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Almost, Maine
The Marvelous Wonderettes
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Fall musical: The Marvelous Wonderettes
By Roger Bean; Directed by Sharon Greany
Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., September 9 – October 8, 2011
Sunday Matinees 2 p.m., September 18 & 25, October 2 & 9
The Place: Springfield High School. The People: Missy, Cindy Lou, Betty Jean, Suzy.
It’s 1958 and the senior prom is in crisis. The Crooning Crab Cakes cannot perform because their leader was suspended for smoking near the locker room. Luckily, the Wonderettes are able to step into the breach. We learn about the lives, loves, and dreams of these fabulous four as they sing through classic hits from the late 1950s. In Act Two, we find the girls at their 10-year reunion still singing, dreaming, and dealing with life’s key changes. Don’t miss this cotton-candy colored, non-stop musical blast from the past! |
Holiday show: Almost, Maine
By John Cariani; Directed by Larry Blain
Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., November 18 – December 10, 2011
Sunday Matinees 2 p.m., November 27, December 4 & 11
The Place: Almost, Maine. The People: Mainers
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 amusing ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream. |
Winter play: The Fourth Wall
By A.R. Gurney; Directed by Steven Stolee
Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., January 27 – February 11, 2012
Sunday Matinees 2 p.m., January 29, February 5 & 12
The Place: Peggy’s Living Room. The People: Peggy, Roger, Julia, and a local theater professor.
Peggy has redecorated the living room, and her husband Roger can't stand it. Peggy's usual exquisite taste was overcome by a mysterious lapse which caused her to redo the room as if it were a stage set. Everything faces one wall, the "fourth wall," which is left bare and is really the audience. Unable to cope with this, Roger asks their old, dear friend Julia to fly up from New York. Julia agrees that something strange is going on, especially since everyone who enters the room begins to behave as if they were acting in a play, or even a musical, when occasionally someone feels the urge to sing a Cole Porter song. Great fun! |
Spring play: Broken Up
By Nick Hall; Directed by Eric Wise
Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., March 23 – April 7, 2012
Sunday Matinees 2 p.m., March 25, April 1 & 8
The Place: The State Of Marriage. The People: Meg, the ex, the wanna be, and the blind date.
Meg Owens is in the middle of moving into her new apartment and out of her old marriage. All she has to do is have Tom, her husband, sign the final papers and then she can start her new life. However, signing the final papers becomes increasingly difficult, and her new life, represented by an amorous landlord and a fast talking divorce expert, is already under way. This fast moving, slap-stick farce proves that, if marriage is hell, divorce is hilarious. |
Spring musical: Nunsensations: Nunsense Vegas Revue
By Dan Goggin; Directed by Gwen Adams
Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., May 18 – June 16, 2012
Sunday Matinees 2 p.m., May 27, June 3, 10 & 17
(This is change from the dates listed in our season brochure)
The Place: Sin City. The People: Hilarious, Musical Nuns.
When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters’ school if they will perform at a Las Vegas club, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” Reverend Mother agrees. What follows is the most feather-filled, sequin-studded, fan dancing Nunsense show ever! Performing in The Pump Room at the Mystique Motor Lodge, the sisters experience “show-biz” like never before. Taking a line from another show, a critic pointed out, “It’s a whole lot funny and a little bit naughty, but there ain’t nothin’ dirty goin’ on!” |
Summer show: Greater Tuna
By Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard; Directed by Linda Jenson
Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m., July 20 – August 4, 2012
Sunday Matinees 2 p.m., July 22 & 29, August 5
The Place: Tuna, Texas. The People: Two crazy actors.
What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye and Rev. Spikes all have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small-town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna—Texas' third smallest town. The long-running Off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna. It’s a tour-de-farce of quick-change artistry, with costumes and characterizations changing faster than a jack rabbit running from a coyote. Two actors, twenty characters, and a barrel of laughs, y’all. |
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