“It’s A Wonderful Life”

A TRIBUTE TO CELEBRATE THE JESSUP FAMILY

Mary Helen Jessup

Suzanne & Rob Brooks

Pam & Jay Jessup

TO PURCHASE TICKETS 

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PARTICIPATE AS A SPONSOR

Please contact Chris Faulkner 

EMAIL: chrisfaulkner@theparamount.net, DIRECT: 434-293-1009

The Paramount Theater’s Grand Marquee Award is presented each year to an individual, business, or organization that has exhibited leadership and an outstanding commitment to The Paramount, to the expansion and improvement of the performing arts, and to the greater Charlottesville community.  This award celebrates their achievements and their dedication to enriching the life of our community.

The evening will include cocktails, dinner, an award presentation and entertainment.
Attire: Coat and Tie

LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION

Presenting Sponsor
• Recognition as a Presenting Sponsor
• Opportunity to introduce the honoree(s) at the event
• Preferred seating with honorees and speakers
• Includes cocktails, up to three tables of 10 guests at dinner, and premier seating in the auditorium for the award presentation
• One full-page tribute in the Dinner Program

Platinum Level Event Sponsor ($25,000)
• Recognition as a Platinum Level Sponsor in all materials and from the podium
• Preferred seating with honorees and speakers
• Includes cocktails, one table of 10 guests at dinner, and premier seating in the auditorium for the award presentation
• One full-page tribute in the Dinner Program

Gold Level Table Sponsor ($10,000)
• Recognition as a Gold Level Sponsor in all materials and from the podium
• Includes cocktails, one table of 10 guests at dinner, and preferred seating in the auditorium for the award presentation
• One half-page tribute in the Dinner Program

Silver Level Table Sponsor ($5,000)
• Recognition as a Silver Level Sponsor in all materials
• Includes cocktails, one table of 10 guests at dinner, and award presentation
• One quarter-page tribute in the Dinner Program

Bronze Level Table Sponsor ($2,500)
• Includes cocktails, one table of 10 guests at dinner, and award presentation

Individual Patron Ticket ($500)
• One ticket for cocktails, dinner, and awards presentation
• Recognition as a patron level sponsor in the dinner program

Individual Supporter Ticket ($250)
• One ticket for cocktails, dinner, and awards presentation 

DINNER MENU

Harvest Moon Catering will cater the night’s festivities. Please include your meal preference in communication with Chris Faulkner. The entree selections are: beef, chicken, vegetarian.

 
What happens when a young boy plants Wonder Beans in his own backyard? For Jack, it is the beginning of a great adventure. With a little help from P.T. Wonder and a Giant, Jack learns a valuable lesson about true happiness. This musical production also features a host of other characters, including the Elegant Harp, Jill, Mother, Milky White, the Farmers, the Merchants, the Circus Performers and the Wonder Beans.

Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) is a world renowned children’s theatre company based in Missoula, Montana, and has been touring for more than 30 years.  A team of two professional tour actor/directors will arrive in Charlottesville with scenery, costumes, props, make-up and basic lighting – everything it takes to put on a play….except the cast.  The residency begins with an audition.  50-60 students, grades 1-12 are cast and well rehearsed throughout the week, learning lines, songs and choreography that will culminate into an original, musical production.  For more information about MCT, go to: www.mctinc.org. 

Envision a kingdom of snow where the residents are Winter Wind Workers, Blizzard Bringers, Icicle Sharpeners and Snow Smoothers, ruled by the Storm King and the Snow Queen.  Add to that a Prince looking for a proper Princess to share the throne.  Now imagine the Princess and her friend the Pea living in a kingdom of green rolling hills and running rivers with her subjects, The Flower Gardeners, River Runners, Green Shoot Growers and Tree Barkers.  Her parents, King Size and Queen Size, do all they can to keep things running smoothly.  Who knows, maybe the dancing Dust Bunnies can help? Although the two kingdoms think they have nothing in common, (except maybe a pesky Jack Frost that freezes anything and everything), the peace-loving Leprechauns prove otherwise.  Throw in some Phony Princesses and you have a real fiasco!  This ain’t your grandma’s PRINCESS AND THE PEA.  We think you will enjoy its twists and turns..

This production is part of the Missoula Children’s Theatre’s unique international touring project. Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) is a world renowned children’s theatre company based in Missoula, Montana, and has been touring for more than 30 years.  A team of two professional tour actor/directors will arrive in Charlottesville with scenery, costumes, props, make-up and basic lighting – everything it takes to put on a play…except the cast.  The residency begins with an audition.  50-60 students, grades 1-12 are cast and well rehearsed throughout the week, learning lines, songs and choreography.

The 2013 UEFA Champions League Final will be the final match of the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, the 58th season of Europe’s premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 21st season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs’ Cup to the UEFA Champions League. The match is scheduled for Saturday, 25 May 2013 at Wembley Stadium in London, England.

The final will be played between two German teams, Bundesliga clubs Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. This is the first time that two German clubs have reached the UEFA Champions League final.

The TREES Conversation Talk is an educational, environmentally driven presentation that takes place in The Paramount Theater the evening before the Festival begins. LOOK3 donates complimentary tickets to area schoolchildren and non-profits as part of its community outreach program.

Admission to this event is not included in the Festival Pass or Student Pass. Separate ticket required.

Tim Laman is a wildlife photographer and field biologist. He credits his childhood in Japan, where he spent a lot of time in the mountains and at the ocean, for his strong interest in exploring nature, both above and below water. Since then, Tim’s interests have led him to various remote corners of the world in pursuit of stories, photographs, and scientific data. To accompany his exhibit of oversized banners suspended in the trees along Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, Laman will present his work photographing Papua New Guinea’s birds of paradise. After 18 expeditions over the past 8 years with collaborator Edwin Scholes, Tim has succeeded in photographing all 39 species of the birds of paradise in the wild for the first time in history. The birds of paradise are the most spectacularly ornamented birds in the world, but inhabit rugged and remote regions of New Guinea, where they are an extreme challenge to locate and photograph in their dense rain forest homes.

Click here see some of the photos of the birds of paradise!

The TREES exhibit is a hallmark of the LOOK3 Festival that features natural history images suspended on banners high in the trees along Charlottesville’s outdoor pedestrian mall. The TREES exhibition is ecologically centered to promote environmental awareness and conservation.

 
Sponsored by: Nest Realty & Wistar Morris and Karen Moran

Rated G

100 Minutes

The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen. Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring?

Victorian author Anna Sewell’s 1877 novel has been filmed many times. This 1994 version remains fairly true to the novel, telling the story from Beauty’s point of view as his fate swings from being a cossetted animal in an aristocrat’s stable to an abused dray horse.

Well-known screen and stage star Alan Cumming narrates as the voice of Beauty. Sean Bean (PBS’s Sharpe series) plays Farmer Grey and David Tewlis (Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series) portrays Jerry,  the kind-hearted cabman who buys the horse.

Rated G

Runtime: 1 hr. 28 min.

ALL ABOARD for The General!
A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT in commemoration of Memorial Day.
(musical accompaniment by Matthew Marshall and Elizabeth Leverage-Hilles)

SCHEDULE

3pm – Doors open – Tastings and exhibits in the Lobby!  Enter the raffle!
Wine tastings and food sampling from your favorite local spots.  Be sure to enter the raffle for a chance to win fantastic prizes, including a wine tour on the Monticello Wine Trail, a nostalgic excursion ride for the family on the Buckingham Branch Railroad, and Fall 2013 tickets to U.Va. Football!  Full list of participating businesses and raffle prizes will be announced soon.

4pm – Pre-film program.
We will commemorate Memorial Day with an archival newsreel, a classic Popeye cartoon, and remarks from Guest speaker Lieutenant General Joe Inge (USA, Ret.).   A film historian will also offer a look at what makes The General so unique, in the context of the Civil War and the film’s release in 1926.

5pm – ALL ABOARD for The General!

6:20pm – Film concludes, Raffle drawings!

About the Film:
The General is loosely based on a true incident that occurred during the Civil War in 1862. The story follows the trials and tribulations of Engineer Johnny Gray and the two loves of his life: his girl, Annabelle, and his locomotive, The General. Ashamed that he has been rejected at the enlistment office following the start of the Civil War, Johnny is spoiling for a fight. When his train is stolen by Union spies, he chases them down and recovers The General single-handed. That’s the easy part: now he just has to rescue Annabelle, keep from blowing himself up with his own mortar, avoid oncoming Union troops and get his beloved train back to Rebel territory. The movie is full of remarkable sight gags and both the broad humor and bemused subtle touches that often mark Keaton’s movies; also featured is a stupendous and now-iconic train wreck. The General was not kindly received by either the critics or the public when it was released in 1926 and its poor financial showing doomed Keaton’s days as an independent filmmaker. However, legendary movie critic Roger Ebert considered The General to be one of the ten best films of all time.  This film for the whole family is a must-see!

Unrated, Runtime: 1 hr., 18 minutes

About the Accompanists:
Matthew  Marshall, well-known locally for his accompaniment for silent films presented during the Virginia Film Festival, is a visiting assistant professor of film at Hollins University and a film lecturer at the University of Virginia where he teaches courses on film history, theory, and genre studies. He has been composing and performing live music for classic silent films for over 11 years with the Virginia Film Festival. He has recorded soundtracks for the British Edition of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid as well as George Méliès’ Conquest of the Pole.

Originally classically trained in piano and violin, Elizabeth Leverage-Hilles spent her formative musical years accompanying solo musicians on the piano, playing the violin in symphonies and string quartets, and generally driving her parents (and later her husband) crazy with her constant repetition of the hard parts.  She started playing violin professionally in 2006 as part of the Reel Music Ensemble, which performs live accompaniment for silent films in the area, including at the Paramount, Vinegar Hill Theater, and Scottsville’s Victory Hall Theater.  To expand her musical horizons, she picked up the guitar in 2010, plays violin in a rock “jam” group, and is a founding member of Tilt o’ the Kilt, a local Celtic band.

About ParadeRest
ParadeRest presents its second annual collaboration with the Paramount Theater, following the success of last year’s benefit concert featuring Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band.

ParadeRest is a Charlottesville-based and Charlottesville-created organization composed of veterans, non-veterans, and representatives of the Central Virginia community, including the University of Virginia, the Paramount Theater, and many others.  Since 2009, ParadeRest provides ways to engage military service members and their families with the local community.

Primarily, local venues show their gratitude to military personnel by donating tickets to entertainment and sporting events, and ParadeRest acts as an intermediary for those donations.  ParadeRest also creates opportunities for other social outings, such as assisting with Christmas Dinner for the National Guard Armory and annual Memorial Day events at The Paramount Theater.

The transition from military to civilian employment can be a challenge for those returning service-members. The skill-sets that we gain through military service are often very relevant in the private sector as military personnel transition back to civilian life. ParadeRest is all about community and the recognition that our all-volunteer military will contribute to civic life after returning home.  ParadeRest continues to develop a program that helps introduce returning military to employers. By highlighting the commitment that area employers make towards hiring returning military, the “As You Were” Program will increase awareness and opportunity for both military personnel and employers alike.

In essence, ParadeRest is a “grassroots” program of people helping people, by simply starting conversations and making introductions.  It is Central Virginia’s way of honoring those who serve our nation.

ParadeRest thanks our sponsors who make this event possible:

ParadeRest Presents: Buster Keaton’s The General is in collaboration with the   .

Based on the novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara,  about the decisive 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the  Civil War, the film boasts fine performances by Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlain, Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee and Stephen Lang as  General George Pickett.

Rated PG

Runtime: 4 hrs. 42 min. (with an intermission)

Bullitt’s story is simple: An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. Directed by Peter Yates, the film stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset. Robert Duvall also has a small part as a cab driver who provides information to McQueen. Also included in the cast was a host of character actors whose faces either were familiar at the time or would become familiar: Simon Oakland, Vic Tayback, Norman Fell, and Georg Sanford Brown. Both a commercial and critial success, Bullitt is remembered for its car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco, regarded as one of the most influential in movie history – reportedly, speeds reached 110 mph. Those who enjoy finding continuity goofs can find several during the car chase, but the intensity of the action and brilliance of the editing more than make up for it.  In 2008, the Ford Motor Company produced the Mustang Bullitt model for the 40th anniversary of the film.

The screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner was based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish, using the pseudonym Robert L. Pike. Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. Lalo Schifrin, who wrote the iconic theme for  TV’s Mission: Impossible, composed the original jazz-inspired score, arranged for brass and percussion. The film was a critical and box office smash, later winning the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and receiving a nomination for Best Sound. Produced on a $5.5 million budget, Bullitt grossed over $42.3 million in the United States,making it the 5th highest grossing film of 1968.

In 2007, Bullitt was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

Rated PG

Runtime: 1 hr. 53 min.