B&D Productions
Is Proud to Present

HELLO, DOLLY!

July 18 - August 3rd Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm Sundays @ 2:00pm

Chanticleer Community Theater is pleased to offer its Summer Children's Theater Workshops for the third year.  Sessions are open to students entering second through eighth grade, and will be held Saturdays from 9-11:30 a.m.  The cost to participate is $75 per child.

Space is limited so register as soon as possible.  Registration and payment is due by Saturday, May 17.  For further information contact the theater at 323-9955 or by mail at

Chanticleer Community Theater
830 Franklin Ave
Council Bluffs, IA 51503

See also the article about the summer workshops featured in the Council Bluffs Nonpareil

ANNOUNCING OUR 2008 - 2009 SEASON!

	September 12 - 28, 2008 "In the depths of the 1930's, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks. Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl." (summary by imdb.com)
	November 7 - 23, 2008 "The year is 1941. The location is a small house next to a cemetery in Brooklyn. In this house live two kind, thoughtful, sweet old ladies, Martha and Abby Brewster who have developed a very bad habit. It appears that they murder lonely old men who have some sort of religious affiliation and they consider doing it a charity. They then leave it to their bugle blowing nephew Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt) to take them to the Panama Canal (the cellar) and bury them. In this instance, the "poor fellow" suffers from yellow fever found in the window seat. It is another of their nephews Mortimer Brewster, a dramatic critic, who returns home only to find the man in the seat by mistake." (summary by imdb.com)
	January 16 - February 1, 2009 "Here is a wild farce with twists of fate, sight gags, mistaken identities and hilarious comic lines. Jon Trachtman and Leslie Arthur are out of work musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as a married. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the "couple" they're going to be investigated by a Mr. Spinner. Leslie masquerades as a housewife, aided by Jon's fiancee, Kate. Complicating matters further Leslie and Kate are having an affair behind Jon's back, Jon's mother drops in unexpectedly to meet her son's fiancee, and Leslie's ex girlfriend shows up demanding to know why Leslie has changed and won't see her anymore." (summary by samuelfrench.com)
	March 13 - 29, 2009 "It's 1950-something, and Kaye, Peggy, Cheryl, and Donna, four singing sisters from Muncie, Indiana are making their national television singing debut.  "Spotlight On Music," a fictitions weekly 1950's television show on the real-life Dumont Telvesion Network, sets the framework for an evenging of some of the greatest hits of the 1950's." (summary by thetaffetas.com)
	May 15 - 31, 2009 "Combine Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" with Porter's music and lyrics to get KISS ME, KATE an instant success with every cast and audience. This is a play-within-a-play where each cast member's on-stage life is complicated by what is happening offstage. Musical numbers include Why Can't You Behave, So In Love Am I, Wunderbar, Tom, Dick or Harry, Were Thine That Special Face, Too Darn Hot, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, I Hate Men, Always True to You (In My Fashion) and Another Op'nin, Another Show. KISS ME, KATE is fun, melodious and sophisticated." (summary by tams-witmark.com)