SPRING 2009
IMAGINE , DRE AM, ESCAPE ! 2009/2010 Season
Putting
a well-balanced season together requires careful consideration. Elements to be factored in are: size of show, seasonality, balance of musicals to non-musicals and affordability to produce. In order to be successful, we have to create work that our audiences want to support. Given the economic slowdown, we are hoping to remind our audiences that theater can be a great antidote to these troubling times. Being able to sit in a theater and have a shared experience with hundreds of others allows us to be transported to various time periods and locations by simply raising the curtain. Our Imagine, Dream, Escape season will include an eclectic array of experiences that will help us both reflect on the world we live in and sometimes escape into a better one.
World Premiere November 10-22, 2009
The season will begin with a world premiere play, Fanny Brice: The Real Funny Girl, that includes songs that will illuminate Fanny Brice’s career such as “Second Hand Rose” and “My Man.” Brice’s life was complicated and full of conflict, which is contrary to how she was portrayed by Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl. This retrospective on her life will be a more accurate representation of the life she really lived, including her tumultuous upbringing, her relationship with the gangster, Nicky Arnstein and her struggles with having to have the “funny girl” exterior despite her inner turmoil.
Next up will be what many critics feel is Neil Simon’s best play, Lost in Yonkers. This play received the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for “Best Play” and follows brothers, Jay and Arty, who are forced to live with their less-than-beloved grandmother while their widower father works on the road during World War II. While awaiting the return of their father, the boys wrestle to contain their fiery wit as a host of relatives (one more eccentric than the next) enter their lives. Join us for this highly entertaining and moving evening of theatre.
January 12-31, 2010
December 1-13, 2009
To bring in the New Year, we will be producing one of Broadway’s biggest hits and Tony Award winner, La Cage aux Folles, with book by Harvey Fierstein and score by Jerry Herman. This crowd-pleasing production will challenge audiences to defy their eyes as well as their views of what it means to be a “family.” Based on the 1973 French play by Jean Poiret and subsequent 1978 screen version (one of the most popular foreign films ever released in the U.S.), the musical focuses on the adventures and hilarity that ensue when a gay couple’s son brings home his fiancée’s ultra-conservative parents.
The growing pains of our nation is chronicled in this grand pageant of pre-World War I America, Tintypes. Like Ragtime, this nostalgic but thrillingly subversive revue takes us back to turn of the century America, when the innocent, slower-paced days of ice cream socials and hoop skirts are giving way to a bustling world of automobiles, electricity and the telephone, and where American optimism and ingenuity run high. Featuring classic songs from that time, such as “You’re A Grand Old Flag” and “Yankee Doodle Boy,” this musical will make you proud to be an American!
February 9-28, 2010
Anything Goes, the splashy musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, follows the madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Audiences are certain to get a kick out of this lighthearted gem of mistaken identities and misbegotten romance where Billy Crocker tries to woo the girl of his dreams. This musical’s smashing score introduced such songs as “Anything Goes,” “You’re the Top,” “I Get a Kick Out of You” and will have you singing and dancing along to this tuneful tap-dancing romp. March 9-28, 2010
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