Guys and Dolls
Book by: Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
Music and Lyrics by: Frank Loesser
Based on a story and characters by: Damon Runyan
Directed by: Jennifer Gauthier
Performance dates: October 13th through November 4th, 2000
Set in Damon Runyan's mythical New York City, this oddball romantic comedy - considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy - soars with the spirit of Broadway as it introduces us to a cast of vivid characters who have become legends in the canon: Sarah Brown, the upright but uptight "mission doll," out to reform the evildoers of Times Square; Sky Masterson, the slick, high-rolling gambler who woos her on a bet and winds up falling in love; Adelaide, the chronically ill night club performer whose condition is brought on by the fact that she's been engaged to the same man for 14 years; and Nathan Detroit, her devoted fiance, desperate as always to find a spot for his floating crap game.
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A Christmas Carol
Written by: Romulus Linney, based on the story by Charles Dickens
Directed by: Margaret Harris
Performance dates: December 1st through December 23rd, 2000
The classic story of an embittered old man who "Bah Humbugs" his way through life. When the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future confront him with his own mortality, he realizes he must change.
This is our Christmas present to you. Bring your friends and the whole family.
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9th Annual Community Talent Show
MC: Michael Lederman
Performance dates: January 5th, 6th and 7th, 2001
Over forty coastside performers delight audiences for the 9th consecutive year. Talent includes youth and adult bands, dancers, singers, storytellers, magicians, jugglers, acrobats, animal acts, and clowns. Bring the entire family, your neighbors, friends and anyone you meet on the street. This is worth it!
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Talley's Folly
Written by: Lanford Wilson
Directed by: Chuck Danskin
Performance dates: February 2nd through February 24th, 2001
Talley's Folly, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, introduces us to Jewish accountant, Matt Friedman, who comes to plead his love to young, Waspish Sally Talley. The New York Times says Talley's Folly reveals "two wonderful people, humanizing and warming them with the radiance of [Wilson's] abundant talent.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Based on the novel by: Harper Lee
Directed by: Roxane Ashe
Performance dates: March 23rd through April 14th, 2001
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch and her brother, Jem, live with their widowed lawyer father, Atticus, in the Alabama town of Maycomb. One summer, they befriend a boy named Dill, and the trio acts out stories together. Eventually, Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their street called the Radley Place, owned by Mr. Nathan Radley, whose brother Arthur "Boo" Radley has lived there for years without ever leaving the house.
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Cinderella
Directed by: Michael Lederman
Performance dates: May 5 through May 13, 2001
Michael Lederman directs his class of around 100 children, often double casting to allow all children the opportunity to perform. This show promises to offer long lasting memories as children from age 4 through 14 tackle a wonderful new production. Don't miss it! This will be a once in a lifetime opportunity, and these shows always sell out!
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Written by: Steve Martin
Directed by: Dutch Fritz
Performance dates: June 8th through June 30th, 2000
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Steve Martin's first full-length play, opened at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater before moving on to Los Angeles (where it was the longest-running show in the history of the Westwood Playhouse) and, finally, to New York. An imagined meeting of Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in 1904 - when both men were in their twenties - it is a compelling examination of science and art and their impact on the rapidly changing society. As the two men engage in a battle of ideas about probability, lust, atristic integrity, and the future, the play moves with ease between the breezy and the profound.
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Cabaret
Music by: John Kander
Lyrics by: Fred Ebb
Book by: Joe Masteroff
Directed by: Michael Lederman
Performance dates: July 27th through August 18th, 2001
Cabaret, set in the tumultuous city of Berlin just before Hitler's rise to power, is based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and John Van Druten's I Am a Camera. The main action of the play revolves around a cabaret performer, Sally Bowles, and the brief affair she has with an American writer who takes her in after she is kicked out of the Kit Kat Club where she performs. Although Sally and Clifford soon find themselves deeply in love, there is too much chaos in the world around them. Soon they find their relationship is being jeopardized by outside forces which threaten to tear them apart. Also figuring prominently is the tragic relationship between Fräulein Schneider, a German woman, and her Jewish suitor Herr Schultz.
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