SAVE THE DATE!

OJP 10th ANNIVERSARY GALA

Ophelia's Jump is celebrating Ten years of award winning programming and you are invited!

Please join us at the home of OJP Board member, Christine Hayes on June 17 at 6pm for

Hors d'oeuvres, wine, beer &

Dinner catered by Sally Ann Catering

Performances from OJP favorite productions from the past 10 years by

Judd Johnson

Christofer Sands

Candida Celaya

Beatrice Casagran

Jennifer Buchanan

Dani Bustamante

Brittany Hanson

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Live Auction including unique experiences, vacations & artwork.

Opportunity Drawings

Music & Dancing

Please consider becoming a Table and/or Event Sponsor

Tickets go on sale on May 15th

$125 per person

All proceeds will go to directly fund OJP programs and productions and help pay and train emerging artists from underrepresented backgrounds.

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Ed Hume 

“Strumming Stories”

Ed Hume is a singer/songwriter and stringed-instrument maker originally from Amherst County in central Virginia.

“Strumming Stories” is Ed’s first published album, and in keeping with his do-it-yourself roots, he not only wrote the songs and recorded, mixed, and mastered the album, he also built the guitar and other instruments he used on nearly every tune. “I see the album as a love letter to the people and places that have been the greatest influences on me.”

Musicians

• Jon Watson, guitar

• Janette Combs, fiddle & viola

May 13 at 7pm $20 plus 1 drink min.

OJP presents "O' Sole Leo"

With Special Guest, Blind Melon Husk and the Tezlas

May 26 at 7pm

$15 plus 1 drink min.

Special Event Cabaret coming up!

Stage veteran and chanteuse, Robin Steege, recounts her journey to find her voice through the landscape of song. Romantic Cabaret songs, with Broadway music from Robin’s 32 year career in Musical Theater

Pirates of Penzance

directed by Beatrice Casagrán

music directed by Bill Wolfe

This classic melodrama/operetta is presented OJP style with gender fluid casting and high camp. An earnest and naive young Frederick recently released from his indenture to a band of tenderhearted orphan pirates comes across a bevy of beautiful maidens. Having been with the pirates since he was a young boy, Frederic, has never seen any other woman but his nurse Ruth who has convinced him that she is quite beautiful and desirable. Frederick is stunned to find that Ruth has deceived him (she’s old and not so hot after all) and he is immediately smitten with the beautiful, Mabel, who thinks he’s pretty cute too. However, the way to a swift wedding is blocked when Frederick finds out that through a technicality, he is still actually bound to be a pirate.  The dashing and frolicking Pirate King reclaims Frederic through an appeal to Frederic’s over developed sense of duty, and the daughters are in danger of being kidnapped by the pirate band. However, when their father, the Major General, does some fast talking and reveals that he is also an orphan, the Pirates are moved to tears and reject their piratical ways to marry the daughters and resume their place as lords in British society. Everybody celebrates and lives happily ever after.  

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

directed by Elina de Santos



Tyrants are opportunistic. When power is handed to Angelo in the Duke’s absence, he asserts an extreme moral code to exercise control and political advantage over his subjects. Like many self professed arbiters of morality before him, Angelo does not apply his strictures to himself using his power to pursue his own lusts and ambitions. But Angelo has met his match in the truly righteous and persistent Isabella. When the power of the state is twisted to serve false righteousness one woman confronts political corruption and moral hypocrisy to save her brother’s life and bring down the petty tyrant.

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Enrollment is open for the OJP Shakespeare Summer Camp for young performers and theater lovers ages 10-16.

Coming up at the OJP Music Lounge!

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