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The 2010 Season



Presents the 2010 Orpheum Film Series




AND


Present

GONE WITH THE WIND
Wednesday, February 17 - 7:00pm

Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs

Enter our costume contest as we celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the 1940 Kansas Premier of "Gone with the Wind." Categories are Best Scarlett, Best Rhett and Biggest Hoop Skirt. Winners will receive great prizes!

Director: Victor Fleming

Year: 1940

Starring: Clark Gable, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel

Run Time: 238 min

Rating: G

An American Classic!

The epic tale of a woman's life during one of the most tumultuous periods in America's history. From her young, innocent days on a feudalistic plantation to the war-torn streets of Atlanta; from her first love whom she has always desired to three husbands; from the utmost luxury to absolute starvation and poverty; from her innocence to her understanding and comprehension of life.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

PRETTY IN PINK

Thursday, February 18 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: Howard Deutch

Year: 1986

Starring: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader and Andrew McCarthy

Run Time: 96 min

Rating: PG-13

He's good. She's good. He's just Duckie.

Young Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy from school, Blane. He's one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet?

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The Sunrise Christian Academy Presents

THE KING AND I

Thursday, March 4 - 7:00pm
Friday, March 5 - Noon and 7:00pm

Advance Tickets $7 Adult, $5 Students/Kids
Day of Show Tickets $8 Adult, $6 Students/Kids

Tickets available at Sunrise Christian Academy 316-744-9262

One of our favorite annual events at the Orpheum is the superb spring musical production from Sunrise Christian Academy, and this year’s show looks to be no exception. This classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical features such classic songs as “Getting to Know You,” “Hello, Young Lovers,” and “I Whistle a Happy Tune.”

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Amira Dance Productions Presents

THE 35TH ANNUAL

DANCE MAGIC 2010

Saturday, March 6 - 7:00pm


General Admission seats are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and $5 for children 10 and under.

Tickets available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.





Amira has been “wowing” audiences for years in their annual stage presentation of dance from around the world, and this year marks their 35th annual show. Amira is a local dance school that teaches dance form from the middle-east, Hawaii, and the south-seas. Attendance for this show grows not only in numbers but enthusiasm every year.

FEEL THE MAGIC!

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Highland Acting Company Presents

GODSPELL

Friday, March 12 - 7:00pm and
Saturday, March 13 - 7:00pm

Advance Tickets $12, Day of Show $15

Tickets available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.




One of the longest running off-Broadway musicals comes to Wichita’s Historic Orpheum Theatre. The Highland Acting Company, based out of Ashville, NC, presents a fresh, relevant and modern portrayal of GODSPELL – including a new, totally original act – RESURRECTIO.

GODSPELL opened on Broadway in 1971 and has been a wild hit for millions ever since. The Highland Acting Company brings a fresh, poignant portrayal of the popular musical with modern art forms, talented actors and live music – while embracing the nuance of the original’s comedy and heart. Memorable songs "Day by Day" and "Prepare Ye" will be performed by a live band, along with several new, original pieces.

This acting company will deliver powerful vocals, live music and innovative theatre – all with humorous edge. Sure to move and inspire, this is a great new version of a Broadway classic by the same person, Stephen Schwartz, who composed WICKED, that played to thousands in Wichita recently. This is GODSPELL like you’ve never seen before.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Thursday, March 18 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: Milos Forman

Year: 1975

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco and Scatman Crothers

Run Time: 133 min

Rating: R

If he's crazy, what does that make you?

McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, "fifteen going on thirty-five").

Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.

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Miss Kansas International Presents

THE MISS KANSAS SCHOLARSHIP PAGENT

Saturday, March 27 - 7:00pm

Tickets $25

Tickets available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.

Join Lil Miss, Jr. Teens, Teens, and young ladies as they compete for scholarships based on their platform, participation in civic organizations, church groups and charities of their choice, helping set a positive example in their community. The Miss Kansas International and Miss Teen Kansas International State winners will go on to compete at Nationals in Chicago later this year.

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Communities in Schools of Wichita/Sedgwick County, Inc. Presents

ART OF IMAGINATION
Featuring
Garry Carson and Kelsey Kara

Tuesday, March 30 - 7:00pm

General Admission Tickets $10

Tickets available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.





This exciting show features comedy magic, grand illusions, audience participation and much much more.....

100% of All Ticket Sales Support Communities In Schools of Wichita - Sedgwick County.

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The Orpheum Theatre Presents



Saturday, April 3 - 8:00pm

Reserved Tickets $35 (Rows A-J), $26 (Rows K-W & Mezzanine), $20 (Balcony)

Tickets available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.



The Winter Dance Party is the official live and authentic re-creation of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper's final tour and the only show endorsed by both the Holly and Valens estate. Each live concert performance includes over two hours of unbridled, high voltage entertainment featuring all the hit songs of the 50's era: That'll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Oh, Boy, Rave on, La Bamba, Chantilly Lace, and many, many more.



John Mueller, the critically acclaimed former star of the London/Broadway hit musical "Buddy...the Buddy Holly Story," performs as Buddy Holly and Jay P. Richardson, Jr. fills his legendary father's footsteps as the Big Bopper. Jay is actually the Bopper's son and brings with him the heritage and feeling that only he can offer. Ray Anthony performs as Ritchie Valens and is a renowned star of the "Legends of Rock and Roll" show at the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas. The very authentic and energetic four piece band (guitar, drums, stand up bass and sax) includes Grammy award winning Mike Acosta on saxaphone.



The Winter Dance Party show has performed in front of over 2 million people on national TV for the Jerry Lewis Telethon, has toured extensively throughout the United States at theatres, ballrooms, corporate events, casinos and most recently featured at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with John Mellencamp, Marshall Crenshaw and others. Canada and England have also been witness to this extraordinarily fun show.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER

Thursday, April 8 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: Jim Henson

Year: 1981

Starring: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal, Sam the Eagle and Rowlf

Run Time: 95 min

Rating: G

The gang goes to London!

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.

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The Society of Professional Journalists, Kansas Chapter Present

GRIDIRON 2010

Thursday, April 15 - 8:00pm
Friday, April 16 - 8:00pm
Saturday, April 17 - 8:00pm

Tickets $25.50, $22.50 and $20.50 on Thursday

$30.50, $27.50 and $25.50 on Friday and Saturday

Tickets available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.

Watch Wichita’s news reporters spoof the year’s newsmakers in Gridiron 2010. Starring Bucky Walters, Bonnie Bing, Ted Woodward and Randy Brown.

This is Wichita's news parody musical presented by The Kansas Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The money raised from this show will be used to provide scholarships for young journalists.

It's summed up well in the final line of each year's show:

"If you wonder, if you care, who benefits from this affair, we will tell you and we feel we must. Your money trains more just like us."

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Heart of America Men's Chorus Presents

LET FREEDOM SING

Saturday, April 24 - 7:00pm and
Sunday, April 25 - 4:00pm

Tickets $18

Tickets available online

Or by calling 316-708-4837

Group discounts for parties of 10 or more.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Join HOAMC as we remember the course of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that our great nation stands for. America, her journey of freedom and liberty has not been an easy road. The core of this great nation has always been the indomitable spirit found in the people of this great nation. That spirit has triumphed through wars, the great depression, equal rights, civil rights and the shocking tragedy of September 11th, 2001 when we were confronted with the realization that forces beyond our shores still try to extinguish freedoms flame. Yet we should not forget that our great nation has erupted in conflict over the pursuit of freedom even inside our own shores and that pursuit of freedom is what America stands for.

HOAMC will lead you on a musical journey as they pay tribute our nation and our freedom. As we celebrate our victories and remember our struggles and tragedy we will also honor those who have served America from almost 250 years; defending liberty, freedom and justice for all.

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The Orpheum Theatre Presents

THUNDER ON THE PLAINS

3RD ANNUAL ORPHEUM CAR SHOW

Sunday, May 2 - 2:00pm

Entry to view the vehicles is FREE

Car Registration $10 in advance, $20 day of show

Register here by clicking below or by calling 316-263-0884

Back by popular demand—the third annual Orpheum Car Show. Come and see a wide array of classic, muscle and antique cars! Fun, food and music for the entire family, and prizes for those who enter!

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

THE KARATE KID

Thursday, May 20 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: John G. Avildsen

Year: 1984

Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue and Martin Kove

Run Time: 126 min

Rating: PG

Only the "Old One" could teach him the secrets of the masters.

Daniel and his mother move from New Jersy to California. She has a wonderful new job but Daniel discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd, especially when he tries to date one of their girl friends.

Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights but is finally cornered by several who belong to the same karate school. As Daniel is passing out from the beating he sees Miyagi, the elderly gardner leap into the fray and save him by outfighting a half dozen teenagers. Miyagi and Daniel find the real motivator behind the boys' violent attitude is the their karate teacher. Miyagi promises to teach Daniel to fight and arranges a fight at a karate contest some months off. When his training begins, Daniel can't understand what he is being shown. Miyagi seems more interested in having Daniel paint fences and wax cars than teaching him Karate.

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The Kansas Bar Association and The Wichita Bar Association Present

The Wichita Bar Show

Friday, June 11 - 7:30pm

Tickets Prices and On Sale Date TBD

Tickets will be available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.


It only happens every four years and 2010 is the year! We promise you won’t want to miss seeing our local attorneys performing a musical satire aimed at local, state and national politicians.

All proceeds are donated to renovate the Orpheum—as much in need of repair as the political types who are targeted for a night of song, dance and comedy on stage of the historic Orpheum. Their talent is absolutely awesome! If you enjoy a good musical, and support the Orpheum, we’ll see you there.

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The Orpheum Theatre Presents


THE 9TH ANNUAL CELEBRITY AND CHEF COOKOFF

AT THE WICHITA MARRIOTT HOTEL

Tuesday, June 15 - 6:00pm

Tickets $60

Register here by clicking below or by calling 316-263-0884

Our annual signature fundraiser—The Celebrity and Chef Cookoff—is an event where things move fast! Once again, expect fabulous food, fun, music and, of course, the main attraction: the teams of celebrities and chef who race against the clock to create a culinary masterpiece.

All proceeds benefit the Historic Orpheum Theatre's continued maintenance and restoration.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

VACATION

Thursday, June 17 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: Harold Ramis

Year: 1983

Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron

Run Time: 98 min

Rating: R

Every summer Clark Griswold takes his family on a little trip. This year he went too far.

The Griswold family, father Clark, mother Ellen, daughter Audrey and son Rusty, set out in high spirits to spend their vacation driving cross-country from Chicago to a glorious climax at Walley World on the West Coast. The trip which Clark planned down to the minute, slowly looses its smoothness from the moment the first grain of sand gets in.

A meeting with constantly-in-debt, simple-minded cousin Eddie results in the Griswold family giving cantankerous aunt Edna a lift to Phoenix. Of course, the Griswolds receive one strike of bad luck after another, and when they finally arrive at Walley World, they find out that the park is closed for maintenance. But Clark promised his beloved family the best vacation ever...

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Wednesday, June 23 - 7:30pm

General Admission Tickets $22.50

Tickets available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.



The Raleigh Ringers is an internationally acclaimed, advanced community handbell choir based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since its founding in 1990, The Raleigh Ringers has been dazzling concert audiences with unique interpretations of sacred, secular and popular music, including famous rock ‘n’ roll tunes arranged just for handbells.

Under the direction of David M. Harris, The Raleigh Ringers has released four CDs, and a DVD of a holiday concert titled “One Winter Evening at Meymandi.” This concert was turned into two one-hour concert specials that have been broadcast on more than 250 Public Television stations in 45 states.

The group has performed in 34 states, in several cities in France, live on the nationally syndicated “Bob and Tom Show” radio show, and on the “Hour of Power” at the Crystal Cathedral.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

BLAZING SADDLES

Thursday, July 22 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
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Director: Mel Brooks

Year: 1974

Starring: Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn

Run Time: 93 min

Rating: R

Never give a saga an even break!

The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lamarr, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Icon Film Series

TRUE GRIT AND RIO BRAVO

Friday, August 6 - 6:30pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


TRUE GRIT

Director: Henry Hathaway

Year: 1969

Starring: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Barby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper

Run Time: 128 min

Rating: PG

The strangest trio ever to track a killer.

The murder of her father by tramp Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), because he has "grit", and a reputation of getting the job done. The two are joined by a Texas Ranger, La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who is looking for the same man for a separate murder in Texas. Their odyssey takes them from Fort Smith, Arkansas, deep into the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) to find their man.

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RIO BRAVO

Director: Howard Hawks

Year: 1959

Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson and Walter Brennan

Run Time: 141 min

Rating: Approved

What could happen......

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a gimp, a drunk, and a young gunfighter.... John T. Chance is both the sheriff of a town near the Mexican border and a defense of the traditional Western hero. When his friend Pat Wheeler is killed Chance does not seek help from amateurs. In his mind, they will only present more targets. In the end, he would rather rely on "professionals," even if they are outnumbered and consist of quirky types such as his alchoholic deputy Dude, gimpy old man Stumpy and young gun Colorado.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Icon Film Series

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY AND BRINGING UP BABY

Saturday, August 7 - 6:30pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

Director: George Cukor

Year: 1940

Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey and John Howard

Run Time: 112 min

Rating: Approved

Uncle Leo's bedtime story for you older tots! The things they do among the playful rich - Oh Boy!

Philadelphia heiress Tracy Lord throws out her playboy husband C.K. Dexter Haven shortly after their marriage. Two years later, Tracy is about to marry respectable George Kittredge while Dexter has been working for "Spy" magazine. Dexter arrives at the Lord's mansion the day before the wedding with writer Mike Connor and photographer Liz Imbrie, determined to spoil things.

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BRINGING UP BABY

Director: Howard Hawks

Year: 1938

Starring: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett and Barry Fitzgerald

Run Time: 102 min
Rating: Approved

All he wanted was a brontosaurus bone...

In this screwball comedy, heiress Susan is determined to catch a stuffy paleontologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention. The elements of this farce include a yappy terrier who steals and buries an irreplaceable fossilized bone, a pompous big game hunter, a rich old aunt, a jealous fiancée, and a case of mistaken identity involving a second, and vicious, leopard.

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The Orpheum Theatre Presents

LORETTA LYNN

Friday, August 13 - 8:00pm

Reserved Tickets $75 (Rows A-K), $65 (L-W), $45 (Mezzanine) and $25 (Balcony)

Tickets available at Select-A-Seat by calling (316) 755-7328, online by going to www.selectaseat.com, or at any Dillon's Superstores, and Plant Employee Clubs.




For over four decades now, Loretta has fashioned a body of work as artistically and commercially successful—and as culturally significant—as any female performer you’d care to name. Her music has confronted many of the major social issues of her time, and her life story is a rags-to-riches tale familiar to pop, rock and country fans alike. The Coal Miner’s Daughter—the tag refers to a hit single, an album, a best-selling autobiography, an Oscar-winning film, and to Lynn herself—has journeyed from the poverty of the Kentucky hills to Nashville superstardom to her current status as an honest-to-goodness American icon.

Her latest album, the Jack White-produced Van Lear Rose, is poised now to remind the world yet again of Lynn’s power as a vocalist and her skill as a songwriter. As she puts it on “Story of My Life,” the new album’s closing track: “Not half bad for this ol’ KY girl, I guess... Here’s the story of my life. Listen close, I’ll tell it twice.”

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

GHOSTBUSTERS

Thursday, August 19 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs



Director: Ivan Reitman

Year: 1984

Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis and Annie Potts

Run Time: 105 min

Rating: PG

They're here to save the world...

Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are three scientists at Columbia University in New York City. When their grant expires, the guys are fired and they go into business as a ghost extermination company called "Ghostbusters". Their first customer is orchestra cello player Dana Barrett, who was scared out of her apartment on the 22nd floor of a high rise apartment building on Central Park West. It seems that Dana's neighbor, Louis Tully, is also being affected by the strange happenings in the apartment building.

Armed with proton guns, the Ghostbusters become wildly popular, and they are joined by Winston Zeddmore, who is looking for a job with good pay. Overzealous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent Walter Peck thinks the Ghostbusters are frauds, and he has the Ghostbusters put in jail. Peck is forced to believe the Ghostbusters when New York City is put under siege by an ancient Sumerian God named Gozer the Gozerian, who is channeled through the apartment building that Dana and Louis live in, and the mayor has no choice but to let the Ghostbusters out of jail to face Gozer.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Thursday, September 16 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: Joel Coen

Year: 1998

Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi and David Huddleston

Run Time: 117 min

Rating: R

They figured he was a lazy time wasting slacker. They were right.

When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.

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The Orpheum Theatre Presents

THE 2ND ANNUAL



AT THE WICHITA MARRIOTT HOTEL

Wednesday, September 29 - 6:00pm


It's Free to Enter A Chair. Just Click on the RED CHAIR AFFAIR BUTTON to enter your chair.

Tickets to Attend are $40

Make a reservation here by clicking below or by calling 316-263-0884


WATCH FOR MORE INFORMATION TO COME.

All proceeds benefit the Historic Orpheum Theatre's continued maintenance and restoration.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

POLTERGEIST

Saturday, October 30 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: Tobe Hooper

Year: 1982

Starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatric Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins and Heather O'Rourke

Run Time: 114 min

Rating: PG

THEY'RE HERE.

While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne, seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the television. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house's walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn- they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

SCROOGED

Thursday, November 18 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: Richard Donner

Year: 1988

Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, Carol Kane and Robert Mitchum

Run Time: 101 min

Rating: PG-13

Bill Murray is back among the ghosts. Only this time, it's three against one.

Frank Cross runs an American TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit.

With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realizes he must change.

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Presents The 2010 Orpheum Film Series

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

Thursday, December 16 - 7:00pm


Tickets Just $5 at the Door, $4 for Seniors, Military & Students
Tickets Available at Plant Employee Clubs


Director: George Seaton

Year: 1947

Starring: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart and Natalie Wood

Run Time: 96 min

Rating: Approved

Santa Claus is comming to the Orhpeum Theatre!

Bring the family and tell Santa what you want for Christmas!

And capture the spirit of Christmas with this timeless classic!

At the Macy's Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades the old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy's outlet.

While he is successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Despite reassurances by Kringle's doctor that he is harmless, Doris still has misgivings, especially when she has cynically trained herself, and especially her daughter, Susan, to reject all notions of belief and fantasy. And yet, people, especially Susan, begin to notice there is something special about Kris and his determination to advance the true spirit of Christmas amidst the rampant commercialism around him and succeeding in improbable ways.

When a raucous conflict with the store's cruelly incompetent psychologist erupts, Kris finds himself held at Bellevue where, in despair, he deliberates fails a mental examination to ensure his commitment. All seems lost until Doris' friend, Fred Gaily, reassure Kris of his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to secure his release. To achieve that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he argues that Kris is sane because he is in fact Santa Claus. What ensues is a bizarre hearing in which people's beliefs are reexamined and put to the test, but even so, it's going to take a miracle for Kris to win.

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DOWNTOWN WICHITA-YES, LIFE DOES HAPPEN HERE. We are pleased to be in the heart of downtown, being located at the corner of Broadway and First Street we can boast that we are definitely 'Lighting Up Broadway!'


Did you know the Wichita Downtown Development Corporation sponsors a web site that provides a variety of information about downtown-businesses, happenings, special events, restaurants. Just click on their logo and learn everything you wanted to know about downtown. The site even includes an interactive map.




Programs are presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and the City of Wichita.







The Orpheum Theatre is a member of the League of Historic American Theatres.





The Orpheum Performing Arts Centre, Ltd.
316-263-0884 phone
316-263-8641 fax
wichitaorpheum.com