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KAUFFMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE

What began as a sketch on a napkin has become an architectural icon and home for the performing arts in Kansas City. The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has changed Kansas City’s skyline, and will soon change the experiences of artists and audiences throughout the region.

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts will be bustling with a free community open house, Sunday, September 18. More than 40 of Kansas City’s finest performing arts groups, composed of approximately 450 individual artists will perform.

NOTE: This is a free and open event and no tickets will be issued. By registering for this event, you will receive updates regarding the Open House program including performance announcements and parking instructions.

In addition, you will automatically qualify for a drawing to win two tickets to the Theater League’s production of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET at the Kauffman Center.

Backpacks and other large bags will be searched. Safety is our number one priority for this fun-filled weekend, and we thank you for your cooperation.

To register for this event follow the process through the “purchase” button:

MURIEL KAUFFMAN THEATRE

12:05     Kansas City Ballet Reach Out and Dance Program

12:10     Wylliams – Henry Dance Company

12:25     Owen Cox Dance Group

12:40     Quality Hill Playhouse

12:55     Kansas City Ballet Reach Out and Dance Program

1:00        City In Motion

1:15        Storling Dance

1:30        El Grupo Folklorico

1:45        Kacico Dance

2:00        Kansas City Ballet School

2:30        Tamara Sanders Dance Duo

3:00        Angel Rattay

3:15        Megan Birdsall

3:30        Ruskin Quartet

3:45        School Of Rock

4:00        Ginger Frost High School Honors Artists and Lyric Opera Youth Chorus

4:15        Nova 4/Fedra Cooper

4:30        Out of Bounds/Val Price

4:45        Mambo De Leon

HELZBERG HALL

12:00     Kansas City Youth Symphony

(25 min set, 30 min strike)

1:00        Kansas City Youth Jazz Band

1:20        Jasmin Xixa Jazz Flute

1:40        Alaturka Classical/Jazz

2:00        Kansas City Boys/Girls Choir

2:20        Fine Arts Chorale

2:40        Bach Aria Soloists

(30 min set)

3:20        Kansas City Wind Symphony

3:40        Heartland Men’s Chorus

4:00        Kansas City Chamber Orchestra

4:20        Music Art Inst. Children’s Choir

4:40        KC Symphonic Percussion Group

STAGE 1: FRONT WEST

12:00     Rob Foster

12:40     Ten String Symphony

1:20        Shawnee Mission HS Drumline

2:00        Rob Foster

2:40        Paul Mesner Puppets

3:20        Drew Six

4:00        Paul Mesner Puppets

4:40        Kansas City Mass Choir

STAGE 2: FRONT EAST

12:20     Wild Women

1:00        Juan Carlos Chaurand

1:40        Wild Women

2:20        Shawnee Mission West HS Drumline

3:00        Shanice/Maurice Hayes

3:40        Bridgid Driscoll

4:20        Matthew McKinney

STAGE 3: EAST COURTYARD

12:00     Cimino

12:40     Rob Foster

1:20        Ten String Symphony

2:00        Kansas City Mass Choir

2:40        Juan Carlos Chaurand

3:20        Matthew McKinney

4:00        Drew Six

4:40        Shanice/Maurice Hayes

STAGE 4:  WYANDOTTE

12:20     Trampled Underfoot

1:00        Trampled Underfoot

1:40        Juan Carlos Chaurand

2:20        Matthew McKinney

3:00        Kansas City Mass Choir

3:40        Shanice/Maurice Hayes

4:20        Bridgid Driscoll

Printable Kauffman Schedule

Interested in an easy way to pad your resume? Do you enjoy Broadway Theater? Do you like free stuff? Are you a hard-worker with a rockin’ personality?

If you answered yes to any of those questions then you have come to the right place my friend!

Theater League has decided to incorporate a Street Team into their Grassroots marketing initiative and would love for you to join us! What does being part of the Theater League Street Team mean you ask? It’s simple!  You will receive posters and fliers to hang and distribute. Hanging these posters will result in not JUST invaluable marketing and industry experience but also enable you to receive show tickets!

Fliers & 25 posters = voucher for 1 ticket*
Fliers & 50 posters = voucher for 2 tickets*

*Ticket availability subject to show

You must hang at least 25 posters to successfully complete the program. These posters may be hung in any public place that can be verified (No telephone poles). Do not hang more than 1 poster at any one small business. However, two posters are allowed at larger businesses with two entrances.  Send us a list of locations where you have hung the posters and we will verify the posters have been put up. You will receive a verification sheet to write down the phone numbers and addresses of the businesses where you hung the posters. It is important to successfully complete the program in order to participate in future initiatives.

Being a member of the Theater League Street Team offers the potential for many additional opportunities aside from the free ticket for postering.  It’s a “You get out, what you put in” type of deal! We have several industry professionals at the Theater League offices who would be happy to take the time to work with you on your area of interest. Take the time to fill out the form below.  Just click the “Join Now” button!

*Mac users need to download the pdf (ctrl + click the link) to be able to submit the form

Please return this form by 5:00 p.m. October 3, 2011, to be considered for the poster program (you may wish to keep a copy for your records).

You can submit this form online by clicking “submit form”,  by emailing the completed .pdf to Brett.Schlaegel@theaterleague.org or by snail mail:

Theater League
P.O. Box 140206
Kansas City, MO 64114

Space in the poster program is limited, so we can not guarantee that you will be accepted. If accepted you will be notified by email in mid-October. If you would like to fax this form, make a photocopy and fax it to 913-652-7479. Your tickets will be sent via email, so please provide us with an email address on the form. If you do not have an email address, please write “none” in the space provided. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to call our office at 800-776-7469

Followers of the Theater League Insider now have access to an Exclusive Pre-Sale code to purchase individual tickets before they go on sale to the general public.

Click the Ticketmaster icon:
Then Use the Pre-Sale Code: TLBOAK

Don’t miss-out on the opportunity to purchase tickets early and get the best seats to: Sandy Hackett’s RAT PACK SHOW, BLUE MAN GROUP, MY FAIR LADY, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW and AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN.

Individual tickets on sale to the general public August 28th, 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster outlets and 12 noon at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza box office.

Only Theater League Members can purchase additional tickets today to all 2011-12 Theater League shows!

Use the code 1891 to open the sale, and code 1982 to save $5 on tickets.

Online Ordering Instructions:

1 -visit Wichitatix.com and click on Show Choice

2- click Continue (in the upper right)

3- Enter code: 1891 when prompted to gain access to the Season Member pre-sale opportunity

4- Select your show date and click Presale>

5- Select your seat area of choice from the “Area” drop down menu, like the one pictured below

6- Choose any TEAL colored seat and click Order Seats

7- Log -In or Create an Account and Apply the code 1982 during check out to get your to get a $5 discount at the payment screen (thru the entire season)!

Have a question? call WichitaTix at 316-219-4849

Joni Sheram wrote “Cups” and starred in the one-woman play when it premiered in 2008. She died of cancer in November, but the play lives on. Contributed photo.

In ‘Cups,’ a woman looks back at her life through the bras she’s worn

By Jeff Favre
Posted August 12, 2011 at 12:04 a.m.

The one-woman play, presented by Theater League, will be performed by Gwynyth Walsh through Sept. 4 in the Scherr Forum Theatre at Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks.

Performances are at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $43.30 and available in person at the box office or through Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster. com. For more information, visit theaterleague.com.

From KCLU.org
Play Premiering in Ventura County Looks At Milestones In A Woman’s Life Through Her Bras. A stage comedy which looks at the milestones in a woman’s life through the bras she’s worn in making its Southern California debut in Thousand Oaks. KCLU’s Lance Orozco gives us a look at the production of CUPS.

TO PURCHASE TICKETS CLICK HERE

LINK TO INTERVIEW ON KCLU

Nora (Star Trek Generations favorite Gwynyth Walsh) discovers that her bras hold memories too, in the LA premier of CUPS by Joni Sheram, now through September 4 at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza's intimate Scherr Forum Theatre.

CUPS traces the milestones in a woman’s life through the bras she’s worn. The one-woman show, written by Joni Sheram, captures a lifetime of remarkable events in this hilarious, often poignant memory play. From training to push-up, front-hooked and strapless to nursing and mastectomy, CUPS reminds us how these intimates hold our memories, too.

The show’s star Gwynyth Walsh, has co-starred in the acclaimed CBC series “DaVinci’s Inquest” and has been featured on the television series “ER,” “Smallville,” “NYPD,” and “Star Trek; The Next Generation,”  among many others. She won a Dramalogue Award for her work with the LA Shakespeare Festival and has performed at Canada’s prestigious Stratford Festival.

Purchase tickets today by calling 800.745.3000, online www.theaterleague.com or by visiting any Ticketmaster outlets.

Groups of 10+ call 866.314.7687

Have a conflict with a show on the 2011-12 Mesa Arts Center season?

No problem! As a season member, you can participate in our season members only Swap-A-Show Convenience Program which allows you to exchange tickets to a show you are unable to attend for tickets to another show on the 2011-12 Theater League season. The same exchange fees apply, plus the cost difference if you elect to exchange into a more expensive performance. Please allow the box office two weeks notice before the scheduled performance you wish to exchange. You will not be refunded if you exchange into a less expensive performance. You are permitted to swap out of one show per season.

*Due to contractual obligations, this program is limited to The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Mesa Arts Center and the Orpheum Theatre.