Community Theatre of Little Rock to Present ON GOLDEN POND

The Community Theatre of Little Rock, in partnership with Bryan Strickland, is pleased to continue its 60th Season with our Spring Drama "On Golden Pond" by Earnest Thompson. Show dates are April 14th-17th and April 21st-24th,2016, to be held at The Studio Theatre, 320 West 7th Street in Downtown Little Rock.

Regular admission is $16 for adults and $14 for military, students (10yrs - College) and seniors age 65+. $6.00 for Children (4-9 yrs). Children age 3 and under are given free admission. Groups of 10 or more can get in for $14. Bring a pair of gently used running shoes and receive $1.00 off your admission.

Now you can become a member of CTLR and enjoy some premium benefits. For your ticket purchase + $5.00, you will become a member of CTLR. With your membership, you'll receive advanced seating at all productions, early bird ticket sales (via e-mail announcement) and advanced announcement of the next season before the general public.

CTLR takes credit card orders on-line or you may reserve your seat by phone and pay at the door.

The On Golden Pond cast has scheduled a 'Pocket Preview'* of the show April 13th at 7:30pm. On this one night, admission is whatever the patron can pay. *CTLR's "Pocket Previews" are actually final dress rehearsals which are open to the public. No admission is required, but we will be accepting donations to support the theatre. No reservations will be accepted, as seating is strictly on a first-come, first-serve basis.

ReservationsSeating is limited, so reservations are highly recommended. To purchase your tickets, please visit our website www.ctlr-act.org. To reserve your seat (pay at the door) or for information call CTLR at 501-410-ACT3(2283). Unclaimed reserved seats will be released 10 minutes prior to show time. Doors open one hour prior to show time.

Performances on Thursday - Saturday ~ Box office opens at 6:30 pm, curtain rises at 7:30 pm. Performances on Sundays ~ Box office opens at 1:00 pm, curtain rises at 2:00 pm.

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory-but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

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