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Biloxi Blues | The Christmas Quilt | Doubt The Busy World Is Hushed | An Evening With O. Henry | John, His Story ON OUR MAIN STAGEShows marked with a star (*) indicate those productions being judged by the Encore Association. Biloxi Blues*by Neil Simon 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 Quiltby Steven Cole Johnson 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 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 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 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 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 STAGEThe Busy World Is Hushedby Keith Bunin 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
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