Seating for all the plays is reserved and can be purchased online or at the box office on show nights. Please call 706-253-2800 if you have any difficulty getting tickets. We want to make your theater experience, from buying tickets until the last applause, as enjoyable as possible. Purchase tickets for each performance online by clicking the “Buy Tickets” button on any page of the website.  You will be connected our ticket vendor’s website  to  choose your show and seat, then purchase and print your tickets.    The new ticket system allows you to reserve your seats right away and be guaranteed a good seat.  You can print your tickets out and walk right in on the night of your choice.  The advantage is in knowing that the seat you chose is waiting for you when you arrive at the theater.

BUY and USE SEASON TICKETS

Season tickets cannot be bought online.  Our ticketing service, which is really helpful to us and you in a number of ways, is only designed for sales for individual shows.  However, we try to make it as easy for you as possible to become a season ticket holder.  You can call the theater at (706)253-2800 and talk to someone or leave a message and we will call you back.  You can send us an email for more details at taterpatchplayers@gmail.com. For either of these options, we’ll let you go ahead an reserve your seat(s) for the show and leave your tickets at the box office.  When you come in you can pick up your season ticket and pay by cash, check or credit card.  Or, you can buy your season ticket when you come to the show, without reserving a seat in advance.  When you are ready to reserve your seat for a show, call or email with your seating preferences for performance date and which seats you want and your seats will be reserved for you.  If no one is there, leave a message and we will contact you.

Season Tickets for the last 3 productions of the season are $38, which is a 15% discount off the regular adult prices and will allow the ticket holder to make reservations for each show. Once you are a season ticket holder, you can call or email before the upcoming season show and tell us the date and seat(s) you want and they will be reserved for you. One of our season ticket holders has already picked and held his seats for the whole season! When you come to the theater, just check in with the box office for your seating stubs.  What could be easier?

The three shows that you get with your season ticket this year are going to be terrific:  The Foreigner, Gypsy, and The Miracle Worker.  We think it’s our best season ever.  You can go to the calendar page to see the show dates and and other activities.  And if you ever have any question, you can call or email.  Someone will always get back to you as promptly as possible.

Season Tickets for the last 3 productions of the season are $38, which is a 15% discount off the regular adult prices and will allow the ticket holder to make reservations for each show. Once you are a season ticket holder, you can call or email before the upcoming season show and tell us the date and seat(s) you want and they will be reserved for you. One of our season ticket holders has already picked and held his seats for the whole season! When you come to the theater, just check in with the box office for your seating stubs.  What could be easier?

The three shows that you get with your season ticket this year are going to be terrific:  The Foreigner, Gypsy, and The Miracle Worker.  We think it’s our best season ever.  You can go to the calendar page to see the show dates and and other activities.  And if you ever have any question, you can call or email.  Someone will always get back to you as promptly as possible.

Catherine:   Female lead role.  Age:  20-28.  Friendly, energetic, emotional at times, and very concerned about her future marriage to David.
David:  Leading man type.  Age: 28-35.  He plays most of his responses in a straight style.  A Preacher who appears honest, friendly, and open, but holds a dark secret.
Froggy:  Career British military:  Age: 35-45. A man with responsibility.  Brave, polite, and must react with surprise at the twists and turns of the plot he helps to create.
Owen:  Great character part.  Brooding, scheming, uneducated, dirty, unsophisticated,  mean,  but a true coward at heart.  Owen can be aged from 25-55.
Betty:  Older woman aged 50-70 who owns the fish camp.  She is worried about the future of her business.  She is loud and brass and makes herself known whenever she enters a room.  She is quite brave and game for an adventure.
Ellard:  Younger brother of Catherine.  Age: 16-20.  He is just a little odd and out of touch.  Some might think him stupid or dimwitted, but he is just awkward. The actor playing this role must have a great sense of comic timing.
Charlie:  Lead male role:  Age: 28-40.  Charlie is quite shy around others but opens up by the end of the play.  He is the Foreigner who pretends not to know English.  He must be able to portray great facial expressions and have a great sense of comic timing.

And the tentative rehearsal schedule for the show can be accessed by clicking here.

This year’s camp is going to be held over Spring Break — April 16 though 20.  The final performance of camp will be at the Jasper ArtFest on April 21 on Main Street.  The deadline to register is April 6 and you may register by filling out the form in the Downloadable Forms section.  Click here to get the form.  Cost for the camp is $75 per child and the ages are 3rd through 9th grade.  Camp hours will be from 9AM till noon every day, at the Tater Patch Players Theater at 95 Philadelphia Lane.   The theme this year is the circus, and the kids will learn valuable tips about performing and entertaining the public, while having a great time.

Theater teaches children important values they can use in school and life. Public speaking can be a huge problem for someone too shy or who lacks confidence. Being part of the theater can help a child to move past shyness develop self-confidence. Theater brings out a child’s creativity in a way that no sport can. This newly discovered creativity can help improve a child’s academic skills by teaching her to open up her mind. Being part of a theater program is a great way to teach a child about commitment. When a child is involved in the production of a play, he’ll realize that there are many others who are depending on him.  Theater requires a lot of dedication. A child must learn  lines and memorize stage blocking. Dedication is an important skill that is always used in the real world. Children learn this the moment they participate in a play production.

The $75 cost is for 15 hours of camp plus the show at ArtFest.  If, for any reason, you need a partial scholarship, please send an email to Camp Director Crystal Merrill at TaterPatchParty@gmail.com.  We want all the kids in Pickens County to have the opportunity to participate in live theater.  This summer’s main stage production of Gypsy involves a number of children in the first act of the show, and we’d like them to consider auditioning for that on April 22 or 23, also.  Please contact the Players at the contact number or email on the front page of the website for more information on Gypsy.

*Download the 7th ANNUAL TATER PATCH THEATER CAMP FLYER here* 

On Friday, February 25, the Tater Patch Players, after more than 30 years of bringing plays to Pickens  County, purchased a building to turn into their own theater,  at 95 Old Philadelphia Lane. Click on the “Contact” tab above and  you will see a map to our new home. Thank you so much for all your support and love through the “gypsy” years.   From now on, you will know where to find us. Special thanks go to Don Martin and Ben Torrey of Torrey Mountain Properties. Countless hours of searching on their part led us at last to the right place.  Community Bank of Pickens County has been a good partner to us for several years, and our relationship will continue into the future.  The many advertisers and sponsors that support us are always in our thoughts. The hundreds of volunteer actors, stage hands, scene painters and costumers, and the often overlooked folks who hauled scenery, props and lights from place to place over many years are the backbone of Tater Patch. And a special round of applause goes to you, our audience. We are proud to be able to invite you to our home for your future entertainment.  If you want to help with work, ideas, sponsorship or funds, please contact us.  For an album of pictures of the new building, courtesy of knowpickens.com, go to http://www.knowpickens.com/photos/taterpatchtheater.asp

We now have a beautiful lobby and entrance, a functional auditorium, good storage, a commercial kitchen, and a beer & wine license. We have done several very good shows, as well as some ancillary activities.   It’s been quite a year!

 The good news is that we are on the verge of a great season. The Dixie Swim Club has come together beautifully. It’s going to be a funny, slick, and professional show that will have the audience laughing uproariously and almost in tears at the end.

The bad news is that we are in financial straits. The audience attendance has been dismal. We’ve found out that the saying, “If you build it, they will come” apparently only works for baseball.   We’ve burned up most of our reserves getting to where we are. The ancillary revenue streams — concessions, drinks, movies, musical performers, the haunted house — are not materializing as rapidly as we had hoped. We are at the point of delaying some payments which should really be paid on time.

While we have confidence that our revenue streams will increase as we continue, right now we need to do something. My plan is this: If everyone who has an interest in keeping our doors open would buy four season tickets, we could generate enough money to get to the box office returns we anticipate. I realize many of you have already bought season tickets, or attend shows for free by helping with the concessions and ushering.   But these tickets would not be for YOU.  You would use these tickets to bring your friends to our theater. Yes, get on the phone and ask friends what night they want to come, then call the theater and make the reservation. If you can’t afford four, then buy two. Or, call those friends and get a date commitment and then make reservations for them online for this show.

 We need everyone who cares to take personal responsibility for getting four new patrons into the seats for The Dixie Swim Club. As director, I guarantee that they will enjoy this show enough to bring in more of their friends. Please consider helping now, so that this will be the last letter of this sort I have to write.

Sincerely,

Robert Countryman
President of Tater Patch Players

 If it’s entertaining, it’s Tater Patch!

Dixie Swim Club:  2/10,11,12,17,18,19,24,25
The Foreigner:  5/4,5,6,11,12,13,18,19,20
Gypsy:  7/13,14,15,20,21,22,27,28
The Miracle Worker: 11/30, 12/1,2,7,8,9

Please note new show dates below!  Sunday shows at 2PM, all others at 7:30 PM:

The first play of our 2012 Season is The Dixie Swim Club.  This hilarious comedy features five women who swam together on their college team.  Every year, they get together at the same beach house for a weekend to reminisce, unwind, and catch up.  During the course of the show, they age from 44 to 77, but their friendship and laughter never age.  Sheree is the All-American soccer mom, organized and practical and she will be played by Kimberly Martin. Lexie is a flamboyant, multi-married event planner and decorator and will be brought to life by Lynn Mulkey.  Dinah, portrayed by Janet Vardaman,  is a wise-cracking high powered lawyer.  Jeri Neal  is a one-time nun with an always positive outlook and some new things in her life.  Jackie Bauer will play her.  And brought to life by Ellen Painter,  Vernadette,  in spite of bad luck with husband, job and kids, always tries to find the silver lining.  Their pull-no-punches humor with each other is balanced by the same team spirit they had as a swim team in college.

Director Robert Countryman has scheduled the first rehearsal for December 12, wanting to get right to work on bringing you this great play.  Performance dates are February 10-12 and 17-19 and 27-28 . The show will be produced by Kenneth Farmer and Alex Nawrocki, costumed by Patti Caruso-Hunt, and stage managed by Nan Nawrocki.  They’ve already met and want you to know that any pre-show and behind the scenes help you’d like to give would be welcome.  Contact them through the Tater website at taterpatchplayers@gmail.com.