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Port Hope
Uwe Meyer, Artistic Director
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Seating: 380
Season: June - Sept & November/December
Tickets: $22.00 - $27.00
Facilities:
Air Conditoning, Universal Access, Hearing Impaired,
The Port Hope Festival Theatre operates out of the Capitol Theatre, a 1930's Film Theatre and one of Canada's only fully restored "Atmospheric Theatres". Each summer PHFT produces four plays, one being a major musical. In November, Port Hope Festival Theatre presents a Christmas musical followed in December with our annual Christmas 'Panto'.
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Current Season
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Educating Rita
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Comedy
By: Willy Russell
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Preview: 6/5/2008
Opening Night: 6/6/2008
Runs: 6/5/2008 to 6/14/2008 |
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Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books. Enter Rita. She is a forthright 26 year old hairdresser who is hungry for education. Rita quickly wins over the very reticent teacher by her native shrewdness and her refusal to accept secondhand academic opinions. In the course of the play she gives Frank a new lease on his life by making him believe in himself once again.
"A marvelous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy tale with a quizzical, half happy ending." London Sunday Times.
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Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story
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Musical
By: Alan James & Rob Bettinson
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Preview: 6/19/2008
Opening Night: 6/20/2008
Runs: 6/19/2008 to 7/12/2008 |
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Nearly 50 years ago, the man who changed the face of popular music tragically died in a plane crash aged 22. Now, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story tells the story of the three years in which he became the world’s top recording artist with a show that features over 20 of Buddy Holly’s greatest hits including “Peggy Sue”, “That’ll Be The Day”, “Oh Boy”, “Rave On”, “Heartbeat”, “Maybe Baby”, “Raining In My Heart”, Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba”, and the Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace”.
Buddy follows the tragically short life of Buddy Holly from his first recording contract, his marriage to a young Puerto Rican girl named Maria Elena, through to his move to New York and concluding with the fatal tour of the Midwest. This show is not to be missed as Buddy sings his way through two hours of some of the best rock ‘n’ roll songs ever written.
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Same Time Next Year
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Comedy
By: Bernard Slade
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Preview: 7/17/2008
Opening Night: 7/18/2008
Runs: 7/17/2008 to 7/26/2008 |
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One of the most popular romantic comedies of the century, Same Time, Next Year ran four years on Broadway, was a successful motion picture, and remains one of the most widely produced plays in history. It follows a love affair between people who rendezvous once a year. Twenty five years of manners, morals and attitudes are hilariously mirrored by the lovers.
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Anne of Green Gables
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Musical
By: Don Harron & Norman Campbell
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Preview: 7/31/2008
Opening Night: 8/1/2008
Runs: 7/31/2008 to 8/24/2008 |
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This wonderful family musical tells the heartwarming story of a freckle-faced, red-haired orphan named Anne Shirley who arrives at the home of brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert in Avonlea full of hope for a new life. Devastated to discover that the elderly couple were expecting a boy from the orphanage, she brings song, laughter, love, and more than a little consternation to the Cuthberts' quiet lives and in the end finds her new home.
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