Our 50th Season for the 2008-2009 Calander is.....
*World Premier*
Sugar! Oh Sugar!
An Old Fashioned "Meller-Dramer" of Hawaii
Audition Dates: July 7th & 8th @ 7pm
Show Dates: September 12th - October 4th
Book and Lyrics by
Wil Welsh
Music by
Ed Dato and Jerome Gilmer
The play takes place in Hawaii, circa early 1900s, in and around a modest sugar worker's house where Lilly and her grandmother live.
Of course, the history and the beauty is merely background to this entertainment-a tongue-in-cheek, good-timey, old fashioned meller-dramer, with that genre's theatrical tradition of booing the villain, cheering the hero and crying for the poor, incredibly innocent, heroine.
Let the fun begin!
A Christmas Cactus
Audition Dates: September 29th & 30th @ 7pm
Show Dates: November 21st - December 13th
By Eliot Byerrum
Directed by: Steve Chambers
Christmas Eve is tough for private investigator Cactus O'Riley, a white hot redhead with the holiday blues. She is trying to lure her secretary Fred away from his protective mother, dodging the affections of Deputy D.A. Windsor, and considering closing her business. She doesn't need the added aggravation of two fugitives who burst into her office looking for justice and a dead detective named Jake Marley. Cactus also doesn't need Fred's mother, who arrives to take Fred home but decides to stay because she thinks this is the Christmas murder mystery party she has always dreamed of attending. Christmas turns into a dickens of a holiday for Cactus as she solves mysteries, delivers small miracles and takes a second chance on love and sleuthing. Comedy, mystery and romance converge in this charming contemporary Christmas tale where goodwill and justice triumph.
God's Favorite
Audition Dates: December 8th & 9th @ 7pm
Show Dates: February 6th - February 28th
By Neil Simon
Directed by: Carolyn Lori
"God’s Favorite" is Neil Simon’s modern day play based on the Book of Job. A Long Island mansion is the setting for this hilarious romp that includes a pious God fearing tycoon, his long suffering wife, a prodigal son and a pair of kooky twins. When God arrives the temptations begin. Will he renounce God or will he be visited by all the afflictions you can imagine? You’ll find yourself asking, "How much can a man love God?" This is a biblical interpretation that will leave you laughing all the way home!
DeathTrap
Audition Dates: February 23rd & 24th @ 7pm
Show Dates: April 24th - May 16th
By: Ira Levin
Directed by: Bob Larsen
Playwright Sidney Bruhl is suffering from a series of successive flops. But then he receives a script for a play entitled ‘Deathtrap’ from student Clifford Anderson, which he believes to be the most perfect play he has ever read. He and his wife Myra contrive a plan so that Bruhl can claim the play as his. They invite Anderson over and then strangle him and bury the body. But when they are retiring to bed afterwards, Anderson comes crashing through the window. He chases Myra through the house, scaring her weak heart into arrest. It transpires that Bruhl and Anderson are really gay lovers and have plotted this elaborate scheme to kill her off. Anderson then moves into the house, ostensibly as Bruhl’s secretary. But Bruhl becomes suspicious when Anderson starts writing a play called ‘Deathtrap’, which bears a suspicious resemblance to their scheme to murder Myra.