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New Theatre Restaurant’s 19th Season is sponsored in part by:
You never know
what Broadway
stars will be seen
or discovered at
New Theatre.
* Below the balcony. $55 ticket and $10 Ticketmaster fee. ** On the upper level. *** Below the balcony. $75 ticket and $17 Ticketmaster fee.
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New Theatre is proud to showcase
Kansas City’s large and talented pool
of professional actors but we also feel
it our responsibility to share with our
audiences some of the best actors that
Broadway and Off-Broadway have to offer. We work closely with a well-respected New York casting agent and several
times a year our creative team will hold
auditions in New York. Recently, things
worked the other way around when the
producers of the hottest current show
on Broadway heard about a young actress in a production at New Theatre,
(yes, New Theatre) auditioned her, then
cast her to appear on Broadway.
For our production last year of THE
SOUND OF MUSIC, we cast Ron Bohmer who was, at that time in the Kennedy Center’s production of RAGTIME.
Ron had starred in our production of
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL a few
years back and has a Broadway resume
as long as your arm including the title
role in Broadway’s THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. Our casting agent suggested
we consider a cast mate of Ron’s from
RAGTIME for the role of Maria. An actress named Leigh Ann Larkin who had
appeared with Patti LuPone on Broadway in GYPSY. Both Leigh Ann and Ron
had a window in their schedules which
made it convenient for them to do THE
SOUND OF MUSIC in Kansas. Ron
would be staying with RAGTIME when
it went to Broadway and Leigh Ann had
just been cast in the revival of Sondheim’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC after a
personal audition for Stephen Sondheim
himself and the production’s celebrated
director Trevor Nunn. Neither of these
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productions would begin rehearsal until after
New Theatre’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC closed.
So Ron and Leigh Ann came to New Theatre.
If you saw our production of THE SOUND OF
MUSIC between July 28 and August 30, 2009,
then you also saw a 13 year-old actress from
Lee’s Summit named Katherine McNamara in
the role of Louisa. We had cast Katherine previously in our 2007 production of OKLAHOMA.
OK, please pay attention now because this is
where the whole story comes together. When
our sell out production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC closed, both Ron and Leigh Ann left for their
next jobs on Broadway. Ron to RAGTIME and
Leigh Ann to A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC which
In three weeks, we will be announcing the new season....
watch your mail! Until then
try to figure out the five stars
appearing in season 19 and
enter to win $500!*
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was starring Catherine Zeta Jones and the legendary Angela Landsbury.
Several weeks into the run, one of the young actresses in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC has to drop
out of the show. The producers start looking for
someone to replace her. Leigh Ann remembers
how much she respected Katherine’s abilities
and suggests they contact her. Katherine hops
on a plane to audition and is hired that very day
to join the cast of the hottest show on Broadway.
Dreams come true.
You may have heard that last year Nonprofit Connect (formerly The Greater Kansas City Council on Philanthropy) named New Theatre its Business Philanthropist of the Year. Past recipients of this award have
included the Sprint Foundation, the Ford Motor Company and Applebee’s International.
Of course, the honor and the accolades belong to you. Because you and 25,000 other people purchase
New Theatre season tickets, we have been able to give back to the community we all share. Let’s spotlight just three ways your season ticket purchase helps others in need, here in our area and even on the
other side of the world.
So pay attention to the cast the next time you
come to New Theatre. Today’s kid in the chorus could quite possibly be tomorrow’s Broadway star.
We’ll draw from all the correct
answers and the winning Season
Ticket Holder will have their New
Theatre account credited with
$500 that they can use at New
Theatre for drinks, desserts or
tickets throughout the season.
To submit answers, you
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may use one of these methods:
1. Visit us online at www.newtheatre.
com. Click on the “Season Members
Area” button and follow the link to
the contest.
2. You may send this page with the
answers to: Season 19 $500 Mystery
9229 Foster St. Overland Park, KS
66212
*Submissions will be accepted until the contest
deadline of March 30, 2010. The winner will be
chosen from renewing Season Members and
notified by phone. To be eligible to
enter, you must be a current
New Theatre Season
Ticket Holder and you
must include your name
and phone number on
your entry. Employees
and private contractors
of New Theatre Restaurant and immediate
family are not eligible
to participate in this
promotion.
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Harvesters is a clearinghouse for the collection and distribution of food and related
household products. They distribute food
through more than 550 not-for-profit agencies in 26 counties in eastern Kansas and
western Missouri. These agencies provide
food assistance to over 60,000 different
people each week, with half of the recipients being children and the elderly. New
Theatre Restaurant is their single largest
contributor of prepared food. Since 2002
alone, we’ve contributed roughly 560,000
lbs of food. This equates to 430,000 meals
to families and individuals in need in our
community.
Through two secure locations in Independence and Lee’s Summit, Missouri,
Hope House provides a safety net to
those suffering from abuse in greater
Kansas City Their hotline and programs
help more than 10,000 victims of domestic violence each year. In September of 2009 alone they housed in their
shelters 109 women and 85 children.
Their hotline logged 435 calls, which
equates to 72.75 hours.
NBC Action News Anchor Elizabeth
Alex shepherds this project which was
started by Kansas Citian Debra MurphyScheumann. Deb’s House is a two
story, four bedroom, two bath house in
Romania that is home to 14 orphaned
children. This house and the donations
they receive are all that separate these
children from life on the streets in one of
the poorest countries in the European
Union.
Again, these are just three of the agencies, headquartered right here in KC, that you personally support.
It is because you choose to spend an occasional evening or afternoon with us that we are able to help
others where we can. We at New Theater Restaurant are very aware and appreciative of this community
that has supported us so strongly the past thirty-eight years and we are proud of our partnership with you
that has allowed us to give something back. Thank you very much.
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