Ditto to Kim’s previous post on Viva Las Vegas. Make plans to be there or you’ll most definitely be square.

Virginia Stage Company’s Annual Fundraiser Viva Las Vegas Returns!

Virginia Stage Company will host it’s biggest fundraiser of the year Viva Las Vegas on Saturday, February 10, 2007. The event will take place at the historic Wells Theatre with the festivities beginning at 6:30 PM. There will be a silent auction held in the main lobby from 6:30 - 7:30 PM and then a live auction will begin at 7:30 PM in the theater’s house. Gambling games begin on stage after the live auction and features Texas Hold ‘Em, Craps, Blackjack, and Roulette. The cost of the event is $60 per person and this includes open bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres from Sterling’s restaurant. Proceeds from the event are to benefit the Virginia Stage Company. For more information or to purchase tickets please call Kimberly Johnson (757) 627-6988 ext. 342.

For all those Elvis fans out there…he will be in the building!!!

Um…Christmas Carol is selling like crazy. If you don’t have tix, you should prolly get on that quickly. Yeah!

Jacob Marley broke his nose! I guess the chains he forged in life were wrapped just a little too tight. Seriously though, Chris (the actor playing Marley) broke his nose in a game of touch(?) football the Monday of the week we started student matinees.

Thankfully, he is ok. The funny part is that he has to put his face into a mesh screen installed in Scrooge’s door. If you know Christmas Carol, you know the scene where Scrooge is having his nightmare-ish trip home on that fateful Christmas Eve.

Needless to say, Chris is a trooper as evidenced by the pic below. This is with a week-old broken nose.

Family Day and the downtown parade were a big success! Thanks to everyone who came out and helped or partook in the festivities. See you next year! Check out some pics below.

Right…so I’m the new Director of Communications here at VSC. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind getting here. It seems like only a few weeks ago I was sitting at home in Dallas. Wait! It was only a few weeks ago. Sheesh!

Just a quick reminder that you only have one more week to see The Elephant Man. The Portfolio Weekly calls it “surreal and poignant”. They go on to say the play “casts an intriguing and irresistible spell” and “earns accolades as one of the better efforts the company has recently mounted”.

Don’t miss it. CLICK here to buy tickets for the FINAL WEEK!

I had the fortune of seeing our Education department’s production of The Fisherman and his Wife last week. Check it out!

I guess that is all for me now. Stay tuned to this blog though the holidays. Christmas Carol starts rehearsals this week and there are many backstage tidbits coming your way.

Ryan

Virginia Stage Company Hires New Director of Communications

NORFOLK (Oct. 24, 2006) — Virginia Stage Company’s Managing Director Keith Stava is pleased to announce that Ryan J. Pointer has been hired as the Company’s next Director of Communications. Mr. Pointer will direct and develop the Company’s marketing, public relations and sales strategies as well as supervising its box office and front of house operations.

“We are very fortunate to have found someone with the comparable theater marketing experience we need to help the Company continue to build on our successes. In fact, VSC has added over 900 new season subscribers this year. Ryan’s extensive artistic experience is an added plus and everyone at VSC is excited to have him join our team,” stated Stava.

Pointer, a Dallas, Texas native, is the former Director of Marketing and Audience Development at the Dallas Theatre Center, a 50 year-old LORT theater company, and he has also served as the Producing Artistic Director of Plano Repertory Theatre. While at the Dallas Theater Center, Mr. Pointer designed and supervised marketing strategies that increased earned income for the nationally recognized $4.4 million dollar regional theater. At Plano Repertory Theatre, Mr. Pointer served as the chief executive of the $1.2 million company where he planned and produced three seasons of award-winning plays at this professional company. Mr. Pointer succeeds Chad Bauman, who is leaving VSC to assume the high-profile position of Director of Print and Multimedia Communications at the Americans for the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Pointer studied theater at Missouri Valley College and the University of Texas at Arlington. In addition to his marketing experience, he also has worked professionally as a director, dancer and choreographer. Mr. Pointer will join Virginia Stage Company on Tuesday, October 31, 2006. He will be joined by his new wife B.J. as well as their three dogs and three cats in January of 2007.

VIDEO from a technical rehearsal of THE ELEPHANT MAN

THE ELEPHANT MAN
Rehearsal Video — Second Week