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The Honky Tonk Angels Tickets 352-746-7606

The perfect follow up to “Always…”. Country classics combine with a hilarious story about three good ole gals who follow their dreams to Nashville. Songs include Stand By Your Man, Coal Miner’s Daughter, 9 to 5, I Will Always Love You, and Harper Valley PTA. Sold out runs at the Barter Theater, Abingdon, VA and the Flatrock Playhouse, Flatrock, NC and many other theaters throughout the country.

REVIEWS

The creator of “Always…Patsy Cline” combines over 30 classic country tunes with a hilarious story about three gutsy gals who are determined to better their lives and follow their dreams to Nashville. The all-hit song list includes I’ll Fly Away, Stand by Your Man, 9 to 5, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Ode to Billy Jo, These Boots Are Made for Walking, Rocky Top, and I Will Always Love You. This charming, foot-stompin’ musical has played to sold-out audiences across the country. – Broadwayworld.com

Touched by ‘Angels’ | “ATC Productions of “Honky Tonk Angels” make audiences laugh until they cry!” – TULSA World

“You’ll have to step on your toes to keep them from tappin’.” -Asheville Times

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2019/2020 Season Plays Art Center Theatre Auditions News

Auditions: Last of the Red Hot Lovers Sun, Mar 8, 2020, 2:00pm, Mon, Mar 9, 2020 6:30pm

Auditions Last of the Red Hot Lovers

The Art Center Citrus County Audition Notice

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

(A Comedy in Two Acts)

By Neil Simon

Directed By Pat Erhardt                                         

Audition Dates: Sunday, March 8th, 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 9th, 6:30 p.m.

Auditions will be held in the Art & Education Building next to the theater on Sunday and in the theatre on Monday.

Show dates: May 1, 2, 3, 8, *9, 10, 15, 16, 17

Play Synopsis

Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it’s too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a 20-ish actress who’s too kooky by half; finally comes September and Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be married to Barney’s best friend.

The Characters – Casting 1m, 3f

BARNEY CASHMAN, a forty-seven-year-old owner of a seafood restaurant who is afraid that the sexual revolution of the 1960’s is passing him by.

ELAINE NAVAZIO, a somewhat coarse woman in her late thirties who believes, when she accepts Barney’s invitation to meet him at his mother’s apartment, that he wants only a quick sexual encounter. 

BOBBI MICHELE, a twenty-seven-year-old unemployed entertainer who visits Barney to repay twenty dollars that he loaned to her to pay an accompanist who assisted her during an audition.

JEANETTE FISHER, a contemporary of Barney and a family friend, a very depressed lady who has decided to repay her husband’s confession of infidelity by having an affair with Barney.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers Poster
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Camera Club Exhibit Photographic works of its award winners during the month of January

2nd Place - It's Great To Be Alive - Kathy O'Brien

The Art Center Camera Club will be exhibiting the photographic works of its award winners during the month of January. Sixty color and black and white prints will be on display. Please stop by the Art Center located at 2644 N. Annapolis Ave in Hernando during the hours between 1 pm and 4 pm Monday thru Friday.For more information contact:Jim Houle at 352-249-9140 or call the box office at 352-746-7606.

1st Place – Irish Lass – Gene Taormina
Ethereal Beach – Dick Coffmann
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Call to Artist: Nature Coast Exhibit No.3 Feb 12, 2020, 10:00am-2:00pm

Nature Coast Exhibit No 3 2020
Nature Coast Exhibit No 3 2020
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Nature Coast Exhibit No. 2 2019 Video Slideshow

Nature Coast Exhibit No. 2 2019 MOVIE
Nature Coast Exhibit No.2, 2019 Gallery Open 1-4 PM Mon-Fri.
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Art Center Theatre Presents: “Christmas on the Air” Radio Show

Christmas on the Air

Get your tickets now for the December 20th, 7:30 pm evening show or the December 21st, 2:00 pm afternoon show!

Featured shows:

  • The Bickersons – A 1947 retelling of O’Henry’s Gift of the magi as told by the loving but bickering couple that far predated the Honeymooners and married with children. Blanche Bickerson – Janet Torcello John Bickerson – Barry Denham.
  • The Christmas Truce – A true Christmas story about an amazing spontaneous truce that happened between English and German soldiers in 1914 as told by 4 soldiers writing home to their loved ones on Christmas day. Eayn Flanagan Chris Patti Zack Johnson Nathan Abbey.
  • Blondie – A different Christmas Carol. Blondie has been a comic strip since 1930, but from 1939 to 1950 the Bumstead’s were also on the radio! This retelling of the Dickens Christmas Carol comes from one of Dagwood’s dreamy naps and is filled with laughs. Blondie – Shirene Thomas Dagwood – Harry Lewis Baby – Holly C. Sherwood Dithers – Lewis Unterman Fuddles – Dave Sotrines.

This Christmas Special is being presented commercial-free, so between shows, we will be treated to lovely singing of classic Christmas carols by the cast of the upcoming winter musical – The Honky Tonk Angels. The singers are -Sharon Vetter Sandy Vetter Mosley Ashlyn Victoria Gibbs

And last but not least our host with the most who will be taking on this magical Christmas ride will be the one and only Rex Young – Robert Darling

Old Time Radio Christmas Show Live on Stage
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Art Center Theatre Auditions

Auditions: Will You Still Love Me In The Morning, Sat, Jan 4, 6:30 pm Sun, Jan 5, 6:30 pm

Auditions Will You Still Love Me In The Morning
  • Cast Size 4m, 3f
  • Subgenre Farce

Jeremy and Celia return a week early from their unsuccessful honeymoon to find that both Jeremy’s partners have accepted his offer to stay in his house while he is away. The only problem is that they have each brought the other’s wife with them. Jeremy discovers one illicit couple, Celia the other. Both issue invitations to them for dinner. Complications pile up thick and fast as, realizing their dilemma and desperate to make a good impression on Jeremy’s colleagues, the couple stages two dinner parties simultaneously, one on the patio and one in the dining room. As if there aren’t problems enough, Sid the plumber, up to his eyeballs in water in the cellar, has to call in the Water Board Emergency Service just when all seems resolved and Jeremy and Celia are attempting to salvage their lost honeymoon.

Will You Still Love Me In The Morning
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2019/2020 Season Plays Art Center Theatre Musicals News

The Honky Tonk Angels Opens – Jan. 10, 2020 – Tickets on Sale Now 352-746-7606

The perfect follow up to “Always…”. Country classics combine with a hilarious story about three good ole gals who follow their dreams to Nashville. Songs include Stand By Your Man, Coal Miner’s Daughter, 9 to 5, I Will Always Love You, and Harper Valley PTA. Sold out runs at the Barter Theater, Abingdon, VA and the Flatrock Playhouse, Flatrock, NC and many other theaters throughout the country.

REVIEWS

The creator of “Always…Patsy Cline” combines over 30 classic country tunes with a hilarious story about three gutsy gals who are determined to better their lives and follow their dreams to Nashville. The all-hit song list includes I’ll Fly Away, Stand by Your Man, 9 to 5, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Ode to Billy Jo, These Boots Are Made for Walking, Rocky Top, and I Will Always Love You. This charming, foot-stompin’ musical has played to sold-out audiences across the country. – Broadwayworld.com

Touched by ‘Angels’ | “ATC Productions of “Honky Tonk Angels” make audiences laugh until they cry!” – TULSA World

“You’ll have to step on your toes to keep them from tappin’.” -Asheville Times

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Nature Coast Exhibit No.2, 2019 Gallery Open 1-4 PM Mon-Fri.

Nature Coast Exhibit No. 2 2019 MOVIE
  • Ted Kloski, Jeanne’s Pelican, Acrylic
  • JoAnne Sherburne, Wild Apples of Colrain, Oil
  • Sharon Harris, Time With Daddy, Acrylic
    Sharon Harris, Time With Daddy, Acrylic
  • Louanne Headrick, Fallen, Watercolor
  • David Read, Open: Saturday 5:30 am, Photography
  • Cara Stickler, Through the Oaks, Acrylic
  • Ted Kloski, Jeanne’s Pelican, Acrylic
  • Sharon Harris, Time With Daddy, Acrylic
  • JoAnne Sherburne, Wild Apples of Colrain, Oil
  • Cara Stickler, Through the Oaks, Acrylic
  • Susan Wyant, Friday, Summer, Acrylic
  • David Read, Open: Saturday 5:30 am, Photography
  • JoAnne Sherburne, Chorus of Irises, Pastel
  • Louanne Headrick, Fallen, Watercolor
  • Barbara Dorso, A Very Wise Owl, Watercolor
  • Pauline Boston Reddish Egret Watercolor
  • Ali Graves, Just Us, India Ink
  • Ali Graves, Frenchtown New Jersey Bridge, India Ink
  • Barbara Dorso, A Burst of Fall, Watercolor
  • Pauline Boston, Polynesian Beauty, Watercolor
  • Carol Perry, Sunlion, Watercolor
  • Carol Perry, Magic Garden, Watercolor
  • David Read, Bus Stop 66, Photography
  • G S.Pennington, Parallels of Precision, Photography
  • G S.Pennington, Sea of Red, Photography
  • Bob Gonciarz, Florida Panther, Photography
  • Bob Gonciarz, See Anything You Like, Photography
  • Bob Gonciarz, Weekend Terrorist, Photography
  • Bob Gonciarz, Got Nuts, Photography
  • JoAnne Sherburne, Highwater of Mckethan, Pastel
  • Joan Dias, Play Date, Photography
  • Bob Gonciarz, Halloween Nightmare, Photography
  • Joan Dias, Lunch, Photography
  • Preeti Lekhra, Forever Tulips, Watercolor
  • Pat Brady, Steps to Heaven, Oil
  • Marion Savage, Enjoying the Park, Oil
  • Marion Savage, Waiting to Hatch, Oil
  • Jean Loren, Luminescence, Acrylic
  • Pat Brady, Moonlight Magic, Oil
  • Leslie White, On the Cliffs, Acrylic
  • Leslie White, Ocean, Acrylic
  • Valorie Vogel, Poppy Queen, Oil
  • Preeti Lekhra, Destination Unknown, Watercolor
  • Susan Wyant, Warm Regards, Acrylic
  • JoAnne Sherburne, My Hour With Dave, Oil
  • Susan Wyant, Remembered Faces, Acrylic
  • Ted Kloski, The Font, Acrylic
  • Cara Stickler, Sun on the Oaks, Acrylic
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Opening Night: The Game’s Afoot Tonight! November 1 Call the Box Office for Tickets 352-746-7606

The Game's Afoot
The Game’s Afoot Show Poster

A comedic mystery with shades of Sherlock Holmes opens Friday, Nov. 1, for a three-weekend run at the Art Center Theatre in Citrus Hills.

“The Game’s Afoot” is set in the 1930s and takes place in the Connecticut home of William Gillette, an actor and writer who played Sherlock Holmes on stage for over 25 years.

Gillette has invited friends and a famous theater critic to his home for a Christmas celebration only two weeks after there was an attempt on his life in the theater.

He hopes to use this holiday party to uncover the would-be killer, but as the evening continues, it becomes increasingly clear there is a killer on the loose, and increasingly unclear who it is.

Add in witty comic lines and a cast of interesting characters, and the play serves up a delightful dish of comedy and mystery before it all comes together in an unexpected conclusion.

Directed by Mac and Sharon Harris, the play features Rich Mesker as William Gillette, Marvia Korol as his mother Martha Gillette, Jacki Scott as Madge Geisel, Paul Bolognese as Felix Geisel, Kay Gear as Aggie Wheeler, Kyle Flanagan as Simon Bright, Sarah Schuyler as Daria Chase and Kristi Fuller as Inspector Goring.

Eayn Flanagan is the stage manager and Gloria Jardinella is assistant stage manager. The set was designed by Sharon Harris and built by a set crew under the direction of set construction coordinator Gary Boesch. The set construction crew was John Cocco, Doug Haynes, Ashley Gibson, Eayn Flanagan, Harry Lewis and John Koch.

Edwin Martin painted the set and Nancy Hoffman was the costumer. Technical design of the play is by Eayn Flanagan. Sharon Harris and Dianna Haynes did the artistic design and specialty painting.

Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday. There is an additional performance at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9. Tickets are $21 and are available at the box office on the Art Center campus at 2644 N. Annapolis Ave. or by calling 352-746-7606.