2012 - 2013 (55th) Season

CATS 
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
August 23 - September 16, 2012

The purr-fect musical! Based on ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ by T.S. Eliot, larger-than-life felines inhabit a metaphorical junkyard. Enjoy such classics as ‘Memory’, ‘Mr. Mistoffelees’, ‘The Rum Tum Tugger’ and ‘Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats.’

AUDITIONS:  JULY 7th & 8th
DIRECTOR:

THE 39 STEPS
Adapted by Patrick Barlow
January 19 - February 12, 2013

Boring man meets a woman who claims to be a spy (after all, she does have a thick accent).  He takes her home.  She is murdered.  Thus, begins the Tony Award-winning fast-paced whodunit with 150 zany characters play by four! Fast and frothy!  A Dizzy Delight!

AUDITIONS:  SEPTEMBER 8th & 9th
Director:  Jennifer Teel

CELEBRATING THE MASKS OF COMEDY & TRAGEDY
Comedy by A.A. Milne
Tragedy by Lucille Fletcher

October 4 - 28, 2012

 

Comedy: THE UGLY DUCKLING
The King and Queen plot to have a beautiful maid impersonate their plain daughter to get her married, while the plain Prince has his handsome aide impersonate him! 

Tragedy: SORRY, WRONG NUMBER
Mrs. Stevenson, an invalid confined to bed, overhears two men planning a murder when wires are crossed on her telephone.  To her horror, she realizes she is the intended victim.

AUDITIONS:  JULY 7th & 8th
Director:  Chuck Tweed and James Gordon Jr.


DILEMMAS WITH DINNER

by Robin Roberts
February 28 - March 24, 2013 
     


We are cordially invited to the dinner party from hell! Junior executive Brooke invites her boss and his wife over for dinner in the hopes of securing a promotion. Bad idea ~ so much goes hysterically wrong that the play is called a farce with all types of eclectic characters coming and going throughout the evening.


 

AUDITIONS:  JANUARY 5th & 6th
Director:  Don Taylor

excavation
A WORLD PREMIERE
by Rob Barron
November 15 - December 9, 2012

A young woman from 1800 England will impact a little boy's life in present -day New York City throught an archeoogical excavation.  Mary Anning (a true story) uncovers a fossil so big, the world is stunned.  Young Kenny, also interested in fossils, has not spoken since the death of his mother over a year ago.  Beautifully woven between past and present, the two lives intertwine in a heart-warming excavation of life.  Our 2012 Original Play winner!

AUDITIONS:  SEPTEMBER 8th & 9th
Director:  Linda McDonald

DIRTY WORKS ON THE TRAIL
~ or ~
Go Slow with the Pony Express

by Robert Swift
April 11-May 5, 2013

 

We encourage you to BOO, HISS and CHEER! Journey back to the golden days of the melodrama. Watch the villain plot to disgrace the Pony Express, defraud the railroad and steal the heroine’s money. Can our hero  save his heroine? Will he ride for the Pony Express?   Why am I asking you?

AUDITIONS:  JANUARY 5th & 6th
Director:  Jay Prock