OUR 2010-2011 Season: "WONDER. FULL."

Cabaret


Book by Joe Masteroff

Music & Lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb

September 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, October 1 and 2, 2010 at 8 PM

September 19, 26 and October 3, 2010 at 2 PM

The scene is a night club in Berlin, as the 1920's are drawing to a close. The Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience to the show and assures them that, whatever their troubles, they will forget them at the Cabaret. His songs provide wry commentary throughout the show. On the train to Berlin we find Cliff, a young American writer, and Ernst, a German who surprises Cliff by putting his briefcase among Cliff's luggage at the German border. History is in the process of being made. Musical numbers include It Couldn't Please Me More, Willkommen, Cabaret, Don't Tell Mama and Two Ladies. We find Cliff on the train again, now leaving Berlin alone. He writes about Sally and thepeople of Berlin leading up to the Third Reich. It has been a tumultuous and heartbreaking era.


Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage


By Jane Martin

November 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13, 2010 at 8 PM

November 14, 2010 at 2 PM

Big 8, the feisty rodeo competitor from Talking With, is back. It's nineteen years later; she is still a bitter critter, now facing foreclosure on the Wyoming ranch where she rehabilitates injured rodeo cowboys. The arrival of a shocking woman named Shedevil and a one eyed Ukranian biker named Black Dog ushers in outrageous violence and horror in this shoot 'em up, knock 'em up, cut 'em up comic romp that roasts the cowboy mentality of western writers like Zane Grey. Showcasing the antic side of this prolific, award winning playwright, this bodacious and macabre cross over comedy mixes horror and hilarity as it pits the code of the West against contemporary darkness.

Winter  Wonderettes

Book, Musical Arrangements by Roger Bean

December 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2010 at 8 PM

December 4, 2010 at 4 PM

December 5 and 12, 2010 at 2 PM

Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy are entertaining at the 1968 Holiday Party for Harper’s Hardware, where Betty Jean has worked since high school. Audience members are fellow employees, friends and family, and the girls have transformed the hardware store into a winter wonderland (with help from the guys in the lumber department, of course!).

The festivities are underway, but there's one problem -- where is Santa??

Enjoy this wonder-ette-ful Christmas musical, containing all your Christmas favorites with a 1960's girl group twist!


Looking for Normal

by Jane Anderson

January 7, 8, 14 and 15, 2011, at 8 PM

January 9 and 16, 2011,  at 2 PM

 (6 performances scheduled) 

Roy and Irma have been married for twenty-five years. They have two children. They live in the heartland. They're respected members of their church and their community. When Roy and Irma go to their pastor for marriage counseling, Roy confesses that he's a woman trapped in a man's body and would like to have a sex change. As would be expected, Irma throws Roy out of the house. Irma, in the midst of menopause, is struggling with her adolescent tomboy daughter, Patty Ann, who is raging against the injustices of her own budding hormones. And the grown and absent son, Wayne, who has always bemoaned his father's emotional limitations, is now outraged by his father's desire to be a woman. Overseeing it all is Roy's legendary grandmother, who left her husband and son to pursue her own sexual and emotional needs. The play explores the complexities of marriage, family and deconstructs the very notion of love.


Eating Raoul


Book by Paul Bartel (adapted from his screenplay)
Music by Jed Feuer
Lyrics by Boyd Graham

February 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19, 2011 at 8 PM

February 13 and 20, 2011 at 2 PM

The cult film classic has new life as a zany musical. The Blands want to open a restaurant, but they need cash. Suppose they lure weirdos to their apartment to kill and rob them? Soon, they are a financial success,but disposing of the bodies is a problem. Enter their devious apartment super, Raoul, with a proposition: he will take care of the corpses for a cut (when he's not performing at a tacky nightclub). Three's a crowd, as the heat and the body counts rise in this campy, non-stop hit, just in time for an unconvential Valentine Day's treat!


Assassins

Book by John Weidman
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

March 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26, 2011 at 8 PM

March 20 and 27, 2011 at 2 PM

This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical "revusical" that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish rollercoaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and in an intense final scene inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.

 

Alice in Wonderland


April 22 and 29, 2011 at 7 PM

April 23 and 30, 2011 at 10 AM

April 23, 24, 29 and 30, 2011 at 2 PM

Travel with Alice through the looking glass in this family-friendly stage adaption of the Lewis Carroll classic. With the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Doormouse, and Queen of Hearts, and... well, you know the rest. A timeless classic for all ages, even without Johnny Depp.

Disco  Inferno

Book by Justin Sepple

May 20, 21, 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2011 at 8 PM

May 22 and 29, 2011 at 2 PM

Featuring songs from the 1970's including some performed or written by Air supply, Alicia Bridges, Dan Hartman, David Bowie, Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire, Elton John, Gloria Gaynor, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Racey, Suzie Quatro, Sweet, and the Trammps

The story of Faust is brought to life in an explosion of hit songs, high energy dance routines and glitter-ball spinning action. DISCO INFERNO is a spellbinding story that captivates audiences, making them laugh and cry. It's packed with over 30 classic seventies floor-fillers and is a musical celebration of the perpetual spirit of the decade that brought us flared trousers, platform shoes and more glitter than can be found in Liberace's wardrobe. A hilarious script, fantastic characters and an electrifying score, combine to create a high energy musical guaranteed to warm hearts, get feet tapping and audiences leaving the auditorium with a daft grin of pleasure and the fondest memories of a sensational era. A show for all the family and whether it's your first experience of the life and music of the 1970s ,or whether you were there when it all began, this musical is a guaranteed hit... a night to remember and one not to be missed.