January 31, 2012
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER “THREE TALL WOMEN”AT GROVES CABIN THEATRE FEB. 11 – MAR. 4
The Groves Cabin Theatre production of Edward Albee’s 1994 Pulitzer Prize winning drama “Three Tall Women” will open at the popular Morongo Valley theater on Saturday, February 11. It will play Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. for four weekends through Sunday, March 4.
The protagonist of “Three Tall Women,” a compelling woman more than ninety years old, reflects on her life with a mixture of shame, pleasure, regret, and satisfaction. She recalls the fun of her childhood and her marriage, when she had an overwhelming optimism for her future. Yet she bitterly recalls the negative events that resulted in regret: her husband’s extramarital affairs, the death of her husband, and the estrangement of her gay son. Many theater critics consider this to be three-time Pulitzer winner Edward Albee’s best and most forceful play.
The play, directed by Deborah Hagedorn, stars Joy Groves as the imperious, acerbic old woman who is tended to by two other women, her caretaker played by Vicki Montgomery, and her lawyer, portrayed by Elodie Rain. These “tall women” deal with everything from incontinence to infidelity, depicting aging without sentimentality and telling us about forgiveness, reconciliation, and fate. Dennis Priest makes a cameo appearance as the woman’s son.
Groves Cabin Theatre has won numerous Desert Theatre League awards for its high quality productions. The tiny 22-seat theater offers one of the most intimate theatrical experiences in the world—that experience having been described as being, “like being a fly on the wall, witnessing real live happening before my eyes.” The limited seating means early reservations are a must.
“Three Tall Women” plays Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. from Saturday, February 11, through Sunday, March 4. Groves Cabin Theatre is located at 8768 Desert Willow Trail in Morongo Valley north of Highway 62 (look for the large red, white, and blue stone on the north side of the highway). Tickets for all seats are $10. For additional information and reservations call: 760-365-4523; www.grovescabintheatre.org.
December 31, 2011
Congratulations to all Groves Cabin Theatre 2011 Desert Stars Award winners!
Daddy's Dyin’, Who’s Got The Will
Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy - Virginia Sulick
Outstanding Sound Design - Charles Harvey
W;T
Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama - Abe Daniels
Grace and Glorie
Outstanding Production - Drama
Outstanding Director - Drama - Rosemary Mallett
Outstanding Lead Actress - Joy Groves
Outstanding Supporting Actress - Vicki Montgomery
November 22, 2011
SUNDAY MATINEE ADDED ON DEC. 11 FOR HIGHLY ENTERTAINING “TORCH SONG SOLILOQUY” AT GROVES CABIN THEATRE
Due to high demand, Groves Cabin Theatre in MorongoValley has added an extra matinee performance of Sal Bovoso’s “Torch Song Soliloquy,” on Sunday, December 11, at 2:30 p.m. The show plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. through December 4, plus the added Sunday matinee on the 11th; all performances are sold out except the newly added matinee and a few seats for Saturday, December 3.
“Torch Song Soliloquy” is a one-man musical review created and performed by lifelong theater veteran Sal Bovoso. The cabaret styled show is subtitled; ‘A Musical Evening of Love Gone Awry,’ and it will warm your heart with poignant, humorous, and upbeat musical vignettes of touching and ironic “coulds” and “shoulds” in the never-dull world of love and relating. Though recommended for mature audiences, the production contains no offensive material.
Morongo Basin resident Salvatore Bovoso has enjoyed a passionate involvement with theater, cabaret, nightclubs, and entertainment, including a stint on TV, for most all of his life. Sal has performed extensively on the east coast and in the San FranciscoBay area. He made his professional stage debut at the tender age of age of 17 in 1961, in Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde“ at Theatre Intime in Princeton, NJ, and as Sal states, “I’ve been hooked ever since; I’ve been in and out of “the biz’ my whole adult life. I always come back for a taste when I can, and it’s time again to savor that wonderful flavor…”Torch Song Soliloquy” is upbeat, fun, and full of music and heart - part theater, part cabaret, and all Sal.”
Groves Cabin Theatre has won numerous Desert Theatre League awards for its high-quality productions. The 22-seat theater offers one of the most intimate theatrical experiences in the world, that experience having been described as being, “like a fly on the wall, witnessing life happening before my eyes.”
Torch Song Soliloquy” plays Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. from Saturday, November 12, through Sunday, December 4, with an added matinee on Sunday, December 11. Groves Cabin Theatre is located at 8768 Desert Willow Trail in MorongoValley north of Highway 62 (look for the large red, white, and blue stone on the north side of the highway). Tickets for all seats are $10. For additional information and reservations please call! 760-365-4523; www.grovescabintheatre.org.
November 2, 2011
HIGHLY ENTERTAINING “TORCH SONG SOLILOQY” AT GROVES CABIN THEATRE NOV. 12 - DEC. 4
Groves Cabin Theatre and Certainly Not Tonite Productions are delighted to be presenting Sal Bovoso’s “Torch Song Soliloqy”, which will open at the Morongo Valley theater on Saturday, November 12, and will be performed on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. for four weekends through Sunday, December 4.
“Torch Song Soliloqy” is a one-man musical review created and performed by lifelong theater veteran Sal Bovoso. The cabaret styled show is subtitled, “A Musical Evening of Love Gone Awry”, and it will warm your heart with poignant, humorous, and upbeat musical vignettes of touching and ironic “coulds” and “shoulds” in the never-dull world of love and relating. Though recommended for mature audiences, the production contains no offensive material.
Morongo Basin resident Salvatore Bovoso has enjoyed a passionate involvement with theater, cabaret, nightclubs, and entertainment, including a stint on TV, for most all of his life. Sal has performed extensively on the east coast and in the San Francisco Bay area. He made his professional stage debut at the tender age of age of 17 in 1961, in Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde” at Theatre Intime in Princeton, NJ, and as Sal states, “I’ve been hooked ever since; I’ve been in and out of “the biz” my whole adult life. I always come back for a taste when I can, and it’s time again to savor that wonderful flavor… ”Torch Song Soliloqy” is upbeat, fun, and full of music and heart - part theater, part cabaret, and all Sal.”
Groves Cabin Theatre has won numerous Desert Theatre League awards for its high-quality productions. The 22-seat theater offers one of the most intimate theatrical experiences in the world, that experience having been described as being, “like a fly on the wall, witnessing life happening before my eyes. The limited seating means early reservations are a must.
“Torch Song Soliloqy” plays Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. from Saturday, November 12, through Sunday, December 4. Groves Cabin Theatre is located at 8768 Desert Willow Trail in MorongoValley north of Highway 62 (look for the large red, white, and blue stone on the north side of the highway). Tickets for all seats are $10. For additional information and reservations please call! 760-365-4523; www.grovescabintheatre.org.
April 1, 2011
HEARTFELT COMEDY “GRACE & GLORIE” TO OPEN APRIL 16 AT GROVES CABIN THEATRE IN MORONGO VALLEY TO PLAY SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS THROUGH MAY 8
The Groves Cabin Theatre production of Tom Ziegler’s heartfelt comedy “Grace & Glorie” will open on Saturday, April 16, at the Morongo Valley theater. The play will be performed on Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. for four weekends through Sunday, May 8.
Playwright Tom Ziegler’s “Grace & Glorie” was first presented in 1990 in a workshop at the Shenandoah Valley Playwright’s Retreat with the title “Apple Dreams.” Its first professional performance was at Theatre Virginia in Richmond in the spring of 1991. In 1996, the renamed play went on to a successful run on Broadway directed by Gloria Muzio and featuring Estelle Parsons in the role of Grace and Lucie Arnaz as Glorie. The Hallmark Hall of Fame filmed it for television release in 1998 staring Gena Rowlands as Grace and Diane Lane as Glorie. The play has had many successful productions nationally and internationally, including a sold-out run in Vienna.
Grace Stiles is a cantankerous and feisty 90-year-old Blue Ridge Mountain widow who’s checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her ramshackle cottage in the mountains of Virginia, her doctors giving her only a few more weeks to live. Gloria Whitmore, a sophisticated and much younger transplanted New Yorker with a Harvard MBA, is a hospice volunteer that has come to Grace’s log cabin to help her die, something that Grace feels entirely capable of doing on her own, thank you very much and goodbye. At first their cultural and generational differences hilariously collide; Grace can’t read or write, and Glorie, as Grace decides to call her, can’t figure out Grace’s wood stove. But over time, this “odd couple” duo realizes they have more in common than they imagined. “Grace & Glorie” is a poignant comedy about love, loss, and the search for meaning in life.
Directed by Rosemary Mallett, the production stars Groves Cabin Theatre stalwarts, and multiple Desert Theatre League award winners, Joy Groves as Grace, and Vicki Montgomery as Glorie.
Groves Cabin Theatrehas won numerous Desert Theatre League awards for its high-quality productions. The 22-seat theater offers one of the most intimate theatrical experiences in the world—that experience having been described as being, “like a fly on the wall, witnessing real life happening before my eyes.” The limited seating means early reservations are a must.
“Grace & Glorie” plays Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. from Saturday, April 16, through Sunday, May 8. Groves Cabin Theatreis located at 8768 Desert Willow Trail in Morongo Valley north of Highway 62 (look for the large red, white, and blue stone on the north side of the highway). Tickets for all seats are $10. For additional information and reservations please call! 760-365-4523; www.grovescabintheatre.org.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Joy Groves (760) 365-4523; forjoyg@yahoo.com
Sam Sloneker (760) 366-9081; samslo@msn.com
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