A TALE OF TWO CITIES
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
BY CHARLES DICKENS ADAPTED BY MIKE POULTON
BOOK & LYRICS BY SIR WILLIAM GILBERT MUSIC BY SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
“IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES; IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES...” Framed by a traveling troupe of actors creating this classic tale before the audience’s eyes, this new adaptation of Dickens’ greatest work portrays a world divided…the aristocracy fighting to stay on top, while the poverty-stricken lower class slowly simmers, planning an uprising. An epic story of love, sacrifice, destiny, and redemption, interweaving one family’s intensely personal drama with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. Featuring some of Dickens’ most memorable characters, this story has never been more relevant or impactful.
NOVEMBER 17-19, 2016 Zak Rosen ‘16 and Charlie Olmert ‘17 in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
“IT IS; IT IS A GLORIOUS THING TO BE A PIRATE KING.” Gilbert and Sullivan’s hilarious, hopeful musical follows young Frederic, an orphan who has mistakenly been apprenticed to an ineffectual but raucous band of pirates. He disavows the pirates’ way of life and falls for the beautiful Mabel. Frederic’s melodious tones win over the heart of Major General Stanley’s songbird daughter, Mabel, but when the Pirate King discovers General Stanley has lied about being an orphan to keep the pirates from stealing all of his belongings and carrying off his bevy of beautiful daughters, an “ingenious paradox” may prevent the budding romance and lead to the death of “the very model of a modern Major-General.”
FEBRUARY 23-25, 2017
BLACK COMEDY (A FARCE IN THE DARK) BY PETER SHAFFER
“LET THERE BE LIGHT!” In a feat of theatrical genius, the action supposedly in the dark is illuminated; when the lights are to be on, the stage is in the dark. Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objets d’arte “borrowed” from the absent antique collector next door hoping to impress his fiancee’s pompous father and a wealthy art dealer, Schuppanzigh. The fussy neighbor returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored in this hilarious comedy of errors.
APRIL 20-21 & 23, 2017
Ella Green ‘17 in “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
Cast of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Quinn Roes ‘19, Sarah Peeler ‘18, Kendall Jacobsen ‘19, and Noah Jaccard ‘18 in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Alana Miller ‘18 and Jimmy Diamondidis ‘18 in “The Mousetrap”