ELMA THEATER's
Patron's Group
Elma, WA. USA
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As you may have already observed on our main theater home web page (if you came from there), our last major imported attractions were Vaude DeVille with guests Wrinkles of Washington and The Nutcracker All Jazzed Up by High Impact Dance Company
May be able to find info on Symphony concert reschedule which was rescheduled several times from Nov 12, 07, to March 8, 2008, now Sunday March 9, 2208 4:00 PM. Now cancelled again because building closed under abatement orders by Elma Building Official/Fire Marshal. Hope to try to reschedule again when Theater Open again.
by click on below link.
Our schedule for remainder of 2008 is blank or tentative still and will remain so until we know if we can sell enough tickets to guarentee advanced booking fees for any more imported venues and when building repairs completed. We do know that once again by request from a new group of young people that we will be putting yet another of our annual productions of Alice in Wonderland up hopefully in order to meet the Queen of Hearts around Valentine's Day of 2009 or the White Rabbit again around Easter of 2008. Our annual production of Scrooge no doubt again (maybe last one or two weekends in 2008 before Christmas. And we are trying to book in another opera by N.O.I.S.E. (Northwest Operas In Schools) (last time here they performed Daughter of The Regiment). Still trying to book in another show directed by Mr. Patrick D. Hart from a theater in North Hollywood. We are still trying to get up repeats of one of the plays The Odd Couple (male version or female version). Keep recasting actors due to the losses caused by their relocation caused by loss of local employment.
This page and community web still under construction and or last revised as of Feb 29, 2008.
We started these pages by accumulating some pictures of our ongoing theater ceiling restoration efforts by Connie Bevington on this community's Pictures page to be viewed by clicking on "Pictures" on the left of this window. We all appreciate this very tedious stencil art work being done by Connie on a 25 foot high ladder on the left side of the auditorium. The right side will go up in prepainted 4x8 panels as soon as we can afford to rent the scaffolding.
Wow! Now thanks to Tom Rose we now have the free use of scaffolding which is up and we are making some progress
Even though Good Doctor by Neil Simon performances are long ago done & over with click "Documents" on left for old casting callbacks & "Pictures" for scenes mostly from rehearsals.
The 2002, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 big band concerts by The Washington State American Legion Band were great successes. We appreciate all the donations that helped with both their and our show expenses. More important though was the show of support by your attendance to these great shows. Next years (Sept. 2008) will no doubt be even better. The booking date for this concert which seems to be becoming an annual tradition will be the same around the first weekend in September, 2008. The September 2004 show featured a special guest artist. Mr Louis Stewart born in Aberdeen WA. now living in Boston (Where he is prof. of composition & Conducting at Berklee College) conducting one of his own compositions and playing two piano solos). He was heartily welcomed by the audience.
We are now casting (people of all ages) for our next annual productions of Alice in Wonderland, 2008 (hopefully you saw us do this in March 2005 along with Scrooge , & Die Fledermouse in Dec.
We need one more of six male adult and one more of two female adult support actors for the male version of The Odd Couple. The two lead roles are in rehearsal already and doing very well. We still need a few adult sized singers for our now annual major effort to present a sing in of Die Fledermaus on one or two of the evenings or so before New Years Eve.
See our main page link to our 2008 Schedule for actual bookings as they are finalized.
We will be taking inventory of our available resources (ie people & funds) and decide what else we may want to do for the rest of 2008 and 2009 soon
A great venue was our booking in of the fabulous Russian Chorus. This happened Sunday 4/4/2004. We hope to book them in again per popular demand soon in 2008 or 9. We will begin re-negotiations with Them soon, One of two Symphony orchestras from Seattle or SW WA, A ballet company's Swan Lake and a guest Steinway Artist of The Year Award Winner concert as soon as we find out how many advance tickets we can sell on contingency. This means if we don't sell enough tickets we cancel and return the checks. (no cash please)
An anonymous Elma business man is still negotiating for a Christmas Concert by The Singing Nuns from Spokane.
Rehearsals are held at the theater 6 - 8 PM Wednesday evenings. If you have never tried acting you have missed a lot of fun. But call first because we don't always meet yet because it's too cold to heat theater and pellets may be rationed as they were last year. That's why we cancelled last years Scrooge performance
We are now meeting in the office until we rent it again that was rented to The US Dept of Highways. Door just to right of main theater entrance doors. 115 N 4th Street. This until repairs in auditorium ceiling etc completed. Our 2008 Schedule of Events has been added to our main web page and will be well maintained listing all venues as soon as they are finalized.
On past schedules you can find links to past venue info. It is our intention to retroactively have links to videos and pictures of most past venues within past years schedules if we can. If anyone has pictures, videos, or historical info of these events please contact Kingsley
so he can borrow them for insertion on our web
Meanwhile; if you didn't get here from there, or you can return to, and/or view our-- "Elma Theater" main theater web sight by clicking
If you go back to above be sure to click on the community web link for info on our Old Elma Bank Bldg purchase and exterior restoration efforts. Not sure what we are going to do with interior. Probably rent out front 3/4 & keep back 1/4 for theater set building and storage ( or vice versa). Might turn front part into a more intimate playhouse for dramas or video projction. Presently using whole building for a shop for setbuilding & storage.
Note: We have purchased the house at 415 W. Young Street that's back yard is also the backyard of the theater. Along with above mentioned Old Elma Bank Bldg there might be enough rental income to keep the theater going after K.S.Hall's death and loss of his retirement income without which the theater would financially fail. A proposed financial reorgaization paper is viewable on the last link from our main page which may be finalized only if Kingsley Hall's family heirs are convinced the East Grays Harbor County & Elma citizens care. Our participation & attendance by local people is not very convincing.
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