Main Stage Productions 2007-2008
Shows are Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees are at 2:00pm. Seating starts 30 minutes prior to show time.
Cabaret
by Kander & Ebb - Musical
Directed by Joe Schwarz
September 14,15,16,20,21,22,23,27,28,29
Set in Berlin at the beginning of the Third Reich, this two-time Tony Award winning story follows the romance of an English cabaret performer and an American writer. Through the songs of the Cabaret's Emcee, the audience witnesses the political changes taking place around them.
It’s A Wonderful Life
by Thomas M. Sharkey - Comedy/drama
Directed by Bob Pritchard
November 30, December 1,2,7,8,9,14,15
Funny, moving and memorable! Thomas M. Sharkey did a wonderful thing when he took one of America’s favorite holiday film classics and wrote this touching and heartfelt play. Capra would be proud!
Julius X
by Al Letson - Drama
Directed by Barbara Williams
Feburary 1,2,3,8,9,10,15,16
By grafting the plot and some of the text of Julius Caesar together with the story of Malcolm X’s murder, playwright Al Letson Jr. offers a classic demonstration of Shakespeare’s infinite adaptability. The Play explores how allies can become assassins and how the struggle for power can turn toxic.
The Night of the Iguana
by Tennessee Williams - Drama
Directed by George Ballis
April 4,5,6,11,12,13,18,19
Within the broken down environs of a cheap Mexican Hotel, the human needs and conflicts of a group of people thrown together by circumstance, become explicit. Many of the characters and much of the plot is driven by the desire for and the consequences of sexual relations. Alternately funny and heartbreaking, Williams takes us into the moving, tormented heart of the human condition and proposes that the spirit survives even beyond the limits of anguish.
The Underpants
By Steve Martin - Comedy
May 2,3,4,9,10,11,16,17
Exposing more than ‘Underpants’; Steve Martin turns an obscure 1911 German play by Carl Sternheim into a relevant, yet hilarious examination of momentary fame in modern America.
Blues in the Night
Conceived by: Sheldon Epps
Music by: Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer
June 13,14,15,19,20,21,22,26,27,28
The universal language of the blues wails out full and strong in this dynamite “dramatic revue” of twenty-six hot and torchy numbers that tell of the sweet, sexy and sorrowful experiences three women have with the lying, cheating snake of a man who does them wrong.
With little spoken text, the interweaving stories are defined through glorious songs which cover the range of this indigenous American art form, from Bessie Smith to Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Alberta Hunter, Jimmy Cox, Ida Cox and more, telling of the pain and misery of life and love and also of the dogged determination to get through it all that is the essence of the blues.
Alternately wistful, tender and raunchy, “Blues In The Night” is a modest production with a larger-than-life score and vocal arrangements designed to bring down the house.
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