In celebration of this historical 2010 20th Anniversary Season, Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana, is thrilled to announce that they will be raffling off a 2011 Chevy Malibu, generously donated to the theater by Milford P. Christenson of Christenson Chevrolet in Highland, Indiana.
The raffle will run April 22 through December 19, 2010 for the 2011 Chevy Malibu. Tickets are $20 each or six for $100, cash or checks only. Proceeds will benefit all Theatre at the Center Main Stage productions, Theatre for Young Audiences program, Education through Theatre program and Special Events & Concerts. Tickets will be sold at the Theatre at the Center Box Office, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana, from April 22 through December 19, 2010. The winner will be drawn at intermission of the final performance of IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS, December 19, 2010. The winner does not need to be present to win. For more information about the raffle or purchasing tickets, call 219.836.3255.
Mr. Christenson, owner of Christenson Chevrolet, was born, raised and has lived on the same street in Griffith for his whole life and is very proud of that fact! He has always been very active in the communities he lives and works in beginning by being a volunteer fireman in his younger days. He also served on the Griffith School Board for 15 years and is now on the Griffith Public School Educational Foundation Board. Mr. Christenson has served on advisory boards at both Purdue Calumet and Indiana University Northwest for many years as well as the Varsity Club Board of Directors at Indiana University. He is also a board member of the Hammond YMCA and in 2001 was nominated by Indiana new car dealers to represent the State of Indiana in the Time Magazine Dealer of the Year Program. He served many years on the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra board, is a perfect attendance member of the Griffith Rotary Club and belongs to the American Legion and VFW, having just recently received the Bronze Medal for service in WWII. Mr. Christenson, at 87 years old, sets the example of a person dedicated to his family, business and community. Theatre at the Center is grateful for his generosity and continuous support of the arts!
Join Theatre at the Center in celebrating their 2010 20th Anniversary Season by attending their next production I Do! I Do!, a musical about marriage, directed by Chuck Gessert. I Do! I Do! was the first two-person musical ever performed on Broadway, written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the creative duo behind The Fantasticks and 110 In the Shade. This remarkably intimate, thoroughly romantic piece, allows audiences into the bedroom of Agnes and Michael, as they try to maintain passion and devotion through the joys and pains, trials and tribulations, setbacks and celebrations of their fifty year marital odyssey. In that time we watch them go through their wedding night jitters, raise a family, negotiate mid-life crises, quarrel, separate, reconcile and grow old together, all lovingly to the strains of a tuneful, charming score which includes the standard "My Cup Runneth Over." This endearing story of marriage will run April 22 through May 23. The press performance will be April 25.
For the first time ever, Theatre at the Center will produce the ever popular and inspirational Jesus Chris Superstar. This groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece by legendary writing team Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, will run July 8 through August 8 with a press performance on July 15. The first collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be performed on the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar illuminates the transcendent power of the human spirit with a passion that goes straight to the heart. The production features a stirring score including "Superstar", "Everything's Alright" and "I Don't Know How to Love Him". In Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus is portrayed as a prophet / rock star whose appeal stems as much from the crowd's energy as from his own inspirational message. Jesus' meteor-like rise in renown provides, as the title suggests, a parallel to contemporary celebrity worship. As his radical teachings are evermore embraced, Judas increasingly questions the enlightened motives of this new prophet, resulting in betrayal. In this production, Christ's final days are dramatized with emotional intensity, thought-provoking edge and explosive theatricality.
The first area premier of the Tony Award winning Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on the popular 1988 MGM film, and centers on two con men living on the French Riviera - the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money; and a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, who, more humbly, swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health. After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn't big enough for the two of them. So they make a bet: the first one to swindle $50,000 from a young heiress, triumphs and the other must leave town. What follows are a series of schemes, masquerades and double-crosses in which nothing may ever be exactly what it seems. This Tony Award winning musical will run September 9 through October 10. The press performance will be September 16.
Kris Kringle takes on the cynics among us and brings us into the holidays in It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, a musical adaptation of the popular holiday favorite "Miracle on 34th Street". In his inimitable style, Meredith Willson, the author of The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, tells the classic story of a white-bearded gentleman claiming to be the real Santa Claus as he brings about a genuine Miracle on 34th Street. Spreading a wave of love throughout New York City, this man inspires the city, fostering camaraderie between Macy's and Gimbel's Department Stores and convincing a divorced, cynical single mother, her somber daughter and the entire state of New York that Santa Claus is no myth. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas runs November 11 through December 12, with the press performance on November 18.
Celebrating it's 20th Anniversary, Theatre at the Center is a year-round professional theater at its home, The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana. Theatre at the Center is conveniently located off I-80/94, just 35 minutes from downtown Chicago and has free parking.
Performances for the 2010 20th Anniversary season are Wednesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 p.m.; Fridays at 8:00 p.m.; Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 7:30, and Saturdays at 2:30 p.m. Car Raffle tickets are available for purchase beginning April 22nd. Raffle tickets are only $20 each or 6 for $100. Also, 4 Pack Subscriptions are now available! Each 4 Pack Subscription is good for one ticket to each of the remaining 2010 productions. At only $120, this fits into any budget and makes a perfect gift for Mother's Day! For more information and/or to purchase Car Raffle Tickets, Four Pack Subscriptions individual tickets and/or gift certificates, call the Box Office at 219.836.3255. For more information on Theatre at the Center, visit
TheatreAtTheCenter.com.
