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This E-Sheet(R) is provided as conclusive evidence that the ad appeared in The Providence Journal on the date and page indicated. You may not create derivative works or in any way exploit or repurpose any content. Publication Date: 09/30/2012 Ad Number: Insertion Number: Size: Color Type: Client Name: Advertiser: Section/Page/Zone: TheRhodeislander/G03/PRE Description: providencejournal.com Sunday, September 30, 2012 Warwick home is the ticket The new place at 1245 Jefferson Blvd. in Warwick is busy with construction activity to get the theater ready for the December opening of two shows. Ocean State Theatre Company moved its productions here from the stage at Theatre By The Sea in Matunuck. Ocean State Theatre Company has new room to grow, continuing to stage musicals and plays, and offering educational programs of Providence, but not much south of the city. Warwick, in fact, has not been host to live It was about three years theater since the Warwick ago that Amiee Turner, head Musical Theatre, fondly of Ocean State Theatre known as The Tent, closed in Company, went looking for a 1999. space where she could hold And while the 3,200-seat educational programs and Providence Performing Arts stage the occasional Center has pretty much Christmas show. cornered the market on Ocean State Theatre, the musical theater, those shows nonprofit that has been are lavish traveling tours. producing the summer Turner said Ocean State musicals at Matunuck’s Theatre goes in for a “more Theatre By The Sea, wanted a intimate telling of the story” place it could use for classes with a handmade look. All during the school year, when the scenery and costumes Theatre By The Sea is closed. will be made on site. Turner and partner Joel Also, her research suggests Kipper looked at a movie that Rhode Islanders tend to theater in Narragansett and support theater in general. were serious about a building “We found that people who on Main Street in East go to theater go to theater,” Greenwich. she said, “and that has But it was not until a nothing to do with quantity.” realtor showed them a vacant PPAC President J. Lynn warehouse in Warwick that Singleton said he hopes the Turner realized she had found arrival of Ocean State the new home of Ocean State Theatre in Warwick will Theatre. The encourage more people to 22,000-square-foot, attend theater. He said these cinder-block structure at 1245 are “trying times” to open a Jefferson Blvd. was just what new theater, but wishes she and Kipper had in mind, Turner and Kipper well. with 10,000 square feet of “No guts, no glory,” he open space for a stage and said. seating, and another 10,000 A recent tour of the theater for offices, restrooms, a site found work crews scenery shop and dressing rooms that can accommodate pouring the concrete slab that a cast of 30. The property was will support the stage and putting up metal studding for built as a service center for walls. New wiring, sprinklers Paul Bailey Ford, and last used as a garage by Verizon. and heating and cooling But come December, it will systems have already been installed. open as 409-seat, Although the theater opens state-of-the-art theater, offering a mix of musicals and with a show in December, the multimillion-dollar project straight plays, which Turner concedes is a more ambitious will be completed over the next three years, when the undertaking than she first exterior will be spruced up, envisioned. Plans call for a temporary box office to open an elevator installed and a loft built over the stage area Monday and major to “fly” scenery. The money construction to be finished soon after that. Then it will be has come through several a matter of hanging the lights, sources of “favorable” financing, said Turner, installing the sound and including building owner tending to other technical Stephen Soscia of Mutual matters. Property Associates and a Initially, Turner felt that moving from South County to couple of benefactors. A capital drive with a Warwick was too far north for seven-figure goal is now in its her company. But she has “quiet phase,” said Turner. begun to rethink that, now “It’s been clicking along very that she finds herself in an nicely,” she said. area undergoing robust The new theater opens development. Dec. 5 with a couple of The theater is just down Christmas teasers: “The the road from T.F. Green Winter Wonderettes,” and Airport, where a new train station has just opened, along David Sedaris’ popular “SantaLand Diaries,” which with a commuter parking chronicles the author’s stint garage. It is also near as a department store elf. The restaurants and the new official opening is Jan. 25 Hilton Garden Inn. “That it’s centrally located with a production of Neil Simon’s “Fools.” is good for us,” said Turner, The rest of the season who lives in South Kingstown. through May includes Warwick Mayor Scott productions of “Rent,” “The Avedisian hailed the project King and I” and David as a “great fit” for the city, which has plans to develop 95 Mamet’s provocative play acres south of the airport with “Race.” Casts will be a mix of local an industrial-residential mix, and regional actors from New along with cultural amenities York and Boston. Turner said such as the new theater. Salve Regina University just opened to expect a makeup similar to a satellite campus in the area. the one found at Theatre By The Sea, where about “To have a cultural one-third of the talent is local. destination and an Subscriptions have already educational destination is very been offered to Theatre By helpful in building this new The Sea subscribers, and district,” said Avedisian. there have been about 500 Avedisian said the city is takers, said Turner. For doing everything it can to subscriptions, call (401) publicize the theater on Facebook and Twitter, and is 921-6800 as of noon Oct. 1, or buy online at oceanstate sending out news releases. theatre.org. “We’re very excited,” said Whether Ocean State the mayor. Turner noted that there are Theatre will be active during theaters to the north and east the summer months, though, G3 By CHANNING GRAY JOURNAL ARTS WRITER THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL / SANDOR BODO has yet to be determined. Turner and Kipper had planned to continue producing musicals at Theatre By The Sea in the summer and regrouping in Warwick during the rest of the season. But in July, Theatre By the Sea owner Bill Hanney, Ocean State’s landlord in Matunuck, notified Turner that he would be taking over the operation of Theatre By The Sea so he can do shared productions with his North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Mass. Arianna Knapp, artistic director in Beverly, will be taking over the creative operations of both theaters, said Hanney. He said he is planning joint productions of two shows next summer, “Cats” and “La Cage aux Folles.” Hanney said sharing shows will make for a more efficient operation. “If we just shared the costumes alone,” he said, “that would save money.” Turner, who directed numerous shows in Matunuck during the past five summers, said that even RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Larry rachleff, Music Director though the lease with Theatre By The Sea is up in December, she was “hopeful we could renew it.” “Now that we are out of Matunuck,” said Turner, “summer productions in Warwick are back on the table.” Turner, who doesn’t give her age but says she has a son in college, got her start early in show business. She was on Broadway while still a teen. Over the years, she has appeared in five more Broadway shows, produced an independent film, started her own theater company, and produced and directed performances. She, in fact, was interested along with Kipper in buying Theatre By The Sea, which went on the market in 2003. But she said deed restrictions made it difficult to finance the property. Hanney, who owns a string of movie theaters in New England, was able to swing the deal in the spring of 2007. The property was on the market for $1.8 million. Ocean State Theatre has a 20-year lease on the Jefferson Boulevard property, and plans to rent a neighboring 3,600-squarefoot office building to store props and use as office space. Between the two sites, the theater will have about 165 parking spaces. When the Warwick theater is up and running, it will employ a staff of 30 and operate with an annual budget of about $2 million, said Turner. Whether Ocean State Theatre will fly in Warwick remains to be seen. 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