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SHOWS
OF THE 2011-2012 SEASON
THE DEADLINE FOR PURCHASING
SEASON TICKETS
IS SEPTEMBER 18, 2011. SEASON TICKETS ARE $85
AND INCLUDE 6 SHOWS (SEE INSET AT LEFT).
SEPTEMBER
'Alone Together'
Comedy by Lawrence Roman
Auditions: July 31 & August 1, 2011 at
7 p.m.
Performances: Sept. 9, 10 & 11*, 15, 16,
17 & 18*
Director: Harriet Winokur
Tickets: Adults
- $16, Seniors - $15, Students under 18 -
$8
When the last
of three sons has finally left the nest for
college, George and Helene Butler, a middle
aged couple, breathe a sigh of relief. They
are finally alone together and look forward
to some time to themselves and to renew their
relationship. But the empty nest fills up again
by the sudden, unexpected return home of all
their sons, after experiencing some hard knocks
in the real world. How can Mom and Dad empty
the nest once again and make them grow up? A
cleverly comic, witty and wise show for parents
everywhere.
OCTOBER
2011
'Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor® Dreamcoat'
Music by Andrew
Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Tim Rice
Performances: Oct. 14, 15, 16*, 20, 21, 22,
23*, 27, 28, 29 & 30*
Auditions: Saturday, August 27 & Sunday,
August 28, 12 noon
Directors: Shelly Wawrzonek and Ted Pack
Tickets: Adults -
$20, Seniors - $19, Students under 18 - $10
A popular
musical with catchy music based on the "coat
of many colors" biblical story of Joseph,
who is sold as a slave by his brothers because
of his ability to explain people's dreams.
When the pharaoh calls on him to break down
a dream, Joseph predicts a famine and is made
the pharaoh's secondhand man. When the famine
hits, Joseph's brothers come to him for relief
and have to pass a test to prove they've changed
before he'll forgive them. Fun for the whole
family!
JANUARY 2012
'I Hate Hamlet'
Comedy by Paul
Rudnick
Performances: Jan. 13, 14, 15*, 19, 20, 21
& 22*
Auditions: Dec. 4 & 5, 7 p.m.
Director: John Senko
Tickets: Adults - $16, Seniors - $15, Students
under 18 - $8
This 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!
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: Dottie Hughes
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.
EXTRA
SHOWS
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SEASON
SUMMER 2011
'The Foreigner'
Comedy by Larry Shue
Auditions: June 19 & 20 at 7 p.m.
Performances: July 29, 30, & 31*, August
5, 6 & 7*
Director: Patti Earl
Tickets: Adults
- $16, Seniors - $15, Students under 18 -
$8
An inspired
comic romp! "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British
demolition expert, arrives at a fishing lodge
in rural Georgia to run training sessions at
a nearby army base. "Froggy" has brought
along a friend, a pathologically shy young man
named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the
thought of making conversation with strangers.
So "Froggy," before departing, tells
all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic
foreign country and speaks no English! Once
alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears
more than he should-the evil plans of a sinister,
two-faced minister and his redneck associate;
the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée
is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations
made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand
a word being said. This fuels the nonstop hilarity
of the play and sets up a wildly funny climax
in which things go uproariously awry for the
"bad guys" and the "good guys"
emerge triumphant.
DECEMBER
2011
'Dashing Through The
Snow'
Comedy by Jesse
Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Performances: Dec. 2, 3, 4*, 8, 9, 10 &
11*
Auditions: October 23 & 24, 7 p.m.
Director: Aaron Collins
Tickets: Adults -
$16, Seniors - $15, Students under 18 - $8
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Holiday hilarity abounds in Tinsel, Texas
and the laughs are non-stop. In the days leading
up to Christmas, guests at the Snowflake Inn
B&B go to extraordinary lengths to keep
their Yuletide plans on track. Trina Walcott,
Innkeeper, has her hands full with a pair
of feisty, feuding aunts, a troop of ham actors
on a secret mission, a rendezvous between
Mrs. Claus and an amorous elf, and a raucous
visit with the Futrelles: Honey Raye, Twink,
Frankie, Rhonda Lynn and their loveable sidekick,
Raynerd. These tales will make your season
merry and bright!
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