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The June Calendar edition of newsletter for The Music Hall, Portsmouth, NHTRANSCRIPT
JUNE CalENdar1
Wednesday
Historical Tour: 5:30pm @ The Historic Theater
Extraordinary Cinema: Jane Eyre 7pm @ The Historic Theater • PG13 • 121 min • UK • 2010 The romantic drama based on Charlotte Bronte's classic novel.
2Thursday
SummerFilm: Rango7:30pm @The Historic Theater • PG • 107min • USAJohnny Depp voices a pet chameleon who sets off on an adven-ture to the gritty, gunslinging, desert town of Dirt.
3Friday
Intimately Yours: Jim Brickman 8pm @ The Historic TheaterGrammy nominee and the best-selling solo pianist of all time.
4Saturday
Intimately Yours: Get the Led Out 8pm @ The Historic TheaterRecreates the mythic career of British supergroup Led Zeppelin.
2011-2012 Season Tickets on sale to members!
5Sunday
Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra Presents: Invitation to the Dance3pm @The Historic Theater Join guest conductor David Upham of UNH for a performance featuring Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite.
SummerFilm: Potiche7:30pm @The Music Hall Loft • R • 103min • FRA • Subtitles "Trophy housewife" Catherine Deneuve steps in to manage her tyrannical husband's factory after the workers take him hostage.
6Monday
No Film Tonight
7 Tuesday
SummerFilm: Potiche7:30pm @The Music Hall Loft • R • 103min • FRA
8 Wednesday
SummerFilm: It's About Time! Series Source Code7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • R • 112min • USA A government program enables Captain Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) to inhabit another man's identity.
9Thursday
SummerFilm: The Company Men7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • R • 104min • USA After corporate downsizing, three men are forced to redefine their lives. Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones.
10Friday
Writers on a New England Stage: Ann Patchett7:30pm @ The Historic TheaterBestselling author of Bel Canto and Run takes the stage to discuss her provocative new novel, State of Wonder.
11Saturday
SummerFilm: The Company Men7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • R • 104min • USA
Currents @ the Loft: This Evening Not Yet RatedJuston McKinney with Bob Lord & the Gaudy Baubles7:30pm & 9:30pm @ The Music Hall Loft What would happen if a comedian joined a band?
12 Sunday
SummerFilm: Bill Cunningham New York7:30pm @ The Music Hall Loft • NR • 84min • USA A delicate, funny, poignant portrait of NY Times photographer, an artist whose only wealth is his humanity and unassuming grace.
13Monday
No Film Tonight
14Tuesday
SummerFilm: Bill Cunningham New York7:30pm @ The Music Hall Loft • NR • 84min • USA
15Wednesday
SummerFilm: It's About Time! Series Adjustment Bureau7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • PG13 • 106min • USA Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping them apart.
16 Thursday
SummerFilm: In a Better World7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • R • 119min • DEN • Subtitles The lives of two Danish families cross, and an extraordinary but risky friendship develops.
17Friday
SummerFilm: In a Better World7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • R • 119min • DEN
18Saturday
HD Broadcast: The Importance of Being Earnest 7pm @ The Music Hall Loft Oscar Wilde’s glorious comedic masterpiece about mistaken identity, class, courtship and good old-fashioned name dropping.
19Sunday
SummerFilm: My Perestroika7:30pm @The Music Hall Loft • NR • 88min • RUS • Subtitles The story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain.
20Monday
No Film Tonight
21Tuesday
SummerFilm: My Perestroika7:30pm @The Music Hall Loft • NR • 88min • RUS
22Wednesday
Writers on a New England Stage: Neil Gaiman 7:30pm @ The Historic TheaterBestselling author of journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama with his 10th anniversary edition of American Gods.
23Thursday
Writers on a New England Stage: David McCullough7:30pm @ The Historic TheaterThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes the stage to discuss his new work, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris.
24Friday
SummerFilm: Win Win7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • R • 106 min • USA Disheartened attorney's (Paul Giamatti) life is turned upside down. Amy Ryan and Jeffrey Tambor also star.
25Saturday
Met @ The Music Hall Encore: Madama Butterfly 4pm @ The Music Hall Loft • NR • 83min • USAThe first broadcast in our summer series of Met encores.
SummerFilm: Win Win7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • R • 106 min • USA
2011-2012 Season Tickets on sale to non-members!
26Sunday
SummerFilm: The Princess of Montpensier7:30pm @The Music Hall Loft • NR • 139min • FRA Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier directs a spectacular cast in a lush romantic drama set in the high courts of 16th Century France against the backdrop of the savage Catholic/Protestant wars.
27Monday
No Film Tonight
28Tuesday
SummerFilm: The Princess of Montpensier7:30pm @The Music Hall Loft • NR • 139min • FRA
29Wednesday
SummerFilm: It's About Time! Series Time Bandits7:30pm @The Music Hall Loft • PG • 110min • USA • 1981 Young Kevin is whisked away from his dreary English home by six mischievous dwarves who have "borrowed" a map from the Supreme Being which allows them to travel through history in Terry Gilliam’s classic.
30Thursday
National Theater of London HD Broadcast: The Cherry Orchard 7pm @ The Historic Theater Chekhov’s play is directed by National Theater Associate Director Howard Davies. Zoë Wanamaker will play Madame Ranevskaya.
1July/Friday
SummerFilm: The Conspirator7:30pm @ The Historic Theater • PG13 • 123min • USA Robin Wright and James McAvoy in Robert Redford’s period drama based on true events following the assassination of President Lincoln.
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SummerFilm 2011 Sponsors: HarbourLight Strategic Marketing; PortsmouthNH.com; WSCA 106.1 FM Portsmouth Community Radio; The Wire • 6/3 Intimately Yours: Jim Brickman Series Sponsors: 92.5 The River Evening Sponsors: Bottomline Technologies; Clear Eye Photo; The Lighting Center at Rockingham Electric; The Provident Bank; Secure Planning, Inc. • 6/4 Intimately Yours: Get The Led Out Series Sponsors: 92.5 The River; Clear Eye Photo Evening Sponsors: The Lighting Center at Rockingham Electric; The Portsmouth Brewery • 6/10 Writers on a New England Stage: Ann Patchett Series Partners: New Hampshire Public Radio; RiverRun Bookstore; Yankee Magazine Series Sponsors: Auger Building Company, Inc.; Best Western Wynwood Hotel & Suites; Calypso Communications; New England Audio Tech; Piscataqua Landscaping Company, Inc.; RMC Research Corporation; Haunted Milk Design 6/11 Currents @ The Loft Series Sponsor: WSCA 106.1 FM Portsmouth Community Radio 6/22 Writers on a New England Stage: Neil Gaiman Evening Sponsor: Jetpack Comics, LLC 6/22 Writers on a New England Stage: David McCullough Evening Sponsor: C&J; Bank of America 6/25 Met @ The Music Hall Encore: Madame Butterfly Series Sponsors: NH Public Television; The Senior Times 6/30: National Theater of London Series Sponsor: Seatrade International Co., Inc.
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An exceptional experience.
2011-2012 Season tickets go on sale to non-members June 25 –
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WRITERS ALSO COMING IN JUNE:
ANN PATCHETTwith State of Wonder JUNE 10
DAVID MCCULLOUGHwith The Greater Journey: Americans in ParisJUNE 23
NEIl GaIMaNwith the 10th Anniversary of AMerIcAN GOdS June 22
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Presented by The Music Hall & NH Public Radio
SummerFilm 2011The best from independent and foreign cinema to the latest from Hollywood, featuring “It’s About Time!” as our Wednesday series theme (Time Bandits!). Watch for our SummerFilm brochure coming shortly! It’s our annual Members Only SummerFilm Trailer Party! Come watch SummerFilm trailers then stay for the evening’s film – Rango – on us!
Complimentary snacks and soft drinks, cash bar and chance to win a SummerFilm Golden Ticket. Don’t forget to bring your membership card!5:45pm: Founders Lobby opens to members for check-in6:30pm: Take your seat in the theater for Raffle and Film Trailers7:30pm: Stay for the evening’s film – free of charge!
Tickets On SaleMembers: Noon Saturday June 4 (10am walkup;
noon for phone/online/mail orders)Public: Noon Saturday June 25
2011-2012 Season
Thanks to our Season Sponsor
The Music Hall’s Monthly Calendar June 2011
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6 live concerts including k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris
5 bestselling authors including David McCullough
2 live comedies including Juston McKinney
5 HD broadcasts including Met Encores
7 Historical Tours ...and Dozens of SummerFilms
Summer visitors?Summer @ The Music Hall 2011!
The cool place to be on hot summer nights!