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Announcing our 16th season!
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Goodbye Charlie by George Axelrod |
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Directed by William Edward White |
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September 12-27, 2008 |
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| Charlie was a demon lover, a connoisseur of wines, and the possessor of a fine backhand. He met his end trying to escape through a porthole on a cuckold's yacht. Now Charlie has returned as a woman, and his big problem is changing his personality from male to female. The transformation of attitudes, gestures, and expressions is hilarious. Posing as Charlie's wife, his female reincarnation meets several of his mistresses and begins a collection for a memorial to Charlie, at $5000 apiece. Meanwhile Charlie's friend has begun to feel a different kind of affection for the new Charlie. | ||
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Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from Bram Stoker's novel |
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Directed by Patricia Elise Catchouny |
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October 24 - November 8, 2008 |
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| Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanatorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is at last laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. One of the great mystery thrillers and generally considered among the best of its kind. | ||
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Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn |
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Directed by Dan Stevens |
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December 5-20, 2008 |
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| This intricate time traveling comic thriller is about a London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine. | ||
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Twelve Angry Men* by Reginald Rose |
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Directed by Dustin M. Czarny |
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January 23 - February 7, 2009 |
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A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. It looks like an open-and-shut case until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. Deliberation soon becomes personal, with each juror revealing his own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it in tense scenes that will electrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature. This production will be presented in Theatre-in-the-Round style, putting a new twist on one of America's theatrical classics. |
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The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin |
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Directed by Sharee Lemos |
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March 13-28, 2009 |
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In a communal residence in New England, under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack, live four mentally handicapped men. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they are allotted on this earth. |
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I Shot My Rich Aunt by Mark Chandler |
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Directed by Jon Wilson |
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May 1-16, 2009 Mother's Day Dinner before the performance on Sunday, May 10 at 12:30 |
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This rollicking romp is a mιlange of off the wall farce and near murder mystery. Guests are due at Lady Valonia's stately manor (a castle with a weird history) for the announcement of her nephew Dustin's engagement to Judy Blake. Unluckily, Dustin's former flame also arrives to find out why Dustin dumped her while Judy's brother is persuaded to go shoot at starlings. The family solicitor is on his way to change Valonia's will (out of Dustin's favor) and Judy's school chum Gwendolyn is coming to ensnare Dustin's cousin, a humble curate. A stray bullet enters the library and Dustin finds Valonia with a hole in her blouse oozing warm red liquid. By the time he gets help, the body has vanished. Meanwhile, the picketing cooks' and maidservants' unions have raised the drawbridge, entrapping everyone as night falls. The solicitor's wife thinks he's having an affair with Gwendolyn and arrives with horsewhip in hand on the incoming fire engine. Who said the place was on fire? |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart |
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Directed by Dustin M. Czarny |
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June 12-27,
2009 |
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This musical takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from time-tested, 2000 year old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. The result is a non-stop laugh-fest in which a crafty slave (Pseudolus) struggles to win the hand of a beautiful but slow-witted courtesan (Philia) for his young master (Hero), in exchange for freedom. |
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