PERFORMANCE RIVERSIDE'S DISCOVERY THEATRE FIELD TRIPS

Now booking for Winter and Spring 2012!

Photo by Ralph Ybarra

Performance Riverside's Discovery Theatre program has a great season lined up for 2012! We offer up to 80% savings for public, private, and home school field trips to these AM weekday performances. These are fun and informative “edu-tainment”.....an ideal way to capture the magic of LIVE theatre for your students!

Alexander, Who's Not, Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Going to Move

Adapted from the “Alexander” books of Judith Viorst

February 10, 2012   10:00am and 11:15am

Welcome back Alexander who, in this lively musical play, is having yet another terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad experience! This time his dad gets a job in a new city so Alexander must leave his best friend, his soccer team and his great babysitter behind, but his family finds a way to make the move easier and help him understand that home is "where you're with the people who love you best of all."

$5 per ticket  Grades K-6  One hour

ANNIE

April 13, 19 and 20, 2012  10am

Big production numbers, glorious anthems, tearfully tender tunes, thrills and adventure, cute plucky kids, and loveable pooches! Annie, the legendary Tony award winning smash has continued to delight, dazzle and enchant audiences young and old for 35 years…come and see why people still rave about this Broadway blockbuster! In the newspapers, Little Orphan Annie helped lift the American spirit out of the Great Depression with tales of a courageously spirited little girl who became a beacon of hope for a brighter “Tomorrow!” On Broadway, Annie took the 1977 Tony Awards by storm, winning seven awards including Best Musical, Best Book, Best Actress and Best Original Score. Annie’s score brought us such sensational show-stoppers as “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,”   “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” “Easy Street,”  “I Don’t Need Anything But You” and, of course,  “Tomorrow.” In autumn of 2012, Annie will return to Broadway for a  gala 35th revival, but YOU can see it HERE first, live onstage at Performance Riverside!  

$8 per ticket. Grades 2 and up  Two and one-half hours 

NEW PERFORMANCE JUST ADDED!

CHICAGO

Highly reccomended for High School and College Theatre, Music, and Dance students. 

The winner of six Tony awards AND six Academy Awards, Chicago’s creative team, Director/Choreographer Bob Fosse and songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb, were at the height of their creative powers when they created this audacious Broadway Blockbuster. Set amid the razzle-dazzle decadence of roaring twenties, Chicago, the story, told in the presentational, Vaudevillian style of the time, is a hilariously biting satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the “celebrity criminal.” Chorus girl, Roxie Hart, murders a faithless lover, convinces her husband Amos to take the rap...he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Defense attorney Billy Flynn, as much a ringmaster and flim-flam artist as a lawyer, proceeds to masterfully manipulate the press, the public, and the legal system in the hope of getting the public on her side. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess,” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of “the American Dream: Fame, Fortune, and Acquittal!” Fosse’s inimitable choreography, Kander and Ebb tunes like “Razzle Dazzle,” “All That Jazz, ” and “Mr. Cellophane,” and wild, witty dialogue make this an event you will NOT want to miss!

Tickets $8 per person.  Two hours and fifteen minutes

Grades: High School and College - Some mature content 

For reservations call

951.222.8372

or email

SchoolShows@PerformanceRiverside.org

or

Chuck.Abernathy@rcc.edu

    Please prepare your group for being courteous audience members. Remind students that they are seeing a live production with real actors. Movement and voices in the audience can distract the performers, and other audience members. Since theatre is not like a video that can rewind and playback, audience members must be free from distractions in order to understand all parts of the story. Patrons are, of course, encouraged to laugh when they find it funny and clap at the end of the play to show the actors they enjoyed the performance and appreciate the actors' efforts.

    Make sure your group is aware that theatre etiquette includes absolutely no eating, drinking, and gum chewing in the theatre. These regulations exist both to respect the theatre space and to reduce distractions to the other patrons. Of course, theatre etiquette also includes turning watches, pagers, and cell phones to silent; photographic and recording devices are strictly prohibited.