A special "encore" presentation, appearing ONE day only in Vancouver, WA!

 This Holiday season, bring the whole family and create a memory that will last a lifetime. Appropriate for everyone from ages 4 to 104, The Golden Garter Theatre will make you to “laugh ‘til your cheeks hurt.” The Pacific Northwest's newest old theatre will take you back in time to the edge of the wild frontier, 1908, and let you experience the most popular entertainment of the time; Wild West Vaudeville – with a twenty-first century spin on it of course!       

You’ll experience the live escapades of The Great Gorge Variety Arts Players (That’s “GGVAP” for short). The GGVAP are our professional group of three thespians who will tickle your funny bone, touch your heart and turn your visit into a historically-hysterical experience!      

On performance evenings, our pre-show begins with an age-old tradition called the “Sing-Along,” so start warming up your voice now. Our handsome and trustworthy MC will lead you in recreating the songs popular at the turn of last century (Beware: Anyone caught not singing will be made to sweep the theatre floors after the show). Following our sing-along, you'll experience a hilarious live vaudeville-style variety show. You’ll witness sensational songs, veracious ventriloquism, marvelous magic, calamitous comedy, delightful dance and humor so clean you can grill a ham-bone on it! And grill you will, because the best news of all is that you, the audience, once again becomes the star of the show! More than one unsuspecting attendee will be asked up on the stage and everyone present will witness the birth of The Golden Garter’s newest star…You! Since every show depends so heavily on audience participation, every show becomes different because every audience is different. So, we hope you’ll come back and give us the honor of your presence and participation time and time again. We can’t do The Golden Garter without you…and performing for an empty theater is no fun whatsoever…so we hope to see you again and again!      

CLEAN, FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT

Our parents wouldn’t have it any other way! At The Golden Garter, we pick up after ourselves, say grace before meals and tip our hats to ladies! We don’t put up with any of that cursin’, cussin’ or spittin’! You can trust we’re a “class” act, genteel and refined too. So, don’t come alone (unless you have no choice). Bring the whole family! Kids, teens, parents and grandparents all LOVE the zany antics of “The Magic, Music & Merriment Revue.”       

So, don’t delay, get your tickets today. The Golden Garter has been known to sell-out entire seasons (just don’t ask “when?”), so don’t be left in the dust, don’t end up high and dry, don’t miss the “Show” Boat, and “don’t wait ‘til the sun shines, Nellie”!, write or call to reserve your seats in our historically-hysterical presentation of comedy immediately (that means right now, today! Why are you still reading this? Stop and pick up the phone…that’s what it’s there for! You won’t be sorry you did. There, now don’t you feel better?) The Golden Garter will become the highlight of your year, I guarantee it, or my name isn’t Phineas T. Pendergast! (Come to think of it, my name isn’t Phineas T. Pendergast! But come anyway, you know you want to!).      

The Golden Garter Theatre is presenting this "encoure" show one day and one day only (but two performances!) on Saturday December 13, 2008 at 2pm and 7pm. All you have to do is buy your tickets and show up! (But warm up your funny bone before you come – we don’t want you to strain anything!) We’ll do our job by making sure you leave the evening looking younger, feeling lighter, lifting your IQ and even going home in a more stylish & valuable horse and buggy! (not really).

For more information, please visit us online at www.GoldenGarter.com

“I laughed ‘til my cheeks hurt!” – Sue Coates, Battle Ground, WA (notice Sue didn’t tell us which cheeks!)

The Golden Garter Theatre
814 NE 162nd Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98684

Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 7:00 PM (PT)

The Great Gorge Variety Arts Players

For over 35 years, this band of comedic thespians have traveled the United States bringing joy and laughter to families of all ages and nationalities. www.GoldenGarter.com