2009-2010 Season

The Glenn Miller OrchestraSeptember 11, 2009

Keith Arlen Lack Cabinet of Curiosities

September 12, 2009

Wizard of Oz*September 13, 2009

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatOctober 16-18, 2009

Runt of the LitterOctober 23, 2009

Rear Window*October 30, 2009

Frankenstein*October 31, 2009

Vertigo*November 6, 2009

The Diary of Anne FrankNovember 13-15, 2009

To Catch a Thief*November 20, 2009

RumpelstiltskinNovember 20 & 21, 2009

It’s a Wonderful Life*December 13, 2009

My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in TherapyJanuary 16, 2010

Boesman & Lena January 22-24, 2010

Love LettersFebruary 19-21, 2010

Happily Ever After… Cinderella Tale February 26, 2010

Lily Cai Chinese DanceFebruary 27, 2010

Willie and EstherMarch 19-21, 2010

Charlie & the Chocolate FactoryMarch 26, 2010

CabaretMarch 28, 2010

Soweto Gospel ChoirApril 3, 2010

Breakfast at Tiffany’s*April 11, 2010

Lone Star and Laundry & BourbonApril 16-18, 2010

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A Letter from the City Manager...

The World-Famous Glenn Miller OrchestraFriday, September 11, 2009 7 PM$35, $25The world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra stops in Tracy on its 2009 tour of the U.S. and Canada. One of the most successful bands of the Swing Era of the ‘30s and ‘40s, the 19-member band now plays many of the original Miller arrangements and modern selections in the big-band style. Don’t miss it!

Wizard of OzSunday, September 13, 2009 2 PM25 Cents - Tickets on sale 9/13 at 10 AM

Come follow us on the yellow brick road as Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Toto avoid the Wicked Witch and flying monkeys to reach the Emerald City. Arrive early to get your tickets and enjoy this family-friendly adventure on the big screen, as it was meant to be viewed.

Keith Arlen Lack — Cabinet of CuriositiesSaturday, September 12, 2009 8 PM$15, $10Come experience the magic of Keith Arlen Lack as he takes our stage with his breathtaking journey of magic. His one-of-a-kind show features mind reading, telekinetic power, slight of hand, the supernatural, and heart-pounding feats of endurance. His curious collection of miraculous feats will keep you on the edge of your seat long after you leave!

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Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis TheatreThe Grand Theatre Center for the Artsis an uniquely conceived arts center – committed to supporting artistic excellence on its stages and engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through an array of inspiring programs both on and off the stage. On behalf of the City of Tracy, I would like to welcome you to the 2009-2010 Season. This season you will find a sea of entertainment, rich in talent, diversity, and memorable experiences for audiences and performers alike. This season’s program is a perfect remedy for these stressful times. We’ve worked hard to present a broad range of programming in our third season, including Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company, tours of top Broadway shows including: Runt of the Litter, My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m in Therapy and Cabaret. We also offer intimate performances of family-friendly programming and, back by popular demand, Classic Cinema shown on the big screen. The Grand Theatre is not just a building in which to see performances. We also offer curriculum-enhancing programs through our Arts Education program for the region’s students. As the Arts are cut in our schools, the Grand Theatre will be there to help backfill those cuts with many programs designed to inspire young people with vital arts education programs, enhancing their studies and enriching their lives well into the future.The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts staff welcomes and serves nearly 50,000 attendees, including 30,000 students and children to its programs, theaters, classrooms and galleries annually. Since opening our doors in 2007, 75,000 people have attended an event, performance, activity or meeting at the Grand. Stop by and experience the Grand and you’ll see why we call it the “Jewel of Downtown Tracy!”

R. Leon Churchill, Jr. City Manager, City of Tracy

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Rear Window Friday, October 30, 2009 8 PM $5 General AdmissionWheelchair-bound photojournalist L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) and his beautiful fiancée Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) spy on their neighbors and then solve a brutal murder no one else believes occurred.

Vertigo Friday, November 6, 2009 8 PM $5 General AdmissionTo say Vertigo finds Hitchcock at his most obsessive, his most perverse and his sexual best, doesn’t even begin to convey how haunting this film is, or how bizarre.

To Catch a Thief Friday, November 20, 2009 8 PM$5 General AdmissionBased on the novel by David Dodge, To Catch a Thief tells the story of a retired jewel thief, John Robie (Cary Grant), living a blameless life on the French Riviera.

Frankenstein Saturday, October 31, 2009 8 PM$7.50 When brilliant – but deranged – Dr. Frankenstein attempts to create life out of the organs of dead bodies, a grotesque, pitiful monster is born, having accidentally been given the brain of a madman. The most famous horror film of all time, Frankenstein is based on Mary Shelley’s original dark tale with the added famous plot twist by Robert Florey.

It’s a Wonderful Life Sunday, December 13, 2009 2 PM$7.50George Bailey has lived his life serving his community, often at the cost of his own happiness. One Christmas Eve, faced with bankruptcy and jail because of the loss of $8,000, he is reduced to despair and contemplates suicide. A guardian angel shows unhappy George Bailey how dismal life in his home-town would have been if he had “never been born”.

Classic Cinema

More to come in 2010!

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s Sunday, April 11, 2010 2 PM$7.50In this highly-rated romantic comedy based on the 1958 story by Truman Capote, Audrey Hepburn plays an eccentric playgirl who becomes romantically involved with a writer played by George Peppard. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won for Best Musical Score, by Henry Mancini, and Best Song, Moon River, by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.

Studio Theatre

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Movies are not included in Season Package Movies are not included in Season Package

Pick Your SeriesPick 9 and Save 15%Create your own mini-series and save. Order at least one ticket to nine performances and receive 15% off the general admission price. No other discounts apply.

Pick 6 and Save 10%Create your own ideal series and save. Order at least one ticket to six performances and receive 10% off the general admission price. No other discounts apply.

Group RatesThe Grand Theatre welcomes groups to concerts and events, and is happy to offer discounted tickets and reserved seats to groups of 10 or more. Please contact the box office for group rates and information, 209-831-6858 (6TKT), or boxoffice@ci.tracy.ca.us.

The Right to Change Your MindOnly Subscribers enjoy ticket exchanges for free. If your plans change and you can’t attend one of your subscription performances, you can exchange your tickets for another performance presented by the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts in the 2009-2010 season with no exchange fee (subject to availability).

Movies are not included in Season Packages

Season Packages

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Runt of the LitterFriday, October 23, 2009 8 PMAre you ready for some football? In this acclaimed one-man show, former Houston Oiler Bo Eason takes you down to the locker room and deep into the psyche of a pro with twin obsessions: winning a Super Bowl and vanquishing his star-quarterback brother. Snapping from comedy to drama and back, Eason spares no brutal detail in his depiction of the football field as an epic battleground. He is equally unflinching in reminding us that being part of a family can be a full-contact sport.

CabaretSunday, March 28, 2010 3 PM“Wilkommen!, Bienvenue!, Welcome!”, sings the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club through painted lips, as the people of 1929 Berlin join him. Whatever your troubles, you will forget them in the Cabaret. Set at the dawn of Hitler’s rise to power, the growing influence of the Nazi regime is viewed through the eyes of a young American writer whose love affair with one of the show’s dancers becomes increasingly threatened. The tumultuous political atmo-sphere and seedy decadence of the time is revealed through songs such as It Couldn’t Please Me, Cabaret, and Don’t Tell Mama.

My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in TherapySaturday, January 16, 2010 8 PMSteve Solomon’s two-time award winning show has met with rave reviews and great audience acclaim throughout the country, becoming one of the longest-running one-man shows in Broadway history. Once again, we meet the people that we’re all too familiar with; the family members that make you remember why you left home in the first place. It’s a laugh-filled fest of everybody you know, have known, and some you’d want to forget but can’t, all brought to life on stage by the comic magic of Steve Solomon.

Off-Broadway

Grand Box Seats — $15 additional. Parterre Seating — $5 additional.

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Tickets: $35, $25

Family Treasures

RumpelstiltskinMissoula Children’s Theatre

Friday, November 20, 2009 6 PMSaturday, November 21, 2009 11 AMRumpelstiltskin stars 50-60 of Tracy’s local students who have participated in Missoula Children’s Theatre’s week- long residency. The students from grades K-12, cast from an open-group audition, have spent the week learning lines, songs and choreography while rehearsing to perform as an ensemble in producing this full-length musical.

Happily Ever After... Cinderella TaleFriday, February 26, 2010 6 PMHappily Ever After… is filled with beauty, grandeur, magic and wonder that never grows old. You will love the music, the magic and the many fun, funny, beautiful and zany characters. It is a wondrous journey from long, long ago – to happily ever after. You’ll be humming the tunes all the way home!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Sign Stage On Tour

Friday, March 26, 2010 6 PM Five lucky children have won the chance of a lifetime to tour Mr. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. What happens when they meet the famous Mr. Wonka and disobey his orders? This uproarious morality tale is based on Roald Dahl’s book and features the brilliant talent of Sign Stage On Tour, who sign and speak simultaneously.

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World EntertainmentEleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Theatre Tickets: $30, $25

Grand Box Seats — $15 additional. Parterre Seating — $5 additional.

Lily Cai Chinese DanceSaturday, February 27, 2010 8 PMThe Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company performs a beautiful blend of traditional and contemporary Chinese dance of the Dynasties and Beyond program. From the elegant movement of ancient China to the vibrant swirls of colorful silk ribbons in Lily Cai’s unique choreography, the internationally-touring dance company amazes and delights.

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Tickets: $15 Children/Seniors: $10

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Soweto Gospel Choir Saturday, April 3, 2010 8 PMThis magnificent 52-strong choir, styled with a contemporary feel, leaves all who hear it stunned with emotion. It is small wonder that they are charting a meteoric rise to international fame. Expect earthy rhythms, rich harmonies, a cappella numbers as well as accompaniment by an exciting four-piece band and percussion section. Add to this energetic dancing and vibrant, colorful costumes, and the mix is awesome. This young dynamic choir performs both traditional and contemporary music, adding its own unique feel and interpretation to both. The choir performs in six of South Africa’s 11 official languages.

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Boesman & Lena Friday & Saturday, January 22 & 23, 2010 8 PMSunday, January 24, 2010 2 PMBoesman and Lena seems simple. Two beaten-down South African “coloureds” seek a safe place to settle, even if it is a squalid camp. The real action, however, lies beneath the surface as the audience explores human emotions, racial politics, and universal questions about existence and the meaning of life in a violent, chaotic world.

Love Letters Friday & Saturday, February 19 & 20, 2010 8 PMSunday, February 21, 2010 2 PMA. R. Gurney’s Love Letters traces the lifelong correspondence of the staid lawyer, Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and lively, unstable artist, Melissa Gardner. Their bittersweet relationship unfolds from what is written – and what is unsaid – in their letters. A smash hit on and off Broadway, Love Letters will capture your heart!

Willie and Esther Friday & Saturday, March 19 & 20, 2010 8 PMSunday, March 21, 2010 2 PMThe youthful, curvaceous beautician, Esther, wants to marry the charismatic, fast-talking garrulous handyman, Willie, rich or poor. Esther will take Willie, but she is not easily swayed into releasing her cash to him when there are no signs of his having any collateral in sight, now or in the near future.

Lone Star and Laundry & Bourbon Friday & Saturday, April 16 & 17, 2010 8 PMSunday, April 18, 2010 2 PMLone Star takes place in the cluttered backyard of a small-town Texas bar where Elizabeth’s husband, Roy, is back in town after a hitch in Vietnam. Laundry & Bourbon takes place on Elizabeth’s back porch where we witness Elizabeth’s quiet understanding of the turmoil which has beset her husband since his return from Vietnam.

Studio Theatre Series

The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts is pleased to welcome the Tracy Performing Arts Foundation as a resident theater company performing in the Studio

Theatre for this special series. The Tracy Performing Arts Foundation is in its 5th year of presenting musicals, dramas, comedies and children’s offerings, all with passion and detail, by dedicated volunteers, community actors and visiting artists.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatFriday & Saturday, October 16 & 17, 2009 8 PMSunday, October 18, 2009 2 PM$20 Tracy Performing Arts Foundation kicks off the Resident Theatre Season with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Based on the “coat of many colors” story of Joseph from the Bible, this light-hearted show will delight young and old alike.

The Diary of Anne FrankFriday & Saturday, November 13 & 14, 2009 8 PMSunday, November 15, 2009 2 PM$18Anne Frank’s diary chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 to August 1, 1944. She scribes the story of her family’s flee from persecution by the Nazis in the Netherlands, their betrayal, and their transportation to the concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto, the only survivor of the group, returns to Amsterdam after the war to find her diary.

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Community Campaign Donors

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Mr. & Mrs. GeorGe bassett

Mr. & Mrs. bill benner

the boGetti faMily; tracy orchard

Mrs. anGela chavales

class of 1958Mrs. Genevieve conine

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The Arts Leadership Alliance The Arts Leadership Alliance is a community-based nonprofit organization founded for the purpose of developing the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts and its associated programming. It serves as the community’s on-going voice in maintaining the responsiveness and excellence of the Center’s programs. As the exclusive fundraising organization of the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, ALA helps support special programs and the educational outreach of the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts through the Clyde Bland Education Fund. We invite you to learn more about the Arts Leadership Alliance and urge you to become a supporter of the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts.

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The Arts Leadership Alliance is proud to honor the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts Endowing Donors for their generous support of the arts and the community.

Distinguished Founding Benefactoreleni tsaKopoulos-KounalaKis

fund of the sacraMento reGion coMMunity foundation

Founding Grand BenefactorsGranite construction coMpany

les serpa; the surland coMpanies coMMunity banKs of northern california

Gwf enerGy, llc

Grand Legacy Benefactorsann s. & terrance e. lanGley

Grand Patronsdon cose faMily • souza faMily foundation

Joanne Marsh soucheK • charles & MarGe spatafore tracy press, inc.; the Matthews faMily

Grand SponsorsaMy louise crawford • Jeanette poMbo

steffanie & andy sMith • the schacK faMily Joe & evelyn toste • leona darr willis

Grand Ambassadorsrussell & Kelly KaGehiro G. archer & Joy baKerinK

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barbara & barry Matthews toM & carol schubert

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Grand Donorssidney & dennis aleGre

Mayor clyde & ina bland saM & Joan Matthews

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Ticket Information Ordering Tickets – By Phone: 209.831.6TKT (6858) Online: www.atthegrand.org In Person: 715 Central Avenue, Tracy, CA 95376

Subscription Orders – Completed order forms with credit card payment may be faxed to 209.833.1669 or mailed with payment to the Box Office address listed above.

Forms of Payment – We accept cash, checks, Visa and MasterCard for tickets purchased through our Box Office.

Box Office Hours – Monday - Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM, and one hour before any scheduled performance. Closed Sundays and holidays.

Will Call – All ticket orders received less than 10 days prior to the performance will be held at Will Call, which opens one hour prior to the performance. Orders may also be picked up at the Box Office in person during regular operating hours.

Refunds – Due to the nature of the performing arts, programs and performances are subject to change without notice. Ticket purchases are non-refundable, except in cases when a performance is cancelled. Handling fees are not refundable. No refunds will be given on previously-purchased tickets if a promotional price is offered at a later date.

Lost Tickets – There is a $3 per ticket service charge for replacing lost tickets. As an added privilege, Subscribers are exempt from this fee.

Exchanges – Subscribers Only – Ticket exchanges are available to series Subscribers, with no service fee. Tickets must be returned no later than 24 hours prior to the performance. You may select a new event from the current season, subject to availability.

Group Sales – A 10% discount is offered to groups of 10 or more. Contact the Box Office at 209.831.6TKT (6858) for group inquiries and purchases.

Children – The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts is committed to providing quality programs for audience members of all ages, although some performances may not be recommended for children. Please check with the Box Office for information on shows appropriate for younger audiences. All children, regardless of age, must have a ticket.

Late Seating – All performances start promptly at the time designated on the ticket. Latecomers will be asked to remain in the lobby until an appropriate interval in the performance, as determined by the artist(s). Arriving at least 30 minutes prior to performance time is recommended.

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Visiting the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts Accessibility & AccommodationsWheelchair seating is available for users and their companions. Please be sure to mention your needs at the time of ticket purchase so the appropriate location can be reserved for you.

Patrons with disabilities or special seating needs should notify the Box Office at the time of ticket purchase as we may not be able to accommodate special requests brought to our attention at the time of the performance.

Assisted Listening Devices are available at no charge on a first-come, first-served basis. One current form of ID (driver’s license, state or military ID) with address is required as a deposit per headset.

Service animals that qualify under the Americans with Disabilities Act are always welcome. Service animals must remain on a leash or harness at all times. Please alert the Box Office if you intend to bring a service animal in order to ensure proper seating is reserved for you.

Special RequestsRequests for sign language interpreters, Braille programs and other reasonable accommodations should be made at least two weeks prior to the performance. The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts may not be able to accommodate last minute requests. Requests should be made at the time of ticket purchase or by contacting the Box Office at 209.831.6TKT (6858).

ParkingFree surface lots and street parking are available in close proximity to the Grand. Loading and unloading of passengers is permitted directly in front of the building for your convenience.

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