ELATE NEWS

Auditions! Auditions for "Chaps" the musical by Johana Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner and directed by Linda Miller will be coming up shortly.

Auditions to be held @ the Lincoln Stegman Theater:
...
Wednesday 9/7 from 7:30-9:30 PM & Saturday 9/10 at 10:00-12:00

Any Callbacks will be on Monday 9/12 at 7:30pm.

Lincoln Stegman Theater- 6020 N. Radford, North Hollywood, CA

Please have 16 bars of a song prepared. A CD player will also be available for any tracks you have.

It is NOT too late to order a season ticket even though we have already done the first show of the season! Pro-rated tickets for the next two shows give you a discount AND allow you to vote in this year's Season Ticket Holders Awards. Remember only season ticket holders can vote! Which reminds me...

The season ticket holders have spoken! The show was hosted by the brilliant comedy team of Rogers and Harris and featured performances from Rene Laramore, Victoria Killian and Jeff Thorsen. A good time was had by all...even those who didn't win. Here are the results of the 2010-11 ELATE Season Ticket Holders Awards:

Best Show: : "Grace & Glorie"               Produced By:  Joey Bell & Anita George                                                         

Best Director: Michael McCambridge                                       "Grace & Glorie"

Best Variety Performance: "Cleaning Up"                       Tim Simpson (Comedy)

Best Cameo Appearance - TIE                          Jim Ritter  as Bob in "Cleaning Up"
                                              Jeff Thorsen - as Nick the lineman in "Petrified Forest"  
      
Best Actor                                         Lane Wray as Alan Squier in "Petrified Forest"
                  
Best Actress                       Marty McCambridge as Grace Stiles in "Grace & Glorie"
                            
Best Supporting Actor                        Andrew Piecka as Gramp in "Petrified Forest"
                     
Best Supporting Actress              Lisa Cicchetti as Mrs. Chisholm in "Petrified Forest"
Congrats to all the nominees and to Joey Bell for all that GREAT food!

Yes, Virginia, ELATE does have a Facebook page. It features latest announcements, casting and pictures from all the latest shows--pictires you can comment on! Check us out.

ELATE is sad to announce the passing of Kerri Corrigan, who was seen in "Sign in Please" and was a regular attendee at all of our shows. Godspeed, Kerri.

However, the ELATE board is still looking for backup projects for the 2011-2012 season. Often unforeseen events prevent us from doing shows we have announced ("Mr. Roberts", "1776", etc.) and we need a show to go in its place. If you have a show you think we should do, or a favorite you've always wanted to do, talk to a board member as soon as possible! It then gets first in line for consideration for the 2012-13 season!

Our Production History page of this website is in the midst of FINALLY being updated! We had a problem adding pages to the site but now seem to have found a way around this problem. So look for pictures and updates for "The Petrified Forest", "Cleaning Up" "Wait Until Dark" and "Don't Hug Me"!

If the link doesn't take you to the production page the first time, reboot the elate main page and try again. Try navigating to other pages. For some reason occasionally there is a kink in our link. Stick with it and you WILL get there!
Can you guess what show this picture is from? Click on the picture to find out!
   
After you're done here, try visiting check out http://artists-in-exile.ning.com  and see some of the new bits Roger Eschbacher, Steven Kirk and Jeff Zimmer have been shooting. Look for a lot of familiar ELATE faces to appear in upcoming productions!

A lot of people have had trouble navigating this website lately. It seems some sort of bug has gotten into our shortcut, the come.to/elate address. ELATE's original webmaster Billy Weyandt took a crack at the problem and discovered the dreaded www.com page does not appear if you log in to the elate page using the actual address: http://elate2001.fortunecity.com  So please use this link and bookmark that address so you'll be able to access all the past productions and other pages. (with the exception of the "Elvis" page, a work in progress) Thanks Billy!


Thanks to a grant from the Verdugo Hills chapter of Trivent for Lutherans, and the $1700 plus dollars raised by the entertaining "Joey Ho Show" ELATE has been able to replace the old fiberglass chairs with comfortable, upholstered, spring supported movie theater seats! To accomodate the new seats new platforms were built and the rake of the seats changed for better viewing. And now its all paid for! Hooray!

We are still seeking pictures from "5 Tellers Dancing in the Rain", "Sound of Music", "Catacombs". "110 in the Shade", "Tales of Wonder", "Love Letters" and "Brigadoon". Now that we are able to update the website again,  Please let a board member know if you have photos from any of these!

To see a list of all of ELATE's Season Ticket Holder Award Winners, click HERE.

Elate began as a dream of Mike McCambridge and Lincoln Stegman. We started out doing one show a year. Now over 20 years later ELATE has produced 77 shows and has presented 14 full seasons. For our 10th anniversary, we asked our current members to share their memories with us. You can check those out by clicking here. We liked that idea so much, we decided to do it again for our 20th anniversary. Enjoy!  Click here to take a look!

Believe it or not, the Lincoln Stegman Theatre is now into its second DECADE of production! Named after one of Elate's co-founders, who was also a former President of the congregation, the theatre's first show was "The Very Great Grandson of Sherlock Holmes" in summer of 1991. Over 100 people packed the theatre for the dedication ceremony in honor of our beloved Linc.

Since then, the theatre has hosted over 40 additional shows and has become Elate's workhorse.