OUR TOWN - Drama
By Thornton Wilder
August 3-5, 10-12, 2007
Our Town is a three act play that is, perhaps,
the most frequently produced play by an American playwright. The play is set in
the fictional community of Grover’s Corners, in a 1930’s theater. Through the
actions of the Stage Manager the town of Grover’s Corners is created for the
audience and scenes from its history between the years of 1901 and 1913 play
out. It is is a story of character development that details the interactions
between citizens of an everyday town in the early 20th century through their
everyday lives (particularly the lives of George Gibbs, a doctor’s son, and
Emily Webb, the daughter of a newspaper editor). It won the Pulitzer Prize for
Drama in 1938. Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. •
DEARLY BELOVED - Comedy
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
October 5-7, 12-14, 2007
The Futrelle Sisters, Frankie, Honey Raye and
Twink, are throwing a wedding. Frankie has almost made herself sick with
elaborate preparations for her daughter Tina Jo’s antebellum-inspired wedding,
and the rumor mill in their small town of Fayro, Texas, is working overtime. No
surprise there, the Futrelle Sisters have never been strangers to gossip. After
all, they did survive the scandalous breakup of their almost-famous gospel
singing trio, The Sermonettes. All is lost completely when word reaches the
church that Tina Jo and her fiancé have fled Fayro and eloped. The sisters
ultimately pull together to find ways to keep the unsuspecting guests in the
pews while a highway patrolman races off to track down the runaway bride and
groom. As a last resort, and to the delight of the citizenry of Fayro, Texas,
The Sermonettes reunite and sing again. Presented by special arrangement with
Dramatists Play Service. •
SHE LOVES ME - Musical
November 30, December 1& 2, 7-9, 2007
It is the rare musical theatre aficionado who
doesn’t have a soft spot in his heart for this intimate show, considered by many
the most charming musical ever written.
Georg and Amalia are two feuding clerks in a
European parfumerie during the 1930s who secretly find solace in their anonymous
romantic pen pals, little knowing their respective correspondents are none other
than each other. Funny, intelligent, honest and sentimental, "She Loves Me" is a
warm romantic comedy with an endearing innocence and a touch of old world
elegance and nostalgia, yet as universal and relevant as ever in this age of
internet romances.
An ideal Christmas show , this heart-warming
work by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (the songwriting team of "Fiddler On The
Roof") and Joe Masteroff (the bookwriter of "Cabaret) is a pleasure whatever the
occasion. Presented by special arrangement with Musical Theatre Intl. •
PRIVATE LIVES - Comedy
By Noel Coward
February 1-3, 8-10, 2008
Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in
a production that sparkled on Broadway, rivate Lives is one of the most flippant
plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new
spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and
impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery
romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Their aggrieved spouses
appear and a roundelay of affiliations ensues as the women first stick together,
then apart, and new partnerships are formed. Eventually there is a knock down
drag out fight which opens the eyes of Elyot and Amanda, who then steal off
together a second time. A unique play with four successful Broadway runs
boasting as stars the author, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude
Lawrence, Tammy Grimes, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Presented by special
arrangement with Samuel French. •
THE FOREIGNER - Comedy
By Larry Shue
April 4-6, 11-13, 2008
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia
often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally
runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought
along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome
with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy,"
before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign
country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie
overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister
and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister’s pretty fiancée is
pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie
doesn’t understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of
the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously
awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant. Presented by
special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. •
I DO! I DO! - Musical
Book by: Tom Jones, Lyrics by: Tom Jones, Music
by: Harvey Schmidt, Based on the Fourposter by Jan de Hartog
June 6-8, 13-15, 20-22, 2008
The story of a marriage is at the center of this
intimate and nostalgic work by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, the authors of "The
Fantasticks." The show begins with Michael and Agnes on their wedding day and
traces their life together over a period of 50 years, until the day they leave
their house to the next pair of newlyweds. In that time we watch them go through
their wedding night jitters, raise a family, negotiate mid-life crises, quarrel,
separate, reconcile and grow old together, all lovingly to the strains of a
tuneful, charming score which includes the standard "My Cup Runneth Over." "I
Do! I Do!" delivers Broadway quality and universal appeal. Presented by special
arrangement with Musical Theatre Intl. •