Hi Everyone!

BCREA’s 2011-12 CULTURAL SEASON

Dear BCREA Membership:
Thank you for supporting my endeavors to include the arts in the activities offered by BCREA.  I began this effort in 2003 when Madeline Martin convinced me that BCREA needed some arts infusion and I was the one to provide it.  We were off to a slow start with one show the first year.

This season's three shows are already sold out and the first performance is not until the end of January!  Now that BCREA has "gotten the hang of it" I am moving and won't be able to provide this service in the future.  However, I do have tickets to Billy Elliott and The Birds so I'll see the attendees then; I will miss Last of the Red Hot Lovers as I'll be snow-skiing with my family.
The January 5th meeting will be my last.  I will miss the friends and acquaintances I have made in BCREA these 7 years.  To all of you I extend my best wishes for continuing good times with BCREA. Please continue to participate in arts activities in the future as it is good for your soul!
I'm happy to say that Carol Roland, pictured with me at right, has stepped up to take over the Cultural Arts Program. Please give her your full support and let her know what things you'd enjoy seeing. We need feedback to do a good job!

Since the 2011-12 BCREA Cultural Season tickets are all sold out, if you didn't get any, here's what you'll be missing: 

Comedy - Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers
   Saturday, Jan 28, 2012 at 2pm
    Stage Door Theatre Coral Springs
    Season Price (until 10/15/11) $33/After 10/15/11 $35.50
In one of Neil Simon’s funniest and most famous comedies, Barney Cashman wants to be join the sexual revolution, but can’t. He utterly and hilariously fails at seduction. “A genuinely brilliant play!” raved the New York Post. “Extraordinarily funny and Charming!” 

Music & Dance - Billy Elliot (I thought this one would appeal to the "teacher" in all of us!)
  Thursday, March 8, 2012 @ 8pm 
        BCPA, Au Rene Theatre 
    Season Price (until 10/15/11) $64.20/After 10/15/11 $69.20
BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL is the joyous celebration of one boy's journey to make his dreams come true. Set in a small town, the story follows Billy as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class, discovering a surprising passion that inspires his family and his whole community. A big musical with an even bigger heart, BILLY ELLIOT will enchant the dreamer in all of us. Based on the international smash-hit film, BILLY ELLIOT is brought to life by a phenomenal cast of 45 and the Tony Award-winning creative team -- director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling and writer Lee Hall -- along with music legend Elton John, who has written what the New York Post calls "HIS BEST SCORE YET!"  

Drama/Suspense/Thriller - The Birds by Conor McPherson
        Sunday, April 1, 2012  at 2pm  
     Mosaic Theatre in American Heritage Theatre, West Broward Blvd., Planation
          Season Price (until 10/15/11) $30.60/After 10/15/11 $35.05
(SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE)   From the writer of Mosaic's Award Winning hit, The Seafarer, and plays Shining City and The Weir, Mosaic is pleased to present the Southeastern Premiere of The Birds by Tony Award nominee Conor McPherson. This new play is a chilling psychological portrait inspired by Daphne Du Maurier's short story (on which Hitchcock's famed thriller was also loosely based). Set in an isolated, abandoned house in Cornwall, strangers Nat and Diane, with no electricity and little food, take refuge from the unnerving masses of birds that attack everyone around them.

Here's hoping you will be among those joining us this season,
Michele

My e-mail:  dramama51@bellsouth.net

Phones: Home -954-753-1258; Cell - 954-849-5512.

Michele