![]() ![]() There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff, Alpine, and Tucson. Northern Arizona features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees the Colorado Plateau mountain ranges (such as the San Francisco Mountains) as well as large, deep canyons, with much more moderate summer temperatures and significant winter snowfalls. Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with very hot summers and mild winters. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848. Historically part of the territory of Alta California in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821. Arizona is part of the Four Corners region with Utah to the north, Colorado to the northeast, and New Mexico to the east its other neighboring states are Nevada to the northwest, California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.Īrizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. In January 2010, they will present a production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical, featuring what is believed to be the first-ever use of scratch and sniff cards in a theatrical production.Arizona ( / ˌ ær ɪ ˈ z oʊ n ə/ ( listen) ARR-ih- ZOH-nə Navajo: Hoozdo Hahoodzo O'odham: Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. ARIZONA ONSTAGE FULLThe musicals The Full Monty (February 2007), Bark: The Musical (July 2007) and Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (June 2008) are among their recent successes. ![]() Later shows for the company include Paul Bonin-Rodriguez's one man show Talk of the Town in January 2007 and its follow-up The Bible Belt. ARIZONA ONSTAGE MACWilliam Finn's Elegies-Looking Up in mid-November 2006 won the MAC award for best musical. New material was scored for performances in late 2006-early 2007. Brundibar: Hear My Voice played April first and second at the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson. ![]() This new version kept Krasa's original text and music, but added new material (written by one of Johnson's students) which tells the story of the piece's production in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 2006, Arizona Onstage Productions collaborated with the BASIS Charter School (where Johnson teaches theatre arts) to produce the first original work for the company, the children's opera Brundibar: Hear My Voice, a new version of Hans Krasa's classic children's opera Brundibar. In 2005, the company received two nominations for best musical (one for Joel Payley's Ruthless! The Musical, and one for William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain), two nominations for Best Actress and one for Best Actor. In 2004, the company won three MAC Awards (the local awards for theater in Tucson) for its production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins, specifically best musical, best actor, and best director. Although the small company lacks the resources or theater space of comparatively gigantic companies such as Arizona Theatre Company and the University of Arizona theater department, it has drawn great amounts of praise from local theater critics for its intelligent and irreverent productions. The company was founded by former touring actor Kevin Johnson and is mainly known for producing unusual, thought-provoking and often controversial musicals. Non-profit theater company in Tucson, ArizonaĪrizona Onstage Productions is a non-profit theater company in Tucson, Arizona. ![]()
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