Jefferson Performing Arts Society Announces 37th Season

Jefferson Performing Arts Society Announces 37th Season:

Blueberry Hill

Written and directed by Butch Caire
Blueberry Hill features classic New Orleans R&B songs made famous by local musical icons like Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, Ernie K-Doe, and many others! Not a revue type show or a retelling of the history of the recording business, Blueberry Hill instead tells a new story of everyday people who find themselves dealing with love & betrayal, laughter & tears. Audiences will find themselves sharing in the joy and sadness onstage and singing along as the plot takes some unexpected twists while bringing to life the songs they know and love.

Performances: September 12 -28, 2014 at Teatro Wego! (177 Sala Ave. Westwego, LA 70094) and October 3 - 12, 2014 at Christ Episcopal School Theater (80 Christwood Blvd., Covington, LA)

Times: Friday(s) at 7:30PM, Saturday(s) at 7:30PM and Sunday(s) at 3:00PM

MaCabaret

By Scott Keys and Rob Hartmann

Directed by Butch Caire

Macabaret is a song and dance review filled with macabre humor and double entendres performed by entertainers from beyond the grave. Performances: October 17-November 2, 2014 at Teatro Wego! (177 Sala Ave. Westwego, LA 70094) November 7-9, 2014 at Christ Episcopal School Theater (80 Christwood Blvd., Covington, LA) Times: Friday(s) at 7:30PM, Saturday(s) at 7:30PM and Sunday(s) at 3:00PM

Ballet Hysell's

The Nutcracker

Featuring the JPAS Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Maestro Dennis G. Assaf

JPAS presents this holiday classic created by award winning Ballet Master, the late Harvey Hysell,

Performances: December 6 & 7, 2014 at Jefferson Performing Arts Center (400 Phlox St. Metairie, LA 70001)

Times: Saturday at 7:30PM and Sunday at 3:00PM

Rockin Pneumonia

Written and Directed By Butch Caire

The story continues. What happens to the characters you loved from Blueberry Hill? Do Cos and Josie get back together? Do Johnny and Claudia get married or does Whitney find a way to stop it. Does Donald finally settle down? Does Ashley still despise her mother-in-law? All we know for sure is whatever happens, it's accompanied by more of the best classic songs from the New Orleans jukebox. Rockin' Pneumonia! It's contagious!

Performances: January 16 - February 1, 2015 at Teatro Wego! (177 Sala Ave. Westwego, LA 70094) and February 20- March 1, 2015 at Christ Episcopal School Theater (80 Christwood Blvd., Covington, LA)

Times: Friday(s) at 7:30PM, Saturday(s) at 7:30PM and Sunday(s) at 3:00PM

Sex Please, We're Sixty

By Michael & Susan Parker

Directed by "Uncle" Wayne Daigrepont

Mrs. Stancliffe's Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Guest (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next-door neighbor, the silver-tongued Bud Davis believes that they return to spend time with "Bud the Stud" in romantic liaisons. The prim and proper Mrs. Stancliffe, of course, steadfastly denies this. Her other neighbor, Henry Mitchell, a retired chemist, has developed a little blue pill patented under the name "Venusia" after Venus, the goddess of love, to increase the libido in menopausal women, specifically Mrs. Stancliffe. The only problem is he doesn't know if it works or not. Bud, inadvertently gets his hands on some of the "Venusia" pills and the fun begins as the guests arrive. Performances: February 27 - March 15, 2014 at Teatro Wego! (177 Sala Ave. Westwego, LA 70094) Times: Friday(s) at 7:30PM, Saturday(s) at 7:30PM and Sunday(s) at 3:00PM RATED PG13 for ADULTCONTENT

The Lady With All The Answers

By David Rambo

Directed by "Uncle" Wayne Daigrepont
"Dear Ann Landers"...For decades, renowned advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others in need of advice. No topic was off-limits, including nude housekeeping, sex in a motorcycle helmet, the proper way to hang toilet paper, sibling rivalries, addiction, religion and wandering spouses. Landers regaled her readers with direct, insightful and often humorously honest responses. Late on a 1975 night in Landers' Chicago apartment, an ironic twist of events confronts her with a looming deadline for a column dealing with a new kind of heartbreak: her own. As she shares her struggles to complete the column with us, we learn as much about ourselves as we do about the wise, funny, no-nonsense woman whose daily dialogue with America helped shape the social and sexual landscapes of the last half-century.. Performances: April 3-19, 2015 at Teatro Wego! (177 Sala Ave. Westwego, LA 70094) and April 24-26, 2015 at Christ Episcopal School Theater (80 Christwood Blvd., Covington, LA) Times: Friday(s) at 7:30PM, Saturday(s) at 7:30PM and Sunday(s) at 3:00PM

FUN FOR KIDS, STUDENTS AND FAMILIES!

JPAS Theatre Kids!, Theatre for Young Audiences, Cultural Crossroads, JPAS Conservatory for the Performing Arts, and Arts Adventure Series specials!

Cat In The Hat, Flat Stanley JR, and Captain Louie JR are presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

421 West 54th St, New York. NY 10019

Phone (212) 541-4684 Fax (212) 397-4684 www.MTIShows.com

** All shows are RATED PG OR G

Cat In The Hat

Play Originally Produced by the

National Theatre of Great Britain

Adapted and Originally Directed by Katie Mitchell

Based on the book by Dr. Seuss

From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that THE CAT IN THE HAT is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he is certainly fun to play with. And he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home...? Not a word has been touched or added to Dr. Seuss's classic, ensuring anyone who's read the story will find themselves transported into the world they've always imagined. Performances: September 13 & 20, 2014 at Jefferson Performing Arts Center (400 Phlox St. Metairie, LA) and September 27 at Christ Episcopal School Theater (80 Christwood Blvd., Covington, LA) Times: Saturday(s) at 11:00AM & 2:00PM

**Arts Adventure Series: September 11 & 12 and 18 & 19, 2014 at 9:45AM at Jefferson Performing Arts Center

September 25 & 26 at 9:45am at Christ Episcoal School Theater

Theatre Kids! Presents

The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley Jr.

Lyrics by Timothy Allen McDonald and Jonathan K. Waller

Music by David Weinstein, Timothy Allen McDonald, Jonathan K. Waller, and Stephen Gabriel

Book by Timothy Allen McDonald

Based on the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brow

Stanley Lambchop is your ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill ten-year-old: normal mom and dad, normal little brother, normal life.That's just the problem...for Stanley, life is too normal. He wants to travel the world, do something amazing, something no one's ever seen before. The next morning, Stanley Lambchop wakes up flat. Not just a little flat...really, REALLY flat! In a whirlwind musical travelogue, Stanley - the ultimate exchange student - scours the globe for a solution to his unusual problem. Performances: December 5 - 7, 2014 at Jefferson Performing Arts Center (400 Phlox St. Metairie, LA 70001) Times: Friday at 7:30PM, Saturday at 2:00PM & 7:30PM and Sunday at 3:00PM

Theatre Kids! Presents

Captain Louie JR

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

Book by Anthony Stein

Based on the book The Trip by Ezra Jack Keats,

CAPTAIN LOUIE JR, spins a tale of young Louie, the new kid in town who feels lonely and friendless after his family moves to a new neighborhood. Looking for something to cheer himself up on Halloween, Louie takes an imaginary journey to visit his old neighborhood friends on the wings of his favorite toy, his little red plane. The story of little Captain Louie is full of tricks and treats, as well as the incomparable music and lyrics of Stephen Schwartz. Most of all, CAPTAIN LOUIE JR. is about friendship - the ability to make new friends as well as the importance of old ones

Performances: March 20-22, 2015 at Jefferson Performing Arts Center (JPAC) (400 Phlox St. Metairie, LA 70001) Times: Friday at 7:30PM, Saturday at 2:00PM& 7:30PM and Sunday at 3:00PM

**Arts Adventure Series: March 19 & 20, 2015 at 9:45AM at Jefferson Performing Arts Center

More about the Jefferson Performing Arts Society

Founded in 1978 by Dennis G. Assaf and Hannah Cunningham, Jefferson Performing Arts Society is a non-profit professional arts organization whose mission is to promote arts performance, training and outreach by providing a diverse range of quality programs that entertain, educate and enrich the cultural and economic vitality of Jefferson Parish, Greater New Orleans and the Gulf South.

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