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* All performances
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NOW
PLAYING
'I Hate Hamlet'
A Comedy by Paul
Rudnick
Performances: Jan. 13, 14, 15*, 19, 20, 21,
22*
another performance
added - Saturday, January 28, 2012
Director:
John Stenko
 his
hilarious comedy revolves around Andrew, a
young TV actor, whose show has just been cancelled.
So he moves from L.A. to New York and rents
an apartment that once belonged to the legendary
actor, John Barrymore. He is apprehensive
about performing the difficult part of Hamlet
in the prestigious Shakespeare in Central
Park festival. When the ghost of John Barrymore,
fortified by champagne and ego, arrives, Andrew's
life is not his own as Barrymore presses him
to accept the part and fulfill his actor's
destiny. The laughs are nonstop as Andrew
wrestles with his conscience, Barrymore, his
sword, and the fact that he fails as Hamlet
in Central Park. Absolutely a hoot!
Tickets
Adults - $16
Seniors - $15
Students under 18 - $8
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UPCOMING SHOWS --
FEBRUARY,
MARCH 2012
'Pajama Game'
Book
by George Abbott and Richard
Bissell
Music & Lyrics by Richard
Adler and Jerry Ross
Auditions: Jan. 8 & 9,
7 p.m.
Performances: Feb. 24, 25
& 26*, March 1, 2, 3,
4*, 8, 9, 10 & 11*
Director: John Stenko
Tickets: Adults - $20,
Seniors - $19, Students under
18 - $10
The
Pajama Game is a musical
based on the novel "7½
Cents" by George Abbot
and Richard Bissell. It features
a score by Richard Adler and
Jerry Ross. The story deals
with labor troubles in a pajama
factory, where worker demands
for a seven-and-a-half cents
raise are going unheeded.
In the midst of this ordeal,
love blossoms between Babe,
the grievance committee head,
and Sid, the new factory superintendent.
The
original Broadway production
opened on May 13, 1954, and
ran for 1,063 performances.
It was revived in 1973, and
again in 2006 by The Roundabout
Theatre Company. The original
production won a Tony for
Best Musical, and the 2006
Broadway revival won a Tony
Award for Best Revival of
a Musical. The music includes
"Hey, There," "Steam
Heat," "Hernando's
Hideaway," "There
Once Was a Man," and
20 other Adler and Ross classic
tunes from the original production.
APRIL
2012
'On
Golden Pond'
Drama
by Ernest Thompson
Performances: April 13, 14
& 15* and April 19, 20,
21 & 22*
Auditions: March 4 & 5
Director: Nancy McCormick
Tickets: Adults - $16,
Seniors - $15, Students under
18 - $8
2005
Tony Award Winner for Best Revival
of a Play. This insightful play
focuses on an aging couple,
Ethel and Norman Thayer, who
spend each summer at their Maine
home on a lake called Golden
Pond. During the year the story
takes place, it is Norman's
80th birthday and they are visited
by their daughter, Chelsea,
whom they haven't seen in years,
with her fiancé and his
young son in tow. They are on
their way to Europe and ask
her parents to watch the 13-year-old
boy while they're away. Ethel
and Norman reluctantly agree
and as the summer fades, the
three grow close and the boy
becomes the grandson they always
wanted. This heartwarming story
explores the often turbulent
relationship of a young woman
and her father and the difficulties
faced by a couple in the twilight
years of a long marriage. An
American classic!
MAY
2012
'Crimes of the Heart'
Comedy/Drama
by Beth Henley
Performances: May 18, 19, 20*,
24, 25, 26 & 27*
Auditions: April 15 &16
Director: Karen Poulsen
Tickets: Adults - $16, Seniors
- $15, Students under 18 - $8
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama, this warm-hearted
play teems with humanity and
humor as it examines the plight
of three sisters in Hazlehurst,
Mississippi. They have gathered
to await news of the family
patriarch, their grandfather,
who is living out his last hours
in the local hospital. Lenny,
the oldest, is unmarried and
facing diminishing marital prospects;
Meg, the middle sister, who
quickly outgrew Hazlehurst,
is back after a failed singing
career on the West Coast; while
Babe, the youngest, is out on
bail after having shot her husband
in the stomach. Their troubles,
grave and yet somehow hilarious,
are highlighted by their priggish
cousin, Chick, and by an awkward
young lawyer who tries to keep
Babe out of jail while helpless
not to fall in love with her.
In the end, the play is the
story of how its young characters
escape the past to seize the
future-but the telling is so
true and touching and consistently
hilarious that it will linger
in the mind long after the curtain
has descended.
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