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NEW TICKET BUYING PROCEDURE

1. By Mail: To receive your tickets by mail, select a performance date and, at least five

business days before that selected date, mail a check and a self-addressed envelope to:

Gulfport Community Players

4919- 17th Avenue South

Gulfport, FL 33710

PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR PHONE NUMBER

2. Will Call: Call 727-322-0316. Leave your name, indicate how many tickets you need plus your selected performance date, and include your phone number.

3. Tickets will be sold for just $15 each at the following Gulfport locations:

Eileen's Resale Boutique, the Beach Bazaar, the Gulfport Chamber of Commerce (located in the Bank of America building in Gulfport), and at the Gulfport Casino.

Season Tickets are also available (for all 5 Hickman -staged productions) for only $60 each.

To order Season Tickets, call us at 727-322-0316 and leave a message. We'll get back to you!

Save $15 by getting them now! HURRY! The cut-off date for their purchase is Ooctober 15th!

4. At the door: Patrons may still buy tickets at the door of the Theater before curtain time on their selected performance date.

NOTE: Group tickets sales will also be available for 10 or more persons for our 8 p.m. Thursday evening performances only at the reduced rate of only $12 per ticket!

To make reservations for groups of 10 or more for Thursday evenings, please call 727-322-0316 as soon as possible.

NEW! By recent Board approval, there is now a $1 per ticket discount for the Red Hat Society members and also for Bay Pines employees (with ids).


	The Back Door Theater 4919- 17th Avenue South Gulfport, FL 33707

We have bought the old Knights of Columbus building in Gulfport as of August 16, 2004. It is 7000 sq. ft. inside, has LOTS of room (complete with a spacious loft), a large parking lot, a full commercial kitchen, and a LOT of potential. This will be our new meeting, audition, and rehearsal space. We will also use the newly named Back Door Theater for some of our productions too.

Thanks to previous donations, we have raised enough money for a down payment on this building. All future donations will go into our building fund. We hope to "burn the mortgage" within 5 years. UPDATE: WE DID JUST THAT ON JUNE 16TH!

Our goal was to raise $50,000 each year for the next 5 years. Your donation will help transform the Back Door Theater from just a building, into a performing arts center. It will serve as a testing ground for new plays, new playwrights and challenging new projects. The community, both young and old, will experience children's plays, improv, musical variety shows, and dinner theater.

In the future, we hope grants and stipends will enable us to make improvements to the building and provide training in all aspects of live theater ... acting, set design, lights, sound, music, and dance.

With your help, the Gulfport Community Players will continue to bring the magic of live theater to Gulfport. If you want to be a part of this exciting process, send your donations to:

Gulfport Community Players, Inc.

4919 - 17th Avenue South

Gulfport, FL 33707

The Gulfport Community Players is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Your donations are fully tax deductible. Our IRS number is #59-2135038.

The 8th Annual Summer One Act Fesitval consists of 8 relatively new plays, most of which haven't been performed on a stage before. Some were written by professional playwrights and some were written by unknown playwrights. The plays being done contain both drama and comedy and should be appeal to just about everyone.

The Festival will run from July 10th through July 20th and will be performed at the Catherine A. Hickman Theater of Gulfport. Tickets are on sale NOW and are available at Eileen's Resale Boutique, the Gulfport Casino, the Gulfport Chamber of Commerce, the Beach Bazaar, at the door, or by calling us at

727-322-0316 for advance sales.

Dreamboat, by Bob Meyers

Director: Lynn DeBree

Cast: David Aleksy, Francine Wolf, & Fallon Frost-Johnson

Let Me Tell You about my Operation, by Dave Smith

Director: Gail Kiltz

Cast: Walter Raine, Norm Nash, Harvey Tavel, David Aleksy, Alex DeCosmo

So You Want to Go to Heaven?, by Bob Kinast

Director: Gailand Kiltz

Cast: Tom Frawley, Brick, Harvey Tavel, Dottie Hershman, & Joseph Alan Johnson

Sorry for the Inconvenience, by Tina Marie Hansen

Director: Victor Carr

Cast: Mary Anyan, Norm Nash, Walter Raine, Fallon Frost-Johnson, & Alex DeCosmo

That's a very Good Choice, by Dave Smith

Director: Jan Taylor

Cast: Walter Raine, Mary Brophy, Ben Sandrowitz, Tom Brophy, Dottie Hershman, & Sally Marvin

The Bachelor, by Stanley Toledo

Director: Jim Russell

Cast: Alex DeCosmo, Sally Marvin, Josh Ball, & Harvey Tavel

Two Letters to Emily, by Lester Albert

Director: Olga Kruse

Cast: Caitlein Jammo, Joseph Alan Johnson, & Brent Harvey

Remembering, by Dave Smith

Director: Jim Russell

Cast: Tom Frawley & Barbara Stroud

The Gulfport Community Players, in association with the Florida Playwrights' Festival, will be holding auditions for a comedy entitled, Once More, on July 14th & 15th at

7 p.m. at the Players' Back Door Theater.

This play was locally written by Brian Wiggins, and is all about a community theater as it struggles to survive in these modern, cash-strapped times.

The director will be Frank Hale and he needs 4 adult males and 3 adult females for the cast. The play will run for 6 performances at the Back Door Theater, from August 22nd through August 31st.

All interested people, regardless of the level of experience, are urged to try out for a part.