Little Shop of Horrors
March 14-24, 2013
Annie Get Your Gun
July 12-21, 2013
A Chorus Line
August 9-18, 2013
Legally Blonde
September 6-15, 2013

Updated April 23, 2013

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 47th consecutive season in Summer, 2013. Email publicist.

LATEST NEWS RELEASE - Little Shop of Horrors March 14-24, Valley Center for Performing Arts

Little Shop of Horrors publicity photos

Backgrounder - Woodminster Summer Musicals and the Community

ARCHIVE of press releases and coverage for past years

DIRECTORY of photo galleries.

Woodminster Amphitheater during a show

Left, Woodminster Amphitheater during a performance of CATS in September, 2012.

Woodminster Summer Musicals expands into the spring in 2013, by adding a March show indoors at Regents' Theatre at Holy Names University, just one freeway exit away from the group's summer home in Joaquin Miller Park.

Little Shop of Horrors is an affectionate spoof of 1950's sci-fi thrillers. Lovable but nerdy Seymour discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon it grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore with a growing appetite. Charming, tuneful, and hilarious. Good family show, especially for older children and teens. Performed by professional actors and musicians, in cooperation with Holy Names' Drama Department.
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PRESS RELEASES:

March 1, 2013
Little Shop of Horrors is Spring Addition to Woodminster Summer Musicals
March 14-24 Performances at Regents' Theatre on Holy Names University Campus
March 1, 2013, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. announces that Little Shop of Horrors ...
more

February 24, 2013
2013 Season: Little Shop of Horrors, Annie Get Your Gun, A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde: The Musical
February 24, 2013, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. announces that the traditional 3-show Woodminster Summer Musicals season will be expanded in 2013 to include a March production... more

August 18, 2012
Woodminster Summer Musicals Closes 2012 Season w/ CATS Sept 7-16

Global Hit Musical Enhanced with Original Costumes by Oakland Designer
August 18, 2012, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. will close the 46th season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals with the musical phenomenon CATS
more

July 25, 2012
Woodminster Summer Musicals Presents A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum August 10-19
Hilarious Slapstick Farce Will Continue Woodminster's 46th Season in Oakland
July 25, 2012, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. will continue the 46th season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals with an early Stephen Sondheim show, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, playing August 10-19 at Woodminster Amphitheater in Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park.
more

June 25, 2012
Woodminster Summer Musicals Presents Fiddler on the Roof July 13-22
Perennial Broadway Favorite Will Open Woodminster's 46th Season in Oakland
June 25, 2012, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. will open the 46th season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals with the ever-popular Fiddler on the Roof, playing July 13-22 at Woodminster Amphitheater in Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park.
more

March 7, 2012
Woodminster Announces Kids Come Free Fundraising Campaign
Special May Performance of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown To Launch Season-Long Fundraising Push
Corporate Support Dwindling, Organization Calling on Community to Keep Program Alive
more

January 9, 2012
Woodminster Musicals 2012 Shows Announced
46th Season includes Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and CATS
Organization Makes Live Theater Affordable for Local Families
• Open Auditions March 31-April 1
• Season Ticket Renewals Available Now; General Admission tickets go on sale March 15
• Kids Come Free, $12 Previews, and half-price tickets for groups makes live theater more affordable more

August 11, 2011
Woodminster's 45th Season Concludes With Finian's Rainbow
Whimsy, Romance, Political Satire, All Musical
Organization Makes Live Theater Affordable for Local Families
August 11, 2011, Oakland, CA -- Woodminster Summer Musicals concludes its 45th season with Finian's Rainbow, presented September 2-11 at Woodminster Amphitheater in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park. more

July 15, 2011
Woodminster's 45th Season Continues With My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe Classic Was Top Vote-Getter in Audience Poll
Organization Makes Live Theater Affordable for Local Families
July 15, 2011, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. continues the 45th season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals with the Lerner & Loewe classic, “My Fair Lady,” playing August 5-14 at Woodminster Amphitheater in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park.
more

June 7, 2011
Woodminster's 45th Season Opens With Oliver!
Cast of 42 Presents Musical Version of Classic Dickens Story
Organization Makes Live Theater Affordable for Local Families
June 7, 2011, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. will open the 45th season of the Woodminster Summer Musicals with the classic Broadway musical, Oliver! playing July 8-17 at Woodminster Amphitheater in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park. more

March 1, 2011
Carl Danielsen to Perform One-Man Entertainment in East Bay

Actor's "Lifelong Love Affair With the Music of Jerome Kern" Inspires this Show
March 1, 2011, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. of Oakland and California Conservatory Theatre of San Leandro announce that they are co-producing the world premiere of Can't Help Lovin', featuring the music of Jerome Kern, performed by Carl Danielsen ... more

January 31, 2011
Woodminster Musicals 2011 Shows Announced
45th Season includes Oliver, My Fair Lady, and Finian's Rainbow

January 31, 2011, Oakland, CA -- Producers Associates, Inc. announces Oliver!, My Fair Lady, and Finian's Rainbow are the shows in the 45th Season of the Woodminster... (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.

Seymour and Mr. Mushnik

Little Shop of Horrors
Photo caption:  John Tichenor* as Seymour with Stu Klitsner* as Mr. Mushnik, holding Audrey II (*member of Actors Equity Association. Photo by Kathy Kahn. Click on photo for a higher res version.)

Photo Gallery of publicity photos

Dress rehearsal photos by Stephen Woo

CATS in costume

CATS
Photo caption:  Actors in CATS at Woodminster Summer Musicals are wearing costumes designed by Oakland designer Chris Weiland, and constructed in-house. Top, Todd Schlader*; Center L to R, Megan Jaron, Mario Martinez, Amy Franklin Leonards; Bottom, Jetta Martin.  (*member of Actors Equity Association. Photo by Kathy Kahn. Click on photo for a higher res version.)

CATS Publicity photos
Dress rehearsal photos

Costume construction photos

Video of CATS makeup class


A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Publicity photos by Kathy Kahn, taken July 25

To Fiddler photos

Fiddler on the Roof

Photos by Kathy Kahn, taken June 28-29

Dress rehearsal photos July 11

Charlie & Lucy

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Photos by Kathy Kahn, taken April, 2012, showing cast of May 6 benefit show.

Woodminster Amphitheater during a performance

Woodminster Amphitheater

Photos by Stephen Woo, taken in 2010, showing Woodminster Amphitheater during a performance, from the point of view of the audience.

OTHER 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.

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 45 seasons of shows listed, some with links to photos.
• Background information on Producers Associates, which has produced theater in Oakland for 45 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 2013 Staff
Managing Director - Harriet Schlader
Stage manager - Lori Gourdine

Director - Joel Schlader

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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