Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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From the same team that brought you the hilarious comedy "Red Velvet Cake Wars", comes the new TCT comedy production of "Christmas Belles", playing this holiday season. A church Christmas program spins hilariously out of control in this southern farce about squabbling sisters, family secrets, a surly Santa, a vengeful sheep and a reluctant Elvis impersonator. It's Christmas-time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters are not exactly in a festive mood. But in true Futrelle...
The TCT Production Committee will be reviewing plays at The Pitch, Sunday, Nov. 1, only. The Tehachapi Community Theatre is taking proposals for plays to be produced in the next season (2016-2017) and the public is invited to come and give us your input! This will be an exciting opportunity for the public to watch and take part in our selection. Everyone attending will be allowed to ask questions about each of the proposed plays and we encourage your participation. We will take these proposals in the classic form of “The Pitch.” We invite all...
The second year of Tehachapi's unique, multi-organizational fund-raising event, Cheers to Charity, was a wonderful success. Delicious food, fine wine, scrumptious craft beer and home brews were enjoyed by 500 friends and neighbors. The evening stars, engaging music, friendly conversation and splendid camaraderie made for a truly wonderful night in Tehachapi! The Cheers to Charity committee made up of Tehachapi residents Yolanda Acevedo, Becca Dillenbeck, Mary Beth Garrison, Samara Hart and...
Three Tehachapi veterans have placed nationally, in the Veterans Administration Creative Arts Festival for 2015. Army veteran, Eric Leiss, owner and operator of Tehachapi Furniture, is once again, a national title holder, having won first place for his portrayal of Nathan Detroit, in a drama entry. Air Force veteran, Debbie DeCoursey Martin, a local entrepreneur with Mary Kay, and regular vocal performer at the Triassic Winery, also received a top three national placement for a vocal entry from the musical “Wicked”. Iraq War veteran, Chr...
Tehachapi Community Theatre is offering their special ticket promotion for any two people who have never attended a TCT live theatre performance before. It is their Love It or Leave It (LIOLI) deal. First time theatre goers are invited to purchase two tickets for the price of one at our standard $15 admission for opening night only. Then to sweeten the deal, and because TCT is so sure you will love your experience, you will also be offered a full money-back guarantee if you are not totally enter...
The Miracle Worker opened Friday, August 28, for a three week run through September 13. It's the story of Annie Sullivan (played by Elaine Chilcoat), a young visually-challenged teacher who, although haunted by her own past, reaches into the dark, quiet world of her pupil and opens the world up to her through language, friendship and love. It's also the story of a family who learn that by letting go-not only of Helen, but of their own fears-they, too, are set free. David Steele Reed is the...
Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT) will hold a Drama Day Camp this summer directed by Monica Nadon. "Campers" will have fun while learning the basics of acting for the theatre. They will learn theatre games that are not only fun but help build confidence in performing. They will also learn about stage direction, blocking, diaphragmatic breathing, auditioning, monologues, skits, theatre etiquette and much more! The week long camp will end with actors performing what they learned for family and...
Eight finalists vie for TCT's coveted Playwrights Festival Quill awards. "I have been the producer for the Tehachapi Community Theatre's Playwright's Festival for six years now," says Kenny Chugg. "Every year has been a challenge to create the best possible festival, and this is not a one person effort. In October 2014 the announcement and call for submissions was sent out, once received they were logged and sent to a panel of judges who read the plays without knowledge of the authorship or...
It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I’m sure we can all think of organizations and groups, and even individuals that have done terrible things with the best of intentions. On the other hand, I’m not sure where the road paved with donuts goes, but it isn’t hell. Every year in the United States we have National Donut Day on the first Friday in June (June 5, this year). Often this is celebrated by eating an (often free) donut, but the origin of donut day goes back to th...
Nancy Grecian, age 68, passed away on May 14th, in Tehachapi, CA. Nancy was born to Bill and Marcheta Lockhart on June 20, 1946, in Tulsa, OK. She spent her youth and school years in Craig, CO. She received her teaching certificate with a speech and theatre major from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. That’s where she got hooked on theatre while performing the ingénue role in Moliere’s “Tartuffe.” Her teaching career began in Tehachapi in 1969, where she taught English, math, and geography. She joined the Tehachapi Communit...
Tehachapi Community Theatre announces their new Postcard Discount promotion. TCT distributes 2500 direct mail postcards for every main stage production performed at the BeeKay and is offering a discount to recipients on our mailing list who bring in their postcard for a $2.00 discount on a single ticket. Write your email address on the card and give it to the agent at the box office requesting the Postcard Discount. This Postcard Discount promo is available the full run of each show and all received postcards—complete with email a...
Tehachapi Community Theatre is proud to announce its Tickets for Charity partnership for Princess K.I.M. to LIBRA-Library Associates. TCT has donated 42 tickets, a total value of $630, to LIBRA for them to sell at the $15 face value of the ticket, or more, as a money-making promotion with all of the money from ticket sales to be kept by them as a donation. LIBRA-Library is a non-profit corporation that has been assisting our public school libraries for over 25 years. As a result all six TUSD...
I left you in the early days of the Twentieth Century in “nineteen ‘aught’ nine.” That’s the way the old timers said those early years. They called zeroes “aughts” in those days. Sometimes “naughts” too. 1909 - The City of Los Angeles Cement Company was established four miles east of Tehachapi. An aqueduct was needed to provide Los Angeles with water from the Owens Valley. They closed the plant down after the project was finished. For a time it produced Potash; not to make cement again unti...
First Friday, April 3, will be a special celebration at Fiddlers Crossing, starting at 7 p.m. A host of local musicians will be on hand to help mark the fifth anniversary for the popular venue. Fiddlers Crossing first opened on Saturday, April 17, 2010, with a performance by local band Geezers on the Loose. The establishment opened as “a work in progress” in what had been the Art Center. According to co-founder Peter Cutler, “We threw a venue together with whatever we had lying around, slapped some ugly paint on the walls and some even uglie...
Tehachapi Community Theatre is offering a "buy one get one" (BOGO) FREE deal for Things My Mother Taught Me. Your bling is the thing, and the ticket to cash in on Tehachapi Community Theatre's special! The BOGO offer is available to all couples who are newly engaged, newly married or still honeymooning, for the Friday, March 27 performance. BOGO tickets will only be available at the box office window the day of the performance at 7:00 p.m. on March 27. Show the box office your "bling", as in you...
Tehachapi Community Theatre offers heart, humor and sentiment in their new true-to-life comedy. It's Gabe and Olivia's move-in day. Olivia Keegan (Emily Stults) is an energetic, neat – verging on OCD – architect, and Gabe Lawson (Kendric Bertram) is a kind, good-natured writer. They've just packed up all of their belongings and driven halfway across the country, to start a new life together, in Chicago. Their moving day doesn't go exactly as planned and things become slightly more com...
I was thumbing through a little book I put together a few years back which contains a collection of stories and found one my granddaughter wrote about growing up in our town. I am sure she won't mind if I share a few of her memories. She attended the same grammar school (Wells) and High School (good old T.H.S.) that I did and played in the same park. Just in a different time frame. The House On D Street by Jacque Gracey Whinery Growing up in Tehachapi was a wonderful experience. Some of my...
Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT) is offering a Sweetheart Promotion for an evening with our Valentine! After a quiet dinner, or wonderful evening stroll around town tasting fabulous local and regional wines while savoring special chocolate tidbits, why not take your valentine to see final evening showing of the hit TCT live stage production of Sylvia. We will be offering our "Two for Twenty" promotion, only available at the BeeKay box office on Valentine's night, Saturday, Feb. 14. The BeeKay...
What better way to end a wonderful evening of food, wine, friends and art, than tickets to the theater. A second weekend of Sylvia falls on the First Friday of February so, once again, Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT) is offering their "First Friday Free" promotion. Tickets for the First Friday performance of Sylvia are available at a special price of 2 for $15. TCT is offering this "buy one ticket, get one ticket free" offer to anyone interested in attending Sylvia on Friday, February 6,...
Sylvia is TCT's newest main stage production, opening Friday, January 30, 2015 through Valentine's weekend. This play is about relationships – a man, his wife and the stray dog (Sylvia) he finds in the park and falls in love with. The man's affection for Sylvia costs him his job and almost his marriage. Sylvia is an adult comedy, but first and foremost it is a heartwarming love story, and TCT is sure we all have a Sylvia of our own. Send TCT the cutest photo of your dog for the "Show Us Your Syl...
Tehachapi Community Theatre is proud to announce its “Tickets For Charity” partnership with Have A Heart Humane Society (haveahearthumanesociety.org) for opening night Friday, January 30 of their new adult comedy Sylvia. TCT has donated 42 tickets, a total value of $630, to Have A Heart for them to sell as a fundraiser. Tickets have a face value of $15, but all of the money raised from ticket sales will be kept by Have A Heart Humane Society. If you’d like to donate more, please do so. To buy the tickets please contact Have A Heart at havea...
Tehachapi Community Theatre is in Rehearsal for Sylvia, opening Friday, Jan. 30. In Pete Gurney's 1995 comic masterpiece Sylvia, he wrote about a dog who totally seduces the attentions and affection of a hard working, middle class husband, in one howler of a play. Some may dismiss this glorious evening of nonstop laughs as lightweight entertainment, but beneath all the fun is Gurney's usual focus on the fantasies and foibles of middle class life. "I consider this play to be a variation on the...
Step into the spotlight! Show off your pipes and your moves! The historic BeeKay Theater stage is waiting for you. This coming May, Tehachapi Community Theatre will present the West Coast premiere of Princess KIM, an award-winning family musical by famed children's book author Maryann Cocca-Leffler. Auditions coming soon! Join directors Monica Nadon and Dave Shacklock at the Second Space, 431 West J Street, Tehachapi on Jan 16th at 6 p.m. and Jan. 17th at 10 a.m. Call backs will be Jan 18th at 2 p.m. They are looking for 8 or more 10-12 year...
Saturday, Dec.13 is your last chance to pitch the TCT Production Committee a play you’d like to see. The Tehachapi Community Theatre is taking proposals for plays to be produced in the next season (2015-2016) and the public is invited to come and give us your input! The new season will include 4 main stage, 1 children/teen, 2 black box and 2 possible workshop productions (if applicable). If you missed the November two-day Pitch event your final chance for presentation will be Saturday, Dec.13, 2014 between 2 and 5 p.m. This is the last o...
Saturday, Dec.13 is your last chance to pitch the TCT Production Committee a play you’d like to see. The Tehachapi Community Theatre is taking proposals for plays to be produced in the next season (2015-2016) and the public is invited to come and give us your input! The new season will include 4 main stage, 1 children/teen, 2 black box and 2 possible workshop productions (if applicable). If you missed the November two-day Pitch event your final chance for presentation will be Saturday, Dec.13, 2014 between 2 and 5 p.m. This is the last o...
