gambling, as she tries her luck at some Texas Hold’em. She will discuss magic-versus-mysticism in the church, card counting, and the dangers of Pawnshops and drive-through marriage chapels! Sister will remind you that “What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas”
FRIDAY KNIGHT FEVER
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012 at 7:30 pm
SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2012 at 2:00 pm
SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Richland Performing Arts Center and The Learning Lamp’s 5th Annual Summer Performing Arts Academy proudly present Friday Knight Fever!
Friday Knight Fever joyfully spoofs a time when mood rings and Magic Eight Balls revealed the wisdom of the world. When "Women's Lib" empowered a new generation and when disco music reigned. Bill Francoeur's music captures the essence of this unique era perfectly to create this hilarious musical that can't be beat for fun and energy! The students of Culpepper High are distressed that Rita's Roller Skating Rink, a favorite hangout of many of the local teens, must close temporarily for remodeling. At least Rita still is allowing them to hang out at the rink's snack bar. But all this extra activity at the rink is making things extremely difficult for jewel thief Buzz and his cohort in crime Delilah. Throw in school thugs Greg, Peter and Bobby, who are disguised as cheerleaders to help the malicious vice-principal and you've got enough crazy energy on stage for a disco!
Subscriptions Are On Sale Now
Richland Performing Arts Center offers affordable and flexible 4-Show, 3-Show, and
2-Show Subscriptions to fit anyone’s schedules. Season ticket packages start at just $6 per ticket, a HUGE savings over single ticket prices. Gold Card Members are welcome to join our subscription service free of charge.
Renewing subscribers can renew their subscription online at www.richlandpac.com. Renewals can also be placed by mail, by fax at 814-269-2304 or by calling the Box Office at 814-269-0300.
The Season Ticket Subscription Hotline is also open for anyone who would like to become a new Subscriber. New Subscriptions are filled on a date-received basis. New Subscribers should order their subscriptions early to secure the best seats.
Richland’s 2011-2012 Season also is the perfect outing for any social group. Groups of 10 or more should call the box office at 814-269-0300 to learn more about special discounts and priority seating for all productions.
For more information please visit www.richlandpac.com or call 814-269-0300.
