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2009 Season
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January
2 – 25, 2009
The
Sound of Music
Musical
– Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Book
by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was
destined to become the world’s most beloved
musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious
life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children
of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters,
coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart
of the stern Captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their
honeymoon, they discover that Austria has been invaded by the Nazis,
who demand the Captain’s immediate service in their navy. The
family’s narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the
eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and
inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre. The motion
picture version remains the most popular movie musical of all time!
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February
27 – March 20
Arsenic
& Old Lace
By
Joseph Kesselring
The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer
Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must
deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn,
New York, as he debates whether to go through
with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family
includes two spinster aunts who have taken to
murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made
elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine and “just a
pinch” of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt
and digs locks for the
Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as
graves for the aunts’ victims); and a
murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an
alcoholic accomplice, to conceal his identity.
Written in 1939, this classic comedy still pleases theater
audiences with every revival.
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May
1 – 24, 2009
My
Three Angels
By
Samuel & Bella Spewack
The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas day the
temperature has graciously dropped to 104
degrees. Three convicts are employed as roofers by a family, whose
roof is in desperate need of maintenance.
On the way from France is an evil-minded cousin to oust the
father of the family from his business and his cold-blooded
nephew, who is jilting the father’s daughter for an heiress. The
three convicts – two of them
murderers, the third a swindler – take the visitors on. All three
have warm hearts and are passionate believers
in true justice. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they
set matters right and in so doing redeem themselves as real life
angels to the grateful family.
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July
3 – 26, 2009
The
Diary of Anne Frank
By
Wendy Kesselman
In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman,
Anne Frank emerges from history a living,
lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly
changing life and the increasing horror of her time
with astonishing honesty, wit and determination. An impassioned
drama about the lives of eight people hiding
from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne
Frank captures the claustrophobic realties of their
daily existence – their fear, their hope, their laughter, their
grief. Each day of these two dark years, Anne’s voice shines
through: “When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to
achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to
all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living,
even after my death.”
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August
14 – September 6, 2009
I
Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Musical
– Book & Lyrics by Joe DiPietro and Music by Jimmy Roberts
This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths
behind that contemporary conundrum known
as “the relationship”. Act I explores the journey from dating
and waiting to love, and marriage. Act II reveals the
agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, trips in the family
car and pick-up techniques of the geriatric set.
This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and
lost; to those who have fallen on their face at the
portal of romance; to those who have dared to ask, “Say, what are
you doing Saturday night?”
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Adult
Content
October
2 – 25, 2009
The
Odd Couple
By
Neil Simon
This renowned Neil Simon comedy begins with a group of the boys
assembled for cards in the apartment of a
divorced fellow and if the mess is any indication, it’s no wonder
that his wife left him. Late to arrive is another
fellow who, they learn, has just been separated from his wife. Since
he is very meticulous and tense, they fear he
might commit suicide and go about locking all the windows. When he
arrives he is scarcely allowed to go to the
bathroom alone. As life would have it, the slob bachelor and the
meticulous fellow decide to bunk together – with
hilarious results. The patterns of their own disastrous marriages
begin to reappear in this arrangement; and so
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