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Call 1-800-829-2969 to Virginia City, Montana for 2008 reservations:
Pre-Season Ticket Sales HERE!
This year something new!!! 5 Shows 7 days a week! We will be bringing you 19 shows weekly, all in repertory fashion with more matinees and more of what you have asked for! Our small daytime matinee company will produce 2 MERRY MYSTERY MATINEES written and directed by veteran player Bruce Hurlbut! And of course our evenings and weekend matinees will be filled with our BIG SHOW AND VAUDEVILLE! Don't miss a minute! We look forward to seeing you in 2008!

Jamie Parnell is in his fourth year with the Virginia City Players. A native of Hamilton, MT, Jamie has spent most of his formative years on MT stages. He has recently been seen in Urinetown, as Bobby Strong, Bat Boy: The Musical as Dr. Parker, and The Marriage of Figaro as Figaro. He has trained in Vienna, Austria and Oklahoma City University, as well as having taken classes at both the Kodaly Institute in Hungary and the Orff Institute in Austria. He has spent the past year in New York City and as always, he is grateful beyond words for having such a supportive family and being back in Montana.


Rhonda Smith grew up surrounded by wheat fields on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation near Poplar, MT. That was thirty-some years ago-and she has since: earned her MFA from The Hillberry Repertory at Wayne State University in Detroit; co-founded the Vigilante Theatre Company; tour managed Montana Shakespeare in the Parks; acted at the Kennedy Center and has performed at the Virginia City Opera House off and on since...... Rhonda's voice on Imagine That! has been heard weekly over the radio for public universities statewide. Her current and constant companion, Pepper, "The Wonder Dog" came from the Bozeman Humane Society. Many thanks to them.

Deena, a New York native, is thrilled to be back in Montana as a second year Virginia City Player. Deena graduated with a B.A. in Musical Theatre from The State University of New York at Cortland in 2004. Her favorite credits include Mama Morton in Chicago, Muriel and Norma in Plaza Suite, Mazeppa in Gypsy, Robin in Godspell, and the Princess Puffer in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She will be remembered last year as that 'gal in the audience' in the vaudeville show and as the wine guzzling diva in 'Rise of the House of Usher'.


Heather Capello is excited to be spending the summer in Virginia City, a far cry from her noisy home in New York. She recently received her BFA from Texas State University graduating Cum Laude. Some of her favorite credits include Cinderella in Into the Woods, Sally in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Viola in Twelfth Night, and Star to Be in Annie. Heather loves hiking and wants to save the world. Anyone know some good hiking spots? She sends love to the family way back home in Texas, and to her Daddy overseas.






Myles will be spending his first year at the Opera House as Musical Director and Accompanist and Cremona-ist for the the Virginia CIty Players 'Big Show and Vaudeville'. He is a 2007 graduate of Coe College in Iowa with a BM in Piano Performance and a BA in mathematics. He worked as assistant musical director for Coe's productions of Batboy: the Musical and Gypsy and directed the orchestra for the Great Falls production of The Secret Garden in 2007. He is currently at the University of Montana working on his MM in piano performance before pursuing an advanced degree in conducting.
Lizzie Webb is a recent graduate of the University of Montana, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and a minor in Music Performance. Her theater career began in 2004 when Fort Peck Summer Theater called her five days before their production of The King and I, frantically needing an accompanist. She dropped everything she was doing for the summer and traveled across the state to play the show. The theater bug bit her and she couldn't stay away after that. Since that fateful summer, she has played for 9 shows around the state of Montana; her favorites have been Little Shop of Horrors, Forever Plaid and Gypsy, which she also musical directed. She has also acted in productions of Big River, Sweet Charity and played the role of the tap dancing Jennyanydots in Cats. Lizzie has worked in Missoula for the last two years teaching tap and music at On Center Performing Arts and as a server at Mackenzie River Pizza. She hopes to go back to school to earn a second Bachelors Degree in Musical Theater and become a musical director someday.
Dave Calendine, an Ohio native, started his musical career with the player piano at the age of 3. By age 5, he was playing some of the music without the aid of the player mechanism. By age 9, he was playing at his church, where he also started to teach himself the organ at age 15.
When at age 16, Dave first heard the magnificent sound of the theatre organ, he was instantly hooked and determined to play the theatre organ at whatever the cost. His wish came true when, one night after a movie, the management of the Akron Civic Theatre let him play. Shortly after that, he was hired as one of the house organist at the 2,678-seat movie palace. The youngest person to ever hold the position, he entertained audiences there for over 3 years.
After leaving the Akron Civic Theatre, he continued on, playing at several restaurants featuring theatre pipe organs, such as the Organ Grinder (Toronto, Canada), and Shady Nook (Cincinnati, Ohio). Dave has also played most major theatre pipe organs throughout the United States and Canada.
In 2000, he went on his first overseas solo concert tour through Germany and Switzerland, playing to packed houses.
Dave currently holds the position of Staff Organist for Detroit's fabulous Fox Theatre, holding that position for 15 years now. He has also played nine years for the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, featuring the world-famous Rockettes.
Dave's enthusiasm for the theatre and theatre pipe organ had him serving on the Board of Directors of the Motor City Theatre Organ Society, which owns and operates the Redford Theatre in Detroit. He was also the President of the Flint Theatre Organ Club, an auxiliary support group for the Flint Institute of Music. He currently is on the Board of Directors and Corporate Secretary of the Detroit Theatre Organ Society, which owns and operates the Senate Theatre and the large Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ installed there. His love of mechanical musical instruments also has him very active with chapters of the the Musical Box Society, International.
For his regular employment, Dave is the Technical Director and Stage Manager of the City Theatre in Detroit. He also works in the Operations Department of Olympia Entertainment, one of the nations premier presenters of sports and live entertainment, operating several venues in Detroit, including the Fox Theatre, Cobo Arena, Masonic Temple Complex Theatres, Joe Louis Arena and Comerica Park.
Currently 36 years old, Dave resides in Westland, 

~ Tickets for 2008! ~
Yes! You can now order your tickets to see the Virginia City Players right here! So, why wait for us to call you back or try and catch someone on the box office phone (we get soooo busy!) .. order here via Paypal (you do not need an account)... it's secure and safe and easy! We will hold your tickets at the box office for you! Order today!
The 'See All Five' Pre-Season Ticket Special
See any 3 Big Show and Vaudevilles and any 2 Merry Mystery Matinees (this includes the Monday and Tuesday Evening shows too)
Order now and we will hold a punch ticket for all five shows in your name at our box office! Makes a great gift!
~ ADULT PRE-SEASON TICKET $58 ~
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