Simcoe Little Theatre

They’re Playing Our Song, directed by Larry Dawson

Sept 13 - 16 and 20 - 23

Fiddler on the Roof, directed by George Araujo

Nov 22 - 25, Nov 29 - Dec 2, and Dec 6 - 9

Who’s Under Where?, directed by June Birnie

Feb 7 - 10 and Feb 14 - 17

At the Olde English Music Hall, written and directed by Sylvia McManis, June Birnie and Keith Quigg

Apr 17 - 20 and Apr 24 - 27

Funny Money, directed by Greg Canivet.

June 5 - 8, and June 12 - 15

New! Saturday Matinee June 14 at 2:00 pm

to another entertaining season at Simcoe Little Theatre. Our many volunteers have worked diligently, creatively and long to provide an enjoyable evening of first-rate live theatre to you our audiences.

President's Message:

‘A FUN(D)-RAISING SEASON’

Here we go with another season! Don’t the years roll by quickly? It’s hard to believe that I have been involved with SLT since we did ‘South Pacific’ in 19 . I’ll never forget the day that Mary Peever asked me to help her organize the costumes. I had always been a bit “star-struck” and now I was a part of legitimate theatre!

We have called this season our ‘Fun(d)-Raising Season’ for obvious reasons. First of all, the fun! We have a great five shows for you. Starting the season, Larry Dawson is directing ‘They’re Playing Our Song’, a fun musical comedy about two songwriters who cannot get along. Then we have ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, that wonderful musical which is being directed by George Araujo, a new director to SLT, although not new to our stage. June Birnie gets the February spot and is trying her hand at a farce for the first time with the outrageous Canadian comedy ‘Who’s Under Where?’ April sees our 10^th Olde English Music Hall and we finish the season with a British farce, ‘Funny Money’ by Ray Cooney, directed by Greg Canivet.

The ‘(d)’ in the Fun(d)-Raising comes from the fact that we need to raise money. We had hoped to make the theatre accessible to all and make other changes to improve the theatre, generally. When we had the plans drawn up, however, we found that the cost was prohibitive. We are therefore looking to see if we can do all we would like to do in stages and we are looking to raise the money. We have had a Strategic Planning Day with a professional facilitator in order for a group of us to work out how we see the theatre going in the future and how we can set about achieving this.

We have also realized that we do not have any disability parking, so one of our executive is looking into this and, hopefully, we will have a couple of spaces near the theatre reserved for disability parking next season.

We cannot do any of this without your support so please consider making a donation and/or taking out a membership for next season. Dawn will be around to help you purchase memberships during the first show of this season or memberships may be mailed to the theatre. Donations can also be made at the Box Office or mailed to Simcoe Little Theatre, P.O. Box 324, Simcoe, Ontario N3Y 4L2. Please, please lend us your support.

One way in which we hope to generate more income is to do extra shows. Starting next season we are adding an extra performance to each show. We will now be doing a Saturday matinee to the last weekend of every show. We do hope that this will encourage people, who don’t like night travel, to come to the show and also hope that it will bring in a more family orientated audience.

Don’t forget that the opening night of every show, except the Music Hall, is President’s Night when I and members of the Executive look forward to mingling with you during the intermission.

GET YOUR MEMBERSHIPS TODAY!

At SLT we work on a paid membership system, combining this with fundraising efforts such as Gift Wrapping and our Bar to maintain our facility and stage our productions.

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