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WASHINGTON COUNTY WINTER 2012 Arts Guide • STAGE • MUSIC • VISUAL ARTS • SPOKEN WORD BODYVox – FeB. 15 – HILLSBORO SYMPHONY STORYTIMES – JAN. 9 – TUALATIN THE NUTCRAcker – DEC. 15 – HILLSBORO BRENDA BOylan – JAN. 16 – HILLSBORO December 2012 — February 2013 A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS, INC. AND WORK FOR ART 2 WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS GUIDE ❘ DECEMBER 2012 – FEBRUARY 2013 WAG12 It’s winter, and we’re quite content any artists not only lower temperatures, Encore! Pickin’ have equated but slower tempos. With the ■ The Washington early sunset comes the County Spring Arts and winter with chance to slow down, head Guide, which will M include events for melancholy, isolation indoors and savor the array grinnin’ March through May and even death. We of artistic offerings available 2013, will be The fun for the in Washington County. published at the end young, and young prefer John Steinbeck’s at heart, extends This winter brings more of February. take, offered in beyond the holiday evidence that culture blooms ■ If your season. Rick 3 “Travels with Charley.” organization or Meyers will mix year round in Washington business is interested historical County. From a sleigh load of in promoting your information, playful “What good is the warmth dialogue and plenty WA events or services, COUNTY ARTS GUIDE WASHINGTON holiday shows to the county of audience of summer,” he asks, please contact museum’s new exhibit space, participation in his COUNTY SHINGTON “without the cold of winter Michelle Thomas at “Old Time Music there is reason to celebrate 503-357-3181 or to give it sweetness.” Show” on Feb. 9 at during the cold of this winter. mthomas@ the Hillsboro Indeed, the end of the fgnewstimes.com. Library. calendar, it seems, brings A 4 ❘ The plot may be 8 ❘ From a velvet bunny 10 ❘ A renewed interest 16 ❘ A big grant has EDITOR ❘ John Schrag RTS GUIDE contrived but the music and Mexican angels to in handcrafted arts Bag&Baggage poised to CALENDAR EDITOR ❘ MATTHEW SINGER is divine in Broadway wool hats and one-third breathes new life into put its roots down even WRITERS ❘ MATTHEW KORFHAGE, INDEX Rose’s holiday revue. of Peter, Paul & Mary, holiday bazaars. deeper in Hillsboro. STAFF CARI HACHMANN, AP KRYZA, it’s the best darn arts JOANN BOATWRIGHT ❘ ❘ SEPTEMBER – NO 7 ❘ The Washington calendar in the county! 12 ❘ A new mural honors 2013 DECEMBER 2012 – FEBRUARY PHOTO EDITOR ❘ CHASE ALLGOOD County Museum a girl whose tragic death Online: explores the past and sparked a crusade for Washington County Arts Guides are COVER/PAGE DESIGN ❘ OLIVIA PASSIEUX future in its new space. better health care. available online at www.fgnewstimes.com ADVERTISING SALES ❘ MICHELLE THOMAS Your Downtown Hillsboro V cultural arts destination. EMBER 2012 Join us for our eclectic concert series: WAG12 Kate Davis, 12/21, Alasdair Fraser, 2/22, and much more... Tickets $5-$30. Register for creative arts classes: Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Creative Writing, Theater and Music for youth & adults. FREE arts events on Tuesday evenings: Spoken Word lecture series, First Tuesday art openings w/ music, and Open Poetry nights. Your Arts Center has it all. ODE TO JOY! WAG12 Hillsboro Community Youth Choir Winter Concert Hillsboro High School Auditorium Saturday, December 8, 4:00 PM Adults $8, Children $2 at the door or in advance at www.hillsborocommunityyouthchoir.org or 503-441-1357 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro OR 97123 503 615 3485 www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/wcac Please join us! WAG12 Working hard for a good revue Local writer Rick Lewis will debuts his ”Christmas on Broadway” in Tigard this holiday season BY MATTHEW KORFHAGE t’s four weeks before opening night and Joshua Stenseth is 4 I worried about his voice. The actor has just finished a round of the Christmas classic “Sleep Well, Little Children.” His tone was pure and pitch-perfect, with the crystalline sunny timbre of a Midwestern winter. Still, he says, he’s got a slight sniffle, and it makes him anxious. “You ever get that?” he’s asking his four co-stars, who are gathered around the piano. “You have a little cold, and then you wake up one day and your december 2012 – februARY 2013 december 2012 – februARY ❘ voice is suddenly gone?” “I had the same thing,” Amanda ITCHELLDYER Valley tells him. “I had to speak in a low M IG voice all the time and I couldn’t talk on A R the phone. It really freaked out my C children.” Rebecca Teran plays an actor whose Broadway dreams come true for one magical night in Broadway Rose’s holiday show. On Nov. 23, all five actors will be opening Christmas on Broadway, a Indeed, Lewis has won Showtimes the actors’ imaginations. guys, ‘I’m in G, just follow.’” brand-new holiday musical at the award- five different Drammies — If this plot sounds a bit Lewis laughs at the very idea. “It’s the ■ “Christmas on winning Broadway Rose Theatre Portland theater awards — minimal, that’s entirely the inanity of this, that these four people who Broadway” will be Company in Tigard. Writer and director as a musical director on presented at the New point; the story line of a just met are singing in four-part Rick Lewis conceived the play’s roles various Broadway Rose Stage, 12850 SW musical revue is just a coat harmony.” WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS GUIDE WASHINGTON and songs specifically for the five productions. “He could be Grant Ave. in Tigard, hook for beautiful clothes. But it’s part of the magic of theater, he through Dec. 23. performers he cast in the roles; Stenseth up there orchestrating the Evening show times “It’s all about the music,” says says, that everything can be made to feel must be able to perform, and so he will. phone book and it would be are Thursdays- Lewis. “Everything else is a so effortless, so lighter than air. “I’m The Broadway Rose Theatre beautiful,” says Maroney. Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. nice little surprise.” trying to make it simple and stupid and Matinees are 2 p.m. Company celebrates its 20th anniversary The concept of Lewis’ In concept, the play is a bit have it not take itself too seriously,” Sundays and this year, and has long been regarded as revue is simple: Four young Saturdays (Dec. 1, 8 of a spoof on the old Andrew Lewis says. one of Oregon’s premier producers of would-be Broadway actors and 15 only). Tickets Lloyd Webber musical But a real musical production takes a musical theater. find themselves trapped in start at $30 for tradition, and a spritely romp lot of serious work — especially since adults, with discounts The holiday show is always a big an old Broadway theater — available for groups in the toolbox of the old Lewis’ production contains medleys and draw and this year they’ve chosen an called, appropriately and youth. For a Hollywood let’s-put-on-a-show snippets of over 30 different Broadway original musical revue, a popular format enough, The Holiday — on listing of show Bing Crosby movies of the tunes, Christmas songs and lushly the eve of Christmas Day. performances or to 1940s. harmonic originals by Lewis himself. in which a plot somehow allows the order tickets, visit performance of classic crowd-pleasing Aided by a tour guide broadwayrose.org or Because of course, when During a late-October rehearsal, the songs. (Valley), the four find a call 503-620-5262. these four actors who’ve group is doing something they call a And as far as Broadway Rose artistic script for an old unstaged never met find a script “push-through,” quickly setting up all the director and co-founder Sharon Maroney holiday play, and put on a they’ve never read, they entrances and exits and stage positions is concerned, Lewis is the best revue musical Broadway revue right then and immediately put on the show of their for an entire act of the play, detail by director around. “Musical revues are a there, in the abandoned theater. lives. “I think about the show Smash,” methodical detail, at breakneck speed. special niche,” she says,” and Rick is the The very real audience at the says Lewis, “where Tom, the composer, The stage they’re working on still has king of musical revues.” Broadway Rose will be the audience of sits down at the piano and tells the jazz some exposed plaster board with unpainted wood cut into the “I’m trying to By the end of the push- shape of an old odeon through, everyone looks Rick Lewis, the writer and make it simple director of “Christmas on marquis. On each side of the exhausted, but there are still Broadway,” decided to start with stage are half-finished and not take more than an hour of musical a familiar cast and build a holiday revue around their unique talents. trellises and baroque rehearsals before anyone goes itself too columns. home for the night. “So those It is the bare bones of a seriously.” are the pieces,” Lewis tells the theater, and on it they flesh performers. “Now we have a out the bare bones of a play. path to the play.” While the performers are RICK LEWIS Still, he says, there will still working, Lewis constantly be some parts that need 5 gestures to things that aren’t changing so he won’t be “sick to yet there. He points to this tree, and then look at them.” to that tree. But there is nothing but grey- But as much work as it is to get all the WRITER BUILDS ROLES COUNTY ARTS GUIDE WASHINGTON painted stage.