Welcome to the Hip Pocket Theatre’s 36th Performance Season
Opening June 1, 2012 with our 36th Performance Season
May 19th: A Pocket Full of Tunes (6 PM - Midnight)
A Fund-Raiser to kick off another great performance season. $20/person or $36/couple
Come to our Backyard and listen to talented local musicians and get a preview of the coming season’s music. Playing will be Bruce Payne, Bruton & Price, Clint Niosi, Darrin Kobetich and Trinity Dogs. There will be some great music, good food and drink at Concessions (food and beverages not included in admission fee), new t-shirts and lots of fun. Doors open at 5:30 PM.
June 1 - June 24 (Friday - Sunday, 9 PM)
Tom Sawyer (a banjo commedia) by Mark Twain
Stage Adaptation by Johnny Simons
Music by Lee Thomas and friends
Mark Twain's classic boyhood adventure unfolds upon the rustic outdoor stage with Tom, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, and the villainous Injun Joe, accompanied by feisty foot-stompin' fiddle tunes.
July 6 - July 29 (Friday - Sunday, 9 PM)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Stage Adaptation by Lake Simons
Music by John Dyer
The story of a whale and the desire of man to conquer it. A visual poem told through puppetry and physical story telling inspired by the text of Melville.
August 10 - September 2 (Friday - Sunday, 9 PM)
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
Stage Adaptation by Johnny Simons from “Golden Age Sheena”
Music by Michael H. Price
From the imaginations of Will Eisner and Jerry Iger swings Sheena, from the East of Timbuktu to the West of the politically-incorrect - arguably comics' first heroine - cold-blooded, practical, awesome and relentless - nothing can stop her!!!
September 14 - October 7 (Friday - Sunday, 8:15 PM)
The Hawkline Monster (A Gothic Western) by Richard Brautigan
Stage Adaptation by Johnny Simons
Music by Darren Kobetich
(Due to mature language, adults only)
in 1902 a pair of morally ambivalent gunmen are hired by the twin Hawkline sisters to hunt down and destroy a monster living beneath their Victorian house - just the right blend of cowpoke humor with touches of the macabre.
October 19 - 28 (Friday - Sunday, 8:15 PM)
Solo Molemo! And the Long, Tall Sallys!
By Johnny Simons with Julie Ballew and Gracey Tune
(two weekends only)
A musical pastiche of pantomime, song and dance, featuring two beautiful women and one cantankerous old fool cavorting in odd elderly behavior.
Opening June 1, 2012 with our 36th Performance Season
May 19th: A Pocket Full of Tunes (6 PM - Midnight)
A Fund-Raiser to kick off another great performance season. $20/person or $36/couple
Come to our Backyard and listen to talented local musicians and get a preview of the coming season’s music. Playing will be Bruce Payne, Bruton & Price, Clint Niosi, Darrin Kobetich and Trinity Dogs. There will be some great music, good food and drink at Concessions (food and beverages not included in admission fee), new t-shirts and lots of fun. Doors open at 5:30 PM.
June 1 - June 24 (Friday - Sunday, 9 PM)
Tom Sawyer (a banjo commedia) by Mark Twain
Stage Adaptation by Johnny Simons
Music by Lee Thomas and friends
Mark Twain's classic boyhood adventure unfolds upon the rustic outdoor stage with Tom, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, and the villainous Injun Joe, accompanied by feisty foot-stompin' fiddle tunes.
July 6 - July 29 (Friday - Sunday, 9 PM)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Stage Adaptation by Lake Simons
Music by John Dyer
The story of a whale and the desire of man to conquer it. A visual poem told through puppetry and physical story telling inspired by the text of Melville.
August 10 - September 2 (Friday - Sunday, 9 PM)
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
Stage Adaptation by Johnny Simons from “Golden Age Sheena”
Music by Michael H. Price
From the imaginations of Will Eisner and Jerry Iger swings Sheena, from the East of Timbuktu to the West of the politically-incorrect - arguably comics' first heroine - cold-blooded, practical, awesome and relentless - nothing can stop her!!!
September 14 - October 7 (Friday - Sunday, 8:15 PM)
The Hawkline Monster (A Gothic Western) by Richard Brautigan
Stage Adaptation by Johnny Simons
Music by Darren Kobetich
(Due to mature language, adults only)
in 1902 a pair of morally ambivalent gunmen are hired by the twin Hawkline sisters to hunt down and destroy a monster living beneath their Victorian house - just the right blend of cowpoke humor with touches of the macabre.
October 19 - 28 (Friday - Sunday, 8:15 PM)
Solo Molemo! And the Long, Tall Sallys!
By Johnny Simons with Julie Ballew and Gracey Tune
(two weekends only)
A musical pastiche of pantomime, song and dance, featuring two beautiful women and one cantankerous old fool cavorting in odd elderly behavior.
