13 enero 2011

Tickets Now Available For Wizard of Oz with a Todos Twist

The Witches are brewing up some laughs...


Tickets Now Available 

We are happy to announce that tickets are now available 
for the 'The Wizard of Oz with a Todos Twist'!
Stop by Tecolote Bookstore on Benito Juarez, 
or La Bodega de Todos Santos on Hidalgo to purchase tickets. 
If coming from out of town, contact Vickie at vandhbutler@gmail.com 
for "Will Call" seat reservations.  
There are only five performances, so be sure you get your 
tickets to see this special adaptation 
of a beloved classic!

Show dates: Opening night Friday, February 4th 
Performances: Saturday, February 5th
Friday, February 11th & Saturday, February 12th 
Closing Night will be Friday, February 18th, 2011

Doors open at 6:30pm 
Show starts at 7:30pm
Refreshment bar will be open
Advance Ticket Price: 150 pesos or $15 usd
Door Ticket Price: 200 pesos or $20 usd
Out of Town Folks use Will Call:  Vickie at  vandhbutler@gmail.com

09 enero 2011

Cast Pictures of the Wiz


A fun and talented core cast hanging out for some photographs.
Dorothy - Roxanne Rosenblatt
Tin Man - Vic Kirby
Scarecrow - Isabel Smyth
Cowardly Lion - Sharon Morris
The Wizard - Peter Jackson
Wicked Witch of the West - Donna Schultz
Glinda the Good Witch - Anita Harris


Todos - Silvio Carlos Garcia Baum
Flying Monkeys under the spell of the Wicked Witch of the West:
Rhoda Jacobs, Laurie Pearce Bauer  and Ella Parks
Smallest Monkey, Nikko: Dulce McRoberts
Just wait until they have costumes, then it will be quite scary!






Chorus of Munchkin Land and Emerald City;
Mayor of Munchkinland:  Gillian Herbert
Barrister of Munchkinland:  Nicola Newton
Coroner of Munchkinland:  Laurie Pearce Bauer
Munchkin #1: Rhoda Jacobs
Munchkin #2:  Sylvia St. Clair
Lullaby League: Dulce McRoberts, Ella Park, Evelyn Velazquez
Tough Kids: Tom Carroll, Bill David, Hal Butler
Crow: Evelyn Velazquez

Emerald City Cabby:  Gillian Herbert
Horse of a Different Color:  Ella Parks
Emerald City Masseur: Sylvia St. Clair
Emerald City Plastic Surgeon: Nicola Newton
Emerald City Polishers:  Laurie Pearce Bauer, Evelyn Velazquez
Emerald City Manicurist: Rhoda Jacobs
Winged Monkeys: Rhoda Jacobs, Laurie Pearce Bauer, Ella Parks
Winged Monkey Nikko: Dulce McRoberts
Winkies: Tom Carroll, Bill David, Hal Butler; 

Gillian Herbert, Rhoda Jacobs and Laurie Pearce Bauer


Thanks to Vic Kirby for these photographs!




03 enero 2011

The Wizard Twists into Todos Santos!


The Wizard Twists into Todos Santos!
by Vickie M. Butler


In the original 1939 movie version of The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, the main characters plead with the Wizard to give them a brain, a heart, courage and a home.  During the first three weekends of February, audiences for The Wizard of Oz with a Todos Twist will not only view those attributes as staged by the actors, but also will experience the real life use of them! Because of the courage, heart and brains of well-known director Isabel Smyth and contractor/musician Raul Cavazos, the community of Todos Santos is now home to the newly constructed Luna Azul stage. Located in an exquisite tropical setting, the multi-leveled stage is surrounded by beautifully bricked arches.  One can easily imagine all of the future theatrical and musical productions taking place as Director Smyth enthuses, “We’re so excited about building our own stage in Todos Santos. From now on, Blue Moon Productions will have this incredible venue to facilitate the performing arts in our community. The Wizard of Oz with a Todos Twist will be perfect for our first production on the permanent stage.”

Comprised of a 35+ member cast and crew, The Wizard of Oz with a Todos Twist will be a lively, colorful musical spoof based on the familiar movie story line---with one major exception:  Dorothy is a fifty-nine year old recent transplant to Todos Santos who visits the craziness of Munchkinland, Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz because of a hurricane rather than a tornado! Talented veteran actress Roxanne Rosenblatt’s Dorothy promises to be a more relevant, cynical Dorothy whose encounters with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion and Witches are truly of out of this world!

Serendiptity Bed and Breakfast owner, Sharon Morris, relishes her role as the Cowardly Lion. “I look like Bert Lahr, the original movie Lion, and I really enjoy playing parts that can be exaggerated and are larger than life.  Learning the Lion’s expressions and songs is fun as well as a challenge for me.” (Local audiences may recall Morris as Mother Superior in Nunsense four years ago).  Joining her on the Oz adventure is Vic Kirby, an Oxford graduate, corporate consultant, author and photographer, who has been cast in the role of the creaky Tin Man, a man built without a heart.  “I’m a little rusty at the moment, but my lines with be polished by the time we get there!”

In addition to a fine acting ensemble, director and visionary Smyth has attracted a multitude of other talents.  Multi-media artist Roxanne Sparks, head of Costuming and Prop Design for The Wizard of Oz with a Todos Twist, is making use of a broad and varied skill-base. Presently, her Todos Santos studio is filling up with creations that include a life-size mango tree and paper mache masks, ears, and tails amid an array of other imaginative costumes. “In my previous life, I worked as a graphic artist for several years.  I also created whimsical miniature houses and scenes that I called gnome houses under the name Gnome Sweet Home!  These were mixed media of paper mache, wood, bark and other natural and man made materials.  The Wizard of Oz with a Todos Twist is a fun way to put some of my interests to work!”

Because of its ocean setting, moderate climate and growing reputation as an artists’ colony, Todos Santos continues to attract a foreign population that brings a vast reservoir of experiences and interests. When combined with the welcoming, talented local Mexican community, Isabel Smyth’s vision of an on-going Todos Santos performing arts cadre is on its way to becoming a reality. Plan to see this mixture of brains, heart, courage and home at Luna Azul during the production of The Wizard of Oz with a Todos Twist, 7:30 pm, on February 4, 5, 11, 12 and 18! Tickets can be purchased at Tecolote Bookstore, La Bodega de Todos Santos or Luna Azul. Please contact bluemooninbaja@yahoo.com for more information.

02 enero 2011

Directions to Blue Moon Theater in Las Tunas

Directions to Blue Moon in Las Tunas 
From central Todos Santos, take Topete off of the main street Benito Juarez. (Turn at Restaurante Tres Galline). 
Then at Calle 
Horizonte turn left and go northwest on the paved road. At tienda Los Pinos it turns into a dirt road. Stay to the right as the road curves, then up a fewl bumpy hills past the store “Mercado El Sol II” on Las Playitas/Camino Pacifico. Continue about a half mile, past a small store on left with a Blue Pacifico sign to Calle Los Mangos.  
Turn left on Calle Los Mangos and follow this road as it winds down towards the ocean.  Look for signs leading you to the theater which will be down a small lane to the right. Our phone is 612.104.7082  Welcome!


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