February 22

Upcoming Winter Theater Workshops in 2014
Registrations now being taken!
Leave the Winter doldrums behind & come on down to The Grand
for some acting classes that are sure to whisk away your Winter Blues...
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February 2014
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Carol Kor
Acting: Create Characters, Sharpen Focus,
Strengthen Ensemble
4 - 3 hour classes
Saturdays, February 1, 8, 15, 22
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
$100 Registration Fee
February Vacation Theater
Workshops for Youth (8-14)
Monday, February 17 Friday, February 21, 2014
9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Daily
on The Grand Stage
$30 Day / $125 Week
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Instructor: Carol Korty has been writing plays
and helping others write theirs for many years. Her
published scripts are available through Dramatic
Publishing, Players Press, and Playscripts, Inc.,
including a text for beginners, Writing Your Own
Plays. She has directed many productions and
regularly toured theater to schools with professional
casts and with student casts. She has taught theater
and drama classes to all ages from the very young through senior citizens
for over thirty years and served on the Performing Arts faculties of Antioch
College, State University College of New York/Brockport, University of
Massachusetts/ Amherst, Boston University, and Emerson College teaching
acting, movement, theater education, and playwriting. Now Professor
Emerita at Emerson College, she lives in Lamoine, Maine and is active in the
coastal town’s conservation commission, started its community theater, and
promotes drama projects in the local school.
www.grandonline.org
THE GRAND
January and
February 2014
Events at
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Ellsworth, ME
Permit #5
A different workshop each day!
Monday, Feb. 17th
Instructor: Carol Korty
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Acting Improvisation - Have fun learning
acting skills by playing theater games together. Overcome
stage fright and learn to speak up, move freely, and play
different characters.
Monday, Feb. 18th
Instructor: Peter Miller
THE GRAND
Downtown Ellsworth’s Arts & Entertainment Center
165 Main Street, Ellsworth, ME 04605
Stage Craft 101 - Come explore the 3 fundamentals
of what it takes to make a show happen! These
fundamentals are Scenic Design, Sound & Lighting.
Monday, Feb. 19th
Instructor: Carol Korty
Creating Your New Play - Playwriting on
your feet! Team up with others to create short plays based
on stories from books, tales, newspapers or your own life.
Then perform them for the group.
Monday, Feb. 20th
Instructor: Robin Jones
So You Wanna Act? - Learning to read a
script, create characters and talk in funny voices.
Monday, Feb. 21st
Instructor: Michelle Dokka
Singing in Character - Learn techniques to
sing to fit the story – using different emotions, voices etc.
Students will be split into smaller groups and be given
stories to work songs around.
May. Northern Light Dance Arts Recital
May. Maine People’s Alliance benefit concert
May.Film: Grapes of Wrath
Apr. Vacation Matinee: Tin Tin
Apr. Classic Film: Laurence of Arabia
Apr. Dancing w/ the Ellsworth Stars 2014
For information on all
upcoming events, go to:
www.grandonline.org
Mar. Classic Film: The Maltese Falcon
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January 3 & 4
January 17 – 19
Post Holiday Shows
Maine’s Own Comedian: Bob Marley
Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Maine presents:
January 31,
February 1 & 2
Fri., Jan. 3rd 7:00 pm,
Sat., Jan. 4th 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Fri., Jan. 17th 7:00 pm,
Sat., Jan. 18th 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm,
Sun., Jan. 19th 2:00 pm
$27.50 Reserved Seating
January 10
Live Music: Coke Weed
7:30 pm
Coke Weed, a psych-rock quintet, from Bar Harbor,
will be performing on The Grand’s stage lighting up
a cold January night with electricity!
$10 General Admission
January 12
Hollywood Classic Film: Rear Window
2:00 pm
(1954. USA 1hr., 55min. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
G.) One of Hitchcock’s classic thrillers. Laid up with
a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James
Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard
apartment. To pass the time between visits from his
nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend
Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries
stares through the rear window of his apartment at the
goings-on in the other apartments when he witnesses
what looks like a murder! With Wendell Corey,
Raymond Burr and Ross Bagdasarian.
$5 General Admission
Princess Ida
The piece concerns a princess who founds a women’s
university and teaches that women are superior to
men and should rule in their stead. The prince to
whom she had been married in infancy sneaks into
the university, together with two friends, with the aim
of collecting his bride. They disguise themselves as
women students but are discovered, and all soon
face a literal war between the sexes.
$20 Adults, $18 Seniors/Students (15 & under)
Reserved Seating
January 24
To Warm A Winter’s Night III
A fundraiser for the THAW fund and other
community heating funds.
Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus
7:00 pm
Live Music – Mac Lir, Trish Mason Band,
Bobbi Lane & The Crown Vics
$15 General Admission
January 25
Silent Film: The General
w/ live orchestra TEMPO
7:00 pm
(1926. USA. 1hr., 18min. Directed by Buster Keaton.
G. Silent.) Set during the Civil War, Buster Keaton
plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer
who loves his train engine, The General, almost as
much as he loves Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack).
When Northern spies steal the General (and,
unwittingly, Annabelle), the story switches from drama
and romance to adventure mixed with Keaton’s
trademark deadpan humor as he uses every means
possible to catch up to the General, thwart the Yankees,
and rescue his darling Annabelle – for starters!
TEMPO (The Eastern Maine Pops Orchestra for Young Musicians)
brings an all-new original score that will be played
live by the youth orchestra in synch with this hi-def,
restored silent comedy classic! The orchestra is
conducted by Rebecca Edmondson – composer of
this new score – and Ethan Edmondson, with thirty
middle school nd HS musicians from Central and
Downeast Maine (some traveling from as far away
as Herman and Benedicta).
$15 Adults/Seniors, $10 Youth (12 & under)
General Admission
January 30
NT Live: Coriolanus By William Shakespeare
2:00 pm
National Theatre Live will broadcast the Donmar
Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s
searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge,
with Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, War Horse (film),
BBC’s The Hollow Crown) in the title role and Mark
Gatiss (Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre,
BBC’s Sherlock) as Menenius, directed by the Donmar’s
Artistic Director Josie Rourke. When an old adversary
threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero
and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home
too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger
swells to an appetite for change, and on returning
from the field Coriolanus
must confront the march
of realpolitik and the
voice of an angry people.
$17 Adults, $15 Seniors,
$14 Members, $12 Students,
$10 Youth (12 & under)
General Admission
165 Main Street, Ellsworth, Maine 04605 • 207-667-9500 • www.grandonline.org
2014 Banff Mountain
Film Festival
Fri,. Jan. 31st Culture 7:00 pm
Sat., Feb. 1st Extreme Sports 7:00 pm
Sun., Feb. 2nd “Best Of” 2:00 pm
$14 General Admission
February 7
PAC: Film – “One Life”
BBC Documentary
10:00 am
An epic adventure with the heroes of our natural
world. This film is a nature documentary brought to
you by BBC Earth, Narrated by Daniel Craig.
$1.00 Reserved Seating
February 9
Classic Hollywood Film:
2:00 pm
Ellsworth’s Got Talent
Competition
Sponsored by No Frills Oil
Sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank
(1952 USA 1 hr., 42 min. Directed by Gene Kelly
and Stanley Donen. G.) Hollywood, 1927: the
silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene
Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of
Tinseltown. While Lockwood and Lamont personify
smoldering passions onscreen, in real life the
down-to-earth Lockwood can’t stand the egotistical,
brainless Lina. He prefers the company of aspiring
actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), whom he
met while escaping his screaming fans. Watching
these intrigues from the sidelines is Cosmo Brown
(Donald O’Connor), Don’s best pal and on-set
pianist. With Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse and
Kathleen Freeman.
$5 General Admission
7:00 pm
Singin’ In the Rain
February 8
February 17 – 21
1:00 pm
The Never Ending Story
Live from the MET: Rusalka (Dvorak)
Renée Fleming sings her first Live in HD performance
of one of her signature roles, the lovelorn mermaid
Rusalka, in Dvǒrák’s sumptuously melodic opera.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast that also
includes Piotr Beczala as the handsome Prince
Rusalka yearns to love; Dolora Zajick as the
cackling swamp witch Ježibaba; Emily Magee as
the Foreign Princess, Rusalka’s rival; and John Relyea
as Rusalka’s father, the Water Sprite.
$26 Adults/Seniors, $24 Grand Members,
$19 Students (15 & under) Reserved Seating
February 22
Vacation Matinee:
Sponsored by the City of Ellsworth &
Morton’s Moo
Catch the best of Ellsworth’s talent on The Grand stage!
$12 Adults/Seniors, $7 Youth (12 & under) General Admission
February 27
National Theatre: War Horse
2:00 pm
(Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for
the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences
on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural
Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled
with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving
and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal
inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing life-size
puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet
Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging
horses to thrilling life on stage.
$17 Adults, $15 Seniors, $14 Members, $12 Students,
$10 Youth (12 & under) General Admission
1:00 pm Daily
(1984. USA 1hr., 34min. Directed by Wolfgang
Petersen. PG.) Petersen adapted Michael Ende’s
children’s story for this charming fantasy film that
spawned several sequels. Bastian (Barret Oliver)
is dealing with his mother’s recent death. One
day he decides to play hooky and walks into a
strange bookstore, where in the attic, he discovers
a book called “The Neverending Story”. As Bastian
reads the book, he’s enveloped in an unfolding
tale concerning a sickly child-like empress (Tami
Stronach) and a young warrior named Atreju (Noah
Hathaway) fighting against a plague creature called
The Nothing. With Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn
and Deep Roy.
$1.00 General Admission
Performing
Arts
for Children
165 Main Street, Ellsworth, Maine 04605 • 207-667-9500 • www.grandonline.org