Friday, November 8, 2013

Take a Holiday Ride for a Rolling Theater Experience

For folks looking for fun things to do with the family while in New York this holiday season, The Ride's holiday version announces a second season Nov. 20 through Jan. 5

The Ride has played 27 months of sold-out tours with  74,800 customers taking the 4.2-mile journey that has been termed “a Passport to New York City.” Four motor coaches become a fleet of traveling, audience-participation theater. They are specifically designed theatrical vehicles; the tallest allowed by federal law, fitted with stadium-style seating that orients the 49passengers sideways to look through the massive windows that deliver New York as the most successful Broadway show on earth. The multi-million dollar coaches are equipped with surround sound, 3,000 LED lights and 40 video screens.  (I took a tour ast year. Read about it here: http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/2012/12/what-to-see-and-do-this-holiday-season.html#.UnzpWvmUQnM)

This year's Holiday Ride schedule:
NOVEMBER 2013
Nov 15th, 2pm, 4pm (Previews)
Nov 16th, 7pm, 8:30pm (Previews)
Nov 17th, 12 noon, 2pm, 4pm (Previews)
Nov 18th, 7pm, 8:30pm (Previews)
Nov 20th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Nov 21st, 7pm, 8:30pm
Nov 22nd, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Nov 23rd, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Nov 24th, 2pm, 4pm
Nov 25th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Nov 26th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Nov 27th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Nov, 28th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Nov, 29th, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Nov 30th, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm

DECEMBER 2013
Dec 1st, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
Dec 2nd, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 3rd, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 4th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 5th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 6th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 7th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 8th, 2pm, 4pm
Dec 9th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 10th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 11th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 12th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 13th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 14th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 15th, 2pm, 4pm
Dec 16th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 17th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 18th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 19th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 20th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 21st, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 22nd, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 23rd, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Dec 24th, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Dec 25th, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 8:30pm
Dec 26th, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Dec 27th, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Dec 28th, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Dec 29th, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Dec 30th, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm

JANUARY 2014
Jan 1st, 7pm, 8:30pm
Jan 2nd, 7pm, 8:30pm
Jan 3rd, 7pm, 8:30pm
Jan 4th, 7pm, 8:30pm
Jan 5th, 2pm, 4pm

THE BOX OFFICE:
Located on 42nd Street between Broadway & Eighth Avenue.
Directly beside Madame Tussauds.

TICKETS: $74

Individual Tickets:
ExperienceTheRide.com & 866-811-4111

Groups: 212-244-2551 x168
Holiday Groups: 212-244-2551 x168

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Lauren Yarger has written, directed and produced numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of “A Christmas Carol” which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the Vermont Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.” She also has written two other dinner theaters, sketches for church services and devotions for Christian artists. Her play concept, "From Reel to Real: The Jennifer O'Neill Story" was presented as part of the League of professional Theatre Women's Julia's reading Room Series in New York. Shifting from reviewing to producing, Yarger owns Gracewell Productions, which produced the Table Reading Series at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT. She trained for three years in the Broadway League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Intensive and other training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway run. She was a Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She wrote reviews of Broadway and Off-Broadway theater (the only ones you can find in the US with an added Christian perspective) at http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/.

She is editor of The Connecticut Arts Connection (http://ctarts.blogspot.com), an award-winning website featuring theater and arts news for the state. She was a contributing editor for BroadwayWorld.com. She previously served as theater reviewer for the Manchester Journal-Inquirer, Connecticut theater editor for CurtainUp.com and as Connecticut and New York reviewer for American Theater Web.

She is a Co-Founder of the Connecticut Chapter of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is a former vice president and voting member of The Drama Desk.

She is a freelance writer and playwright (member Dramatists Guild of America). She is a member if the The Outer Critics Circle (producer of the annual awards ceremony) and a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, serving as Co-Founder of the Connecticut Chapter. Yarger was a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly A former newspaper editor and graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Yarger also worked in arts management for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and served for nine years as the Executive Director of Masterwork Productions, Inc. She lives with her husband in West Granby, CT. They have two adult children.

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