Our Current Season (2007-2008)
Disney’s High School Musical
September 28 - October -21, 2007
Auditions June 3-8, 2007
Director: Troy Rutter
Book By: David Simpatico. Songs by: Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, Ray Cham, Greg Cham, Andrew Seeley, Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn, Andy Dodd, Adam Watts, Bryan Louiselle, David N. Lawrence, Faye Greenberg and Jamie Houston. Music Adapted, Arranged and Produced by: Bryan Louiselle. Based on a Disney Channel Original Movie written by: Peter Barsocchini
Based on the #1 selling album of 2006, and the Disney Channel movie of the same name, High School Musical is sure to delight all ages. It’s the story of “boy meets girl” and their struggle to break out of the stereotypes they have been cast in. Troy, the school’s basketball hero wants to sing in the school musical with his newfound girlfriend, Gabriella – the new school braniac. The varied array of songs will have you dancing in the aisles and realizing that “We’re all in this Together.”
A Don‘t Hug Me Christmas Carol
November 23-December 9, 2007
Auditions September 2-3, 2007
Director: Andrea Reedy
Book and Lyrics by Phil Olson. Music by Paul Olson
It’s Christmas Eve in Bunyan Bay, Minnesota and cantankerous bar owner Gunner Johnson gets in an argument with his wife, Clara, tells her he’s skipping Christmas, he storms out of the bar, goes snowmobiling across the lake, falls through the ice and goes into a coma. He comes back in his dream where he’s visited by folk legend, Sven Yorgensen, who plays the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future, Sven take Gunner (Scrooge) on a journey similar to that in Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” only very different. Will Gunner come out of his coma and find redemption with Clara at The Bunyan? Find out.
Who’s On First
February 15-March 2, 2008 Presented as Dinner Theatre
Auditions December 9-10, 2007
Director: Mike Deaton
By Jack Sharkey
Take a husband, wife, lover and friend, add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m., then again at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. and you have this nightmare comedy." Four people find themselves reliving one horrible hour over and over as themselves, as Japanese, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you can think of. Camille is giving the party. Don shows up in a jealous funk about his wife, Alice, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Alice and Ben have arrived, it turns out their relationship is innocent. But by the time Don realizes this he has already shot Ben, Alice and even Camille. Camille wishes that things might have turned out differently and that is what happens. All concerned find themselves back at the party's beginning again and again doomed to live that same hour over and over again until they get it right. Is it all an accident? Or is their dilemma part of someone's fiendish plan? A labyrinth of hilarity exits to a shocker of an ending.
Doubt
April 11-27, 2008
Auditions February 17-18, 2008
Director: Adam Moeller
2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by John Patrick Shanley
Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with conscience and uncertainty as she is faced with concerns about one of her male colleagues. She has no real evidence, just what she calls her "certainties." Doubt is a lean, potent drama . . . passionate, exquisite, important, and engrossing."-Linda Winer, Newsday
Leader of the Pack: The Ellie Greenwich Musical
June 13-29, 2008
Auditions April 13-15, 2008
Director: Dan Chase
Music and Lyrics by Ellie Greenwich and friends. Liner notes by Anne Beatts. Additional material by Jack Heifner. Based on an original concept by Melanie Mintz
This hit Broadway musical retrospective celebrates the life and times of Ellie Greenwich, whose doo wop sounds skyrocketed to the top of the sixties charts. The story of Ellie's rise to fame and fortune is punctuated with the virtual Hit Parade of her music: "Chapel of Love," "Da Do Ron Ron," "Be My Baby," "Hanky Panky," Do Wah Diddy," "And Then He Kissed Me" and, of course, the title song.