ANNOUNCES
ITS 2005 - 2006 SEASON
Joseph N. Lotito, Executive Director, is proud to announce Salt City Center for the Performing Arts' 2005-06 Season. Tickets information can be found under the tickets button on the left.
According to Joseph N. Lotito, Executive Director, the 2005-2006 season of Salt City Center for the Performing Arts will begin on November 11 with Bill Does Will: an Evening of Shakespeare, a one man show, starring Bill Molesky in a collaborative creative effort with Neil Novelli , the area's acknowledged expert on Shakespeare, and design consultants Karel Blakeley and Shirley Blakeley. When Molsesky asked Novelli for a solo Shakespearean vehicle replete with men, women, dogs, and ships at sea, Novelli provided the concept: a collection of intimate monologues between the character and the audience. The monologues are Shakespeare's. The connecting commentaries are Novelli's .
The show opens with successive recitations of Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be – one with the “fourth wall” apparent, the other aimed solely at the audience, demonstrating the power of a character's direct appeal to those hearts in the dark.
Some of the evening's characters include Shakespeare's Villains: Richard III, Lear's bastard, Edmund, and Claudius (as song and dance man); Shakespeare's Clowns: Verona's Launce with his dog, Crab; and of course, John Falstaff: and, in themed groupings, a host of others: Lady MacBeth , Juliet's nurse, Richard II, Much Ado's Benedick , Polonius, Malvolio …and a clown has the last word with Feste's closing of Twelfth Night .
Bill Does Will , directed by Joseph N. Lotito, will be performed at Jazz Central at 441 Washington Street on November 11, 12 and 13 and November 18, 19 and 20, Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:15 pm and Sunday shows are at 2:00 pm . Tickets for Bill Does Will are offered at a special price of $10.00 for adults and $6.00 for high school students and below.
The second show of the season will be the 12 th annual A Dickens of a Christmas starring Bill Molesky as Scrooge and Casey Ryan as Middle Aged Scrooge. A three week run, the show opens on December 2 and will be at 8:15 pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:00 pm on Sundays. A Dickens of a Christmas will be performed at Most Holy Rosary Church .
An original comedy by John Smitherman, Watchin ' Waldo, will also play at Jazz Central and will run for three weekends beginning on January 20.Smitherman, previously seen in Salt City Center productions of Jekyll and Hyde and The Secret Garden will direct and appear in the comedy.
The twenty-ninth annual production of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar will open on March 10 and play for four weeks. Superstar will be performed at Most Holy Rosary church's auditorium and will star Casey Ryan as Jesus, and will be directed by Joe Lotito.
MARRIAGE IS MURDER by Nick Hall opening May 5
"Paul & Polly Butler used to be a husband and wife murder-mystery writing
team. Their novel way of testing the realism of the murders in their novels
was to try out the murder methods on each other - poisoned chocolates,
lethal martinis, alibis, fingerprints, bodies in trunks, and bodies all tied
up, daggers, guns, and even an axe.
After 18 months of divorce, Paul reluctantly agrees to get back together
with Polly to write one more book. Now that they are divorced, how real
will the murder methods be?
This comedy thriller features the real life husband and wife team of Nora
O'Dea & Dan Stevens."
