Laguna Playhouse
Participate in a sparkling evening of revelry at Tivoli Too! where you will enjoy dinner, dancing, music, live entertainment and an exciting multi-prize opportunity drawings at a costume themed soiree.
Tivoli Too!|
777 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach 92651
Complimentary Valet Parking
Bewitching music by the Blue Breeze Band
Mummy Madness Opportunity Drawings
Frighteningly Fabulous Buffet Dinner
Spooky Spirits & Beverages
Tricks ‘n Treats
Tickets $125 per person
Costumes (simple, outrageous or in-between) are encouraged!
ABCHALLOWEEN, a fabulous online costume shop, will donate 10% of its proceeds from the purchase of a costume or accessory to The Playhouse. Please visit abchalloween.com
Moonlight Masquerade is a signature production of The Laguna Playhouse. It offers a unique approach to celebrating great theatre with your friends, family, clients and colleagues.
Moonlight Masquerade is The Laguna Playhouse’s most important fundraising event. Proceeds of this event help to fill the critical gap between what it costs to bring great theatre to our community and what we can earn through ticket sales. See underwriting details.
We hope you will choose to support The Playhouse through Moonlight Masquerade.
For more information, contact Anne Morris amorris@lagunaplayhouse.com or by telephone at 949-497-2787, ext. 225.
The Laguna Playhouse was founded in 1920, when a group of Laguna Beach citizens met in a living room to establish a local theater. Initially offering readings and performances in private homes and storefronts, its first fully-mounted production on record was Suppressed Desires, a satire on Freudian psychological theories written by Susan Glaspel, a member (with Eugene O’Neill) of the famed Provincetown Playhouse in New York and Massachusetts.
In 1924, The Playhouse, on Ocean Avenue in downtown Laguna Beach, was built. During the Great Depression, the theater was sold to the City of Laguna Beach and leased back by the group, and during World War II, the Playhouse entertained the soldiers in this facility, which also housed USO dances and other activities.
In 1965, Harry (Harrison) Ford appeared in the Laguna Playhouse production of Stephen Vincent Benet’s John Brown’s Body, was “discovered” and became one of America’s most celebrated screen actors.
In 1969, the beautiful Moulton Theater opened on Laguna Canyon Road, was built through private funds on City-owned land, and the old Playhouse was razed. A historic marker is located on the site where the old theater stood. With the rapid growth of Orange County, the Laguna Playhouse grew in audience and stature, producing work of increasing quality with primarily amateur actors.
In 1985, the Playhouse remodeled its Moulton Theater, adding a balcony and office space, as the first phase in what was hoped would lead eventually to the creation of a second theater space. In 1987, the Playhouse won a national amateur theater competition for its production of the musical Quilters, which went on to win second prize in that year’s international competition in Ireland. In 1989, its Youth Theater was recognized as Outstanding Children’s Theater by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
In 1990, Richard Stein assumed the leadership of the Playhouse as executive director, joined in 1991 by Andrew Barnicle as artistic director, and the Playhouse began a period of rapid expansion on an ambitious course to transform the theater to full professional status.
In 1997-98, more than 80,000 theatergoers attended performances at the Laguna Playhouse — nearly double the attendance of its 1989-90 season. Its continued growth, expansion, artistic excellence, audience popularity and critical acclaim have helped make it one of Southern California’s most important nonprofit theater companies.
For tickets/information, call: 949-497-2787
Hours to call: 10 AM - 8 PM, Monday - Sunday
The box office accepts Mastercard, Visa and American Express.
Visit their Web site at: http://www.lagunaplayhouse.com
