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Parade
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Book by
Alfred Uhry |
Music & Lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown |
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Directed by
Deborah Pearson & Meghan Pearson
Music Directed
by Dan Williams
Choreographed by
Jennifer Pearson
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September
10-25, 2010
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm
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In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in
Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory
worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a
sensationalist publisher and a janitor’s false testimony seal Leo’s fate. His
only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his
assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest
champion. Based on a true story. |
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Luther
by
John
Osborne |
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Directed by
Dan Tursi
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October 22 - November
6, 2010 Fridays &
Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm
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What moves a man like Martin Luther - the man who
initiated the Protestant Reformation? This exciting play reveals the man beneath
the cowl and the mind behind the dramatic split in Christianity. Through all
Luther's self-doubts, bodily ailments and brilliant intellectual achievements,
he is helped by the kind and rational superiors of his order. Here, then, is
Luther the man, monk and mind in all its doubts, honesty and clarity of purpose.
Luther, before the assembled dignitaries, lifts his book in his hand and says,
"Here I stand!" |
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The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & The Slaughter of 12 Hit
Carols in a Pear Tree
by
William
Gibson |
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Directed by
Sharee Lemos
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December 3-18, 2010
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm
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Dealing with the story of Mary and Joseph and the
birth of Jesus from a fresh and richly creative point of view, the author
combines a series of deftly constructed short scenes, traditional Christmas
music, and often antic characterizations into a wholly original theatre piece.
The flow of the action follows the Biblical recounting, but is enhanced by a
tree, a sheep and a donkey who talk (and most amusingly); a beguiling Mary who
had heretofore decided that men and marriage were not for her; a suddenly
cautious Joseph who now contends that he is too old for his intended (having
earlier scoffed at Mary for expressing the same thought); and a flustered
boy-angel who directs the action from a promptbook and manages to get only the
most strangled, bleating sounds from his trumpet. But, through all the lively
and resourceful happenings, the true significance of the occasion is never lost,
and the underlying mood and spirit of reverence is, if anything, enhanced and
made new by the distinctive approach of this joyful and unique retelling. |
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Music From a Sparkling Planet
by
Douglas
Carter Beane |
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Directed by
William Edward White
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January 14-29, 2011
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays
at 2pm
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Whatever became of Tamara Tomorrow? In the early
seventies, this local television host, in her antennae and space suit, made
cheery predictions of how exciting the future was going to be. Her sudden
disappearance from the public eye was one of the great mysteries of the
Philadelphia area. Three fans of Tamara, all grown up and disenchanted with the
"future" as she predicted, decide to go in search of this "Delaware Valley Greta
Garbo." What they find along the way teaches them more about themselves than
they really thought they could know. |
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Tonight at 8:30
The Red Peppers • Ways and Means • Hands Across the Sea
by
Noel
Coward |
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Directed by
Dan Stevens
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March 4-19, 2011
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm
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The Red Peppers: Doing a song and dance
act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily. They also have
a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co workers. When the house musical
director, Bert, comes to the dressing room to bum a cigarette and a beer, they
chide him for accompanying them in the wrong tempo, call him a drunk, and oust
him. Mr. Edwards, house manager, comes to defend Bert, and he is insulted. At
the following show Bert had his revenge when he plays the accompaniment so fast
the Peppers get frantic and finally fall down. Lily stalks off the stage after
heaving her hat at Bert.
Ways and Means: In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous
villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a
gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is
becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends
up saving their honor.
Hands Across the Sea: Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social
duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set
aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval
conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far
East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear
intimate phone conversations, are stumbled over, spilled upon and completely
ignored before Piggie finally gets it straight. |
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A Year
With Frog and Toad
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Book & Lyrics by
Willie Reale |
Music by
Robert Reale |
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Based on the books by
Arnold Lobel |
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Directed &
Music Directed by Colin Keating
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April 29 -
May 14, 2011 Fridays &
Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm
Mother's Day Dinner before the performance on Sunday, May 8 at 12:30
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A Year With Frog And Toad remains
true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the
cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad through four fun-filled
seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens,
swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way,
including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes
that make each of us different and special. |
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Arsenic and Old Lace
by
Joseph
Kesselring |
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Directed by
Daniel Rowlands
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June 17 -
July 2,
2011 Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays
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Welcome to the Brewster house, an
old Victorian in Brooklyn, NY, home to the darling sisters, Abby and Martha
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lovable and charitable spinsters. But this cheery home hides a dark and terrible
secret. Is it their nephew who labors under the delusion that he is Theodore
Roosevelt? Is it their other nephew, who bears a horrifying resemblance to Boris
Karloff? Or is it the sisters themselves, and the fact that they have 12
"gentlemen" buried in their cellar? One thing is for certain, thrills and laughs
a plenty are abundant in this delightful dark comedy. |
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