2nd Star Productions
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----------------------TICKET PRICES 2009 ---------------------
General Admission - $20 -- Seniors (60+) and Full Time Students - $17
Discount available for prepaid groups
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Please call our box office for reservations or info at
(410) 757-5700 or (301) 832-4819 *new number*
Quality Theatrical Productions
at the Bowie Playhouse
in Bowie, MD Since 1996
This page was last updated on: June 13, 2009
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Our Nonprofit Status...
2nd Star Productions is now incorporated as a non-profit organization, making it possible for you to support us and get a tax break for doing so! Please help support our quest for excellent theater. Your tax-deductible contributions are greatly appreciated and will be well spent. All contributions include membership and an acknowledgment in our show programs.$1000 ------ Super Novas$500 ------- Starmakers$250 ------- Sunbeams$100 ------- Moonbeams$50 --------- Sparklers$25 ---------- Stardusters Contact us at the phone numbers listed above, or by e-mail. Just click the "Contact 2nd Star" button above. Thank you for your support!
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Latest News from 2nd Star ...Spring 2009
2nd Star Productions is supported in part by a grant from
the Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Commission.
Looking for Volunteers...
2nd Star Productions is always in need of volunteers! If you have a skill you'd like to share, and some free time, let us know.
We are currently looking for help in the following areas:
Ushers,
Seamstresses,
Anyone with a "box truck" that we could use
for transporting our sets to the theater.
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Please contact our volunteer coordinator, Patti Mangum
at pamangum(at)aol.com (use the @ symbol for 'at')
Congrats to the Cast of "No Sex Please, We're British"
2nd Star Productions proudly presents
the stirring musical
"Man of La Mancha"
By Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh,
and Joe Darion
May 29 thru June 27, 2009
at the BOWIE PLAYHOUSE
in Whitemarsh Park
Directed by Jane B. Wingard
Musical Direction by Donald K. Smith
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM
Sundays at 3 PM
Closing performance June 27 at 3 PM
This magnificent story surrounds Don Miquel de Cervantes and his manservant as they are thrown into a dungeon and wait to be questioned by the Inquisitors during the Spanish Inquisition. A “poet of the theatre” by trade and tax collectors out of necessity, the two have been imprisoned for making an assessment against a monastery. In the prison Cervantes is put on trial by his fellow prisoners. In defense, he offers a play, portraying Don Quixote de LaMancha, the alter ego of Senor Alanzo Quijana, an aging gentleman whose brain has “dried up”. Quijana sees things not as they are, but as how they ought to be and becomes a knight-errant to set the world right. Cervantes invites the fellow prisoners to take part in the tale and slowly they begin to believe in his “Impossible Dream” (the best known of the show’s marvelous songs.)
Now Playing - "Man of La Mancha"
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
"No Sex Please, We're British"
By Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott
The play was presented
February 20 thru March 14, 2009
at the BOWIE PLAYHOUSE
in Whitemarsh Park
Directed by Charles W. Maloney.
Great job, everyone!
From left to right, back row: Al Chopey as Superintendant Paul, Steve N. Bradford as Brian Runnicles, and Lesley Miller as Frances Hunter. Seated in front: James Poole as Peter Hunter.
Season Tickets Now On Sale - WE NEED YOUR HELP!
2nd Star Productions is facing a major challenge. With our financial cushion nearly gone, we offer the following proposed season with the condition that we must sell enough season tickets to cover the basic expenses for the productions.
September - Neil Simon comedy "The Dinner Party"
November - Holiday musical TBA
March - "On Golden Pond"
June - "Fiddler on the Roof"
We need to sell 500 season subscriptions to offer all shows as scheduled. You can be part of the solution. If you are a current season ticket holder, please renew your subscription as soon as possible and recruit a new subscriber or two to come with you! Join the groups of families and friends who use their season tickets as a reason to get together during the year. And remember, without your commitment to us we will not be able to offer a season. I'ts up to you! Support Live Theatre!!!!
Season Ticket Orders will be accepted from now through July 1, 2009. DEADLINE EXTENDED!
If, on July 1, we feel that it is financially viable to offer the season, we will process orders and let you know; if not we will cancel the orders and return any payment that has been sent.
To order Season Tickets, please click the button for a printable Ticket Request Form.
Mail ticket requests to 1106 Skyway Drive, Annapolis, MD 21409. You may enclose payment now, which we will hold until the July 1 decision is made or you may commit now and we will contact you for payment after July 1.
PLEASE SEND ALL RESPONSES TO JANE DIRECTLY at jbw-2ndstar@excite.com
2nd Star News Update
The 2nd Star Newsletter is out for Spring 2009.
To read the latest news, please click the button "2nd Star News" in the blue bar at left.
2nd Star Productions announces auditions for our Fall 2009 comedy,
“The Dinner Party” by Neil Simon. Auditions will be held:
Saturday June 20 at 12 PM
and Sunday June 21 at 6 PM.
Directed by Charles W. Maloney, “The Dinner Party” will be performed weekends
September 4 through September 19, 2009.
A serious comedy from the master of American comedy. Six people (three men and three women) are individually invited to dinner in a fancy French restaurant by a mutual friend. They do not know who the other guests will be, or even why they have been invited. Turns out that each of the three couples are divorced (one couple twice), and the person who invited them (never appears) thinks they should have a chance at reconciliation. Some wonderfully funny lines, as you always expect from Neil Simon, but some serious, meaty confrontation that you seldom see, and a few Broadway critics were divided over. Rich characters for experienced actors. Age range: late 30s to maybe early 60s depending on who looks good with who (whom?). Rehearsals begin in late June, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and some Saturday mornings.
All auditions and performances will be held at the newly renovated Bowie Playhouse in Whitemarsh Park, just off southbound route 3 in Bowie, MD. Bring a resume and head shot if you have them. (If you have been in a recent 2nd Star production, resume and head shot are optional unless you want to update your file). Bring a list of your scheduled commitments for 2009, as we will ask for rehearsal/performance conflicts. Auditions begin very promptly! Call 410-757-5700 or 301-832-4819 for more information.
Auditions! Neil Simon's "The Dinner Party"
