2 Tickets to The Music Man at Mountain Play
Item Number: 316
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $80
Online Close: May 9, 2012 9:00 PM PDT
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Description
SUNDAY, MAY 20th at 2:00pm ONLY
This item closes MAY 12th at midnight.
The Mountain Play is a unique community event, a San Francisco Bay Area cultural tradition for nearly a century. One of the oldest non-profit theatre companies in the area, the Mountain Play staged its first theatrical performances in the natural amphitheatre on top of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County in 1913.
The first Mountain Play produced was Abraham and Isaac. Members of the audience hiked the eight miles from Mill Valley or steamed up the mountain on the Tamalpais Railroad, the "Crookedest Railroad in the World." The Mountain Play Association (MPA) was formed the following year. Congressman William Kent, who owned the land on the mountain where the amphitheatre stood, was one of its vice presidents.
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MOUNTAIN PLAY SUCCESS
Since 1977, when Marilyn Smith took over as Executive Director, the Mountain Play has enjoyed an unparalleled level of success presenting Broadway musicals on the mountain. By presenting quality family entertainment and providing free bus transportation up and down the mountain, the Mountain Play was able to expand its audiences to include patrons of all ages and physical abilities while protecting the natural environment from heavy car traffic.
Weather permitting, the Mountain Play draws crowds of close to 4,000 patrons per show every year. With the goal of creating a vehicle to serve the many patrons who were being turned away each season, and because performances on the mountain are limited by the Park Service to six dates annually, we spent several years exploring the feasibility of expanding to include a second venue.
The product of these efforts was realized in our first Mountain Play in the Vineyard season during July of 1997, when our Board of Directors committed to a two-year pilot project in Sonoma County. The Mountain Play presented 3 sold-out performances of South Pacific in Jack London State Park and in 1998, our Sonoma season was expanded to six performances. Though highly successful in its own right, the performances in Sonoma did not further the Association's goal of enhancing financial stability and thus, the Mountain Play Board decided to concentrate its efforts at home, protecting the trust to which the mission commits them.