TRIASSIC PARQ, TIME STANDS STILL and More Set for Chance Theater's 2013 Season

This show was developed by New York-based experimental company Les Freres Corbusier. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson first premiered in January 2008 in Culver City at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, produced by Center Theatre Group and later opened in 2009 at The Public Theater in New York for a three month run which earned it an Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new Off Broadway musical. It then opened on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on October 13, 2010. It won a Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical in 2011 as well as Tony award nominations for Best Book and Best Scene Design of a Musical in 2011.

BBAJ is a fiery, merciless satire. It creates this heightened, anachronistic world that meshes the politics of Andrew Jackson in the 19th century with the liberating, expressive musicality of contemporary music and pop culture. This "rockstar" world is emotional, combative, and aggressive which is not at all dissimilar to the political climate that exists today. As we experience Jackson's quest for democracy we are constantly reminded of our own political questions and responsibility. BBAJ is fearless and passionate in its journey to comment on and shake up one's perspective on American politics and culture.

September 27 - October 20, 2013
ORANGE COUNTY PREMIERE!
TIME STANDS STILL
by Donald Margulies

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies and a Tony nominee for Best Play, Time Stands Still is an unflinching examination of relationships and the media-saturated world in which we live. Margulies himself stated the purpose of the play was "to capture a sense of the way we live now, to dramatize the things that thinking, feeling, moral people are thinking about and struggle with."

To do so, Margulies takes a compelling look at what happens when ordinary life is refracted through the lens of war. After barely surviving a bomb blast in Iraq, photojournalist Sarah Goodwin finds herself caught in a tug of war between her career and the quiet of domestic life. Returning home into the care of her long-time lover, James, Sarah's caught off-guard by his desire for family. With wit and intelligence, Time Stands Still follows two people with a shared passion for documenting the realities of war as they confront the prospect of a more conventional life.

November 15 - December 22, 2013
HOLIDAY SERIES!
THE SECRET GARDEN - THE MUSICAL
Music by Lucy Simon
Book and Lyrics by Marsha Norman

This enchanting classic of children's literature is now a brilliant musical by a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. Orphaned in India, an 11 year old girl returns to Yorkshire to live with an embittered, reclusive uncle and his invalid son. Her own personality blossoms as she and a young gardener bring new life to a neglected garden. This Tony Award winner is a treasure for children and adults alike.

November 26 - December 21, 2013
10TH ANNIVERSARY CHANCE PRODUCTION!
THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES
by Jeff Goode

Our favorite team of reindeer still have plenty to say! So much, in fact, that this year's production will incorporate a roster of rotating performers so that you'll never see the same show twice!
Accusations, rumors and all-out attacks are flying fast and furious around Santa's toyshop this holiday season. Go behind the tinsel and hear the truth about Santa straight from the eight reindeer who know him best. When a doe says "No", she means "No Way, Sucka!"

Subscription Tickets for this season are now on sale. All tickets can be purchased by calling (714) 777-3033 or by visiting www.chancetheater.com. Student, Senior and group discounts are available. (Groups call 1-714-900-3284). CHANCE THEATER is located at 5552 E. La Palma Ave. in Anaheim Hills, Calif., 92807. Parking is free.

Proud to be one of the leading ensemble-based Contemporary Theatre companies in Southern California, CHANCE THEATER recently received the Ovation Award for Best Musical (Intimate Theatre) and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for its Southern California premiere of "Jerry Springer: The Opera." Twice named "Outstanding Arts Organization" by Arts Orange County, Chance Theater is also a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics.

Circle's Polly Warfield Award for Excellence. Founded in 1999, Chance Theater is focused on its goal of being Orange County's premiere mid-size contemporary ensemble theater. As a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group, Network of Ensemble Theaters, and the LA Stage Alliance, Chance Theater continues to bring national attention to the Southern California and Orange County theater scenes.

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