Hairspray Jul y 9-18, 2010 Music Man August 6-15, 2010 Paint Your Wagon September 3-12, 2010

Updated August 30, 2010

PRESS ROOM - Woodminster Summer Musicals
Welcome to Producers Associates' online resource for journalists. Here, you will find press releases about the current season, photos and other resources, contact information, and archives of past seasons. We are proud to be Oakland's longest continually running theater company, celebrating our 44th consecutive season in Summer, 2010. Email publicist.

NEWS RELEASE - Paint Your Wagon opens September 3 (see more news releases below.

Backgrounder - Woodminster Summer Musicals and the Community

ARCHIVE of press releases and coverage for past years

DIRECTORY of photo galleries.

Paint Your Wagon opens September 3!
Press Release Information about the show • Cast list.

Fandango girls and miner

ELECTION SEASON
Hank for mayor, click to vote

CONGRATULATIONS to Hank, Woodminster's candidate for the 2010 Montclair Pet Mayor. In a very crowded field of 20 worthy candidates, Hank finished in 5th place, and is now Montclair's Cattorney General. The 2010 Montclair Pet Mayor race raised over $13,000 for the Pet and Wildlife Fund. Congratulations to all the contestants. See the winners here.

2010 Press Releases

Photos & Resources

Contacts

PRESS RELEASES:

August 18, 2010
Woodminster’s 44th Season Ends with “Paint Your Wagon” - California History Musical at home in Historic Amphitheater
New $10 Preview Tickets Join “Kids Come Free” and Half-Price Group Tickets As Woodminster Looks for Creative Ways to Make Live Theater Affordable for All
August 18, 2010, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. will finish the 44th season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals with "Paint Your Wagon," Lerner & Loewe's so-called "California musical."... (more)

July 20, 2010
Woodminster’s 44th Season Continues with “The Music Man” - Beloved Broadway Classic Features a Cast of 50, Live Orchestra
New $10 Preview Tickets Join “Kids Come Free” and Half-Price Group Tickets As Woodminster Finds Creative Ways to Make Live Theater Affordable for All
July 20, 2010, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. will continue the 44th season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals with one of the most famous and popular musicals of all time, Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man,” playing ... (more)

June 22, 2010
Woodminster’s 44th Season Opens with “Hairspray”: Social Justice and Rousing Dance Numbers Come Together in This Broadway Hit
New $10 Preview Tickets Join “Kids Come Free” and Half-Price Group Tickets As Woodminster Looks for Creative Ways to Make Live Theater Affordable for All
June 22, 2010, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. will open the 44th season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals with the Broadway hit, “Hairspray,” playing... (more)

January 30, 2010
Woodminster Summer Musicals 2010 Season Announced: HAIRSPRAY, THE MUSIC MAN, PAINT YOUR WAGON
Ten-dollar Preview Nights and Kids Come Free Program
Help Keep Musical Theater Affordable
January 30, 2010 - Oakland, CA --
Producers Associates, Inc. announces its season for 2010, the 44th consecutive season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals. This summer the shows will be “Hairspray,” “The Music Man,” and “Paint Your Wagon.”  The organization has also announced a new $10 Preview Night as part of its ongoing effort to offer inexpensive ways for people to enjoy live theater. more


Woodminster Summer Musicals backgrounder here.

Editorial contact:
Kathy Kahn
woodminsterpr@yahoo.com
510-418-8523

For information about
Producers Associates, Inc.

 

 

 

PHOTOS below are linked to galleries where they can be retrieved as 300 dpi jpeg files. Simply click on the icon to retrieve the high resolution version, or to send a request for it to be emailed to you, click here.

See a gallery of ARCHIVE photos appropriate for editorial use.

Jennifer singing

Paint Your Wagon publicity photos taken August 25

Paint Your Wagon dance rehearsal photos taken August 21

Paint Your Wagon publicity photos taken August 11

Music Man & Marian

The Music Man dress rehearsal photos, taken August 4

The Music Man more publicity photos, taken July 29

The Music Man first publicity photos, taken July 25

The Music Man dance rehearsal photos, taken during rehearsal July 18

Tracy Turnblad

Hairspray publicity photos taken July 7, 2010

Hairspray publicity photos taken June 27, 2010

Hairspray publicity photos taken June 19, 2010

Hairspray dance rehearsal photos taken June 26, 2010

Hairspray music rehearsal photos taken June 19, 2010

Jim Schlader in 2009

H. James Schlader,
1914-2010

Producer of the Woodminster Summer Musicals, Broadway Actor, Vice President of Actors' Equity

OBITUARY
PHOTO TRIBUTE

dancers auditioning Jan 9

January auditions for adults.

March auditions for children.

March auditions for adults.

WOODMINSTER AMPHITHEATER

Brigadoon & sunset

Brigadoon in the foreground, Oakland and a sunset below. Sept. 3, 2009, photo by Kathy Kahn

(Click image to retrieve high res version, for even higher res email publicist.)

Sunset from the top of Woodminster Amphitheater

Classic Joaquin Miller Park Sunset, photos taken before a performance of Brigadoon, Sept. 11, 2009, photos by Kathy Kahn

West Side Story dancers onstage, backs of the audience in the foreground

Performance of West Side Story in July 2007, showing audience in amphitheater, photos by Bob Morris.

PHOTOS FROM THE 2009 SEASON:

Brigadoon Dress Rehearsal photos by Stephen Woo, taken September 3.

Act 1, Part A

Act 1, Part B

Act 2

Brigadoon photo button

Brigadoon Dress Rehearsal photos, taken September 3.

Brigadoon publicity photos, taken August 26.

Brigadoon publicity photos, taken August 12 & August 21.

Brigadoon rehearsal photos, pre-rehearsal ballet lesson, taken August 21.

Lina Lamont

Performance condition dress rehearsal photos of Singin' In The Rain, taken August 6.

Photos by Stephen Woo

Photos by Kathy Kahn

go to publicity photos for Singin' In the Rain Publicity photos for Singin' In The Rain, taken July 30 & 31
go to rehearsal photos Midpoint rehearsal photos for Singin' In The Rain, taken July 29
dancer feet in tap shoes

Early rehearsal photos for Singin' In The Rain, taken July 15 and 21. (Mostly dance.)

Tiger Lily

Dress rehearsal photos for Peter Pan, taken July 9.
(
Costumed performance-condition publicity photos.)

Another set of dress rehearsal photos, taken by Stephen Woo. Stephen's Top Ten.

Darling children dance

Publicity photos for Peter Pan, taken July 2
Captain Hook, Pirates, Tiger Lily, Tech crew, flying in costume.

Publicity photos for Peter Pan, taken June 23Peter Pan and the Darling family.


See a gallery of ARCHIVE photos appropriate for editorial use.


Most of the photos on our website are available in high resolution format by emailing our publicist. Some useful links:
Directory of Photo Galleries
All 43 seasons of shows listed, some with links to photos.
• Background information on Producers Associates, which has produced theater in Oakland for 40 years.
• Photos and information about beautiful Joaquin Miller Park, home to the Woodminster Summer Musicals.

Editorial & Website
Press Tickets
Kathy Kahn, Publicist
woodminsterpr@yahoo.com
510-418-8523

For information about
Producers Associates, Inc.

Woodminster 2009 Staff
Director - Joel Schlader

Producer - James Schlader
Manager - Harriet Schlader
Stage Manager - Lori Gourdine

Costume Designer - Alison Morris
Properties Designer - Christina Weiland

Publicist/Graphic design/website - Kathy Kahn

Information about Kids Come Free
program and sponsors here

Questions regarding tickets
Harriet Schlader
harriet@woodminster.com
510-531-9597

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Plays performed at Woodminster Amphitheater
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