September 16 sold
out, 18, 23 sold out,
25, 30, October 1, 8, 9,
14, 15 sold out
It’s the Napa Valley sometime ago. Tony,
a middle-aged vineyard owner, has friends, family
and his work - everything a fella needs to call
himself happy, except the love of a good woman.
Then he spies Rosabella, a young waitress in San
Francisco. Afraid she couldn’t love him as
the fella he is, Tony proposes by mail, setting
into motion one of the most moving and beautifully
crafted American musicals ever written.
Winner of the NY Drama Critics Circle for Best
Musical of 1956. Featured songs include "Standing
on the Corner (Watching All the Girls Go By)", "Big
D", "Warm All Over", "My Heart
Is So Full Of You" and "Please Let Me
Tell You".
This critically acclaimed play is performed by
the renowned theatre and music group Felonious:
onelovehiphop. Written in rhyme and accompanied
by beatbox (vocal drum beats) and DJ Raw B (the
San Francisco DJ best known for producing the underground
Hip Hop show Beatsauce on KUSF), the story focuses
on the struggle of two brothers, Mickey Finch (Soulati)
and Tet (Infinite Tunga Brown), and their friends
to rise above the challenge of the conditions they
have been dealt in life.
"Thrilling... riveting...exhilarating" (Robert
Hurwitt, SF Chronicle), Beatbox speaks to young
audiences as well as seasoned theater-goers.
"Theaters across Sonoma
County striving to please sophisticated audiences
with new, different shows"
"Petaluma's
Cinnabar Theater, established 35 years ago primarily
to perform classic operas, will present "Beatbox:
A Raparetta" later this month, created and performed
by the Felonius One Love Hip Hop group from Oakland
and DJ Raw of San Francisco.",
Dan Taylor, Press
Democrat, October 2, 2005.
December
31, Jan
6, 7, 13,
14, 20 and 21 at 8:00 pm; Jan. 15 at 2:00 pm
soldout
A troupe of our favorite performers presents this
tribute to one of France's most beloved singers,
the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf.Piaf’s songs are imbued with passion and
reflection, recalling a Paris and a world not yet
ravaged by commercial hype, full of danger and
love, sorrow and soul, joy and loss. Songs included
in the program include La
Vie en Rose, Milord, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien and many more. Single Tickets: $25/$23
January 21 Final performance:
7:00 pm Special Wine & Cheese tasting - proceeds
benefit our award-winning youth program;
8:00 pm performance Single Tickets: $35/$33 sold
out
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
December 31 It’s New Year’s Eve at Cinnabar! Celebrate
with style in our beautiful historic theater. Enjoy
cabaret seating and our Cabaret Revue while indulging
in sublime confections and sipping fine wines
and champagne. We supply the party favors, entertainment,
refreshments and La
Vie en Rose. You bring the joie
de vivre. Our New Year’s
Eve parties sell out every year, so get your tickets
early.Single Tickets: $52/$50
The show must go
on! No matter what, the artist must put on his
makeup, however he may feel inside, and give his
best to the public. So muses Canio after discovering
that his young wife has taken a lover. Though his
heart is breaking, he must play the clown. The
conesquences, however, are nothing to laugh at.
This great work of Italian "verismo" is
so exuberant, so dramatic, so poignant, and so
lyrical that it has found its way into the hearts
of generations of opera lovers. See it up close,
personal, and in English. The program includes
a delightful curtain-raiser.
Single
Tickets: $32/$30
Gala
Opening (Optional) by Dempsey’s Restaurant & Brewery
includes delicious hors d’oeuvres at 7pm. Single
Tickets: $42/$40
Final
performance: special Wine & Dessert tasting
- proceeds benefit our award winning-youth program. Single
Tickets: $42/$40
MASTER CLASS Terrence McNally
May 26*, 27, June 2, 3, 4(2:00PM) sold out, 9, 10, 11(2:00PM), 16, 17
All shows at 8:00PM except as indicated
The doors of the recital hall swing open: in sweeps
the diva, taking the stage with nothing less than
divine right. "No applause," she warns,
throwing up a halting hand. "We're here to
work." And work she does! McNally constructs this buoyant crash-course
in how life and love inform one's art with an imaginative
reconstruction of the real-life master classesundertaken
in 1971and ‘72
by the great diva herself, Maria Callas. The glorious
voice has long since deserted her and she is left
humanized, if not notably humbled, by the life
lessons she picked up during her amazing, meteoric
career. These, as much as her musical counseling,
she bestows on her students and on us, the audience,
as she spins her tales of art and love, world approval
and heartbreaking abandonment.
Single
Tickets: $22/$20
*Gala
Opening (Optional) by Negri’s Restaurant
includes delicious hors d’oeuvres at 7pm. Single
Tickets: $32/$30
Young Rep
Season - Our young performers on stage! For information about subscribing
to the full Professional and/or Young Rep seasons,
click here.
Winter Season
THE TAILOR OF
GLOUCESTER
Based on the story by Beatrix Potter
by Marcy
Telles and Janis Dunson Wilson See Calendar for
datesThe newest addition to Cinnabar’s collection
of original musicals for young people, this musical
fable intertwines the stories of a crew of romantic
and hardworking mice, a rather vain mayor and
his social-climbing fiancée, and a gang
of scheming cats. Caught in the middle of this
muddle are the industrious Tailor of Gloucester
and his friends, the children of the town. Will
the mayor’s coat be ready for his wedding
on Christmas Day, making the fortunes of the
tailor? Or will the kindly fellow be defeated
by those cats? Is it true that all animals can
speak on Christmas Eve, or is the tailor’s
fever making him see things? And will those cats
ever manage to outwit a mouse? You’ll have
to come and see our adorable mice and our talented
young actors to find out. Single Tickets:
$12/$8
TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN
ANDERSEN
See Calendar for
dates The delightful stories of Hans Christian Andersen
are brought to sparkling life this Christmas
season on the Cinnabar stage! Who among us hasn’t
had our hearts touched by the simple love of
the Little Mermaid or the growing pains of The
Ugly Duckling? So universal are the lessons and
themes of his stories, that Mr. Andersen’s
characters have become a part of the common vernacular: "She
was an ugly duckling, but what a beauty she is
now!" Or, "It’s just a case of
The Emperor’s New Clothes." Of all
the lessons Mr. Andersen taught, perhaps the
most emphatic (and timely) of them all is that
appearances can be deceiving, the clothes do
not "make the man," and vanity is,
after all, in vain! Single Tickets:
$12/$8
Spring Season
JRR TOLKIEN'S THE HOBBIT
April 6 (7:30), 7 (7:30), 8 (7:30), 9 (2:00), 13 (7:30), 14 (7:30), 15 (2:00 and 7:30)
Before there were witches, there were elves.
Before there was Hogwarts, there was The Shire
and before there was Harry, there was Bilbo Baggins,
the irrepressible hero of J.R.R. Tokien’s
timeless classic, The Hobbit. The Ring stories
stir the imagination and intellect of everyone
they touch and The Hobbit is where this epic
journey begins: Bilbo, one of the most conservative
of all Hobbits, is asked to leave his large,
roomy and very dry home in the ground in order
to set off as chief robber in an attempt to recover
an important treasure. It’s the last thing
that any sensitive Hobbit would want to do, but
great benefit eventually results, not only for
Bilbo but for all of the Hobbits who inhabit
Middle Earth and, indeed, for all of those children
and adults who continue to enjoy this kind of
magic. Single Tickets:
$12/$8
Orpheus
in the Underworld (comic operetta)
By Jacques Offenbach
Stage Director: Eileen Morris
Music Director:
Jared Emerson-Johnson
April 28, 29, May 5, 6. 7, 12, 14 at 7:30 PM
May 7 & 14 2:00 PM
The marriage of Orpheus
and Eurydice is in dire straits! All is not well
on Olympus either: apathy and discontent reign.
Ambrosia and nectar are bland and boring, and
the only god who's having any fun is Jupiter,
philanderer extraordinaire and Master of Disguise.
Abductions, infidelities, love and hilarity abound
in this comic twist on the myth of Orpheus and
Eurydice. Single
Tickets: $12/$8
Special Events Contact the Box
Office for more information
Relish the beat of Bolivia, dance of Spain, stories
of the British Isles, fairy tales of Russia, and
so much more, all illuminated by the international
language of music. Thirteen concerts in all, opening
with those bad boys of a cappella, The Edlos, and
featuring great classical chamber ensembles, as
well as ethnic consorts from all parts of the globe.
Fine garden art by Studio
Replica, wine tasting by Zebulon
Lounge, catering by Della
Fattoria, live and silent auctions, children’s
activities and more are all to be found at one of
Sonoma County’s most beautiful garden sites.
Proceeds benefit all our programs.
Tickets: $30 donation. Attend the both the Wine
and Garden Party and Jenni
Samuelson/Kathryn Lounsbery concert at Cinnabar
that same evening and receive a $10 discount on
the price of admission to the concert. (Total:
$40 for both the W & G Party and concert)
Something's coming
- something good!
It won't be just ANY night when Cinnabar hosts its
first
Broadway Sing-along
Yes - you guessed it - it's
West
Side Story!
With
a costume and trivia contest, and a
pre-party
Mark your calendars
now:
November
18 and 19 at 7:30PM
Bring the kids and
come at
6:30PM
for a NY Pizza Party
Fund-raising Event at Applebees December 13, 2005
An Invitation to a Free Concert! Cinnabar Theater proudly announces the debut concert of the instrumental Community Chamber Ensemble. Monday, March 20th 7:30pm Admission is free! i(donations are welcome and go directly to the musicians) No reservations required.
The Program Five Intradas for Six Instruments -- Alexander Orologio Lachrimae: Variations on "Flow My Tears" -- John Dowland Divertimento for Four Wind Instruments, Op. 61, No. 5-- Alan Hovhaness Dido and Aeneas Suite -- Henry Purcell
The Cinnabar Chamber Ensemble Jared Emerson-Johnson- Conductor
Phoebe Sanderbeck – Flute I,
Stephanie Byun – Flute II,
Sandra Kai – Clarinet I,
Kaitlyn Buck – Clarinet II, David Norman – French Horn, Emmett Ely – Euphonium
April 30, 2006 • 1–5 Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, Petaluma Sample
the wares of 35 Chili/Salsa Teams and over
a dozen breweries. Plus great family entertainment!
Dedicated to our Children, 100% of our
proceeds benefit Cinnabar’s Youth Program
so that any child who expresses an interest
can participate in the performing arts.
Special Programming Contact the Box
Office for more information
FREDDY’S CHICKEN GUMBO is an evening of songs, written and performed by noted theater artist Fred
Curchack. Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, Curchack’s songs cover a wide range of styles (jazz, rock, folk, blues, rap, show tunes) and also a crazy quilt of genres: hilarious satire, poignant ballads, philosophical musings, political protest. In a departure from his signature “eye-boggling” visual pyrotechnics and outrageous stories, Fred promises an evening of nothing but songs!
FREDDY’S CHICKEN GUMBO is the world-premiere of ten new songs plus a selection of songs from
Fred’s plays. Over the past 28 years, many of his shows have had their premieres at Cinnabar Theater and have gone on to receive critical acclaim internationally.
An
American Dream PlayCreated and Performed by
Laura Jorgensen and Fred CurchackFreely adapted from August
Strindberg’s, A Dream Play
AN
AMERICAN DREAM PLAY features Fred
Curchack and Laura Jorgensen playing
over thirty outrageous characters – live
and in video – on a hilarious and
poignant journey through the surreal
landscape of a dream. These madcap buffoons
confront the crazy, sacred cows of modern
life in a search for the nature of mind
itself.
In AN AMERICAN
DREAM PLAY, the daughter of god descends
to earth to find out what it is to be
human. As she falls deeper and deeper
into love, marriage, family, education,
religion, politics, and war, she realizes, "People,
people … what a pity!" Will
she ever awaken from her dream?
$20
general admission; $18 senior/students.
For tickets or information call: the
Cinnabar Box Office: 707.763.8920
CINNABAR CHORAL ENSEMBLES
Cinnabar
Choral Ensembles
December 17, 2005, 8:00PM
(note: this event is held at the United Church of Christ,
825 Middlefield Drive, Petaluma - see map)
Come hear the Chamber Singers and Women’s
Chorus joyously raise their voices in songs of
the season spanning several hundred years. We
have Bach and Bowes and we’re “singing
our way to heaven on a road less traveled.” (Can’t
you just hear those silver bells peeling in a
winter wonderland right now?) Few things inspire
the holiday spirit more than the music of the
season, and nowhere is it more beautifully presented
than in this gorgeous concert conducted by Cinnabar’s
resident Musical Director, Nina Shuman. Even
the most confirmed humbug will be singing a different
tune after hearing this concert!
OPERA IN THE SCHOOLS
March 2006 Since 1985, Cinnabar has provided forty-five-minute operas specifically designed for the very young. Each year we assemble top-notch casts, directors and designers to create and present the highest-quality work for our newest audiences.
Cinnabar Choral Ensembles
Mary and Maria. A Choral Concert Celebrating Great Marias, Sacred and Secular.
Plus selections from Brigadoon & My Fair Lady, & some Mozart & more!
Saturday, May 6, 2006, 8 p.m.
Nina Shuman, Director
Nancy Hayashibara, Accompanist
United Church of Christ
825 Middlefield Drive, Petaluma (see map)
707.763.8920
THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
BEATBOX:
A RAPARETTA (See their blog) 
NO REGRETS: THE SONGS
OF EDITH PIAF (For
samples of Edith Piaf singing, go here) 
I
PAGLIACCI (synopsis)
MASTER CLASS
THE TAILOR
TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN
ANDERSEN
JRR TOLKIEN'S THE HOBBIT
Orpheus
in the Underworld 
FRED 
An
American Dream PlayCreated and Performed by
Laura Jorgensen and Fred CurchackFreely adapted from August
Strindberg’s, A Dream Play
