STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF - Musical
Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
August 1-3, 8-10, 15-17, 2008
Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss’ daughter. Saddled with the responsibilities of a family, he allows his growing dissatisfaction with his existence to lead him into the arms of various women - Russian Anya, German Ilse, and American Ginnie - as he searches for something better than he has, only to realize in the twilight of his life what he always had - the love of his wife - was more than enough to sustain him. Presented by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark •
WALLY’S CAFE - Comedy
By Sam Bobrick and Ron Clark
September 26-28, October 3-5, 2008
This three character play is about a New Jersey couple who open a diner in the middle of a desert in California near Las Vegas in 1940 and their first customer from Quincy, Illinois who wants to become a Hollywood actress. The show is done in three acts, following their exploits in 1958 and 1981. The show gets progressively funnier after the opening exposition with each character having their funniest moments in each different scene. The last scene is hilarious where you find the couple as old folks leaving their diner in the desert. Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. •
CHRISTMAS BELLES - Comedy
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten
November 28-30, December 5-7, 2008
A church Christmas program spins hilariously out of control in this Southern farce about squabbling sisters, family secrets, a surly Santa, a vengeful sheep and a reluctant Elvis impersonator. But in true Futrelle fashion, the feuding sisters find a way to pull together in order to present a Christmas program the citizens of Fayro will never forget. Their hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to your world! Presented by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Service. •
DOUBT, A PARABLE- Drama
By John Patrick Shanley
February 6-8, 13-15, 2009
Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award. All the elements come invigoratingly together like clockwork in John Patrick Shanley’s provocative new play, DOUBT, a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest’s behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964 but could not be more timely. In just ninety fast-moving minutes, Shanley creates four blazingly individual people. Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. •
GREATER TUNA - Comedy
By Larry Shue
March 27-29, April 3-5, 2009
What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye and Rev. Spikes 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 in a tour de farce of quick change artistry, changing costumes and characterizations faster than a jack rabbit runs from a coyote. Two actors, twenty characters and a barrell of laughs, ya’ll. Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. •
CABARET - Musical
Book by Joe Masteroff; Based on the play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood; Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb
June 5-7, 12-14, 19-21, 2009.
Set in 1929-1930 Berlin on the eve of the Nazis’ rise to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and mostly revolves around the English 19-year-old cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with young American writer, Cliff Bradshaw. A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Emcee, who presides as master of ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub and serves as a constant metaphor for the current state of society in Weimar Germany throughout the show. This is a musical ‘classic’ you won’t want to miss! Presented by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark •