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SHOWS
OF THE 2012-2013 SEASON
THE DEADLINE
FOR PURCHASING SEASON TICKETS
IS SEPTEMBER 16, 2012. SEASON TICKETS
ARE $85
AND INCLUDE 6 SHOWS (marked with asterisk
below)
RESERVED SEATING ONLY
SEPTEMBER
2012
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'Rumors'
Comedy
by Neil Simon
Auditions: August 5 & 6, 2012 at
7 p.m.
Seven Performances: Sept. 7, 8, 9*,
13, 14, 15, 16*
Director: Jenny Sejansky
Tickets: Adults - $16, Seniors -
$15, Students under 18 - $8
 Four
couples arrive at the townhouse of a
deputy New York City mayor and his wife
to attend a party celebrating their
tenth wedding anniversary. However,
the four couples soon discover that
there are no servants, the hostess is
missing and the deputy mayor has shot
himself in the head (it's only a flesh
wound). Comic complications arise when,
given everyone's upper class status,
they decide they need to do everything
possible to conceal the evening's events
from the local police and the media.
Neil Simon at his best!
OCTOBER
2012
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'The Haunting
of Hill House'
Mystery
- from the novel by Shirley Jackson
Adapted for the stage by F. Andrew Leslie
Seven Performances: Oct. 12, 13, 14*,
18, 19, 20, 21*
Auditions: Sunday, September 9 &
Monday, September 10, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Director: Aaron Collins
Tickets: Adults - $16, Seniors - $15,
Students under 18 - $8
 Hill
House, a remote mansion with a sinister
reputation has remained empty for many
years except for the daily visits of
its caretaker, Mrs. Dudley, who refuses
to stay after dark. Dr. Montague, an
investigator of supernatural phenomena,
has obtained a short lease and invites
three people to Hill House to help explore
the history of the house and to come
to grips with occult forces. Each of
these three has his own reason for accepting
the invitation: Eleanor feels guilty
for her mother's death; Theodora, who
has ESP powers; and Luke, who will inherit
the house someday. Strange and eerie
occurrences soon occur and they struggle
to disguise their mounting fears. Dr.
Montague's wife and her friend, Arthur,
show up and attempt to directly communicate
with departed spirits which interferes
with the evil forces of Hill House and
results in a tragic end. Spooky and
suspenseful right up to the final curtain!
JANUARY 2013
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'The Fox On
The Fairway'
Farce by
Ken Ludwig
Seven Performances: Jan. 11, 12, 13*,
17, 18, 19 & 20*
Auditions: Sunday Dec. 2 & Monday
Dec 3, 7 p.m.
Director: Harriet Winokur
Tickets: Adults - $16, Seniors - $15,
Students under 18 - $8
 Hot
off the press! Ken Ludwig's latest madcap
adventure about love, life, and man's
eternal love affair with… golf.
The author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon
Over Buffalo takes audiences on a hilarious
romp which begins as Quail Valley Country
Club prepares to take on archrival Crouching
Squirrel in the annual golf tournament.
With a sizable wager at stake, the contest
plays out amidst three love affairs,
a disappearing diamond, objectional
sweaters and an exploding vase. Filled
with mistaken identities, slamming doors,
and over-the-top romantic shenanigans,
it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls
the Marx Brothers' classics. Absolutely
a hoot!
FEBRUARY, MARCH
2013
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'The Drowsy Chaperone'
Book by Bob
Martin and Don McKellar
Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg
Morrison
Auditions: Sunday, January 13 and Monday
January 14, 2013 at 7 p.m.
11 Performances: Feb. 22, 23 & 24*,
28 & March 1, 2, 3*, 7, 8, 9, 10*
Director: John Stenko
Tickets: Adults - $20, Seniors - $19,
Students under 18 - $10
 This
delightful musical pays tribute to the
Jazz-age shows of the 1920's. When a die-hard
musical theater fan plays his favorite
cast album on his turntable, the musical
literally bursts to life in his living
room, telling the rambunctious tale of
a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find,
and keep, her true love. As the needle
touches the record, the fan and the audience
are transported to a 1928 Broadway theater
crammed full of every cliche, gag and
gimmick from the golden age of musicals.
Loaded with lots of jazz and raz-ma-dazz!
APRIL 2013
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'Good People'
Drama by David
Lindsay-Abaire (Pulitzer Prize winning playwright)
Seven Performances: April 12, 13& 14*,
18, 19, 20 & 21*
Auditions: Sunday, March 3 and Monday March
4, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Director: Ted Pack
Tickets: Adults - $16, Seniors - $15,
Students under 18 - $8
 Welcome
to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where
a night on the town means a few rounds
of bingo… where this month's paycheck
covers last month's bills… and where
Margie Walsh has just been let go from
yet another job. Facing eviction and scrambling
to catch a break, Margie thinks an old
fling who has made it out of Southie might
be her ticket to a fresh new start. But
is this apparently self-made man secure
enough to face his humble beginnings?
Margie is about to risk what little she
has left to find out. A humor-laced drama
that will keep you guessing right up to
the final curtain.
MAY 2013
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'The Psychic
Comic Murder
Mystery by Sam Bobrick
Seven Performances: May 17, 18, 19*, 23,
24, 25, 26*
Auditions: Sunday April 14 and Monday April
15, 2013 at 7 p.m.
 Director:
Karen Poulsen
Tickets: Adults - $16,
Seniors - $15, Students under 18 - $8
Adam Webster, a down-on-his- luck writer,
in desperation to make the rent, has put
a sign in his apartment window, "Psychic
Readings $25." The characters it
draws in lead into a tangled murder mystery
of sorts in this hilarious original comedy.
Engaging, surprising, clever and funny!
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SUMMER SHOW
2012
'A Flea in Her
Ear '
Adaptation
by Frank Galati of Georges Feydeau's
Boulevard Farce
Auditions: Sunday June 17 and Monday,
June 18, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Six Performances: July 27, 28, 29*,
and August 3, 4 and 5*
Director: Jeanna Carley
Tickets: Adults - $16, Seniors - $15,
Students under 18 - $8
 An
explosively funny version of Georges Feydeau's
classic, with a complex series of mistaken
identities, clandestine assignations and
misplaced but explosive jealousies-all
happening at breakneck speed. Victor Deboshe,
a middle-class insurance salesman, becomes
impotent and his wife, Yvonne, assumes
he has taken a mistress. To test his fidelity
she has her friend, Lucille, write an
anonymous letter to Victor claiming to
be infatuated with him and proposing a
rendezvous at the notorious Hotel Pussy
a Go-Go. Thinking a mistake has been made,
Victor persuades his friend, Maurice (a
famous womanizer), to keep the appointment
for him, after which the complications
begin to multiply uproariously. Eventually
things are set right, but not before the
action has expanded to include a violently
jealous husband (a hot-blooded Spaniard),
a suicidal leap from a window, a nephew
with an unfortunate (but hilarious) speech
defect, a furious Indian fakir and a lascivious
butler, all tumbled together into a riotous
medley of slamming doors, revolving beds
and wildly amiss gun shots-all of which
will leave audiences happily breathless
from laughter.
NOVEMBER,
DECEMBER 2012
'The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee'
Music and
Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
11 Performances: Nov. 23, 24, 25*, 29,
30 and Dec.1, 2*, 6, 7, 8 & 9*
Auditions: Saturday, Sept. 22 &
Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 (Times to be
announced)
Director: Patti Earl
Tickets: Adults - $20, Seniors - $19,
Students under 18 - $10
 A
hit on Broadway, this hilarious musical
chronicles the experience of six adolescent
outsiders vying for the spelling championship
of a lifetime while overseen by grown-ups
who barely managed to escape childhood
themselves. They learn that winning
isn't everything and that losing doesn't
necessarily make you a loser. This is
a fun show for adults. Don't miss it!
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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.
