Welcome to ACT's 2010-11 season! A new decade is here, and there’s never been a better time to “Get in on the ACT!”

Asheville Community Theatre turns 65 this year and remains one of the oldest community theatres in the country. But we feel younger than ever. To celebrate our youthful exuberance we’ve put together a season bursting with music, energy, humor, and intrigue.

We invite you to digest a full buffet of delicious ACT Mainstage shows with a 2010-11 Flex Pass.

Oliver!

This little pickpocket will steal your heart.

A musical by Lionel Bart based on the Dickens' novel
Directed by Jerry Crouch

Musical direction by Chuck Taft
Mainstage September 17–October 3, 2010. Performances Fridays and Saturdays: 7:30pm; Saturdays and Sundays: 2:30pm

A musical theatre classic to open our season… everyone loves Oliver! Based on the Dickens novel, Oliver! will engage the audience with its pathos and drama, while delighting everyone with its outstanding musical numbers. Food, Glorious Food, I'd Do Anything, Where is Love?, Consider Yourself, and As Long As He Needs Me. Dickens' characters are brought into larger-than-life focus in this ACT production.

A Christmas Story

Peace, harmony, comfort and joy? (maybe next year)

Adapted by Philip Grecian from the story by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark
December 2 -12, 2010
Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

Everyone knows what nine-year-old Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas: an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle - with a compass in the stock. But a seemingly insurmountable number of obstacles stand in his way including a host of adults (including Santa Claus!) who offer the same warning about the gun: “You’ll shoot your eye out!” Does he get his dream? ACT presents an American Christmas classic

Rent

No day but today

Music, lyrics and book by Jonathan Larson
February 18-27, 2011
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

ACT is proud to present the 1996 Tony Award winning Rent, a hot rock opera that follows a group of bohemians struggling in modern day New York. Based on Puccini’s opera La boheme, Rent tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. A truly powerful story.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Poison by Elderberry Wine has never been so fun

By Joseph Kesselring
April 22 – May 1, 2011
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

A delightful comic concoction which mimics the cozy charm and ingenious plotting of an Agatha Christie whodunit. This classic Broadway hit introduces the sweet, elderly Brewster sisters, their nut-bag nephew Teddy (who believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt) and their drama critic nephew Mortimer, who discovers his maiden aunts’ well-known charity work now extends to the compassionate poisoning of sad, lonely old men with glasses of arsenic-spiked Elderberry Wine.

The Dixie Swim Club

Five Southern women whose friendships go the distance

By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
June 10-19, 2011
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

This Jones-Hope-Wooten comedy follows five Southern women who set aside a long weekend every August to recharge the friendships formed on their college swim team. Free from men, kids, and jobs, the women meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. But when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives, these friends prove the enduring power of “teamwork” by rallying ‘round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction.

Honky Tonk Angels

A delightful country musical!

By Ted Swindley
August 5 – 21, 2011
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

Meet three women from three very different backgrounds who meet by chance on the bus to Nashville. This funny country musical will delight with thirty country classics – Stand By Your Man, Coal Miner’s Daughter, 9 to 5, I Will Always Love You, Amazing Grace and I’ll Fly Away. You will love the Honky Tonk Angels.

Buy a Flex Pass!

Research shows theatre lovers are well-educated, intelligent folks. That means they know a great value when they see one…. our flex passes are a great value!

2010-11 Flex Pass Perks:
~ 15% discount on shows
~ New! Concession stand vouchers (4 for a 6-flex pass; 2 for a 4-flex pass)
~ Total flexibility – use your tickets however you’d like
~ Early bird registration – get the best seats!
~ Complimentary ticket exchanges
~ $2 off adult ticket prices when purchasing additional tickets

Please note: Flex Pass tickets do not include The Santaland Diaries, 35below performances, and other special events.

Regular Flex Pass (6 tickets)                                  $112    x   _____ = _____
Regular Flex Pass (4 tickets)                                  $74      x   _____ = _____
*Senior Flex Pass (6 tickets)                                   $97      x   _____ = _____
*Senior Flex Pass (4 tickets)                                   $65      x   _____ = _____
* seniors are 60+

Please consider adding a contribution. We count on contributions from patrons to help us put on outstanding theatre. We hope you will be part of our effort. To order a Flex Pass, please contact our Box Office at 254-1320.