INDIANAPOLIS —
The 2012 season at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre will take audiences from Chicago to Iowa to Oz, with a whole lot of fun in between. Four new shows bookend three favorites for a season with everything from blondes to the church basement.
Starting the season with some Southern charm, Beef & Boards presents its debut production of “The Dixie Swim Club.” This touching comedy focuses on five women whose friendships formed many years ago on their college swim team. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they reunite every year at a beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other’s lives. This touching show about friendship that lasts forever is on stage through Feb. 12.
Beef & Boards is tickled pink to present its premiere production of “Legally Blonde the Musical,” opening Feb. 17. After being dumped by her boyfriend for someone “serious,” Delta Nu sorority president Elle Woods drops the credit cards and hits the books to win him back. She’ll take on Harvard Law, but also learn a lot about herself in the process. This seven-time Tony Award nominee is on stage through April 6. It’s based on the movie “Legally Blonde.”
“The Music Man” marches into Beef & Boards starting April 12. This six-time Tony Award winning musical centers on the fast-talking “Professor” Harold Hill, a con man who convinces the people of River City, Iowa, to buy uniforms and instruments for the boys’ band he promises to create. While his plan is to skip town with the cash, he doesn’t bank on falling for the town librarian who sees right through him. The production is on stage through May 25.
The yellow brick road leads to Beef & Boards for the 2012 family show, “The Wizard of Oz.” Join Dorothy and her unlikely friends the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion as they take a fanciful journey that teaches them there’s no place like home. On stage May 31 through July 15, special $10 discounts are offered for this show for kids ages 3-15.
Summer signals the time for a great religious comedy and 2012 brings the return of the Beef & Boards favorite, “Nunsense.” This side-splitting spoof about the Little Sisters of Hoboken who present a hilarious fundraising talent show is on stage from July 19 through Aug. 26.
Then things really heat up as the Tony-Award winning sizzler “Chicago” makes its debut at Beef & Boards starting Aug. 30. Step back into the Roaring Twenties in Chicago, where Roxie Hart murders her lover and seeks to become a celebrity while incarcerated. Her newfound fame could launch an entertainment career — but only if she’s acquitted by her charismatic lawyer. The production is on stage through Oct. 7 and rated PG-13.
As the seasons change, it’s time to go away in the basement for “A Church Basement Ladies Christmas” starting Oct. 11. It’s 1959 and those zany Lutheran ladies are doing their part for the children’s Sunday School Christmas program. Come on back to the basement for more of their hilarious antics and stories. See it through Nov. 25.
If ever there was a season to celebrate traditions, it’s the holidays. And Beef & Boards’ annual holiday production, “A Beef & Boards Christmas” marks its 20th year in 2012. Opening Nov. 29, “A Beef & Boards Christmas” makes the most of the season, with beautiful music, energetic dance numbers, colorful costumes and stirring voices. Gather with friends and family for this original production, on stage through Dec. 23.
Plus Beef & Boards brings back its one-hour musical adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” starting Dec. 7. This classic, enhanced with holiday carols, tells the timeless Charles Dickens story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge whose cold heart warms with the visits of several spirits on Christmas Eve. The production is on stage for select dates through Dec. 21.
Entertainment
‘Chicago,’ ‘Legally Blonde’ headline 2012 Beef & Boards season
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Actor to portray Ernie Pyle in one-man drama
Noted actor Rick Plummer and the Crosley Radio Players will team up to celebrate the life and times of renowned World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle in a special presentation Saturday at South Vermillion High School Auditorium in Clinton.
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Top-10 Christian group Sidewalk Prophets in Terre Haute
Sidewalk Prophets will be coming to Terre Haute on Saturday for their “Live Like That” tour. Lead singer David Frey, a graduate from Terre Haute South Vigo High School, will be performing the first concert at his home church, Maryland Community Church.
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Halcyon Gallery showcases art of Evalyn James during May
Evalyn Gertrude James settled in Terre Haute the first time in 1928.
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Author to sign book about Farrington’s Grove
What do the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola bottle have in common?
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Bloomfield Art Festival seeks vendors
The 2012 Bloomfield Art Festival will take place June 9 in the Bloomfield Town Park and will feature live entertainment, food, and art exhibitions/competitions throughout the day.
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Annual Paint Illinois Juried Exhibition at Bicentennial Art Center
A reception will begin at 5 p.m. Friday at the Bicentennial Art Center in Paris, Ill., for the public and exhibitors in the 16th annual Paint Illinois Juried Exhibition.
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Art Guild features watercolor artist at library during May
Artist Roger King, a recent addition to the Wabash Valley Art Guild, is now featured at the Vigo County Public Library as “Artist of the Month.”
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Groups come together to present ‘OZ!’
Adults Committed to Theatre and The Phoenix Theatre will present “OZ!” on several dates in June in the Marshall Jr. High School gym, Gerald R. Forsythe Performing Arts Center, at 806 N. Sixth St. in Marshall, Ill.
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Shawnee alumni performing in Hollywood; theater announces season
Two of The Shawnee Theatre of Greene County’s alumnus have reconnected in Hollywood at Noah Wyle’s The Blank Theatre Company.
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TH woman claims prizes in puzzle image contest
The search started at midnight on Jan. 29, National Puzzle Day, and lasted through March.
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TJ Thomas & Kentucky Strait to play Opry
TJ Thomas & Kentucky Strait is coming this weekend to the Boot City Opry south of Terre Haute on U.S. 41.
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International exhibit to feature painting in ISU collection
An oil painting from Indiana State University’s Permanent Art Collection will be featured at an international exhibition in Belgium.
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Community Theatre Awards Night set
Community Theatre of Terre Haute celebrates another successful season with its annual Talley Awards Night on Saturday, beginning at 8 p.m.
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Wabash Valley Art Guild’s Spring Show at Honey Creek Mall this weekend
The Wabash Valley Art Guild’s 35th Annual Spring Show will be open to the community Friday through Sunday in Honey Creek Mall. Artists from throughout the Wabash Valley will be represented and promise to show a surprising variety of art.
- Museums/Exhibitions: May 17, 2012
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AUDIO: Sidewalk Prophets singer discusses Terre Haute boyhood, and Saturday's concert
Terre Haute native Dave Frey leads his Dove Award-winning band, Sidewalk Prophets, into a 7 p.m. Saturday concert at his hometown church, Maryland Community Church, joining opening performers Justin Hoeppner and Josh Wilson.
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Opry brings in acts from around the country
The Boot City Opry is in its sixth season and going strong. The theater is full, and the parking lot is packed every Saturday night from April to December.
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Entertainment briefs: May 10, 2012
View Sister’s art at Coffee Grounds
Motorcycle Club plans spring ride
BOW Chorus and Quartets to perform May 12
Clay Relay for Life plans fish fry May 12
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Bridgeton Art & Wine Fair May 12
The 10th annual Bridgeton Art & Wine Fair will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the 1878 Barn in downtown Bridgeton.
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Evening Thyme Garden Club hosts annual fair
A longtime spring tradition will continue when the Evening Thyme Garden Club presents the 14th annual Garden Fair from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 19 at the Clark County Fairgrounds in Marshall, with free admission and parking.
- CONCERTS: May 10, 2012
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Learn about the Kessler Plan for the city at Brown Bag
Find out what an “emerald necklace” has to do with city planning at 12:10 p.m. May 17 during a Vigo County Public Library Brown Bag program. Skilled storyteller Tom Roznowski will discuss the newly discovered Kessler Plan for Terre Haute.
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See ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ free at Paris park
Discover Shakespeare’s comedic spectacle, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” as the group Stone Soup Shakespeare presents its magical and free production at 6 p.m. CDT on May 26 in Twin Lakes Park at Paris, Ill.
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River City features works of Todd Stokes during May
Todd Stokes’ artwork has a tendency to fall into two separate bodies of work — one that represents that “simple break” where we stop to notice, to realize what we are given, the natural world that we so often take for granted, and a second that celebrates the creative energy that brought it all together.
- Museums/Exhibitions: May 10, 2012
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Cultivating Creativity children’s exhibit on view in Paris though May 31
The traveling exhibition Cultivating Creativity 2011-2012: Consolidated Communications Children’s Art Exhibit continues its year-long tour in Paris at the Carnegie Public Library, 207 S. Main St. The exhibit will be on view through May 31. Cultivating Creativity showcases some of the outstanding art produced through east-central Illinois school art programs. Presented is art by 43 students, each representing a different school. The art was created during the 2010-11 school year.
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REVIEW: ‘Look Out!’ pure rock ’n’ roll, with no detours
ashville music aficionados know Tim Carroll as the crafty guitarist and songwriter performing alongside his wife, critically-acclaimed Americana country singer Elizabeth Cook.
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Christian author to sign copies of murder mystery
The Open Door Christian Book store will host a book signing by author Darrell Case of Farmersburg from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Case will be signing his novel “Out of Darkness,” a Christian murder mystery.
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Hopkins to sign books at Java Haute on Saturday
As the wife of a funeral director, Wabash Valley author Marjorie Hopkins got a much closer glimpse at death and, in consequence, life. Through this time, and while praying for years about her own fear of death, Hopkins overcame and was drawn to the conclusion that humans avoid thinking and planning for this one unavoidable event in life.
- THEATER/FILM: May 10, 2012
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