This is a fundraiser for Montana Thespian Troupe 5474 at Butte High School, to be applied to travel costs for student attendance at the international thespian festival, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ will be staged Fri 12/14 at 7pm, Sat 12/15 at 2pm & 7pm, Sun 12/16 at 2pm, and the following weekend on Fri 12/21 at 7pm, Sat 12/22 at 2pm & 7pm, and Sun 12/23 at 2pm.

Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for students and seniors.

For more information or to secure reservations, please call 498-3483.

In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month…

Same Difference Inclusive Theatre Company
proudly presents…

The One-Act Play
A MATTER OF
TRUST
A Drama About Sexual Assault
By Melissa Ann Hansen

Friday, April 20th: 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 21st: 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 22nd: 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Same Difference Theatre - MoFAB - 405 W. Park, 1st Floor
General Admission: $3

A portion of the proceeds to benefit SAFE SPACE, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program.

Production recommended for MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.

For more information, please call 498-3483.

We currently have two more performances of our Double-Feature in recognition of March as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month and we’d love to see you at one of them. We will be performing these shows today (Sunday, March 24th) at both 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Same Difference Theatre in the Museum of Fine Arts Butte (aka the old YMCA uptown) so please, bring the whole family and see some great local theatre in Butte.

For more information about the shows, click here.

From the Billings Gazette…

Before the Highland Elementary gym became a lunchroom Tuesday, it was crowded with young scientists for the annual science fair.

The event is something Tommy Moody, 8, wouldn’t ordinarily have a chance to do. He’s a special-needs student in one of the self-contained classrooms at the school, and standing in front of his display with his fifth-grade “buddies,” he couldn’t be still for a second and could hardly speak.

His attention flipped from the three-sided display to a yellow ball being caught in a rolled-up room divider hanging from the ceiling. Then, just as quickly, his pointing arms were wrapped around Kathleen Herbert, 11, his “big buddy.”

“He’s happy all the time,” said Ben Bruner, 11.

The science fair paired students in Darla Williams’ fifth-grade class with special-needs students in Grace Katolas’ Life Skills class. Katolas’ students range in age from 6 to 9, and this is the first time students in both classes have worked together on science projects.

“We would never be able to do this without the buddies,” Katolas said.

Bruner and Herbert helped Moody with the project by testing the strength of different brands of paper towels. They weighted the wet paper towels with pennies until they tore. Herbert and Bruner applied the scientific method to the project, and Moody did much of the assembly of the display, coloring, cutting and gluing.

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March is Disabilities Awareness Month and Same Difference Inclusive Theatre Company will be showcasing two plays to highlight and address this very topic. We will be presenting Same Difference: A Developmental Disabilities Awareness Play, in addition to Braille: The Early Life of Louis Braille.

Braille is an account of the early life of Louis Braille, who lived in France in the early 1800’s. When he was 9 years old, he had an accident, and became blind. He went to one of the world’s first Institutes for the Blind, where he developed the system by which blind people read and write today. This happened when he was 15 years old! It is a remarkable story.

For more information on both these shows, including showtimes and a complete cast list for Braille, please visit this page.

Same Difference is a lot of things to a lot of people. Same Difference has inspired us all in some way.

Same Difference has already been a poem, and now it’s a song.

Susannah Cragwick wrote this song about Same Difference, and it carries on the message that Same Difference is dedicated to bringing to the world.

Kevin recorded Susannah performing her song on January 20, 2007. After we heard the song a couple times we decided that it needed video montage to accompany it, so we got to work, using photos from the Same Difference 2006 Summer Camp. It turned out so nicely we had to share immediately.

You can watch the video on the song page. You can also download the video in WMV format and the song in mp3 format to your own computer.

Same Difference is a lot of things–it’s an inspiration. It’s our revolution….

Melissa sent out an email regarding the photos from Seussical so I thought I’d post quick-like and give a quick run-down.

The entire set of Seussical photos are here.

I started out naming every picture, but there are 332 of them so it was taking forever. I uploaded them all for now, and we will go through at some point and label who is who and all that good stuff. Some of them are a little blurry but I threw out more than I uploaded–there were some really blurry ones.

Also, our account at flickr is set up so that anyone who is our contact can order prints of our pictures right from the website and have them delivered via mail.

…So if you have a Yahoo! account (email address, or anything else) you can just add a flickr account to it. If you don’t–you can create one. (Joining flickr is free, you just have to pay to upload more than 200 photos. Or for the prints you order.)

So if you create a flickr account, add Same Difference as a contact, we’ll add you back and then you’ll be able to order prints of any of the photos we have online.

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment and we’ll help you out.

Here are some of our favorites from Seussical:

Check out the rest of the set…

We are currently in Production for Seussical for an end-of-December run of performances.

The cast list and show information have been posted on the Seussical the Musical page. Be sure to check it out from time to time. We will be adding information periodically.

Our production schedule can be viewed here. Actors are expected to be at their required rehearsals.

Let’s have fun, work hard, and put on a great show.