2010 - 2011 Season announced!
See below for details...
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Summer 2009
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Leaving Iowa
by Tim Clue and Spike Manton
Audition Dates: May 10 @ 3 pm & May 11 @ 7 pm
Performance Dates: July *16,17,18,19,*23, 24, 25,26, 2009
*Indicates Dessert only performances
The spark behind Leaving Iowa comes from being children of parents from the now dubbed "greatest generation." The story is a toast to their idealism and character and a little roast of their undying dedication to the classic family road trip. More specifically, it is the story of Don Browning, a middle-aged writer, who returns home and decides to finally take his father's ashes to his childhood home, as requested. But when Don discovers Grandma's house is now a grocery store, he begins traveling across Iowa searching for a proper resting place for his father. This father-and-son road trip shifts smoothly from the present to Don's memories of the annual, torturous vacations of his childhood. Don's existential journey leads him to reconcile his past and present at the center of the United States. Leaving Iowa is a postcard to anyone who has ever found himself or herself driving alone on a road, revisiting fond memories of his or her youth.
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2009-2010 Season
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
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by Adam Long, Daniel Singer & Jess Winfield
Audition Dates: July 13 & 14 @ 7pm
Performance Dates: Sept. 10,11,12,13,17,18,19,20,24,25,26,27
Oct. 1,2,3,4,8,9,10 2009
Stunning! 37 plays in 97 minutes and hardly a second to catch your breath! Gag, after joke after gag, flying through all of Shakespeare’s plays at breakneck pace. The show is full of breathtaking energy as the cast runs, jumps and leaps across the stage. Hilarious use of leggings, wigs, skirts and props bring to life Romeo, Juliet, Julius Caesar, the witches from Macbeth, Hamlet, Ophelia and many more of Shakespeare’s, (aka ‘Bill’s) characters in ways you could only imagine. Diversity is all the range in the story telling - an eccentric, almost balletic version of Romeo and Juliet, Othello in rap, and the merging of all Shakespeare’s comedies into a single puppet show! Also the grouping of ‘the histories’ (King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV etc) into an American football match, complete with commentary and details of each character's accession and fall from power,will be a huge hit with the audience. The genius of this show isn’t merely its ability make you laugh (and laugh you will) but its ability to make you laugh while actually delivering (albeit) a brief synopsis of the play in question. Delivered with energy, enthusiasm and comic asides, the playis loved byall audiences - even by the people brave (or silly) enough to sit on the front row! Laugh a minute? More like laugh a second! This play has to be seen to be believed!
Noises Off
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by Michael Frayn
Audition Dates: September 21 & 22 @ 7 pm
Performance Dates: Dec. 3,4,5,10,11,12,13,17,18,19,20,30,31 2009
Jan. 1,2,3,7,8,9, 2010
Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off returned to Broadway with Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher and was also turned into a motion picture hit. The story revolves around a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing’s On. Complete with witty verbal repartee and no shortage of falling-pants gags, this farce is sure to warm you with the heartiest of belly laughs during this chilly season!
"The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy ... A spectacularly funny ... peerless backstage farce ... [This} dizzy, well-known romp ... [is a] festival of delirium."—The New York Times. "Bumper car brilliance ... If laughter is indeed the best medicine, NOISES OFF is worth its weight in Cipro."—New York Daily News.
"The funniest farce ever written ... Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical."—New York Post.
Almost, Maine
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by John Cariani
Audition Dates: December 7 & 8 @ 7 pm
Performance Dates: Feb. 11,12,13,14,18,19,20,21,25,26,27,28
March 4,5,6,7,11,12,13, 2010
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream.
"…a whimsical approach to the joys and perils of romance. Magical happenings bloom beneath the snowdrifts." —NY Times.
"A charmer…Unexpected magic lingers in the air like someone's breath on a cold winter's night. John Cariani aims for the heart by way of the funny bone." —Star-Ledger.
"A snowy charmer…These tales of love in the time of frostbite have a winning glow that proves surprisingly contagious." —NY Sun.
The Movie Game
by Adam Hummel
Audition Dates: February 22 & 23 @ 7pm
Performance Dates: April 29 & 30 May 1,2,6,7,8,9,13,14,15,16,20,21,22,23,27,28,29, 2010
The Movie Game is the story of Jack Goldberg, an unemployed cinephile, who has found himself in the midst of a pre-midlife crisis. Disenchanted with his weekly custom of meeting lifelong friend Sam (Samantha) at a condemned neighborhood movie theater for Chinese takeout, Jack decides the time has come for a drastic change. In an attempt to shake the rut he is in, Jack agrees to see "the therapist to the stars," Dr. Seuz, after his overbearing mother schedules an appointment for him. Seuz soon convinces Jack that, in order for him to move on with his life, he must undergo a radical type of therapy that forces Jack to play the leading man in his own romantic comedy. What begins as an informal, albeit unconventional exercise soon escalates to include an over-the-top director, a supporting cast of Jack's mother and father, and a love interest played by Jack's awkward and bookish sister. Meanwhile, Jack, unsure of his therapist's sanity, takes matters into his own hands after meeting and falling head over heels for the beautiful, but regrettably engaged Maggie. But Sam envisions a different ending to Jack's movie, an ending that puts her in Jack's arms instead of Maggie. Through a script that combines humor and heart, laughter and love, the audience is treated to a romantic comedy for the stage that tips its hat to pop culture and pays homage to such classic films as The Philadelphia Story, Annie Hall and When Harry Met Sally.
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Summer 2010
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Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Audition Dates: May 10 & 11, 2010 @ 7 pm
Dates: July *15, 16, 17, 18,*22, 23, 24, 25, 2010
*Indicates Dessert only performances
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Rabbit Hole is a touching drama infused with wit and humor. It chronicles the life of Becca and Howie Corbett who has everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in their darkest hours and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation—an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty." —Variety.
"Grade: A! A transcendent and deeply affecting new play, which shifts perfectly from hilarity to grief." —Entertainment Weekly.
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2010-2011 Season
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And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
Audition Dates: July 19 & 20, 2010 @ 7pm
Dates: Sept. 16,17,18,19,23,24,25,26,30 Oct. 1,2,3,7,8,9,10,14,15,16 2010
Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess, are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead---poisoned. One down and nine to go! In this superlative mystery comedy, statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to the diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" will meet his death until there are none. The excitement never lets up in this classic tale from the Queen of mystery.
The Odd Couple
by Neil Simon
Audition Dates: October 4 & 5, 2010 @ 7 pm
Dates: Dec. 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 29, 30, 31, 2010
Jan. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2011
This classic comedy opens as a group of guys assemble for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Unger who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious, depressed and none too tense, Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind when the clean-freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together with hilarious results as The Odd Couple is born.
Run For Your Wife
by Ray Cooney
Audition Dates: December 6 & 7, 2010 @ 7 pm
Dates: Feb. 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27; March 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 2011
John Smith leads a double life. His perfect schedule is interrupted when he attempts to save a little old lady from a pair of hoodlums. When the media and the police come knocking on his doors, hilarity ensues when he desperately tries to keep his two different lives separate.
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Audition Dates: February 21 & 22, 2011 @ 7pm
Dates: April 28, 29, 30; May 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 2011
This is the hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.