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Announcing our 15th season!
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by Thornton Wilder |
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Directed by Sharee Lemos |
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September 7-22, 2007 |
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| Juxtaposed against the broader background of time, social history, and the universality of normal events, we are engaged in the lives of two families as they journey though the stages of daily life, love and marriage and death, and become as familiar to us as our own. They will make you laugh, touch you with their humanity, and move you to realize that these are the important things that make life what it is and has always been. When asked what Our Town was about, Mr. Wilder replied: “The play is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.” | ||
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Playing With Fire (after Frankenstein) by Barbara Field adapted from Mary Shelley's novel |
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Directed by William Edward White |
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October 19 - November 3, 2007 |
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| As the play begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt – for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Monster killed out of pique when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant, quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil – culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?" | ||
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by Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears |
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Directed by Jon Wilson |
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November 30 - December 15, 2007 |
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| David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office, but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas or anytime entertainment. | ||
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by Barbara Lebow |
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Directed by Linda Lance |
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January 18 - February 2, 2008 |
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| Amidst the idealism and violence of Freedom Summer in 1964 Mississippi, three college students vanish, seemingly without a trace. As the parents of Honey, Linda, and Wes cope with their loss, they become inescapably linked – the heirs of their lost children’s dreams. Throughout the next three decades, the connections among these people with very disparate backgrounds are tested against the fire of the country’s social and political turbulence. The structure of the play mixes naturalism with a surprising time curve that evokes the whirl of events surrounding the parents’ interwoven journeys. | ||
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by Euripides Translated by Nicholas Rudall |
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Directed by Dan Stevens |
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February 29 - March 15, 2008 |
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A bleak and agonizing portrait of war's brutality inspired by a barbaric act of retribution committed on the isle of Melos during the war between Athens and Sparta, this masterpiece of pathos thrusts audiences into the pain suffered by innocent victims. |
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The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 by John Bishop |
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Directed by Jon Wilson |
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May 2-17, 2008 Mother's Day Dinner before the performance on Sunday, May 11 at 12:30 Please note: this is a comedic murder mystery, NOT a musical. |
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The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (during which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." As the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, the infamous "Slasher" makes his reappearance and strikes again – and again - and bodies start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, and accusing fingers point in all directions. However the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the "Slasher" unmasked - but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of the author's biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit. |
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by Neil Simon |
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Directed by Bryan Allen Jones • Nora O'Dea • Peter Zalizniak |
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June 20 - July 5,
2008 Enjoy this show in our air-conditioned theater! |
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Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields. He calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little romantic diversion. Over the years she has idolized him from afar and is now more than the match he bargained for. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her or as mamma yells, "I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!" |
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The Season |
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