2009 - 2010 SEASON

The season selection is as follows:

"SOUND OF MUSIC"

Auditions: June 8, 9, 2009 from 7:00-9:00pm at the Theatre
Show: August 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28 29, 30, 2009
Adults $15, student/seniors $10 and children 7and under $5

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.

"CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF"

Auditions: August 17, 18, 2009 from 7:00-9:00pm at the Theatre
Show: October 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 2009
Adults $15, student/seniors $10 and children 7and under $5

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy’s daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she’s finally become pregnant by Big Daddy’s favorite son, Brick, but Brick won’t cooperate and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening’s end, Maggie’s ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick’s love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie’s loving arms.

"CHRISTMAS SHOW - IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
- RADIO VERSION"

Auditions: October 19, 20, 2009 from 7:00-9:00pm at the Theatre
Show: November 27, 28, 29, 2009
Adults $15, student/seniors $10 and children 7and under $5

George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinations of the evil millionaire, Mr. Potter. His guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth, literally, and shows him how his town, family, and friends would turn out if he had never been born. George meant so much to so many people; should he really throw it all away?

"NOISES OFF"

Auditions: January  8, 2010 from 6:00-9:00pm
and January 9, 2010 from 2:00-5:00pm at the Theatre
Show: March  5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 2010
Adults $15, student/seniors $10 and children 7and under $5

Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He’s desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. We follow the production from final rehearsals, through opening night, and onto the tour: as with any group of actors forced to work closely together for any great length of time, romances and arguments are bound to break out. Quite often, what’s happening on stage is nothing compared to what’s happening backstage . . .

"THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE"

Auditions: March 8, 9, 2010 from 7:00-9:00pm at the Theatre
Shows: May 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 2010
Adults $15, student/seniors $10 and children 7and under $5

Mel is a well paid executive of a fancy New York company which has suddenly hit the skids and started to pare the payroll. Anxiety doesn’t help. Mel, too, gets the ax. His wife takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. As if this weren’t enough, Mel is fighting a losing battle with the very environs of life. Polluted air is killing everything that grows on his terrace; the walls of the high rise apartment are paper thin, so that the private lives of a pair of German stewardesses next door are open books to him; the apartment is burgled; and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do; he has a nervous breakdown. It is on recovery that we come to esteem him all the more. For Mel and his wife and people like them have the resilience, the grit to survive.