On December 17, 2014, BAT held a Holiday Concert fundraiser with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet. If you missed it there is still time to (1) see the concert and (2) make a donation…
Talking to the Tip Toppers after they finished their run at the “Tip Top Lounge” as part of “Bob’s Holiday Office Party” on Sunday. (It was the first time BAT had live pre-show, intermission and…
There is a reason why BAT is holding three fundraisers in December, while it also has 
“Bob’s Holiday Office Party” on the main stage. Like every small theater, it is impossible for BAT to cover its expenses through ticket sales.
BAT’s work is well worth over $200 per seat, but that is out of range of many who now come and see better live theater at BAT. Art should not only be for those who can afford $200 plus tickets. Theater should be for everyone: a way to grow and support Burien. That philosophy is why BAT has not raised ticket prices in over 5 years, and why $7 Sunday (the first Sunday of the run) has become a tradition at BAT.
But you cannot go to see small theater without understanding what this articles says. “Nonprofit theatres all over the country are in trouble.” Small theaters like BAT need your support.
BAT buys local when possible. Here is a good example, the Bourbon in Bob’s Bourbon Rider, one of the specialty cocktails BAT created for “Bob’s Holiday Office Party” was distiller nearby, in Woodenville. Not right…
“Bob’s Holiday Office Party” is a fun filled Holiday comedy aimed to help you de-stress. But don’t take BAT’s word for it: Highline Times review HERE TICKETS
By Allan Loucks
People often mistake what I’m doing for “sound-design” or “doing-sound” However, I am 
composing and performing a music score, which has much more in common with the script than anything else.
My music scores are always one complete piece of music. They are NOT a series of individual cues. The entire score has a beginning, middle, and end. This always coincides with the beginning, middle, and end of the story. It helps to think of each separate music-cue as a movement, a part of the whole, just as a chapter is part of the story. It’s a cause-and-effect flow, moving forward: each piece is the result of the music that came before it. Just like dialog. It also helps to think of the music more like a narrator, which best describes its function in the production.
For this show, I began by analyzing a couple hundred Christmas songs, looking for qualities that make these types of songs sound the way they do. I managed to find a 4-note musical motive common to at least half of them.
I decided to use this motive as a structural basis for composing the entire music score. This includes the beginnings and ends of acts, the song for solo-voice, and the “records”
On December 17, BAT presents a Holiday Concert with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet featuring Natalie Dungey, soloist (check out solo starting at at 2:34). This will be traditional Holiday music played by a…
On December 10, 2013, BAT suffered through a fire. (Fire bad!) On December 10, 2014, BAT is going to take time out of its Holiday craziness to thank those who put out the fire and…