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SEASON TICKET INFORMATION

You can buy 6 "ANYTIME" tickets...Adults $60/Youth $30 (good for any 6 shows.)

You can buy 4 "ANYTIME" tickets....Adults $40/Youth $20

Season Tickets Available.......Call 828.327.3855 to order yours TODAY!

Regular Prices per show: $16 adults, $14 seniors and students, $7 youth (18 & under)

$10 Thursday Show Special (for Seniors, Students & Adults - Youth still $7)

2006-2007 Season

MAINSTAGE

Disney's Aladdin Jr. (December 1-17), Odd Couple (January 19-February 4),

Streets of Hickory (March 16-April 1), Walking Across Egypt (May 18-June 3),

CONTEMPORARY

Orphans (February 16-March 3), Dimly Perceived Threats to the System (April 20-May 5)

YOUTH

More Information to come......check back for updates.

John Rambo, Managing Director

CLICK HERE FOR 2006-2007 SCHEDULE

Call 828.327.3855 to order yours TODAY!

Hickory Community Theatre (Stage)

Hickory Community Theatre is located in the old City Hall building in

downtown Hickory, across the street from the Bank of Granite Plaza.

The Hickory Community Theatre is run by a non-profit Board of Directors

Contact Person: John Rambo, Managing Director

30 3rd Street, NW, Hickory 28601;Tel: 828-327-3855 Fax: 828-328-2284

E-Mail: pam@hct.org Website: www.hct.org

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Office Hours: M-F, 10-5 Extended hours: during performances Special Events: HCT produces 5-6 main stage plays, 3 contemporary plays and 3 plays for young audiences. They have a new monthly movie series, youth theater classes, Youth Theater Productions and the Bridgeview (outreach) project.

HCT is a nationally recognized, award winning live theatre performing musicals, comedies, drama and plays for young people, by and for the community.

The Western Piedmont Symphony

The Symphony office is in the Arts Center of Catawba County at 243 Third Avenue NE, Suite 1-N,

Hickory, 28601

Tel: 828-324-8603 Fax: 828-324-1301 E-Mail: info@wpsymphony.org.

Website: www.wpsymphony.org for more information.

Conductor: Maestro John Gordon Ross, the Western Piedmont Symphony begins its fortieth season in Hickory, North Carolina.

The Western Piedmont Symphony, the Unifour's professional symphony, performs five Masterworks concerts each serason and is home of the Degas Quartet, our quartet in residence. A variety of musical outrach programs such as the Western Piedmont Youth Symphony, Rug Concerts for Preschoolers, the Chamber Classics Series and at least 30 in-school concert take place during the year.

HISTORY

The Hickory Community Theatre is the third oldest community theatre in North Carolina, having been first visualized in 1947. During the next sixteen months, progress was made irregularly until February 19, 1949, when a meeting was held to formally organize a theatrical group. The meeting was led by Katherine "Kay" Johnson, then assistant director of recreation for the City of Hickory, who served as the driving force behind the organization of the Theatre. The institution was named The Hickory Little Theatre the next month, and the first live performance was set for May 24, 1949, in the Hickory City Auditorium. The Theatre has always been located in the old City Hall, and the staff members and volunteers reverently refer to the "jail" (now the scenic shop) and the "firemen's kitchen", both of which are still nicknamed after their original functions. A massive renovation effort during the three year-period from 1984-1987 updated the theatre's auditorium, stage, lobby, dressing rooms and technical facilities. HCT is now celebrating 55 years!

Our Mission: Western Piedmont Symphony's mission is to provide musical performances of distinction that enrich and enliven the community's classical music experience, and to nourish new audiences through school concerts and family outreach programs.

HISTORY: Paul Whitener, a football player at Duke University in 1935 met Mildred McKinney (Mickey Coe) who was from Little Switzerland, NC, in 1935. Whitener's artistic talent advanced so rapidly that aspiring young artist, Mickey, soon traded in her own paintbox to encourage her new fledgling husband's career. He studied at the Ringling Museum of Art and also studied with Wilford S.Conrow, Frank Stanley Herring and Donald Blake along with pursuing studies at the Grand Central Art Gallery's school in New York City. Whitener's own personal journal from September of 1943 reports a group of consciencious citizens gathering to discuss organizing an art association in Hickory, with an ultimate aim of establishing a Museum of Art. The first executive committee met in December of 1943 and within 8 weeks a full board was elected. It was at this first meeting that the unanaimous decision was made that once a museum was established, Paul Whitener would be its director. After Whitener's death, his wife became executive director from 1960-1980. The current executive director is Lise Swensen.

CAST

(Creative Arts Shoestring Theatre) (Stage)

CAST, a newly founded youth and family theatre, ‘opened its doors’ in September 2005!

Director: Cathy Stallings Contact Person: Tammie Ward, General Manager for information on classes, auditions or productions

Address: 332 1st Ave, SW, Hickory 28602 (behind Market on Main)

Tel: 828-781-0220 E-Mail: castpm@yahoo.com Website: www.shoestringtheatre.org

Click here to a list of CAST 2006-2007 productions.