The daVinci Players of Studio Connections present FAT PIG, by Neil Labute

November 11-27, 2011 at St. Francis in the Foothills, 4625 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718

Described by New York Magazine as “arguably the most provocative and polarizing playwright at work today,” Labute delivers a brutally honest commentary on our cultural obsession with physical appearance and self image.

When Tom falls for plus-sized Helen, he confronts the reality of a taunting circle of influence and must decide how far he must go to defend his only meaningful relationship.

Featuring:
Jacinda Swinehart-Johnson as Helen
Alex Samaniego as Tom
Jonathan Northover as Carter
Shanna Brock as Jeannie

Directed by Robert Encila

Performance Dates:
November 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 at 7:30 PM
November 13, 20, 27 at 2:00 PM

General admission: $20
Student/Senior/Military: $18

For tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com, or call 1-800-838-3006

Studio Connections is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing excellence in visual and performing arts education fostering leadership, artistic voice, and peaceful community building. We serve the needs of children, youth, and adults in a safe, nurturing, and collaborative environment.

For information, contact Sue Bishop at info@studioconnections.net or at 520-329-3707.

The da Vinci Players of Studio Connections present

the six-time Tony Award-winning Musical

October 7 through October 15, 2011, at ZUZI!

Join us for this musical tale of “murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery – all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts.” Paint the town red with merry murderesses, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, their hotshot lawyer, Billy Flynn, and the iconic choreography of Bob Fosse.

Featuring…Chezale Rodriquez, Rachel Santay, Justin Moore, Eddie Diaz, and Ida Rhem.

Directed by Robert Encila

Choreographed by La Tosha Evans-Maynard
Musical Direction by Harriet Siskin

Performance Dates are

October 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 at 7:30 pm

October 8, 9, 15 at 3 pm

Tickets are $28 and $25.

Reservations are available by clicking the Brown Paper Tickets image below, or by calling 800-838-3006.

Studio Connections is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing excellence in visual and performing arts education fostering leadership, artistic voice, and peaceful community building. We serve the needs of children, youth, and adults in a safe, nurturing, and collaborative environment.

Studio Connections in Collaboration  with Chicken Lipps Productions Presents

DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE
by Sarah Ruhl.

Directed by Laura Lippman.

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man– with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

“A beguiling comedy….a hallucinatory poetic fantasy that blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving. As Dead Man’s Cell Phone takes surprising twists and leaps, the lament for the supposed coziness of pre-digital culture takes on layers of nuance and contradiction.”
– The New York Times

with Carrie Hill, Avis Judd, Gabriel Nagy, Robert Anthony Peters,
Lisa Mae Roether, Martie van der Voort

Performances are:
September 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, at 7:30 pm
September 4, 11, 18 at 2 pm

** Pay What You Can Preview – Thursday, September 1 at 7:30 pm
** Opening Night Celebration – Friday, September 2 at 7:30 pm
**Pay What You Can Industry Night – Monday, September 12 at 7:30pm

Tickets: General $18  Seniors, Students $16

Opening Night performance…all tickets $18.00

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT AND LANGUAGE

Reservation Line: 520-400-1424
(ONLY CASH and CHECKS accepted at the door)

To charge tickets go to Brown Paper Tickets at brownpapertickets.com

For more information go to: www.sacredchickenproductions.com

United, a world premiere by Toni Press-Coffman.

Directed by Christopher Johnson.

A celebration of the lives of the passengers and crew of United Flight 93,
to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of September 11, 2001.

Discussion with the playwright following the reading.

Sunday, September 4, at 7:30 PM
St. Francis in the Foothills
4625 E. River Road
Tucson, AZ 85718

Admission: by donation. $10 suggested donation to benefit Studio Connections and Winding Road Theater Ensemble. Make reservations through windingroadtheater.org or buy tickets at the door.

Toni Press-Coffman has written 20 plays, which have been produced throughout the country, and has had work developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Sundance Institute, Midwest Professional Playwrights Laboratory, and Minneapolis’ Playwrights Center.  She has taught playwrights at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as youth of all ages through a Tucson Pima Arts Council Residency and the Borderlands Theater’s Coyote y Culebra Project.  Through her work as the Literary Manager of Tucson’s Borderlands Theater, she has served as dramaturg for the plays of Elaine Romero, Kara Hartzler, Edit Villareal, Luis Alfaro, Anne Garcia Romero, Jennifer Barclay, and many others.

Our summer camp program, Summer Wings, is a three-week musical theatre intensive
at Studio Connections (4625 E. River Road), for young actors age 8-18.

Monday-Friday June 6th-24th
10am-4pm

Performances of HONK!, The Musical Comedy of the Ugly Duckling,  on June 24, 25 and 26, times TBA.

What makes us stand out in a crowd is our nurturing environment, individualized instruction, and experienced staff.
Come experience the joy of creating a musical theatre production in a cooperative learning environment facilitated by an anthusiastic staff of seasoned performers and certified teachers.  Students will participate in all creative and technical aspects of staging a top-notch musical.

Cost:
$475.00
(Participants should bring a sack lunch.  We provide free and healthy snacks, and all materials are included.)
If you’d like to register your child:
a $50 non-refundable deposit, along with the registration form below, reserves your place.
Final payment is due on June 1, 2011.

Student Registration for Summer Wings
You can choose to submit this form electronically, or download, print and mail your form, with your check, to:

Studio Connections, 4625 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718

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The da Vinci Players of Studio Connections present

Neil Simon’s female version of

THE ODD COUPLE

June 3 through June 19, 2011, at St. Francis in the Foothills Theatre, 4625 E. River Rd.

Unger and Madison are back, but this time it’s Florence and Olive, in a revised and improved version of Neil Simon’s classic hit, The Odd Couple. Poker buddies give way to Trivial Pursuit novices, while Florence and Olive manifest the finer sensibilities of a wacky friendship only women can deliver.

The diverse cast features Samantha Cormier, Maria Gallardo, Jacinda Swinehart-Johnson, Martie van der Voort,
Monica Rhodes, Layni Direnfeld, Dennis Gallardo, and Brian Scott Hale.
Directed by Robert Encila.

Performance Dates are

June 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18 at 7:30 PM

June 5, 12, 19 at 2 PM

Tickets are $15, $18 and $20, with reservations are available clicking the Brown Paper Tickets image below,
or by calling 800-838-3006.

Studio Connections is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing
excellence in visual and performing arts education fostering leadership, artistic voice, and peaceful community building. We serve the needs of children, youth, and adults in a safe, nurturing, and collaborative environment.

The daVinci Prep Drama class, led by Robert Encila and Brian Levario present:

Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott

Appearing on our main stage, three performances only!

Friday and Saturday May 27th and 28th, at 7.30pm,
Sunday, May 29 at 2pm

Tickets are $5.00, available at the door, through the link below, or by calling 1-800-838-3006.
We suggest purchasing tickets online – our shows sell out fast!!

 Little Women follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author’s childhood experiences of life, love and loss, with her three sisters.

The daVinci Prep class, led by Robert Encila and Samantha Cormier happily present:

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
based on the Peanuts characters by Charles M. Schulz

Appearing on our main stage, three performances only!

Friday and Saturday May 20th and 21st, at 7.30pm,
Sunday, May 22nd at 2pm

Tickets are $5.00, available at the door, through the link below, or by calling 1-800-838-3006.
We suggest purchasing tickets online – our kids shows sell out fast!!

 A program note says that the time of the action is “an average day in the life of Charlie Brown.” It really is just that, a day made up of little moments picked from all the days of Charlie Brown, from Valentine’s Day to the baseball season, from wild optimism to utter despair, all mixed in with the lives of his friends (both human and non-human) and strung together on the string of a single day, from bright uncertain morning to hopeful starlit evening. 
    

Inherit the Wind,
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

at St. Francis Theatre, 4625 E. River Road
April 29 through May 15, 2011.

Directed by Robert Encila, the play features a
strong ensemble headed by
Doug Mitchell as Henry Drummond
and
Jerry Wozniak as Matthew Harrison Brady.

Inherit the Wind is the play that has its genesis in the events of the famous Scopes Trial. One of the most outstanding dramas of our time, it draws the portrait of an explosive episode  in American culture and remains as fresh and relevant as ever.

“A masterpiece. This is the test: to see the play once, twice, three times. And each time to leave the theatre as deeply moved, as enlightened, as lifted up, as magnificently entertained. And as convinced that is it one of the truly great American dramas of this century.” Scripps-Howard.

Performance dates are as follows:

April 29, 30, May 6, 7, 13, 14 at 7:30 PM

May 1, 8, 15 at 2:00 PM

Tickets are $20 premium (first row),
$18 general,
$15 seniors, students, and military.

To reserve tickets, click the Brown Paper Tickets picture below, or call 1-800-838-3006.

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The daVinci Players are Studio Connections’ resident theatre troupe.

With a full season of shows each year, we have something for everyone. Top-notch acting and a comfortable environment make for
a fantastic viewing experience every time. Our actors come from all across the Tucson community, and range from the ‘just learning’ actor
to members of Actor’s Equity Association, the professional actor’s union.

Please check back regularly, as we will be announcing Auditions for the productions:

A View From The Bridge
A Man Of No Importance
Plaza Suite

 If you have any questions please email: info@studioconnections.net

Studio Connections is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing excellence in visual and performing arts education fostering leadership, empowerment, artistic expression, and peaceful community building. We serve the needs of children, youth, and adults in a safe, nurturing, and collaborative environment.

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