Arsenic & Old Lace

 

Sept 14 -30, 2007

A Classic Comedy by JOSEPH KESSELRING

Directed by JC GIBRIANO

This classic farcical black comedy revolves around newlywed Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy homicidal family comprised of two spinster aunts who have taken to poisoning lonely old men and burying them in their cellar, a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal, a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery to look like Boris Karloff in order to conceal his identity.  The 1944 film adaptation of ARSENIC & OLD LACE was directed by Frank Capra and starred Cary Grant as the befuddled bridegroom.

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Lucky Stiff

 

Oct 26 – Nov 18, 2007

Book & Lyrics by
LYNN AHRENS

Music by
STEPHEN FLAHERTY

Directed by
VICKI TRIPODO

Based on “The Man Who Broke The Bank at Monte Carlo” by MICHAEL BUTTERWORTH.

Ahrens and Flaherty (ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, RAGTIME) exploded on the musical theater scene in 1988 with this zany, offbeat very funny murder mystery farce about an unassuming English shoe salesman forced to take the corpse of his recently-murdered Atlantic City croupier uncle on a week-long vacation to Monte Carlo in order to inherit six million dollars.  All he has to do is get past his uncle’s insanely jealous and legally blind mistress, her much put-upon optometrist brother and a zealous representative from the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn to prevent the money from literally going to the dogs.

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Little Women The Musical

 

Feb 1 – 24, 2008

Music by JASON HOWARD

Lyrics by MINDI DICKSTEIN

Book by ALLAN KNEE

Based on the novel by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Directed by MATTHEW DICARLO

NEW JERSEY PREMIERE

Set during the Civil War, LITTLE WOMEN is the gripping story of the March sisters – aspiring author Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, kind-hearted Beth – and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts while their father is away serving as a Union Army chaplain.  Apart from the 1933 George Cukor-Katharine Hepburn film version, few of the prior adaptations of Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel have left much of a lingering impression.  But this new Tony Award-nominated musical starring Sutton Foster as “Jo” quickly became a “richly sentimental favorite with family-friendly appeal” [New York Newsday]

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

 

March 28 -April 13, 2008

A Comedy by NEIL SIMON

Directed by JONATHAN WIERZBICKI

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS is one of Neil Simon’s most widely respected plays, winning the New York Drama Critics Prize for Best Play.  It debuted on Broadway on March  27, 1983, at the Alvin Theatre and earned Tony Awards for both the director Gene Saks and the star Matthew Broderick.  Though not strictly autobiographical, Simon based the play on his memories of growing up in New York City in the years just before World War II.  Two more plays featuring protagonist Eugene Jerome and his family would follow; 1985’s Biloxi Blues and 1986’s Broadway Bound.

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Annie Get Your Gun

 

June 6 – 29, 2008

Music & Lyrics by IRVING BERLIN

Book by HERBERT & DOROTHY FIELDS

Adapted by PETER STONE

Directed by TODD AIKENS

Irving Berlin’s ANNIE GET YOUR GUN opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 16, 1946, and ran for 1,147 performances.  It was the third longest running musical of the 1940’s and the biggest Broadway hit of Ethel Merman’s career, not to mention a Tony Award winning revival in 1999 starring Bernadette Peters.  It’s the musical that told us “There’s No Business Like Show Business” where we meet sharpshooter Annie Oakley who joins a Wild West show after she falls in love with the star, Frank Butler.  Of course, Frank insists that the girl he wants will “wear satin…and smell of cologne” but inevitably becomes enamoured of the tomboyish Annie.  That is until Annie’s star waxes just as his is waning, but this battle of the sexes isn’t over yet.  They pair up for one last duet in “Anything You Can Do”.Friday and Saturdays @ 8:00PM – Sundays @ 2:00PM

Senior/Student $16, Adult $18 – Group Rates Available

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