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July 11-July 27, 2008
A comedy by Simon Williams and directed by Ginny Weil. 'Love Is All Round' is a feminist publishing house where Harriet Copeland is running a competition to find new romantic fiction; their motto is 'For Women By Women'. To avoid this gender bias, Leonard Loftus is forced to submit his novel under a female pseudonym. So when Lulabelle Latiffa wins the first prize, Leonard begins to have a major problem. He is a bashful statistician lumbered with a spectacular alter ago. With domestic complications from his wayward daughter Dee Dee and Gus, his rascally old father, Leonard tries frantically to keep up the charade of Lulabelle. His problems are made worse when he falls hopelessly in love with Harriet. He is a worried man in the guise of a carefree woman. The happy ending is not going to be easy. In high heels and lipstick our hero is caught in a hilarious dilemma of cross-dressing and cross-purposes.
September 12-September 28, 2008
A comedy by Sam Bobrick and Ron Clark and directed by Norma Niinemets. This gag-filled comedy by the authors of Murder At The Howard Johnson’s is about a couple who run a hamburger-shaped diner near Las
Vegas. In their first year, their only customer it seems is a footsore Illinois girl hitchhiking to Hollywood and certain stardom, but Wally and Louise stick it out for 41 years until, upon the day of their retirement, Janet re-enters their lives by way of a limousine. Their relationship is the basis for a wonderful wacky comedy.
November 7-November 23, 2008
A drama by David Rambo and directed by Jef Brown. A search committee has been formed to find a successor to legendary pastor, Philip Gottschall, a vigorous marvel and master strategist both in and out of the pulpit. As contender Jeremiah Mears gains a foothold, Gottschall's grip on his pulpit becomes as firm as his faith. The pastors' sound man – and sounding board – is Hugo Taney, a reformed wreck of a soul. The Biblical struggle among this trinity of men climaxes during the annual electrical Christmas parade; there is a sacrifice, a resurrection and, finally, salvation as God whispers to a listening heart.
January 16-February 1, 2009
A musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones and book by N. Richard Nash (based on Nash's The Rainmaker), and directed by Skip Fenker. With a score by the creators of The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade is a refreshing heartfelt fable about a con man, a country girl, and the way that love can overcome cynicism in even the most tired of souls. It's the Fourth of July, 1936, in the small town of Three Point, Texas, where a blistering heat wave has the townspeople forever eyeing the sky and H.C. Curry is as worried as much about his daughter Lizzie becoming an old maid as he is about his dying cattle. Into this drought-stricken small town, a charismatic huckster named Starbuck arrives selling the promise of rain. But when he and Lizzie meet, he forces her to begin to consider the possibility of a real miracle and the promise of hope and renewal that it brings.
March 20-April 5, 2009
A drama-comedy by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski and directed by Garry Davidson. There is a rat in the WWII German prisoner of war camp Stalag 17, but not the furry kind. It is Christmas, 1944, and two American soldiers lie dead in the mud after a failed escape. Their captors were waiting for them. The prisoners believe they have a mole among them and he's been selling out his fellow G.I.s. Now one of their fellow captives faces possible execution. His only way out? Escape. But to do it successfully they must first catch the rat. Don’t miss this gripping tale filled with danger humor and deceit.
May 15-May 31, 2009
A comedy by Neil Simon and directed by Charles Russell. The "master of comedy" has done it again in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. The first is a suburban couple in a wry tale of marriage in tatters. They take the suite, which turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before on this very day (or was it yesterday?). Next are the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields. He calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little sexual diversion. Over the years she has idolized him from afar and is now more than the match he bargained for. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the locked bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her. |
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