SOCSA's Online Box Office

SOCSA is proud to present the second half of the 2007-08 performance season available to buy online now! Buy your tickets online using the links below. Please note that when you click on the BUY TICKETS NOW button links below, you'll be sent to Vendini.com's secure website, SOCSA ticket vendor partner. Your credit card charges will come from Vendini. Buy your tickets early as each show is sure to sell-out fast... we look forward to seeing you at the Show!

AWARD WINNING PERFORMANCES... SOCSA's amazing student performances have won several awards, including 1st Place in the STARS OF TOMORROW vocal competition, Color It Orange and both Cappies and Macy Awards for their outstanding achievements and professionalism. All performances are held in Dana Hills High School's 273 seat PORTHOLE THEATER, Dana Point's largest performing arts venue.

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2008 SOCSA PERFORMANCES

DHHS SPRING INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT

Visit DHHS.net/music/ for more information.

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SHOWCASE 2008 - JUNE 9, 2008 @ 5:30pm

CLICK HERE to Buy Showcase tickets...

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

This year's Showcase 2008 will again be at the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa!

This year's Showcase 2008 will be on:
Monday, June 9, 2008
Pre-performance Entertainment and Art Exhibit: 5:30pm to 6:30pm AND during intermission
Performance: 6:30pm
Tickets $20 to $65
TICKETS ON SALE NOW. All tickets are sold through the Orange County Performing Artscenter's online box office and all proceeds from SHOWCASE 2008 go directly to support the SOCSA Academy. Call SOCSA FOUNDATION President Alan Wickstrom at 949.842.0594 for more information and sponsorship opportunites.

SHOWCASE 2008 COMMITTEE CHAIR: Daina Dillabough - 949.493.0983 or
Showcase 2008 committees are forming now and we need SOCSA parents and friends to get involved! Please eMail or call Daina Dillabough for more information.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE NOW!

Call SOCSA FOUNDATION President Alan Wickstrom at 949.842.0594 for more information.

BUY YOUR CELEBRATION TRIBUTE ADS from PARENTS, FRIENDS OR RELATIVES to YOUR FAVORITE SOCSA STUDENT!
CELEBRATION TRIBUTE AD ORDER DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008
Celebration Tribute Ads will appear in over 2,000 full size four color Showcase 2008 programs to be distributed during Showcase at The Center. Ads include color photo of your student OR an artistic color graphic & personalized tribute.

CLICK HERE to download a PDF file of the CELEBRATION TRIBUTE ADS FORM. You may give your CELEBRATION TRIBUTE AD order to a SOCSA Student OR deliver it to the SOCSA OFFICE OR mail the completed order form with your payment information to SOCSA FOUNDATION, Attn: SHOWCASE PRE-SALE, PO Box 3174, Dana Point, CA 92629-8174. QUESTIONS?? Call SOCSA FOUNDATION President Alan Wickstrom at 949.842.0594 for more information.

ONLINE AUCTION!!

Call SOCSA FOUNDATION Board Advisor Karin Schnell at (949) 933-1678 for more information.

NEW THIS YEAR! SOCSA SHOWCASE ONLINE AUCTION...
AUCTION DONATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
CLICK HERE to download a PDF file for you to fill out and turn in with your donated items. SOCSA Showcase has featured silent auctions in the past... well this is 2008 and we're taking this auction online and around the world using cMarket's Online Auction! Just like eBay, but this new online cMarket auction designed exclusively for non-profit organizations will provide SOCSA with the ability to sell your donated items online to the highest bidder FROM ANYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD!! 100% of the sales proceeds will go to SOCSA. Our goal is to raise $25,000.00 with this online auction and we need your help! DONATE YOUR ITEMS TODAY!!

DONATE YOUR ITEMS OR SERVICES BEFORE MAY 5th: You can donate anything in good to excellent condition and SOCSA will put this up for auction on our new cMarket online auction starting May 19th.

Great Items to Donate can include:
''Packages''

Bed & Breakfast (Get Away) & Dinner

Hotel/Theatre tickets

Time Shares
''Experiences''

4 tickets to sports game (Ducks/Angels) & pre-tour & signed item

Backstage access

Dinner with celebrity, broadcaster or politician

Elegant dinner prepared for six in your home

Get-A-Ways

Travel

Entertainment/Leisure

Art

Music

Jewelry

Food/Dining

BASICALLY ANYTHING YOU THINK WOULD SELL ONLINE!!

SOCSA Online Auction will be available to the entire world from May 27 - June 10, 2008 CLICK HERE to download a PDF file for you to fill out and turn in with your donated items. AUCTION QUESTIONS?? Call SOCSA FOUNDATION Board Advisor Karin Schnell at (949) 933-1678 for more information.

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CLICK HERE TO VIEW SOCSA'S 2008 OPERA CELEBRATION PROGRAM (4.5MB PDF file)

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PAST SOCSA PERFORMANCES

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

October 18, 19 & 20, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

Join us for a chilling and intense experience in mounting terror in SOCSA's fall play just before Halloween... The Haunting of Hill House. Separated from the outside world by its remote location and shunned by all who know its forbidding and sinister reputation, Hill House has remained empty until a group of psychic investigators probe its secrets! A psychological thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, Shirley Jackson creates an amazing story that will have your whole family screaming in terror. Join us Oct. 18, 19 & 20th, @ 7:30 in the creepy Porthole Theater. Boo!

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BROADWAY NIGHT
SOLD OUT BOTH NIGHTS!

November 1 & 2, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

Once a year wonderfully talented SOCSA vocal, dance and theater students bring the most popular Broadway shows to Dana Hills in a non-stop, music packed, wonderfully artful and creative program. Don't miss this most fun night of the year November 1 & 2 @ 7:00 pm in the Porthole Theater. This is truly a fun evening for the entire family.

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FALL CHORAL CONCERT

November 7, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

Come to SOCSA's first choral concert of the 2007-08 season, featuring presentations by all five vocal groups: Concert Choir, Women's Ensemble, Vocal Ensemble, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and Advanced Women's Ensemble. Several distinguished soloists will also be featured in this year's concert, which will be presented in the renovated DHHS Porthole Theatre, with its new sound system, choral risers and acoustical shell.

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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

November 29, 30, December 1, 6, 7 and 8, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theatre
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

A dedicated cast and crew are working from sunrise to sunset to deliver an incredible production of ''Fiddler on the Roof'' in the Porthole Theater on November 29, 30, December 1, 6, 7 and 8, 2007. This charming and witty story takes place in the first decade of the 20th century. It centers on the life of Tevye; his wife, Golde; their five daughters; and Tevye's attempts to maintain his family and religious traditions while the world and civilization around him change rapidly in Tsarist Russia in 1905. The Broadway version of this amazing show won 9 Tony awards, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, and spawned four Broadway revivals and a successful 1971 film adaptation. With favorites like ''Matchmaker, Matchmaker'' and ''If I Were a Rich Man''. ''Fiddler'' is one SOCSA production you don't want to miss! See the SOCSA students bring this powerful musical to life at Dana Hills High School's 273 seat Porthole Theatre!

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WINTER INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT

December 18, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

Join the SOCSA Student Orchestra for an amazing evening of holiday instrumental string and winds music in the Porthole Theater for this year's Winter Instrumental Concert.

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WINTER CHORAL CONCERT - HOLIDAY SPARKLE

December 19, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

Come to SOCSA's second choral concert of the 2007-08 season: ''Holiday Sparkle'', featuring presentations by all five vocal groups: Concert Choir, Women's Ensemble, Vocal Ensemble, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and Advanced Women's Ensemble. Several distinguished soloists will also be featured in this year's concert, which will be presented in the renovated DHHS Porthole Theatre, with its new sound system, choral risers and acoustical shell.

ACTOR'S REP NIGHT - "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE"

January 11 & 12, 2008 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

Students from Actors' Repertory Class present "All you need is Love". This engaging performance is compilation of monologues that celebrates all aspects of love. Love comes in all sizes and all arrays, love of family, love of home, young love and lost loves, they all come together on our Porthole stage in this fantastic Actor's Repertory presentation.

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DANCE CONCERT - VELOCITY

ANOTHER SOLD OUT SOCSA PERFORMANCE!!
January 17 & 18, 2008 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

SOCSA presents VELOCITY the Dance Concert. SOCSA dance students will dazzle you with their amazing performance.

SOCSA offers not only technical training for the serious dance student, but it offers practical training as well. Students are trained formally in the major of dance through the genres of ballet, tap, jazz and modern. Once students successfully enter into their third year of training, the student's jury to become a member of the SOCSA Dance Company. Thus, the students will acquire two years of experience in dancing choreographed works in a company environment, which will include not only dance training and choreographic experiences with guest artists and dance faculty, but practice and execution of theatrical design in the areas of lighting, costume, makeup and scenery. The program will address all the needs of the student for directly entering into a career in dance, a program or institution of higher learning, or just simply for the appreciation and love toward the art of dance.

This is your chance to see years of student study and practice during this amazing night of dance...

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OLDIES NIGHT

ANOTHER SOLD OUT SOCSA PRODUCTION February 29, 2008 @ 7:00pm
Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

The Dana Hills High School choirs and SOCSA proudly present "Oldies Night 2008: OLDIESMANIA!" on Friday, February 29th, at 7:00 PM in the Porthole Theater.

Dana Hills' most talented singers perform their favorite rock and pop songs from the 1950s to the 1980s, accompanied by a full rock band and members of the Dana Hills Jazz Band.

This year's "Oldies Night" show features every style of pop music, including performances of "All You Need is Love," "I want to Hold Your Hand," "In My Life," "Come Together" and many more of your favorites.

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OPERA CELEBRATION!

at the BOWERS

CLICK HERE TO VIEW SOCSA'S 2008 OPERA CELEBRATION PROGRAM (4.5MB PDF file)

SOCSA's Opera Night Gala Reception, Dinner and Performance (Black Tie Optional... MEN: tuxedo or dinner jacket is requested. WOMEN: Wear your finest!)

$150.00 per person


COMING LAST MINUTE, AND DON'T HAVE RESERVATIONS YET?? NO PROBLEM... Contact Opera Night producer, Alan Wickstrom BEFORE 3:00pm PST on Sat Mar 22 on his cell at 949.842.0594 to make last minute reservations at $150 each.

ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE CLOSED.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
6:00pm: Cocktail Reception featuring SOCSA student visual art exhibit and string quartet
7:00pm-9:30pm: 3-Course Gourmet Meal & Concert
M. Lee Court at The Bowers Museum
(Enter through The Huang Courtyard)
2002 N. Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706 (MAP)

DOWNLOAD PROGRAM AD SPECS and EVENT SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION HERE.

QUESTIONS: Contact Opera Night producer, Alan Wickstrom at 949.842.0594.

SOCSA's OPERA CELEBRATION! Featured in the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

See tomorrow's young star vocalists at this premier All-Orange County invitational!

The South Orange County School of the Arts Foundation and Honorary Chair Mary Frome cordially invite you to attend Opera Celebration! at the beautiful M. Lee Court inside The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

This is SOCSA's Fifth Annual All-Orange County Opera Night Invitational Concert Gala, featuring select talented and award-winning young artists. This beautiful night will open up with a cocktail reception where attendeees will enjoy reviewing the talents of a small SOCSA student visual art exhibit and chamber music of SOCSA's string quartet.

Opera Night is the SOCSA Foundation's annual fundraising gala event and you will be provided an amazing evening of food, music, drink, great student art and the best in young Opera entertainment... and you'll be supporting the SOCSA Academy!

SOCSA's Opera Night Mission Statement is to:

Provide a leadership role in arts education for Orange County high school students, building future audiences for our local Opera companies while shaping and enriching lives in the present.

Promote a better understanding of Opera as a multi-faceted art form, of its contributions to our history, and of its many influences in our present day lives.

Offer a venue to showcase the developing talents of SOCSA and other Orange County high school students, while facilitating audience development for our local Opera Houses and promoting Opera itself as a powerful entertainment genre.

DOWNLOAD PROGRAM AD SPECS and EVENT SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION HERE. Contact Alan Wickstrom @ 949.842.0594 for table reservations, program advertising and event sponsorship opportunities.

Ticket price includes a lavish cocktail reception, a delicious 3-course gourmet dinner catered by Patina Restaurant Group enhanced by architectural splendor of the M. Lee Court at The Bowers Museum and an amazing performance from tomorrow's young star vocalists at this premier All-Orange County invitational!

SPRING PLAY: "NOISES OFF"

$12.00 per person
$10.00 for students and seniors
March 27, 28 and 29, 2008 @ 7:00pm
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR FOR EACH PERFORMANCE STARTING AT 6:00pm THE DAY OF THE SHOW Porthole Theater
(Inside Dana Hills High School)
33333 Street of the Golden Lantern
Dana Point, California 92629.

NOTE: GREAT SEATS STILL AVAILABLE FOR FOR THURSDAY'S PERFORMANCE (MAR 27th) AND ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BOX OFFICE DOOR STARTING AT 6:00pm. Online ticket sales for Thursday's performance only has closed.

SOCSA presents "NOISES OFF". Michael Frayn's frantic West End and Broadway farce makes its literal transformation to the Porthole Stage!

Sean Roslon stars as director Lloyd Fellowes, assigned to bring the successful British sex farce "Nothing On" to the boards in America. In an intricate technical rehearsal, Lloyd puts his cast through their paces -- Garry Lejuene (Justin LaForge), an obliging feature actor; Dotty Otley (Juliet Kaufman), a fading theatrical star; Frederick Dallas (Kurt Christman), a handsome leading man who demands to know the motivation behind every scene; Brooke Ashton (Ivana Agnic), the sexy leading lady; Belinda Blair (Dominique Brillon), the seen-it-all second female lead; and Seldson Mawbray (Michael Groover), the inebriated character actor.

The technical rehearsal goes off without much of a hitch, thanks to the help of tech crew members Tim Allgood (Seb Arrietta) and Poppy Taylor (Michelle Colston), but as the play travels the country in pre-Broadway performances, the eccentricities of the cast come to the fore and the remaining show are complete disasters.

This year's Spring Play "NOISES OFF" is sure to please your funny bone and your mind.

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