Community Theatre Where the professionals get their start! Live performing arts embodies the heart, soul and spirit of a community and enriches our lives. Throughout the United States community theatres have contributed to the beginning of professional careers for actors and actresses. Vallejo Music Theatre is no different. With public and private funding, we provide an avenue of entertainment for the community and experience for the performer. | ||
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Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man" opens July 11, 2008 Watch for more info... | ||
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TALENT SEARCH FOR TOMORROW’S STARS The public is invited to join Vallejo Music Theatre for a talent search for the stars of tomorrow. Running for five Fridays over ten weeks, VMT’s Friday Night Supper Club will hold a “Best of the Bay Talent Search.” Beginning April 11 at 6 PM and continuing April 25, May 9, and May 23 at Vallejo Music Theatre’s Marin Street Theatre, 823 Marin Street in Vallejo (the old Federal Building) two finalists from each of the first four nights, will compete June 6 for cash prizes and an opportunity to appear at the Friday Night Supper Club for a full evening show in the future. Cost of the evening to our audience members is only $20 and includes dinner and the show. Subscribers for the five show series is $100 and includes reserved seating and one complimentary beverage each night of the run. “We’re looking for comics, musicians, vocalists, variety acts, animal acts, ventriloquists, etc,” said VMT’s Managing Director Judith Brown. “Our mission is to entertain and train so let’s give talented people a place to perform and be seen,” she added. “We’re always looking for talented singers/dancers/actors for our musicals, concerts and events and especially for our new Friday Night Supper Club.” Acts and individuals interested in auditioning for prizes must call as soon as possible to 707.649.2787 to sign up. Each act/individual must sign up prior to performance night. Walk-ins on performance nights will be turned away due to the limited time of two hours for the competition. Each night for the first four Friday’s nine performers /acts will audition in front of a live audience. Each night two winners will be selected to present their act agaon on the fifth Friday. Winners of the run of the event will receive cash awards for first, second and third places. There is no cost for applicants to perform. The audience (please leave your gongs at home) will dine while being entertained by the “best of the Bay’s Talent Search.” Doors open at 6:00 PM; buffet dinner starts at 7:00 PM and the Talent Search begins at 7:30 PM. The evening ends with the audience selecting two winners to send onto the final competition. Masters of Ceremonies for the five evenings include Julio Lopez, Raymond Victor and Michael Wilson. Performers are asked to call to reserve their place on the stage at 707.649.2787 as soon as possible. Audience members may reserve a place for dinner and the show by calling 707.649.2787 or by going on-line to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/28686 or for a five show series subscription to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/28804. | ||
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Building For The Future at the Marin Street Theater | ||
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You can now donate to Vallejo Music Theatre via Paypal, help us turn 823 Marin Street into a GREAT Theater! | |||
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Celebrating the 42nd Season of Vallejo Music Theatre | ||
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1967 through 2008 | ||
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A New Focus... A New Direction... “People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.” Franklin D. Roosevelt August, 2006 With our Architectural and Engineering studies complete; our Financial Review and Business Plan neatly done - all showing that we can indeed turn the Federal Building into a two-theater performing arts center - we are re-focusing our vision to raise the funds needed to pay off the mortgage on the building. We need to put glasses on our vision to renovate the landmark Federal Building into a theater for the performing arts! This is a community project, supported by the community's dollars; our glasses will be complete once the mortgage is put to bed (or burned in ceremony on the front steps of the building). We are setting a goal of raising $560,000 over the next 18 months (by January/February/March, 2008) to retire the mortgage on 823 Marin Street; we are inviting you to join us and help us with this new focus. We are finding that the mortgage is a barrier to winning grants and obtaining a construction loan to move forward on the work needed in the building. To reach our goal much has to take place during the next 18 months. We've been working diligently to put this very aggressive plan in place, ie: a.) Bringing the numbers on the Board of Directors to the full compliment of 25; b.) Focusing on the new campaign to have, on average, 1,200 individuals and businesses pledge $28 per month for 18 months; c.) On-Line Auction September/October, 2006 (we have just completed our first test on-line auction and it far exceeded our goals); d.) Pocket-Change collection boxes at businesses around town and for our audiences; e.) Live Art Auction featuring many local artists - November 17, 2006; f.) Annual Fund Raising Gala, February, 2007; g.) On The Titanic Formal Gala October 6, 2007 with Helen Benzinger McKinstry, the Unsinkable Molly Brown's granddaughter, who will enthrall us with stories of her grandmother, the passengers and the night of the sinking of the Titanic. Passengers (attendees) will be treated to a portion of the menu served that last night, the music played, etc. Each passenger attending this gala will be assigned the name of a Titanic passenger - learning at the end ... well ... we don't want to give it all away. h.) Things in the works: a golf tournament, a large waterfront event in the spring of 2007 (in the planning stages), a Monte Carlo Night (when the new law is approved) and additions to the 41st Season including a Purcell opera in 2007. Our goal is still to have construction completed by September, 2009. Upon completion of the new center we will move from our current sub-standard performing space at the Fetterly Playhouse for the Arts Theater and move our VMT Conservatory for the Performing Arts from Lincoln Elementary School. We hope that you will agree that it is time for this organization, working in its 40th season, the largest and oldest live performing arts company in Solano County solely dedicated to musical theater and the education of aspiring actors and technicians, to have a home of its own. We decided it wouldn't happen unless we did it ourselves. But... we need your help to get this done. Over 400 people in the community have helped us get this far and we will continue to need their help, and your help, to have the building securely in our hands. Special terms and conditions now exist through a Trust which ensures that the building is in the hands of and control of VMT, a Public Benefit Corporation (no individual can benefit from its use and/or sale). Paying off the mortgage strengthens our position with foundations and lenders. This landmark building is one-half block from the Downtown and Redevelopment Districts. Once completed, our programming will have a great impact on the families and businesses in the area. More families with children will be able to take advantage of live performing arts education and experiences; seniors housed in nearby residential hotels will have access to performing arts within walking distance. We will have a venue that other performing arts groups will be able to use as it will be a full-service performing arts venue with all of the bells, whistles and accoutrements for community and professional productions. Performances and events will bring people into the downtown area to enjoy the burgeoning renaissance and add greatly to the economy of Vallejo's downtown. Please sponsor us today using the Founder's Acquisition Fund (Download PDF ) (formerly the Building Fund). We have expanded the categories from the previous Phase I forms and benefits have been identified for each level of giving. Help make this vision, benefiting all of Vallejo, come true. Don't hesitate to talk to us! Our office is now located in the building, 823 Marin Street and we keep office hours from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. Call us at 707.649.2787. Come by for a tour and look at our studies and plans. The coffee is always on! Suzanne Blakeley, President • Judith H. Brown, Managing Director Board of Directors P.S. You will note on the new Founder's Acquisition Fund form that two Memorials have been opened... the Lucy Carter Memorial Fund and the Malcolm Tipp Memorial Fund. Donors to Memorials will be recognized in a special way, as well as on the donor plaque when the building is ready to open. The new Donor Categories will include those who have donated from the beginning of the project in December, 2002. Memorials may be opened at any time with an initial or cumulative donation of $5,000 or more. For more information on 823 Marin Street - Click Here See what One Dollar per day from only 1200 people can do! Click Here! The "Fall Founders" Auction is closed - Watch for another one Soon! | ||
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Vallejo Music Theatre is buying a new home! Conservatory for the Performing Arts A Cookbook for All Cooks • Click Here for Details! | ||
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