EVITA

Argentina's controversial First Lady is the subject of this dynamic musical masterpiece, featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.  Eva Peron, "saint to the working-class, reviled by the aristocracy and mistrusted by the military" was destined to leave a fascinating political legacy unique in the 20th century.  Told through a compelling score that fuses haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz influences, EVITA creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself.

DRACULA

Director:  Bert Smith

October 22, 23, 29, 30*, 30, November 4, 5, 6, 2010

Bram Stoker's famous novel has been dramatized into a spell-binding 3-act play by Tim Kelly. It retains all the suspense, horror, and enchantment always associated with the world's most infamous vampire. "One of the most gripping stage plays ever written...a chillingly delightful dramatization."

THE ALL NIGHT STRUT - Dinner Theatre

Director:  Allan Anderud

NOT PART OF THE SUBSCRIPTION SEASON

Cocktails (cash bar) 6:30 pm, Dinner/Show 7:00 pm

From coast to coast, in dance clubs, Broadway shows, and major motion pictures, folks young and old are rediscovering the Lindy Hop, the Shag and the Tango. Yes, Swing's the Thing! And nowhere more than in this classy, sassy musical celebration of the 1930's and 1940's.  With music from such songwriters as Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Cab Calloway and the Gershwins, The All Night Strut! is a slick slice of yesteryear with sublime music and unbeatable energy that's perfect for the new generation of Swing fans as well as die-hard devotees!

"ART"

Director:  Michael Saar

February 11, 12, 18, 19*, 19, 24, 25, 26, 2011

"Art" concerns the cataclysmic effect on three friends, Serge, Marc, and Yvan, when Serge purchases an expensive work of abstract art—a large painting consisting of white lines on a white canvas. As the three men engage in an ongoing debate over the value of the painting, emotions run high and the conflict escalates to the point of nearly destroying a long-standing friendship.

NOISES OFF

Director:  Keith Cockrell

McFaddin Ward Theatre

Noises Off takes a fond look at the follies of theatre folk, whose susceptibility to out-of-control egos, memory loss and passionate affairs turn every performance into a high-risk adventure. This comedy-within-a-comedy captures a touring theatre troupe’s production of Nothing On in three stages: dress rehearsal, the opening performance, and a performance toward the end of the run. Noises Off is a backstage farce of slamming doors, falling trousers and flying sardines!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Director:  Bryan Brassard

Studio Theatre

A contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.
 

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Director:  Paula Bothe

It all begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan plays his favorite cast album on his turntable, and the musical literally bursts to life in his living room, telling the rambunctious tale of a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find, and keep, her true love.  Winner of 5 Tony Awards in 2006.