![]() ![]() "He's (Zayas) 100 percent right that you need a more rounded audience. to downtown Bridgeport, more reasons to come and stay downtown," she said. "The key is having as many days that there's something happening as possible."Īnd Lauren Coakley Vincent, who runs the Downtown Special Services District that markets the neighborhood, believes not just the theater but neighboring establishments will benefit. "So many businesses wish there were more ways to use their space, right?" Kuchma said. Kuchma is pleased with the new direction at the Bijou. So he's (Peterson) been staying on board with me temporarily just to help me understand this whole process of how everything works, from booking a concert to booking a play or show.” "Jumping in over here, there’s so many moving parts. The next one comes in a half hour later, then we do another. You book a party room two hours, they leave. If you just said, 'The Bijou is now doing kid's birthday parties' nobody would come."Īnd he admitted he also has had plenty to learn about running a theater and has been getting help from his immediate predecessor running the Bijou, Gary Peterson. "We are saying, 'Star Factory at the Bijou,'" he said. But there will be a re-branding of the latter. Zayas emphasized he is not relocating the Star Factory out of Stratford and will run that site along with the Bijou. ![]() and seeing on our sign we're doing children's birthday parties and once in the venue they see how beautiful it is, it's like, 'Our son would love this.'" How fun is that going to be for a bunch of moms to go to something like that? And vice-versa. "That's an automatic ticket sale for them. "So a mom coming to a birthday party sees that a 'boy band' tribute (band) is coming," Zayas said. So between my birthday parties, my theater program, financially that will just put the theater over the top."Īnd Zayas also believes the expanded offerings will help create new fans of the Bijou's regular programming. "That was a deciding factor - what I could bring there to enhance what's already there. "If you do just the concerts and the movies and things like that, it's very difficult to maintain a theater of that size," Zayas said. Cox will dance the role of Cleopatra and Jeanene Winston will take on the role of Arsinoe.Besides the parties, Zayas intends to offer a children's acting/performance program at the Bijou as well. The two-act show, written and directed by McKee, features 75 dancers made up of professionals, pre-professionals and a youth cast. ![]() Truth or legend? We don’t know, but this a fascinating story and makes a very intriguing and educational narrative ballet!” I did not want GO! to do the expected and tell her traditional story, so I dug around and discovered the other dangerous Ptolemaic Dynasty girl, Arsinoe. “There is much information about her, but there is also much mystery. “The story of Cleopatra is captivating,” states Lisa Hall McKee, director. The story will focus on Cleopatra’s politically-charged relationships with her half-sister Arsinoe IV and younger brother Ptolemy XIII. The performance will be a documentary-style show about Egyptian culture and the pharaoh. (WVLT) - GO! Contemporary Dance Works, a Knoxville-based non-profit youth dance company, is set to bring Cleopatra to the Bijou Theatre.
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