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No need to bring cash if you want to buy a snack or drink while attending a performance at the Schuster
center. for greater convenience, all of our lobby performance bars now accept Visa, mastercard, discover
and american express.
Don’t want to wait in line for a drink during intermission? You may pay for your intermission drink before the
performance – just look for the signs on the orchestra Level lobby.
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With the announcement that Dione Kennedy has left Victoria Theatre Association, Bill Bloebaum has been named Interim President.
Bill knows Victoria Theatre Association well, both as a longtime supporter and as a former President of our Board of Trustees. He is a retired Mead executive, where he served as President of Pulp Sales and
Corporate Treasurer.
Bill and his wife Margaret have a lifelong interest in the arts. They grew up in Redlands, California, where they first met in elementary school. Bill played trumpet in the school band and community symphony, while Margaret was involved in chorus and dance.
Both have been avid supporters of the arts since moving to Dayton in 1984. In fact, the couple moved into Performance Place at the Schuster Center in 2004, so they could be closer to the arts, as well as downtown’s many other amenities.
“Margaret and I have always been interested in the arts,” commented Bill. “We’ve enjoyed living in a community where there are a lot of things to do.”
Lou Mason and the Executive Committee of Victoria Theatre Association’s Board of Trustees have enlisted board member and retired Reynolds & Reynolds CFO Dale Medford to head a search committee to select Dione’s replacement.
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Click Here to read the Dayton Daily News review of RAIN: A Tribute to Beatles. Performances continue through December 21 at the Victoria Theatre.
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Performing arts tickets make great holiday gifts, and Ticket Center Stage is your one-stop shop for most performances at the Schuster Center, Victoria Theatre and The Loft Theatre! Don’t know what show to buy? We offer gift certificates that can be used for any performance. Call Ticket Center Stage at 937-228-3630 (toll free 888-228-3630) or stop by the Schuster Center box office during regular business hours.
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As we get ready for the opening of RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles tonight, I got to thinking about the ways different generations have discovered the Fab Four. For Baby Boomers, it’s obviously the “Ed Sullivan Show,” but what about subsequent generations?
For me (a child of the 1970s), it was, of all things, the movie Help! When I was 7 or 8 years old, one of the local TV stations played it on a Saturday afternoon, and I was hooked. Shortly afterwards, I pestered my Dad to go to “Mr. Wiggs” department store, where we split the cost for the “red” double album, 1962-1966. I’ve been a Beatlemaniac ever since!
A quick poll of co-workers, ranging in age from the 20s – 50s, yielded the following anecdotes:
Ryan France, Graphic Designer: Like most people of my generation, I discovered The Beatles in middle school through my parents. My folks have good taste in music, and always regarded The Beatles as the ultimate musical talent. I can’t think of another group to link so many generations together in such a manner that they continue to today.
Sue Stevens, Vice-President of Marketing & Communications: I’m the youngest of 5 and I’m 45. So I grew up on the music of my older brothers and sisters. My brothers were 10 and 12 years older than I am, so we heard a lot of Beatles in our house! Then my husband worked in Oldies radio for a few years and in listening to the station I re-learned the words to every Beatles hit and some B-sides as well. When I got to see RAIN in Cincinnati, I found I still know ALL the words to ALL the songs! Can’t wait!!
Keith Wyatt, Graphics & Publications Director: Gathering around the Zenith to see The Beatles on “Ed Sullivan” and being amazed at the girls in the audience crying and being carried away from fainting. My brother and I revolted at that early ages of 7 and 12 and told our Dad that we would no longer get our bur haircuts, and that we wanted our hair to grow out like The Beatles. And he let us!
Barrie Denmark, Group Sales Manager: My grandmother took all four of her granddaughters to see The Beatles at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in the summer of 1963 or 1964. The tickets were $5.00 … and that was fortune back then!!! I was 10 years old. The concert was great but I was more mesmerized by the line of at least 20 ambulances just outside the gates. Every few minutes one would pull away with a teenaged girl who had fainted. The older girls around me were screaming and crying and pulling on their hair so that one had blood trickling down her face from her scalp!
Kristina Bilbrey, Senior Manager – Subscription Sales: My dad is a huge Beatles fan and he made sure that my siblings and I were all exposed to their music from a young age. When I was about 10 years old, a local radio station played the entire Beatles catalogue A to Z over one weekend and he taped the whole thing. We listened to the tapes all the time and enjoyed getting to learn all of their different musical styles together rather than separated from album to album. To this day, whenever I listen to a Beatles song, I can tell you what song would follow it alphabetically!
Please feel free to share your stories here, as well! And hopefully we’ll see you at the show!
- Eric Brockman, E-Marketing & Public Relations Director
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Just in time for the holidays, we are offering a special, limited-time Family Gift Pack for the Chase Broadway Series presentation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, January 20 – 25 at the Schuster Center. Special children’s pricing will be available for all performances – $25 off the regular adult ticket prices. Buy 2 adult tickets and 2 children’s tickets for as little as $229. That’s a savings of $50!
This offer has been extended through the end of December and is only available by phone or in person – call 937-228-3630 or stop by the Schuster Center box office during regular business hours and mention the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Family Gift Pack.
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The award-winning Beatles show, RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles, makes its debut at the Victoria Theatre this week, as the opening show of this season’s Chase Broadway Series. The band RAIN boasts a repertoire of nearly 200 Beatlemaniac favorites, ranging from such beloved songs as “Yesterday” and “Hey Jude” to classic hits like “Revolution” and “Come Together.”
RAIN covers the Fab Four from their very first “Ed Sullivan Show” appearance through the psychedelic late ’60s, the Abbey Road album, and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience; video screens feature a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s, and live cameras zoom in for close-ups.
For the four longtime band members – Joey Curatolo (Paul McCartney), Joe Bithorn (George Harrison), Ralph Castelli (Ringo Starr) and Steve Landes (John Lennon), with a little help from their friend Mark Lewis (keyboards, percussion)– the music is first and foremost. For more than two decades, RAIN has distinguished itself by focusing on details, always being faithful to The Beatles with the ultimate goal of delivering a perfect note-for-note performance. All the music is performed live, with no pre-recorded tapes or sequences. Like The Beatles, the onstage members of RAIN are not only supreme musicians, but also electrifying performers in their own right.
Read the Dayton Daily News interview with Steve Landes
Read the Dayton City Paper interview with Joe Bithorn
For more about the group, including music and videos, visit www.raintribute.com.
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Calling all buckaroos and buckarettes to the Victoria Theatre! It’s time for Christmas The Cowboy Way with “America’s Favorite Cowboys,” Riders In The Sky, on stage this Saturday and Sunday, December 6 & 7, as part of the Young at Heart Family Series.
Hear the Christmas Yodel resounding! It’s a great big western ho-ho-ho from Riders In The Sky! Those wacky, four-part harmonizing cowboys have spruced up the bunkhouse, donned their sequined yuletide outfits, and loosed their vivid imaginations to create a holiday musical fantasy for Saddle Pals of all ages. Christmas The Cowboy Way will feature their unique “brand” of cowboy humor sprinkled with a dash of holiday spice which includes original songs like “Riding Home On Christmas Eve,” “Deck The Bunkhouse Walls,” and “The Last Christmas Medley You’ll Ever Need To Hear.” Audiences will also be invited to join Riders in singing traditional holiday classics such as “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and others. All this yuletide charm is augmented with the classic, western favorites Riders have been singing for 30 years.
By definition, empirical data, and critical acclaim, Riders In The Sky stand “hats & shoulders” above the rest of the purveyors of C & W – “Comedy & Western!” For 30 years Riders In The Sky have been keepers of the flame passed on by the Sons of the Pioneers, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, reviving and revitalizing the genre. While remaining true to the integrity of Western music, they have themselves become modern-day icons by branding the genre with their own legendary wacky humor and way-out Western wit, and all along encouraging buckaroos and buckarettes to live life “The Cowboy Way!”
As a classic cowboy quartet, the trail has led them to heights they could have never predicted. Riders have chalked up more than 5,400 concert appearances in all 50 states and 10 countries, appearing in venues everywhere from the Nashville National Guard Armory to Carnegie Hall, and from county fairs to the Hollywood Bowl.
Riders In The Sky: Christmas The Cowboy Way is on stage at the Victoria Theatre, Saturday, December 6, and Sunday, December 7, with performances at 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. each day. Come out early and enjoy special pre-show lobby activities, beginning one hour prior to each performance.
Tickets are priced at a family friendly $19 for adults and $17 for children (ages 12 and under). Tickets are on sale now through Ticket Center Stage, and may be purchased at the Schuster Center box office in downtown Dayton or by phone, at (937) 228-3630 or toll free (888) 228-3630. Ticket Center Stage hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Saturday, noon – 4 p.m., and two hours prior to each performance. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.ticketcenterstage.com.
Victoria Theatre Association will again be accepting donations of NEW mittens, hats, gloves and scarves for Montgomery County Children Services For the Love of Children during Riders In The Sky: Christmas The Cowboy Way. Look for the snowman in the Victoria Theatre lobby!
Riders In The Sky: Christmas The Cowboy Way is part of the Wonderland Festival Weekend, which features a host of family friendly activities in downtown Dayton. For a complete list of weekend events visit www.victoriatheatre.com/wonderland.
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The performance of A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. and Gregory Hines, starring Bruce Anthony Davis, originally scheduled for this weekend has been postponed. A new date will be announced.
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