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Stage Notes
March 2010
Season 62, Issue 4
Next on the LTVB Stage….
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
Performances:
March 12th – April 4th
Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 pm, Sundays 2:30 pm
Directed by Nancy Bloom
Powerful drama…
Notes from Director Nancy Bloom
After directing three successful dramedies for LTVB, I felt
the time had arrived to take on the challenge of a full-on
dramatic piece. So why not just dive in with one from
America’s most prolific playwrights? Arthur Miller’s All
My Sons debuted on Broadway in January of 1947 to
mixed reviews. The New York Times, however, hailed Mr.
Miller as a genuine new talent and the play won the New
York Drama Critics' Circle award for best play of 1947,
beating out Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. Additionally, it won that year’s Tony Award for Best Play and
Best Director (Elia Kazan). Miller would go on to write
such classic American plays as Death of a Salesman and
The Crucible.
The quality of Miller’s works are evident judging from
the number of Broadway revivals, community theater
presentations and the level of acting talent they attract.
In 2008 on Broadway, All My Sons starred John Lithgow, Diane Wiest, Patrick Wilson and Katie Holmes and
currently-running this season is A View from the Bridge,
starring Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber and Scarlett
Johansson.
What attracted me to this play specifically was the challenge of finding the right combination of actors and highlighting the many different themes that run throughout
the play into a thought-provoking, powerful evening of the
best that live theater has to offer.
Although written in 1947, Miller’s themes of the American
dream, self-deception, wartime profiteering, and idealism
still resonate today. Ultimately, All My Sons illustrates
how secrets, no matter how long buried and seemingly
appearing to hold a family together, eventually end up
ripping them apart.
Joel King and Beth Fotheringham as Joe and Kate Keller; Leigh
Strenger as Ann Deever, and Jeremiah Joyce as Chris Keller.
Rehearsal photo by Dave Patterson.
LTVB Ticket Prices
General Admission $15
Seniors, Students, Active Duty Military $12
Children under 12 $5
Sunday Matinees all seats $12
Group pricing available for groups of 20 or
more.
Reservations:
428-9233
550 Barberton Drive * Virginia Beach, VA 23451 * Phone: 757.428.9233 * Email: [email protected]
The Beach’s Playhouse since 1948
Season 62, Issue 4
Page 2
Stage Notes
Box Office News
By Beth Fotheringham, Box Office Manager
Use Visa, MasterCard and Discover at our Box Office!
It is with great pleasure that we announce that for the benefit
of our patrons, LTVB now accepts credit cards at the box office!
We accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover cards in addition to
cash or check. Please note that we do not take payment in advance by credit card, rather, that method of payment is now
available at the box office when you pick up your tickets.
Reservations Policies
With another show on the
horizon, this may be a good
time to explain to our valued season ticket holders
why we ask that they exchange their season tickets
for admission tickets at the
box office. This is a question
that comes up with some
regularity so we are happy
to, hopefully, answer that
question for everyone.
As you may be aware, every public building in every state has
a regulation regarding occupancy. These regulations are designed to ensure the safety of all building occupants in the
event of a fire or other emergency. In order to ensure we are
complying with all regulations, we must keep a tally of the
number of patrons who make reservations for, and then physically come to see, each show. In the days or weeks leading up to
a performance if we approach our maximum seating we can no
longer accept reservation requests for that performance. At this
point we can only advise a patron who cannot make a reservation, but remains hopeful of seeing the performance on that
particular day, to come to the theatre and put their name on
the “standby” list. We often have reservations that are not
picked up and patrons who did not make reservations come to
the theatre hoping for a seat. Because of this, there is often a
discrepancy between our reservation numbers and the actual
number of seats filled.
This discrepancy is why we ask season ticket holders to come
to the box office to exchange their season tickets for admission
tickets, so we can maintain an accurate count of occupants and
thereby comply with occupancy regulations and avoid overselling a performance and disappointing a patron who wishes to
see the show.
Behind the Scenes at LTVB
Farewell and Welcome...
LTVB’s long time volunteer and Board Member Bill
Vaughan is taking on the crazy task of building a new
home in Maine, and has resigned from the Board. We
wish him well and will miss him, but the good news is
that we’ll still be seeing him from time to time, at least
until the new house is complete!
LTVB is delighted to welcome Lisa Bolen to our
Board of Directors. Lisa has worked in some capacity
on every show for the past year, most recently as Stage
Manager for An Act of the Imagination and for All My
Sons. She is dedicated and hard working, finding time
to volunteer while working full time and attending night
classes! Welcome Lisa!
With these changes, there have been some shifts in
Board duties (see page 3). Lisa will be taking on the job
of Corresponding Secretary for the Board, which includes the production of Stage Notes.
Many Thanks!
...to Kevin Martingayle for donation of cans of
paint
...to Virginia Bloom for donation of clothes and
shoes
...to all of our volunteers who have helped with All
My Sons...the beautiful backyard you will see is the
result of hundreds of man (and woman) work
hours—it is truly a labor of love!
Calling All Directors:
The Board of Directors is close to selecting the
slate for next season's shows. If you are interested in being considered to direct a show,
please e-mail [email protected] immediately for
more information.
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Notice regarding Food Lion Shop and Share!
Support LTVB when you Search!
The Food Lion Shop and Share program has changed and
theaters are no longer included in the program. We thank our
friends who supported LTVB in this way!
Just use www.goodsearch.com as your search
engine, and enter “Little Theatre of Virginia Beach”
as the charity you want to support.
To contact LTVB, please email us at [email protected], or leave a message on our
voice mail at 428-9233. We will get back with you as soon as possible!
The Beach’s Playhouse since 1948
Season 62, Issue 4
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LTVB 2009-2010
Board of Directors
Coming up next at LTVB...
Morning’s at Seven
by Paul Osborne
Directed by Christopher Bernhardt
Performances May 7 – 30, 2010
Auditions: March 15 & 16, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
LTVB, 550 Barberton Drive, Virginia Beach
(Visit www.ltvb.com for complete audition information)
Set in the 1930s in the Midwest, sisters Cora, Arry, Esty and Ida
have lived near each other their entire lives. When Ida’s son Homer
brings his girlfriend Myrtle home to meet the family, the sisters start to
see that there is something outside of their daily lives and that things
have to change for them to continue to live in peace and harmony. Their
husbands begin to view life through the sisters' eyes and all of them get
a new outside look at their relationships.
President, Robin Chapman
VP/Production, Mary Lou Mahlman
VP/Business, Shirley Hurd
Treasurer, Jim Russell
Recording Secy, Robin Martineau
Corresponding Secy,
Lisa Bolen
Box Office, Beth Fotheringham
Building & Grounds,
Paul Berryman
Costumes, Kay Burcher
Membership, Nancy Bloom
Play Reading, Tom Coffey
Programs & Web site, Joel McDonald
Props, Donna Lawheed
Publicity, James Bryan
Set Coordinator, Dennis Lawheed
Socials, Rita Gordon
Technical Coordinator,
Sara Bergandi Quilenderino
Volunteers, Joan Patterson
LTVB Summer Show
The Secret Garden
Book and lyrics by Marsha Norman. Music by Lucy Simon. Based on the novel by
Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Directed by Dave Hobbs
The Secret is out… the hit musical Secret Garden blooms this summer at
LTVB July 16th - August 8th, 2010
This enchanting classic of children's literature is now a brilliant musical by a
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. Orphaned in India, an 11 year old girl returns to Yorkshire to live with an embittered, reclusive uncle and his invalid
son. The estate includes a magic locked garden. Flashbacks, dream sequences,
a strolling chorus of ghosts, and some of the most beautiful music ever written
for Broadway dramatize The Secret Garden's compelling tale of regeneration.
This Tony Award winner is a treasure for children and adults.
"Elegant, entrancing.... The best American musical of the Broadway season."
-- Time
Local Theatre News
Tidewater Independent Stages (TIS): www.tistages.org
Little Theatre of Norfolk, 627-8551: Twelve Angry Men, Mar. 5—21
Generic Theater, 441-2260: Darwin in Malibu, Mar. 26—April 18
Hurrah Players, 627-5437: 13 a new musical, Apr. 16—18
Little Theatre of Portsmouth: Season to be announced.
Little Theatre of Virginia Beach
Post Office Box 1053
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
Phone: 757-428-9233
Fax: 757-428-8145
Email: [email protected]
www.ltvb.com
LTVB is funded in part by grants from the City of Virginia Beach Arts &
Humanities Commission and the Carol Chittum Foundation.
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