The Cocktail Hour; written by A.R. Gurney
Sept. 18th- Oct.31st
The time is the early 1970’s, the ritual is the cocktail hour and the prodigal son has returned home to get his family’s approval about a play that he has written about them. Since it does not necessarily paint his proper family (and specifically his father) in a favorable light, they are cautious. As the martinis flow and the night drags on so do the recriminations and revelations both funny and poignant. Gurney, who penned Sylvia, has once again proven that the strength of love and family conquers all and we mustn’t take ourselves too seriously.
Dinner and the theatre are Friday and Saturday evenings beginning at 7:00pm for dinner and 8:00pm for the show. Sunday afternoon matinees are 1:00pm for lunch and 2:00pm for the show. They serve a scrumptious tri tip barbeque for both dinner and lunch that includes; tri tip or chicken, chili beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans with red roasted tomatoes, green salad with choice of dressing and dessert. The guest lodge offers a full bar for drink purchases. Lemonade, tea and coffee are served with the meal.
General admission tickets are $45.00 per person for dinner and the theater. Senior rates of $37.00 are available for Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Season tickets and group rates are available.
Contact the box office at 805-967-1962 for ticket information or visit the website; www.circlebarbtheatre.com
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Friday, October 15, 2010
SOME COOL STUFF THAT'S ON MY RADAR LATELY
SOME COOL STUFF THAT'S ON MY RADAR LATELY... CHECK THEM OUT!
- Jim
The Alzheimer's Association Annual Memory Walk is coming up on Saturday, October 16th at The SB Zoo! It begins at 10am-12:30pm SB Zoo. Sign up today 892-4259 or log on to www.alz.org/cacentralcoast
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara kicks off their 2010-11 season with the West Coast premiere of Alan Brody’s touching and surprising new play, The Housewives of Mannheim. A memory play set in Brooklyn during the Second World War, Housewives had its world premiere last spring at the New Jersey Repertory Company, followed by a critically acclaimed New York off-Broadway run. A new production is playing now at the Alhecama Theatre through October 31. For tickets call 965-5400 of visit www.ensembletheatre.com
The Westmont Theater Arts Department begins their fall season performing “The Servant of Two Masters,” a commedia dell’arte masterpiece. Oct. 22-23, 28 and 30 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. Tickets, $5 for students and $10 for adults, can be purchased by calling 565-7140. A street festival begins a half hour before the show on the patio outside the theater. Director Mitchell Thomas says ““This play has it all: sword fighting, masks, mistaken identities, romance, onstage live musicians, song, dance, passion, and disaster all rolled into a delightful farce.” For more visit www.westmont.edu
Lobero Live presents It's Magic! Saturday, October 23 at 2:00 and 7:30 pm.
Back by popular demand, this all-star revue features the best magical acts—from jaw-dropping sleight of hand and off-beat (often wacky) comedic magic to mind-boggling full-stage illusions. Produced by Milt Larsen from The Magic Castle in Hollywood It’s Magic will delight audiences of all ages. Visitwww.Lobero.com for more info, or call 963-0761 or 1-888-4LOBERO for tickets.
“GLEE at The Luke.” A benefit event for the Marjorie Luke Theatre will take place Saturday, November 6 at the Marjorie Luke Theatre on the SBJHS campus. The event will feature the show’s Executive Producers, surprise GLEE cast members, and will be moderated by Santa Barbara resident Brad Hall formerly of SNL. The fun filled evening begins at 7:00 p..m. reserved tickets are available at the Lobero Theatre Box Office, or call 963-0761. For more information about “GLEE at The Luke” visit www.luketheatre.org
On Saturday, October 16 and Sunday, October 17, the Santa Barbara Symphony presents Beethoven’s majestic Symphony No. 9, a masterpiece of the classical repertoire, and the first symphonic work to incorporate voices. This concert will use over 150 voices from the Santa Barbara Choral Society, Westmont College Choir and Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces The opening weekend will mark the beginning of the fifth season in the tenure of Music and Artistic Director, Nir Kabaretti, who will conduct six of the seven concerts of the Symphony’s subscription season.
For the first time ever, our sister station KDB 93.7 FM will broadcast the Saturday concert, starting at 7:50 p.m., with the concert beginning at 8 p.m. Tim Owens, Vice-President and General Mangaer, KDB and musician/scholar Ramon Araiza, who gives the Symphony’s popular “Music Behind the Music” pre-concert lectures, will host the live broadcast.
visit www.thesymphony.org
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
My Bio - Everything About Me in 100 Words or Less!
Jim Sirianni got his start in theatre by playing the role of Frosty the Snowman in the 2nd grade where he spoke his first line ever, “Let’s Run!”… And the rest as they say is history.
Jim has a long relationship with Circle Bar B Dinner Theatre where he has been both a director and actor. His directing credits include Jake's Women, Marriage is Murder, The Dinner Party, Key For Two, Don't Mention My Name, and A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room. He has been seen on the CBB stage in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Relative Values, The Murder Room, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Move Over Mrs. Markham. Jim has also been a member of the Seaside Theatre Company as an actor and director for many years. He was seen in Habeas Corpus and as Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey . Other Santa Barbara performances include Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Look Homeward Angel, and Cabaret for SBCC Theatre Group and 2 turns as Bottom the Weaver in productions of A Midsummer's Night Dream.
Jim produces and hosts Applause Radio; an entertainment talk show for News Talk 990 KTMS. Jim can be heard reading the news, traffic and weather for both KTMS 990 and Progressive Talk 1490. Currently, Jim is directing the South Coast and Central Coast premiere of Frost/Nixon for DIJO Productions and Virtual Theatre Company which opens in July. He will also be directing Circle Bar B’s production of A.R. Gurney’s The Cocktail Hour, set to open in early fall.
Jim has a long relationship with Circle Bar B Dinner Theatre where he has been both a director and actor. His directing credits include Jake's Women, Marriage is Murder, The Dinner Party, Key For Two, Don't Mention My Name, and A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room. He has been seen on the CBB stage in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Relative Values, The Murder Room, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Move Over Mrs. Markham. Jim has also been a member of the Seaside Theatre Company as an actor and director for many years. He was seen in Habeas Corpus and as Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey . Other Santa Barbara performances include Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Look Homeward Angel, and Cabaret for SBCC Theatre Group and 2 turns as Bottom the Weaver in productions of A Midsummer's Night Dream.
Jim produces and hosts Applause Radio; an entertainment talk show for News Talk 990 KTMS. Jim can be heard reading the news, traffic and weather for both KTMS 990 and Progressive Talk 1490. Currently, Jim is directing the South Coast and Central Coast premiere of Frost/Nixon for DIJO Productions and Virtual Theatre Company which opens in July. He will also be directing Circle Bar B’s production of A.R. Gurney’s The Cocktail Hour, set to open in early fall.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Tequila Gun at Costco
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Capitol Steps Coming Back to SB - VERY Funny!
Lobero Live presents
An Evening with The Capitol Steps
Wednesday & Thursday, April 28 & 29 at 8 pm
An Evening with The Capitol Steps
Wednesday & Thursday, April 28 & 29 at 8 pm
Hilarious political parodies and skits from the troupe that put the “mock” in “democracy.”
From the Clintons to the Bushes to the Obamas – no one is safe from the side-splitting satire of the Capitol Steps.
They’re sharper than “SNL,” dizzier than “The Daily Show,” and crazier than “The Colbert Report.” (Check them out on Youtube.)
“When it comes to satire,” says the Washington Post, “you haven’t seen the real thing until you have been to the Capitol Steps.”
Tickets are available at the Lobero Box Office, atwww.lobero.com, by phone at (805) 963-0761, or in person at 33 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Busy Weekend
Had a great time hosting and MC-ing the Mad Hatter Tea Party with John Palminteri. Such a fun day. Had a great time, and will totally do it again. NOW it's on to the next thing tomorrow Sunday. Reading Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl for the next Speaking of Stories event "Twisty Tales." The show performs Sunday 4/18 @ 2PM and Monday 4/19 @ 8PM You can learn more about it here: http://www.speakingofstories.org/
And here's some info on the author:
Roald Dahl, a writer of both children's fiction and short stories for adults, is best known as the author of the 1964 children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (he also wrote the script for the 1971 movie version). Dahl has been described as a master of story construction with a remarkable ability to weave a tale. In 1943 Dahl wrote his first children's story, The Gremlins, and invented a new term in the process. Gremlins were small creatures that lived on fighter planes and bombers and were responsible for all crashes. Through the 1940s and into the 1950s Dahl continued as a short story writer for adults, establishing his reputation as a writer of deathly tales with unexpected twists. His stories earned him three Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. In 1953 Dahl married Hollywood actress Patricia Neal. Although the marriage did not survive, it produced five children. As soon as the children were old enough, Dahl began making up stories for them each night before they went to bed. These stories became the basis for his career as a children's writer, which began seriously with the publication of James and the Giant Peach in 1961.
And here's some info on the author:
Roald Dahl, a writer of both children's fiction and short stories for adults, is best known as the author of the 1964 children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (he also wrote the script for the 1971 movie version). Dahl has been described as a master of story construction with a remarkable ability to weave a tale. In 1943 Dahl wrote his first children's story, The Gremlins, and invented a new term in the process. Gremlins were small creatures that lived on fighter planes and bombers and were responsible for all crashes. Through the 1940s and into the 1950s Dahl continued as a short story writer for adults, establishing his reputation as a writer of deathly tales with unexpected twists. His stories earned him three Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. In 1953 Dahl married Hollywood actress Patricia Neal. Although the marriage did not survive, it produced five children. As soon as the children were old enough, Dahl began making up stories for them each night before they went to bed. These stories became the basis for his career as a children's writer, which began seriously with the publication of James and the Giant Peach in 1961.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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