A...My Name Will Always Be Alice

By Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd
Directed by Deborah Emans

September 25th - October 11, 2009

A fabulous combination of the 1984 award winning Off-Broadway musical revue "A...My Name is Alice" and its 1992 sequel "A...My Name is Still Alice". This sophisticated, bawdy, funny and insightful five women musical review celebrates the best and worst of growing up female. The songs and sketches are among the most enjoyed from each revue and include a range of musical styles, poetry and comedy. You will be certain to find reminders from your life or that of your mother, sister, aunt or friends.

Winner of the Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical

Licensed through special arrangement with Samuel French Inc.

Oliver!

Music, Lyrics and Book by Lionel Bart
Directed and Choreography by K. Lynette McGilliard

November 20 – December 6, 2009

This delightful musical classic, based on the Dickens novel, is appropriate for the entire family. Follow the orphan Oliver along his perilous journey through the slums of Victorian London to find his lost family. The music is wonderful and you will find yourself singing along with the familiar songs Food, Glorious Food, Where is Love?, Consider Yourself, and As Long As He Needs Me.

Licensed by Arrangement with Oliver Productions Ltd. and Oliver Promotions, Ltd.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Script and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro
Music by Jimmy Roberts
Directed by Rebecca M. Foster

January 29 – February 14, 2010

Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit. Off-Broadway’s phenomenal longest-running musical celebrates the modern-day suburban mating game. Laughter ensues as the cast explores the joys of dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives, and in-laws.

The musical revue played a phenomenal total of 20 previews and 5,003 regular performances, making it the second longest-running musical in Off-Broadway history.

Angry Housewives

Book by A.M. Collins
Music and Lyrics by Chad Henry
Directed by Sharon Gregory

March 12 - 28, 2010

Bored with their everyday lives and kept in insignifance by their boyfriends/husbands and sons, these are four angry women. They try a number or outlets but nothing suits until one of them suggests that they form a punk rock group to enter an upcoming talent show. This is a marvelous satire of contemporary feminism with LOL opportunities for men and women alike.

RENT

Books, Music and Lyrics by Jonathon Larson
Directed by David VanArnam

May 7 - 23, 2010

Rent is a rock musical that tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side under the shadow of AIDS. On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical among other awards. With music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, Rent is based on Puccini's La Bohème, in which the luscious splendor of Puccini's world would be replaced with the coarseness and noise of modern New York. The musical brings controversial topics to a traditionally conservative medium, helping to increase the popularity of musical theater amongst the younger generation.

Grease

Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Directed by K. Lynette McGilliard

July 9 – 25, 2010

Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace Boys" and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head "greaser" Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their "Summer Nights" as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as "Greased Lightnin'", "It's Raining on Prom Night", "Alone at the Drive-In Movie" recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. An 8-year run on Broadway and two subsequent revivals along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among the world's most popular musicals.

"A lively and funny musical--as well as the dancingest one in town... it's a winner...the songs are dandies [that portray] the early rockers with zip and charm...the sheer energy of Grease carries all before it."---N.Y. Daily News

The Sound of Music

Music by Richard Rogers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein III
Directed by K. Lynette McGilliard

August 13 - 29, 2010

A treasured musical set in 1938, The Sound of Music tells the story of Maria Rainer, a free-spirited nun who is hired by Captain George Von Trapp to care for his seven children. Although Captain Trapp is engaged to a wealthy socialite, he and Maria eventually fall in love and marry--but their happiness is soon shattered when the Nazis invade Austria.

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