Valley Performing Arts

251 West Swanson, Wasilla, AK
Box Office (907) 373-0195

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It Runs in the Family
September 9 - 25, 2011
General Audiences / Comedy / Farce
Directed by Patricia Blossom
Synopsis:

It's three days before Christmas. In the Doctor's Common Room of St. Andrew's Hospital in London, David Mortimore is composing the speech he will give to a distinguished gathering of neurologists, a speech which may well make or break his career. All he needs is a little peace and quiet to finish it...unfortunately for our hero, peace and quiet is in very short supply. A nurse with whom he had an affair years ago turns up to confront him with the fact that he is the father of her son, who is now eighteen. Not only that, but the said son is now downstairs in the hospital and is desperate to meet the Dad he has never seen. How on earth can Mortimore keep this catastrophic news from his wife and the hospital authorities, and still deliver his speech?  This hilarious farce reveals the sorry tale, and involves Mortimore's hapless colleague, a police sergeant, a senile patient, an assortment of matrons, a syringe full of tranquilizer and costumes from the hospital Christmas pantomime.
 
 
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM

Tickets: Adults $17  Students/Seniors $15

 

 

 

 

 

It Runs in the Family

The Woman in Black
October 14 - 30, 2011
General Audiences / Thriller
Directed by Grant Olson
Synopsis:

Arthur Kipps, a middle-aged solicitor, hires a theatre and the services of a professional actor to help him reenact, and thereby hopefully exorcise, a ghostly event which befell him many years previously with horrifyingly tragic results.  From the cluttered stage, Kripps begins to read his story: painfully, self-consciously and hesitantly at first, but, coached by an actor and aided by theatrical artifice, he grows in confidence and ability as he assumes a variety of roles and the play moves from narration to enactment.  The actor portrays the young Kipps, sent north by his London firm to settle the estate of an elderly recluse, the late Mrs. Drablow, in whose isolated marshland house Kipps encounters the Woman in Black.  This spectre, seeking vengeance for the death of her young child, attaches herself to Kipps and unleashes a macabre sequence of events which culminate in a truly chilling twist in the play’s final moments.

 

Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM
Tickets: Adults $17 Students/Seniors $15

The Woman in Black

A Christmas Carol
November 18 - December 18, 2011
Family / Christmas
Directed by Jack Foster
Synopsis:

This version of the classic story goes beyond other adaptations with a unique dramatic concept: At the opening curtain, Charles Dickens himself is introduced to the audience, ready to present one of the famed platform readings of his stories that packed auditoriums in Europe and America. Of course, the story chosen is one which he often performed, A Christmas Carol. The story unfolds behind him, and soon Dickens is weaving in and out of the action, observing, performing small roles, interpolating short passages of rich narrative never heard in other versions.  He handles props and helps Scrooge and others with costume changes. The show includes "God Bless Us Every One,"* a lovely new carol by Jakes and Tony-nominated composer Mel Marvin.  This is a refreshing take on a timeless classic that will thrill the entire family.
 
 
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM
Tickets: Adults $19 Students/Seniors $17

A Christmas Carol

God's Favorite
January 6 - 22, 2012
General Audiences / Comedy
Directed by Julie McCartney
Synopsis:

This comedy by well known playwright Neil Simon is loosely based on the Biblical Book of Job.  The setting of the play is a Long Island mansion, where dwells a pious, God-fearing tycoon named Joe Benjamin and his family: a long-suffering wife, Rose, a prodigal son, David, a pair of kooky twins, Ben and Sarah, and the maid and butler, Mady and Morris. One night a messenger from God, Sidney Lipton (with a big G on his sweatshirt) arrives, and, as in the biblical story, goes through all manner of temptations to get Joe Benjamin to renounce God. When he refuses, he is visited by all the afflictions imaginable. He stands firm and the messenger has to admit defeat.
 
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM
Tickets: Adults $17 Students/Seniors $15

God's Favorite

Twelve Angry Jurors
February 10 - 26, 2012
General Audiences / Drama
Directed by Wendy Golter
Synopsis:

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry jurors. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it will electrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat.

 

Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM

Tickets: Adults $17 Students/Seniors $15

Twelve Angry Jurors

The Wizard of Oz
March 23 - April 29, 2012
Family / Musical
Directed by Larry Bottjen
Synopsis:

The story you’ve grown up with and the characters that you’ve loved for years both come to life on the Valley Performing Arts’ stage.  Dorothy and Toto along with their ever faithful guardians, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, are joined by the good witch, Glinda, the mysterious Wizard, the evil Wicked Witch, along with the Munchkins, flying monkeys, and Winkie guards.  You will truly believe that there is “no place like home” as you travel over the rainbow and back again. 

 

Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM

Tickets: Adults $25 Students/Seniors $23

The Wizard of Oz

The Trip to Bountiful
May 11 - 27, 2012
General Audiences / Drama
Directed by Elizabeth Hanson
Synopsis:

This is the poignant story of Mrs. Watts, an aging widow living with her son and daughter-in-law in a three-room flat in Houston, Texas. Fearing that her presence may be an imposition on others, and chafing under the watchful eye of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Watts imagines that if she can get away and return to her old home in the town of Bountiful, she is sure to regain her strength, dignity and peace of mind.  Only too soon she learns that the friends of her youth have all died or scattered, and her home is no longer the spacious mansion of her memories but a crumbling wreck. But she has the supreme satisfaction of plunging her hands into the strength-giving earth, and this leaves her with a sense of that strength and dignity that will give her the courage to survive.

 

 

Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM

Tickets: Adults $17 Students/Seniors $15

The Trip to Bountiful


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