Appleseed Productions: 2010-11 Season

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2010-11 Season

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Parade

Book by

Alfred Uhry

Music & Lyrics by

Jason Robert Brown

Directed by Deborah Pearson & Meghan Pearson

Music Directed by Dan Williams

Choreographed by Jennifer Pearson

September 10-25, 2010
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm

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

John Osborne

Directed by Dan Tursi

October 22 - November 6, 2010
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm

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

William Gibson

Directed by Sharee Lemos

December 3-18, 2010
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm

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

Douglas Carter Beane

Directed by William Edward White

January 14-29, 2011
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm

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

Noel Coward

Directed by Dan Stevens

March 4-19, 2011
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm

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

Book & Lyrics by

Willie Reale

Music by

Robert Reale

Based on the books by Arnold Lobel

Directed & Music Directed by Colin Keating

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

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

Joseph Kesselring

Directed by Daniel Rowlands

June 17 - July 2, 2011
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 2pm

Welcome to the Brewster house, an old Victorian in Brooklyn, NY, home to the darling sisters, Abby and Martha – two 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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