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Florissant Fine Arts Council
‘The Courthouse Steps’ Plays Oct. 24
In Fine Arts Council Applause Series
Florissant Fine Arts Council will present the following shows for its 35th Anniversary Season of Applause/Applause 2009-2010.All Applause/Applause Series performances are held at the Florissant Civic Center Theatre, Parker Road at Waterford Drive. Season and group tickets are on sale now. For tickets or more information, call 314-921-5678.
• Saturday, Oct. 24, 8 p.m. The Courthouse Steps. Parodies, Headlines, and Laughs, OH MY! A favorite around the city, The Courthouse Steps is an area group of singing attorneys who poke fun at national and local events through parodies of varying favorite tunes. Dedicated to the venerable legal principle of equal opportunity jabs, The Courthouse Steps provide uproarious laughs that cover both sides of the political fence!
• Saturday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. “Duelling Divas.” An outrageously funny celebration of opera’s over-the-top personalities! Baroness Vladka Von Loudenstimme has had a long career on the opera stage, but for how much longer is anyone’s guess. She’s still got the pipes, but she likes to soak them in booze during every performance. When she hires a younger Southern Belle to sing for the audience so she can step off stage for a nip, the diva duet becomes a duel of epic proportions
• Saturday, Dec. 12, 8 p.m. “Radio Holly Days” featuring Five By Design. Five By Design, a long-time favorite on our series, returns with a fresh set list of holiday classics! Adding holiday flair to their always-charming 1940s radio broadcast, Radio Holly Days recalls the traditional Christmas music of Irving Berlin as performed by Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, and the Modernnaires. It’s a dazzling evening of holiday hits in five-part harmony!
• Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 – 8 p.m. Octarium – “Should Have Been Choral” Kansas City’s hottest new a cappella octet! Featuring eight exceptional voices in perfectly blended harmony, Octarium performs their nationally-recognized “Should Have Been Choral,” a rethinking of the music we know best – orchestral symphonies, pop songs, and Broadway hits – retooled for choral voices! Riverfront Times says, “…their voices warp and weave, coalescing as a single instrument of tremendous power and depth.”
• Thursday, Feb. 25, – 8 p.m. “Leading Ladies” From the Montana Repertory Theatre Comedy Tonight! A “well-spring of gut-busting laughter,” this cross-dressing farce of two down-on-their-luck thespians hatching a hair-brained swindle is a grand romp in the vein of “Some Like It Hot.” You’ll laugh so hard you’ll cry in this brilliant evening of comedy from the famed Montana Rep!
Saturday, March 20 – 8 p.m. Tony Kenny’s “Celtic Nights” Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the Emerald Isle’s premier entertainer and his troupe of Irish dancers, storytellers, and musicians! A regular on our series, Mr. Kenny plays to sold-out houses and cruises around the world. Join us for an evening of Irish music, step-dancing, laughter, tears, and thunderous applause!
• Tuesday, April 20, – 8 p.m. “Route 66” From Springer Theatricals. Get your kicks on this pedal-to-the-metal, high-octane, hit-song-fueled ride across the nation’s most celebrated road! With wild characters, antics, and good old-fashioned shtick, Route 66 features hits from the late 1950s and early 1960s including “Dead Man’s Curve,” “I Get Around,” “GTO,” “Little Old Lady from Pasadena,” and many more.
Friday, May 14, – 8 p.m. “Cabaret” Life is a cabaret, old chum! Winner of 12 Tony Awards, the legendary Broadway musical “Cabaret” rounds out the FFAC’s 35th anniversary season. Set in Berlin with the voices of Nazism arising around the good times of the 1920s nightlife, Cabaret is the tale of Sally Bowles, an Englishwoman living the high life in Germany as the clouds are beginning to gather.
Season tickets on sale now. Call 314-921-5678. Visit the newly re-designed website at www.florissantfinearts.com.
“TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING” will be Oct. 16 – 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 – 2: p.m. and Oct. 18 – 2 p.m. at the Florissant Civic Center. Nine-year-old Peter Hatcher’s life would be sweet if it weren’t for Fudge, his toddler terror of a brother! St. Louis Family Theatre Series opens their ’09-’10 season with this Two Beans Productions, capturing all the humor, sibling rivalry and elementary school angst of Judy Blume’s book. Admission is $7 to all; Group rates available Info and reservations: 314-921-5678
