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Main Stage productions run for three weekends: Fridays and
Saturdays at 8:00 PM,
Sundays at 2:30 PM
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Second Stage productions run for two weekends: Fridays and
Saturdays at 8:00 PM,
Sundays at 6:00 PM
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Biloxi
Blues | The Christmas Quilt | Doubt
When Ya Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Rabbit
Hole | The Outsiders
The
Busy World Is Hushed | An Evening With O.
Henry | John, His Story
| The
Zoo Story | As Bees In Honey Drown
ON OUR MAIN STAGE
Shows
marked with a star (*) indicate those productions being judged by
the Encore Association.
Biloxi Blues*
by Neil Simon
October
2-18
Directed by Jim LaMonte
Auditions: August 16 & 17
at 7:00 PM
This
Tony Award Best Play is the second in a three-play cycle of
Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon. When
we last met Eugene, he was coping with adolescence in the 1930's
in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Here, he is young army recruit
during the Second World War, going through his basic training,
learning more about Life, and developing his "Writer's
Sensibility" at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.
Eugene and his fellow enlisted recruits suffer under a hard-nosed
sergeant, partake of the daily "mess" served up for
meals, join together for a visit to the local whorehouse and
officially Become Adults. Eugene also confronts the ugly specter
of anti-Semitism; and, for the first time, falls in love.
The Christmas Quilt
by Steven Cole
Johnson
December 4-20
Directed by Steven Cole
Johnson
Auditions: October 11 & 12 at 7:00
Grandma
is making a quilt this Christmas and the whole family is adding a
piece of cloth. Each quilt piece has its own story, each story a
song. This light-hearted music play has everything a good
Christmas show should: Fun, Family, Christmas Carols, and of
course, Santa! Bring your small group, work holiday party, or
visiting friends and family for this family-friendly, feel good
show.
Doubt*
by Patrick
Shanley
February 5-21
Directed by Ken
Klingenmeier
Auditions: December 13 & 14 at 7:00 PM
Set
in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt tells the story of a charismatic
priest, Father Flynn, who is trying to upend the schools' strict
customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius
Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of
fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping
through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted
its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a
hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing
suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention
to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to
unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now,
without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister
Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn, which
threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable
consequence. In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister
Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own
hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper
relations with one of the male students.
When Ya Comin' Back, Red Ryder?*
by Mark Medoff
April
2-18
Directed by Jim LaMonte
Auditions: February 14 &
15 at 7:00 PM
The
scene is an all-night diner in a sleepy southwestern town, the
time early Sunday morning, when the night attendant, young
Stephen (Red) Ryder, is about to turn his duties over to his
daytime counterpart, Angel. Her friend Lyle, who runs the filling
station and motel across the road, stops by for breakfast,
followed by an affluent young couple en route to New Orleans.
With the arrival of another couple, Teddy and Cheryl, the
existing calm quickly vanishes. Their car, in which they are
smuggling marijuana into California, has broken down, and while
they wait for it to be repaired, Teddy begins to taunt and then
bully the others in the diner. With black, sardonic humor he gets
at each in turn, stripping away their pretensions and exposing
their innermost secrets and fears. They are soon his helpless
victims, too terrified to resist as he binds and robs them before
heading off down the highway, this time alone. In the end the
others, after freeing themselves, realize that they have come
through their ordeal without serious harm-at least physically.
But for each a searing moment of truth has been faced and, in a
deeper sense, they know that they have been changed more than
they would have the desire, or perhaps courage, to admit.
Rabbit Hole*
by David
Lindsay-Abaire
June 4-20
Directed by Brent
Wooldridge
Auditions: April 11 & 12 at 7:00 PM
Becca
and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a
life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves
the couple drifting perilously apart. This 2007 Pulitzer Prize
winning play charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the
darkest of places. A tale of what comes after tragedy, Rabbit
Hole captures the awkwardness and pain of thinking people faced
with an unthinkable situation and, eventually, their capacity for
survival.
The Outsiders*
by S.E. Hinton,
Adapted by Christopher Sergel
August 6-22
Directed by
Jeremy Tuterow
Auditions: June 6 & 7 at 7:00 PM
This stage adaptation
of S.E. Hinton's 1967 novel deals with real people, seen through
the eyes of young Ponyboy, a Greaser on the wrong side of life,
caught up in territorial battles between the have-it-made rich
kids-the Socs-and his tough, underprivileged "greaser"
family and friends. In the midst of urban warfare, somehow
Ponyboy can't forget a short poem that speaks of their fragile
young lives:
Nature's
first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a
flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden
sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
ON OUR SECOND STAGE
The Busy World Is Hushed
by Keith
Bunin
November 6-15
Directed by Molly Bellner
Auditions:
September 20 & 21 at 7:00 PM
Hannah,
a minister and Bible scholar, finds her faith at odds with that
of Thomas, her estranged, wayward son. But when an inquisitive
young writer hired to assist Hannah with her latest publication
learns painful secrets from Hannah's past, she spies a risky,
unconventional opportunity for reconciliation. A portrait of
faith and belief in modern times the story shines a light on how
three individuals invest their belief in the past, the present
and what they cannot see but know to be real.
An Evening With O. Henry
Based
on O. Henry Shorts: Cancelled
Adapted by Mac
Bellner
January 8-17
Directed by Mac Bellner
Auditions:
November 8 at 2 PM & November 9 at 7:00 PM
Taken
from two of O. Henry's shorts, The Gift of the Magi and The Last
Leaf, An Evening With O. Henry is sure to warm your heart. James
Dillingham Young and his wife Della are a young couple who are
very much in love with each other, but can barely afford their
one-room apartment due to their very bad economic situation. For
Christmas, each gives the other a carefully thought out gift that
proves to be quite useless, each is pleased with the gift they
received, because it represents their love for one another. The
Last Leaf is the story of two friends, Johnsy and Sue, who move
into Greenwich Village in New York City. As winter approaches and
the weather gets colder, Johnsy becomes ill with pneumonia. She
gets so sick that she believes that when the last leaf falls from
the vine outside her window, she will die. But through the
friendship and sacrifice of their elderly neighbor Behrman,
Johnsy gains the hope to survive her illness.
John, His Story
by Jeannette Clift
George
March 5-15
Directed by Roger Dutcher
Auditions:
January 10 at 2 PM & January 11 at 7:00 PM
A
unique retelling of the miracles described in the fourth Gospel,
John, His Story is played out with only four actors playing 20+
characters. With a simple set, basic costumes, and sparse props,
this true actor-driven show will bring the story of Easter alive.
The Zoo Story
by Edward Albee
April
30-May 9
Directed by Ryan Reddick
Auditions: March 7 at 2
PM & March 8 at 7:00 PM
A
man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park.
There enters a second man. He is a young, unkempt and
undisciplined vagrant where the first is neat, ordered,
well-to-do and conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and
rebellion. He longs to communicate so fiercely that he frightens
and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope who, in
his passion for company, seeks to drain his companion. With
provocative humor and unrelenting suspense, the young savage
slowly, but relentlessly, brings his victim down to his own
atavistic level as he relates a story about his visit to the zoo.
As Bees In Honey Drown
by Douglas Carter
Beane
July 9-18
Directed by Jason Gloye
Auditions: May 2
at 2 PM & May 3 at 7:00 PM
Evan Wyler has just
finished a photo session with his shirt off. No, he's not a
supermodel; he's a twenty-something New York writer savoring the
success of his debut novel. Defined by the media as the
"hot-young" thing-of-the-moment, Evan captures the
attention of Alexa Vere de Vere, a black-clad woman of mystery
who's made the world of celebrity her home. In fact, it's her
religion. And she wants Evan to write the screenplay of her life
story. "Just spend time with me," she says, "and
you'll learn all you need to know." To Evan, it's like an
invitation into the world of Auntie Mame, Sally Bowles and Holly
Golightly all rolled into one. Alexa's fame, fortune,
connections, and life of glamor, though outwardly wonderfully
enticing, is covered by a shroud of secrecy and Evan is
determined to find the answer to the question, "Who is Alexa
Vere de Vere?" Not an easy task for, as Alexa puts it:
"You're not the person you were born-who wonderful is?"
Biloxi
Blues | The Christmas Quilt | Doubt
When Ya Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Rabbit
Hole | The Outsiders
The
Busy World Is Hushed | An Evening With O.
Henry | John, His Story
| The
Zoo Story | As Bees In Honey Drown
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