Join us for a night of entertainment as the Weekend Theater presents “A Man Of No Importance,” a musical about prejudice in which Alfie Byrne, an Oscar Wilde-loving bus driver in 1960’s Dublin, spends his off-hours directing an amateur group of thespians to amusing and ultimately disastrous results.
The performance, to be held on Thursday, May 10th, is a fundraising event for Little Rock Capital Pride, and is provided by the Weekend Theater’s benefit program. Tickets are $20 at the door, of which a significant portion goes to help fund LRCP’s main festival on June 3rd, 2007! A cash bar will also be available for beer, wine, and soft drinks.
RESERVE YOUR SEATS! Just e-mail Joe and give us your name, and how many seats you need. You can pick up and pay for your tickets the night of the performance, but we’ll make sure you have a seat!
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From the creators of Ragtime comes this funny, tender, and unassuming Irish musical about prejudice in which Alfie Byrne, an Oscar Wilde-loving bus driver in 1960’s Dublin, spends his off-hours directing an amateur group of thespian misfits called St. Imelda’s Players. The dedicated group is determined to stage the controversial “Salome” (complete with its scandalous ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’)—to humorous and disastrous results. The play’s sensuality raises the ire of rigidly moral Catholic church authorities, and in the ensuing struggle for art, we discover three appealing characters who are in a struggle themselves—with finding love, in what society calls, “all the wrong places”. Beautiful and spirited Irish melodies weave their way through this sometimes comic, ultimately moving, story of human passion that asks us to walk in the shoes of others and listen with our hearts.
- Book by Terrence McNally
- Music by Stephen Flaherty
- Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
- Directed by Andy Hall
- Music direction by Steve Whaley
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The Weekend Theater is a non-profit theatrical community that produces socially significant plays for the Central Arkansas community.
For those who enjoy the magical world of live theater, The Weekend Theater is a unique black-box theater at the corner of 7th and Chester Streets in Little Rock, Arkansas. The audience can enjoy the intimacy of the small theater in a wonderful, comfortably remodeled theater House with a new stage lighting system to bring The Weekend Theater productions to life. The Weekend Theater is decidedly New York in character - apartments upstairs, theater downstairs, pizza joint/microbrewery across one street, and the local fire station across the other!
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This performance is part of the Weekend Theater’s “benefit” program, in which the final dress rehearsal before the premier performance is opened to specific non-profit organizations for the purpose of raising funds from within their membership. As part of the program, the theater company asks that we do not publicize the event outside of our membership. While you are welcome to e-mail your friends and family in regard to the performance to generate interest and solicit ticket sales, we ask that you do not place any banners or links on public websites about this fundraiser.
The board has come to a decision on the performers for our main event, Little Rock Capital Pride ‘07 at the River Market Pavilions in downtown Little Rock! They are as follows:
