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A letter from Bob Hupp

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ear Friends,

Welcome to a vibrant, colorful new season at Syracuse Stage! This season has it all, and we invite you to experience these one-of-a-kind events by subscribing to our 2018-19 season. The emphasis is on fun and laughter in our new season: from the laugh-outloud hilarity of Noises Off, to the winning charm of familyfriendly Elf the Musical, to the smart, politically incorrect humor of Native Gardens, there is something for everyone in our 46th season. Add to this a world premiere by our own Kyle Bass where local history comes to vivid life, a jaunty new adaptation of Jane Austen, and a recent Tony Awardwinner for Best Play and you have a season that will entertain all year long.

Surprises await at every turn. And as a subscriber, you are front and center for all the action. Subscribers have the inside track on behind-the-scenes info that will make your experience even more special. Here’s a teaser: acclaimed playwright Kate Hamill, author of the new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice you’ll see in the spring, will appear as an actor in another production during our season. Join us as a season subscriber and get the scoop about how we pulled this off, along with other fascinating, insider tips about how we create the plays you’ll see on our stage.

The best actors, directors, and designers in the country join our outstanding resident team to create a season of plays and musicals especially for you. Will you join us? I hope so.

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PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: JUDY MCLANE IN NEXT TO NORMAL, KATE JARECKI IN THE WIZARD OF OZ, MICKEY ROWE IN THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. PHOTOS: MICHAEL DAVIS.

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NOISES OFF SEPTEMBER 12 - 30

BY MICHAEL FRAYN DIRECTED BY BOB HUPP

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ailed as the “funniest farce ever written” and a “festival of delirium,” Noises Off is legendary in the annals of laughter. As a company of actors attempts to deliver a comedy onstage, playwright Frayn takes us behind the scenes where the real farce explodes. Slamming doors, wayward fish, and comic chaos delivered with impeccable precision make Noises Off the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.

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CALENDAR KEY PR = preview OP = opening D = discussion S = ASL interpreted O = open captioning A = audio description

P = prologue H = happy hour W = Wed@1 L = last call Fridays R/SF = relaxed/sensory friendly performance

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POSSESSING HARRIET

A COLD READ WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION

POSSESSING HARRIET OCTOBER 17 - NOVEMBER 4

BY KYLE BASS DIRECTED BY TAZEWELL THOMPSON COMMISSIONED BY THE ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

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n 1839, Harriet Powell, a young, mixed-race, enslaved woman slips away from a hotel in Syracuse, New York, and escapes from the Southerner who owns her. With the aid of a mysterious free black man named Thomas Leonard, Harriet finds temporary safe harbor in an attic room at the home of impassioned abolitionist Gerrit Smith. With the slave catchers in pursuit, Harriet spends the hours before her nighttime departure on the dangerous journey to Canada in the company of Smith’s young cousin Elizabeth Cady, an outspoken advocate for women’s equality. Confronted with new and difficult ideas about race, identity, and equality, and with confusion, fear, and desperation multiplying, Harriet is forced to the precipice of radical self-reimagination and a reckoning with the heartrending cost of freedom. A world premiere by award-winning playwright and Syracuse Stage associate artistic director Kyle Bass.

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ELF THE MUSICAL NOVEMBER 23 - JANUARY 6 BOOK BY THOMAS MEEHAN AND BOB MARTIN | MUSIC BY MATTHEW SKLAR | LYRICS BY CHAD BEGUELIN | DIRECTED BY DONNA DRAKE MUSICAL DIRECTION BY BRIAN CIMMET | CHOREOGRAPHED BY BRIAN J. MARCUM | BASED ON THE NEW LINE CINEMA FILM BY DAVID BERENBAUM | CO-PRODUCED WITH THE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA

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his holiday season channel your inner elf and join Buddy on his journey from the North Pole to New York City to find his real family. For this journey you’ll need provisions (four food groups recommended: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup), snowballs, and an ability to sing very loud (but maybe wait for the ride home). Most of all, you’ll need family and friends and a desire to spread holiday cheer. Donna Drake (The Wizard of Oz) returns to direct this delightful holiday show.

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NATIVE GARDENS FEBRUARY 13 - MARCH 3

BY KAREN ZACARÍAS DIRECTED BY MELISSA CRESPO CO-PRODUCED WITH GEVA THEATRE CENTER AND PORTLAND CENTER STAGE

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njoy a light-hearted look at what ails us in this witty and spot-on new comedy. Take a semi-retired Washington bureaucrat and his defense contractor wife, a young Chilean lawyer and his doctoral student wife, set them cheek by jowl in a border dispute over a couple of feet of property in a Georgetown backyard, and let the laughter begin. Privilege, prejudice, and yes, a border dispute all get an equitable skewering in this punchy and playful show. The road to recovering our shared sense of decency might just begin with laughter. A winner of the National Latino Playwriting Award, Karen Zacarías is among the most produced playwrights in the nation. This satirical gem shows us why.

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE MARCH 20 - APRIL 7

BY KATE HAMILL DIRECTED BY JASON O’CONNELL

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n the age of The Crown and Victoria, we go back to the Anglophile source with Kate Hamill’s playful adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic romance, Pride and Prejudice. The outspoken Elizabeth Bennet faces mounting pressure from her status-conscious mother to secure a suitable marriage. But is marriage suitable for a woman of Elizabeth’s intelligence and independence?

Especially when the irritating, aloof, self-involved… tall, vaguely handsome, mildly amusing, and impossibly aristocratic Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at every turn? What? Why are you looking at us like that? Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life than it does in this effervescent new adaptation. Hey, Jane Austen could show these upstart hipsters a thing or two.

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CALENDAR KEY PR = preview OP = opening D = discussion S = ASL interpreted O = open captioning A = audio description

P = prologue H = happy hour W = Wed@1 L = last call Fridays R/SF = relaxed/sensory friendly performance

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THE HUMANS APRIL 24 - MAY 12

BY STEPHEN KARAM DIRECTED BY MARK CUDDY CO-PRODUCED WITH GEVA THEATRE CENTER

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ritically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. The Blakes of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric and Deirdre, have come to Chinatown to spend the holiday with their adult daughters, Aimee and Brigid. Along for the celebration are Momo, Eric’s mother teetering in and out of consciousness, and Richard, Brigid’s boyfriend. Of course, they eat turkey, but when they talk turkey, it really gets interesting. A blisteringly funny and poignant play about people we might know and people we could be.

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MARCH 7 - 10

Playwright-in-residence: LARISSA FASTHORSE

COLD READ: A FESTIVAL OF HOT NEW PLAYS

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he 2019 Cold Read Festival promises four exciting events, including a reading of work by playwright/ choreographer Larissa FastHorse, who has been awarded an NEA Distinguished New Play Development Grant, Joe Dowling Annamaghkerrig Fellowship, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Inge Residency, Sundance/ Ford Foundation Fellowship, Aurand Harris Fellowship, and numerous other Ford and NEA grants.

Last season at the inaugural Cold Read Festival, talented Syracuse Stage trustees and friends stepped into the limelight for a rousing staged reading of Act One by James Lapine, directed by former Syracuse Stage artistic director Bob Moss. A cast of professionals—all veterans of Syracuse Stage productions—introduced the intriguing play The Effect by Lucy Prebble, directed by Bob Hupp.

Writer/performer Liza Jessie Peterson held audiences spellbound with her one-person show Down the Rabbit Hole All Day Long, based on her experience teaching juveniles at Rikers Island, directed by Justin Emeka. And playwright Maurice Emerson Decaul and director Flordelino Lagundino teamed up with a cast of professionals to present a reading of Decaul’s work in progress Deliverance.

Empire Brewery was on hand to supply the drafts for this “Draft/Pages” event.

COLD READ 2018 PHOTOS FROM TOP: ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND COLD READ CURATOR KYLE BASS. DORCAS SOWUNMI AND ROBBIE SIMPSON IN THE EFFECT. BOARD MEMBERS JULIA MARTIN, GINNY PARKER, FRAN NICHOLS, AND JOHN HUHTALA IN ACT ONE.

LEFT TO RIGHT: CHAZ ROSE, MATTHEW GREER, SETH ANDREW BRIDGES, CLARO AUSTRIA, TYLER LYONS, AND WESTON BARNWELL IN THE THREE MUSKETEERS. PHOTO: MICHAEL DAVIS

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