8/5/2023 0 Comments Intermission gif history![]() ![]() Surflight is rocked and saddened by his untimely passing. Food, ice cream AND a floor show! An immediate hit.ġ976: Joe Hayes suffers a fatal heart attack. No more agonizing trips to the Borough Hall.ġ972: Eleanor Miller streamlines the Surflight box office, ticketing and ushering procedures.ġ975: Show Place Ice Cream Parlour opens next to the theatre, a collaboration between Joe Hayes and his friend Scott Henderson, and a local banker. A new costume shop is built adjacent to the theatre.ġ968: Patrons’ restrooms are built on premises. The storm sewers back up, forcing patrons to wade to the theatre in hip boots and galoshes.ġ961: Eleanor Miller’s offer of “a little help” has grown to the position of Company Manager.ġ967: Joe Hayes decides to purchase the former mechanic’s garage as Surflight’s permanent residence. Actors learn to constantly shout their lines to be heard over the rain drumming on the tin roof. She offers to “give him a little help” with the growing theatre.ġ959: A rainy season. Patrons’ restrooms are located 1 block away at Beach Haven Borough Hall.ġ956: Joe Hayes introduces a Children’s Theatre series at Surflight, he himself cavorting as “Boffo the Clown.” An instant success!!ġ958: Schoolteacher Eleanor C. Seating capacity: 312 (if you use a shoehorn). A tiny stage, tin roof, no air conditioning, and lots of mosquitoes. ![]() Hayes, Producer.ġ951: A second season is presented with a smaller company and a tighter budget, allowing the season to be extended to 9 weeks.ġ952: Surflight moves from its tent to an old meat market in Beach Havenġ953: Surflight moves again, this time to a garage next to a bowling alley, still in Beach Haven.ġ954: One last move, to a rented former mechanic’s garage on Engleside Avenue, Beach Haven. Board of Trusteesġ950: Surflight Theatre is born in Beach Haven Crest, on Long Beach Island, in a shaky 2,200-seat tent with a cast of 60, a 12-piece orchestra and a season only 3 weeks long. ![]() Our educational program includes Surflight To-Go, a touring educational theatre company. Our Children's Theatre provides entertainment for ages 2-10 to promote a lifelong interest in the performing arts. Our Mainstage employs professionals and early career artists for Broadway style productions 7 months of the year. Our goal is to engage, entertain and foster appreciation of live theatre for adults, teens and children and serve as a community resource. It was Rock and Roll's best kept secret.until now!Ĭontent Advisory: Adult themes, cigarette smoking.The mission of Surflight Theatre is to provide high quality professional live theatre to the vacationers of Long Beach Island and the residents of Southern New Jersey, while providing training to young theatre performers and technicians. This thrilling musical brings you inside the recording studio with four major talents who came together as a red-hot rock ‘n’ roll band for one unforgettable night. Million Dollar Quartet brings that legendary night to life with an irresistible tale of broken promises, secrets, friendships and celebrations, featuring timeless hits such as "Blue Suede Shoes," "Great Balls of Fire," "I Walk the Line," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Fever," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Hound Dog" and more. ![]() On December 4, 1956, these four young musicians were gathered together by Sam Phillips, the "Father of Rock 'n' Roll," at Sun Records in Memphis for what would be one of the greatest jam sessions of all time. Million Dollar Quartet is the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by the electrifying true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock 'n' roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time. Million Dollar Quartet (2015) AUG 19 - SEP 19Įlvis, Jerry Lee, Perkins, Cash - They came together to make music. ![]()
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