Kaleidoscope
Children's Theatre Newsletter
Volume 3,
Number 5
May 2007
Hello and welcome to this month’s issue of
Kaleidoscope
Theatre's online newsletter! Changes keep on
happening
here at Kaleidoscope and we’re so excited to
keep you
all informed about them! Please remember,
for more up to
date information about Kaleidoscope Theatre,
you can
check out our two online ‘blogs at:
www.kscopetheatre.blogspot.com (for general
news)
www.kaleidonews.blogspot.com (for our
members)
With this issue, we’d like to congratulate
several of our
members (who have amazing opportunities
coming up),
announce some upcoming performances, and
remind you
about Rhode Island Monthly Magazine’s 2007
Best of
Rhode Island Voting!
In this issue you can read about:
1. RIC Tickets now on sale!
2. Upcoming Dinner Theatre Performance
3. Congratulations Marianne, Jamie, and
Eric!
4. BEST of Rhode Island 2007 Voting
5. Save the date - Kaleidoscope’s 30th
Anniversary!
6. Flea Market/Collectibles sale at The
Homestead Group
7. The Coloring Book Project Update
8. Supporting our members – Other venues to
feature the
many talents of our performers
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1. RIC TICKETS NOW ON SALE!
We are very excited to announce that tickets
are now on
sale for our 2007 Summer Series at Rhode
Island College!
This year, the series will open with “Snow
White” on July
10th and will continue with “Alice in
Wonderland” on
July 17th, followed by “Cinderella” on July
24th and the
premiere of “Cinderella, Too!” on July 31st.
August will open with “The Frog Prince” on
August 7th,
followed by “The Three Pigs” on August 14th,
before we
wrap up the summer with “Little Red
Ridinghood” on
August 21st and “Goldilocks & the Three
Bears” on
August 28th. Tickets will be $8.00 in
advance and $10.00
the day of the show. You can purchase a
season ticket
to all eight shows for only $50.00 and there
is a special
group rate ($5.00/person) for groups over
25. To order
tickets, please call the RIC Box Office at
(401) 456-8144.
Remember, the Stadium Theatre is closed this
summer
because they’re putting in a sprinkler
system and we
expect turn out at RIC to be better than
ever! Order your
tickets early!
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2. UPCOMING DINNER THEATRE PERFORMANCE!
On Saturday, June 9th, Kaleidoscope will be
performing
“Dial M for Matrimony” at Homestead Gardens!
This
hilarious Italian wedding murder mystery is
one of
Kaleidoscope’s most popular dinner theatre
productions!
Seating is very limited! For more
information, or to
reserve seats, please call Angela at (401)
309-1882!
If this show is a success, we plan to do
more dinner
theatre in the future, including a
performance of the
“Killer Cabaret” in July, so please call
now!
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3. CONGRATULATIONS!
Kaleidoscope is so proud of our members who
succeed in
their chosen pursuits! This month we’d like
to mention three
members, who have recently received some
good news!
Marianne Douglas, our former Administrative
Director, is a
finalist for the 2007 Cable in the Classroom
Leaders in
Learning Award for creating her “Strategies
of Success”
leadership/success program for high schools.
For more
information on this ground-breaking program,
visit
Marianne’s website at
StrategiesofSuccess.com. To learn
more about the award, check out:
http://i.ciconline.org/LIL/Finalists2007.html.
Jamie Dellorco, who will be seen this summer
on the
Kaleidoscope Stage as Snow White in “Snow
White”,
as the Mom/Granny in “Little Red”, and as
Putricia in
“Cinderella” and “Cinderella, Too” has been
hired by the
Merry-Go Round Theater in Auburn, NY as part
of their
Youth tour for the 2007-2008 season! Jamie
put together
an audition tape and then received a call
back with the
company at the New England Theater
Conference (NETC)
where she met with Tour Director James
Cantu. After
relocating to New York in September, Jamie
will be
spending the year performing and running
workshops
(along with 15 other performers) at schools
in the upstate
New York area.
Eric Desnoyers, who recently played the
Prince in
“Cinderella” and the Hunstman in “Little
Red”, has
accepted a summer stock job at the Foothills
Theatre in
Worcester, MA. This summer, he will
participate in four
children’s productions: “The Wind in the
Willows”,
“Tom Sawyer”, “Stuart Little”, and “School
House Rock”.
For more information about Foothills, check
out their
website at: www.foothillstheatre.com!
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4. BEST OF RHODE ISLAND 2007
At this time, we’d like to remind all our
fans to vote for your
favorite local businesses! From now through
May 15th, you can
go online to www.rimonthly.com and vote for
everything from
"best cheeseburger" to "best customer
service". If you'd like to
vote for Kaleidoscope Theatre, please
nominate us in the "Live
Music" category and/or write-in to the
editors suggesting we
receive an Editors' Award (sfrancis@rimonthly.com).
In 2005,
we were named 'Best Kids Theatre in Rhode
Island' (which was
an editor's award) and we'd love to have the
honor again! We’ve
provided a direct link to their website on
our official blog,
www.kscopetheatre.blogspot.com. So log
on and start voting
now!
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5. SAVE THE DATE – KALEIDOSCOPE CELEBRATES!
This October, Kaleidoscope Theatre will
celebrate its 30th
Anniversary with a bang! A celebratory
masquerade is being
planned for Friday, October 26th, so save
the date, start
thinking of costume ideas, and stay tuned
for more details!
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6. FLEA MARKET/COLLECTIBLES SALE AT THG!
As part of our affiliation, Kaleidoscope and
The Homestead
Group (THG) are combining talents to put on
a flea market and
collectibles sale at Homestead Gardens
starting on Saturday,
June 16th! (The Flea market will held the
third Saturday of
each month from June through October.)
If you’re a vendor that would like to
reserve a booth, or a
collector interested in attending the sale,
please call
Kaleidoscope’s Managing Director, Bob
Zannini
(a former antique shop owner) at (401)
633-2267.
Spaces are limited.
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7. COLORING BOOK PROJECT UPDATE
As many of you know, Kaleidoscope is
working, in
conjunction with The Homestead Group,
towards producing
a “Cinderella’s Holiday Ball” coloring book
and corresponding
music CD, that would be on sale at our
concession stand and
CVS stores nation-wide this holiday season!
Currently, six
sample books are being created for
presentation to CVS
executives. Kaleidoscope is also producing a
music CD of
our “Cinderella” show (without the holiday
tunes) for sale at
our concession stand this summer! As a
preview, if you’d like
to see what the illustrator’s drawings might
look like
colored in, you can check out our online
‘blogs at:
www.kscopetheatre.blogspot.com
www.kaleidonews.blogspot.com
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8. SUPPORT OUR MEMBERS
When not working with Kaleidoscope Theatre,
our members
bring their varied talents to other venues.
Here's a sampling
of productions that will feature our members
in the upcoming
months (in chronological order):
A. Bobby Macaux, who regularly plays ‘David’
for us in
“I’m Special, You’re Special” will be
performing in
“Intermittence” with the Black Box Players
at the Artist
Exchange (50 Rolfe Square, Cranston, RI).
This annual
one-act play festival will be performed
nightly at 7:00pm
starting the second week of June. Tickets
are $10.00. For
more information or to purchase tickets,
please call
(401) 490-9475.
*For our members – If you’re involved in an
upcoming
theatrical production, and would like
information included in
our newsletter, please e-mail the details to
Nicki at
kaleidoscopethtr@gmail.com*
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Well, that concludes this month's
newsletter. New and
exciting events keep happening here at
Kaleidoscope Theatre,
especially as we start to gear up for our
30th anniversary
season and celebration this October! Stay
tuned for more
details!
Remember, if you have any questions, contact
us by
e-mail at kaleidoscope@kaleidoscopetheatre.com!
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