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Where: Bellevue Little Theatre, 203 W. Mission Ave.
When: Friday through March 28.
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays
Tickets: $15 adults, $13 senior citizens, $7.50 students. Audience members are encouraged to wear their bell-bottoms or other 1970s fashions.
Information: 291-1554
Signs, signs, everywhere a sign.
That hit by the Five-Man Electrical Band was a sign of the times in 1970.
When the Bellevue Little Theatre decided to do “Get Back,” a musical revue of the 1970s, putting up a sign seemed like a natural.
An electronic message board hanging above the proscenium arch will flash photos of music icons from the period, such as the Jackson Five, the Beatles, the Osmonds and Elton John. It will set the mood with pictures of clothing styles, nightclubs and more. It will announce a television game show: “The Dating Game.” It may even play some video.
“It will really help celebrate all things 1970s and give an added bonus to the audience,” said Adam Hogston, a self-employed Web designer and computer repairman who will program the message board.
Hogston said lighting effects, musical arrangements by Ric Swanson, choreography by director Bridget Robbins and the cast's own groovy costumes will also take people back to the '70s.
“We're going all out with things to bring that time to life,” Hogston said. That includes casting a real-life radio disc jockey, Joe Blood of CD 105, to help spin the show's tunes.
Pat Schuster of American Lift and Sign, 6958 N. 97th Circle, is loaning the theater the 3½- by 4½-foot sign at the request of Bette Swanson, the show's producer and a driving force at the theater.
Schuster's company has installed much larger video boards for customers such as major universities, the Qwest Center, the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs.
“I've lived in the area for 27 years,” Schuster said by phone last week from Lawrence, Kan., where he was installing a video board at the Kansas University football stadium. “Doing this is just good for our community.”
Contact the writer:
444-1269, bob.fischbach@owh.com
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