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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... d February 2014 with ty! 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 f 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 NON PROFIT U.S. Postage PAID Ellsworth, ME Permit #5 A different workshop each day! Monday, Feb. 17th Instructor: Carol Korty d 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 Don’t miss these upcoming Grand events in 2014! FOLLOW US ON January 2014 Grand Events February 2014 Grand Events 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
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