Final performance tonight!

I hear that its going to be cold and snowy tonight - so what better way to spend the evening...than in Tuna, Texas?!

Come on down to Tuna and we'll all survive the blizzard together! Hope to see you there!

Clay

Just a quick bump. Thanks to our amazing audience last night! I don't know who had more fun - you or us!

Tonight and tomorrow night are our last performances! Hope to see you there!

Clay

Hello Everyone!

Just a reminder - this is the final week of performances for A Tuna Christmas.
Performances run Wednesday through Saturday, 8pm.
Tickets are $20.00.

Here is what we are hearing from our audiences:

- Thank you so much! My god, I needed to laugh this year and you guys had me howling!

- My face is sore from laughing. You people should put a warning on this show - May cause facial strain due to laughing.

- We loved it! This is our 3rd year seeing it and it's just not Christmas without seeing you all in this show. We had a great time.

So come on out and enjoy the fun. (And the hot cider and brownies are bad either!)

And ? be sure to take advantage of our dinner and a show program with The Embankment Restaurant. On the night you are going to see the show ? head on over to The Embankment to take advantage of their $30.00 prix fixe menu for our audiences.

For full information on this ? go to www.jcity.org
Show runs this Wednesday through Saturday December 19th.
Curtain time: 8:00pm.
Tickets: $20.00
Be sure to reserve your tickets at www.jcity.org
The Underground Theater is located at:
252 9th Street at St. Michael?s Church
Jersey City, NJ 07302

Go See It!!!--super fun night out in Jersey City!!
Congrats to the cast and crew!

Thanks to everyone who made our first week such a success!
We had a great time - and from all the laughter we heard - it sounds like you did too!

We will open back up for our final week of performances - this Wednesday the 16th at 8pm. Hope to see you there!

Clay

Anybody know if the Embankment restaurant will be having their pre-theater menu special - it was FANTASTIC for the last play!

Just a reminder: opening night is tomorrow night - Wednesday. Hope to see you there!

And:

Once again, J CITY Theater and The Embankment Restaurant are teaming up to offer a dinner and show package.

Starting on opening night - this Wednesday, December 9th The Embankment Restaurant is offering their $30 prix fixe meal to those seeing our show later that night.

Here's how it works:
Go to www.jcity.org and buy your tickets to our upcoming show: A Tuna Christmas. Print out your receipt and on the night of the performance, take it over to The Embankment!

We recommend that you get to the restaurant around 6:30 to have plenty of time to enjoy their amazing 3 course meal and still have plenty of time to walk over to the theater for the 8pm show.

A Tuna Christmas runs Wednesdays thru Saturdays
December 9th thru 19th.
8pm.
Tix $20.00

Location: The Underground Theater at St. Michaels.
252 9th Street.
Hope to see you there!

Clay Cockrell
Executive Producer
J CITY Theater
www.jcity.org
clay@jcity.org

Happy Holidays JCList!

It's that time of year again - and Tuna is back. Continuing a Jersey City tradition - J CITY Theater presents "A Tuna Christmas" at the Underground Theater.

Come out and enjoy a holiday laugh with 22 of the wildest and craziest characters of Tuna, Texas - all played by just 2 actors!

This year the wigs are bigger, the accents are twangy-er and that Christmas Phantom is still on the loose. Come on out, grab a cup of our hot cider - and enjoy the madness of this great show.

Opens December 9th, 8pm. Runs through December 19th.
Audiences are encouraged to reserve their tickets online due to limited seating and a history of sold out shows. Hope to see you there!

Full Press release below:

Contact: Clay Cockrell, JCity Theater, 917-685-8461 / clay@jcity.org / www.jcity.org

J CITY Theater presents
A Tuna Christmas
December 9 through December 19
Wednesdays thru Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Tix: $20.00
Tickets can be purchased through www.brownpapertickets.com or calling 800-838-3006
At
The Underground Theater at St. Michaels Church ? Hamilton Park
252 Ninth Street, Jersey City, NJ 07303

On December 9th, 2009 J CITY Theater will open ?A Tuna Christmas? by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard at The Underground Theater at St. Michaels? Church at Hamilton Park in downtown Jersey City. Performances run Wednesday thru Saturday at 8pm. Audiences are encouraged to reserve tickets due to limited seating and a limited run. The show is scheduled to close on December 19th.

"A Tuna Christmas" is a marathon Christmas comedy of southern madness. The Christmas yard display contest is heating up in the small town of Tuna, Texas as neighbor fights neighbor for the most outrageous display of lights, Santas, Baby Jesus' and Rudolphs. This year however, there is a Christmas Phantom on the loose, spreading vandalism and havoc. With quick-change zaniness and quicksilver one-liners, two incredibly talented actors introduce us to 22 of the wildest citizens in Tuna.

J CITY Theater first produced "A Tuna Christmas" in 2006 and it has now become a Jersey City holiday tradition. "This show is really our gift back to Jersey City", says Executive Producer Clay Cockrell. "We have a great time doing it and our audiences love coming each year. They've become so familiar with these wild characters that they are sometimes saying the lines before we do. All year long people ask us: ' Is Tuna coming back this Christmas?' People are planning their holiday travel around performances! Maybe we should say it is a holiday addiction."


Sandy Cockrell, Artistic Director, said that the show is always a great change of pace for the company. "We pride ourselves on our motto: theater in the raw. As a production team our focus has always been on the actor and the purity of each particular story with minimal sets and costumes. However with Tuna Christmas we really have to pull out all the technical stops. The comedy is found in the quick changes and the bizarre costumes and wigs...the fact that two actors are portraying 22 characters. This show is a wild and breathless ride."

Fresh off this Fall's successful production of "Passion", J CITY Theater is taking full advantage of finally having a permanent home in Downtown Jersey City. Kellis Carroll, a founding member, says the company remains incredibly grateful to Father Vic Kennedy and everyone at St. Michaels for allowing them to create this dynamic arts space. ?We are also grateful to our Hamilton Park neighbors and friends? says Mr. Carroll, ?who have expressed their support for what we bring to the neighborhood.?

J CITY Theater (www.jcity.org) is a not-for-profit professional theater company based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is a founding company of the Hudson County Theatre Alliance (www.hudsonall.org) and has been producing locally since 2006. Recent productions include Archibald MacLeish?s J.B., Douglas Carter Beane?s As Bees In Honey Drown, and last spring?s smash hit: The God Committee. They are also known for their engaging one act plays (Compression of a Casualty and The Spot) during HCTA?s annual One Acts Festival. J CITY Theater?s mission is to create quality, high energy theater that is told with sophisticated simplicity.

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