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Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.
By Ed Graczyk.
Sept 9 – 25, 2011
Directed by Shannon Sabel
In a small town dime store in West Texas, the “Disciples of
James Dean” gather for their twentieth reunion. Now
middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed
Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an
extra in the film, has a child whom she says was conceived
with Dean during the shoot. The ladies’ congenial
reminiscences mingle with flash backs to their youth; then
the arrival of a stunning but familiar stranger sets off a
series of confrontations that smash their delusions and
expose bitter disappointments.
Red, White and Tuna.
By Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard.
November 4 – 20, 2011
Directed by Alice Schwind
The much anticipated third installment in the Tuna trilogy
takes the audience through another satirical ride into the
hearts and minds of the polyester-clad citizens of Texas’
third smallest town.
Along with Tuna’s perennial favorites, some new Tuna
denizens burst into the 4th of July Tuna High
School Class Reunion. This sets the stage for a show full of
fireworks and fun from the land where the Lion’s Club is too
liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.
It’s been several years since we left Bertha and Arles
dancing at the end of
A Tuna Christmas
… Did the romance blossom? Has Didi Snavley received any
“cosmic” communications from R.R.’s UFO? Did Stanley make
his fortune in the Albuquerque taxidermy business? These and
other burning questions will be asked and answered in the
side-splitting spoof of life in rural America.
Rabbit Hole.
By David Lindsay-Abaire.
January 20 – February 5, 2012
Directed by Steve Martin
Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want,
until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside
down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT
HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the
darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back
into the light of day.
Red Hot and Cole.
Book by James Bianchi, Muriel McAuley and Randy Strawderman.
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter.
March 2 – 18, 2012
Director Kate Walker
He’s “throwing a ball tonight” – and you’re all invited, to
a “swellegant” theatrical party spanning the life of
Broadway’s greatest wit, the irrepressible Cole Porter.
A scintillating mixture of biography and song, “Red Hot and
Cole” celebrates the great American songwriter who brought
style, elegance and sophistication to the stages and
soundstages of Broadway and Hollywood, delighting the world
with his devilishly clever rhymes, fresh and unexpected
melodies and sassy, sexy sensibility.
Tartuffe, or the Impostor.
By
Molière.
May 11 – 27, 2012
Director Jeff Spanke
Orgon’s family is up in arms because Orgon and his mother
have fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, a pious fraud
(and a vagrant prior to Orgon’s help). Tartuffe pretends to
be pious and to speak with divine authority, and Orgon and
his mother no longer take any action without first
consulting him. The rest of the family and their friends are
not fooled by Tartuffe’s antics and detest him. The stakes
are raised when Orgon announces that he will marry Tartuffe
to his daughter Mariane (already engaged to Valère). Mariane
is, of course, very upset at this news and the rest of the
family realizes how deeply Tartuffe has embedded himself
into the family.
Subscriber Option Shows
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Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson.
July 14, 15, & 16 2011 at the Tippecanoe County Amphitheatre
9:00 pm curtain
Directed by Julia Colby
Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical
based loosely on Puccini’s opera La Bohème. It
follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the
disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York’s East Village.
AIDS and both its physical and emotional complications
pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom, and Angel; Maureen
deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art;
her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth
the trouble; Benjamin has sold out his Bohemian ideals in
exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his
former friends; and Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like
an outsider to life in general, always behind the camera
recording the events but never playing a part.
The Honky Tonk Angels Holiday
Spectacular . By Ted Swindley
December 2 – 18,
2011
Directed by Bob Mindrum
This holiday
sequel to the hugely popular show, The Honky Tonk Angels
continues the comic escapades of three good ole country gals
as they re-unite for a Christmas show like none other at
"The Hillbilly Heaven Club" in Nashville. There are many
surprising twists and turns in this musical comedy revue,
including a gospel soul sister who also happens to be a
psychic manicurist. Songs include a Motown Christmas medley,
country classics like Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton
and comedy hits such as Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
Music by Richard
Rodgers
Book by Oscar
Hammerstein II
Lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein II
October 7 – 9, 2011
Director TBA
The timeless enchantment of a
magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein
hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. Originally
presented on television in 1957 starring Julie Andrews,
Rodgers & Hammerstein's CINDERELLA was the most widely
viewed program in the history of the medium. As adapted for
the stage, with great warmth and more than a touch of
hilarity, the hearts of children and adults alike still soar
when the slipper fits.
Miss Nelson is Missing.
adapted by Jeffrey
Hatcher
based on the book by Harry Allard and James
Marshall
February 17 – 19, 2012
Director Laurie Russell
The kids in Room 207 are the wildest, most rambunctious
class in the entire elementary school.
Their sweet teacher Miss Nelson doesn't know what to do. She
starts each new school year with
a smile on her face, expecting an even better class than she
had the year before. This year is different. This year is a
nightmare. Poor Miss Nelson is out of ideas and on her way
to a nervous breakdown, when suddenly she has a plan. The
next day, the children arrive in class to find Miss Nelson
has been replaced by Viola Swamp, the substitute no child
ever wants to meet. She's tough, strict, and never puts up
with what she considers bad behavior. This hilarious classic
follows Miss Swamp as she uses her idea of tough love to
control the class, as well as the children's attempts to
find Miss Nelson before it's too late for all of them
Pride and Prejudice.
adapted by Jon Jory
from the novel by Jane Austen
March 30 – April 1, 2012
Director Tonya Bess
Finding a husband is hardly Elizabeth Bennet's most urgent
priority. But with four sisters, an overzealous match-making
mother, and a string of unsuitable suitors, it's difficult
to escape the subject. When the independent-minded Elizabeth
meets the handsome but enigmatic Mr. Darcy, she is
determined not to let her feelings triumph over her own good
sense -- but the truth turns out to be slipperier than it
seems. In a society where subtle snubs and deceit
proliferate, is it possible for Elizabeth and Darcy to look
beyond his pride and her prejudice, and to make the best
match of al
Young Directors Project.
April 20 - 22, 2012
Directors TBA
Two to three one act plays directed by three Civic Youth
Theatre young directors. This showcase gives our youth an
opportunity to spread their wings and direct a show of their
choosing. Titles will be announced in the spring of 2011.
Staged
Reading Series
Ruined.
By Lynn Nottage.
September 13, 2011
From Lynn Nottage, the
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of such plays as Fabulation
and Intimate Apparel, comes this haunting, probing
work about the resilience of the human spirit during times
of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of
Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd
businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she
protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far
will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human
life?
Anna in the Tropics.
By Nilo Cruz.
November 8, 2011
Anna in the Tropics
is a poignant and poetic new play set in Florida in 1929 in
a Cuban–American cigar factory, where cigars are still
rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and
entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a
cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from
Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in
the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the
tropics and the American dream prove a volatile combination.
Farragut North
by Beau Willimon.
January 25, 2012
Stephen Bellamy is a
wunderkind press secretary who has built a career that men
twice his age would envy. During a tight presidential
primary race, Stephen's meteoric rise falls prey to the
backroom politics of more seasoned operatives. Farragut
North is a timely story about the lust for power and the
costs one will endure to achieve it.
World Premiere(s).
To Be Determined.
March 6, 2012
A world premiere staged
reading of a play written by a local playwright. To be
determined in Autumn 2011.
Why Torture is Wrong, and the
People Who Love Them.
By Christopher Durang
May 15, 2012
Christopher Durang turns
political humor upside down with this raucous and
provocative satire about America's growing homeland
"insecurity." Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who
Love Them tells the story of a young woman suddenly in
crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a
terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father's hobby of
butterfly collecting really a cover for his involvement in a
shadow government? Why does her mother enjoy going to the
theatre so much? Does she seek mental escape, or is she
insane? Honing in on our private terrors both at home and
abroad, Durang oddly relieves our fears in this black comedy
for an era of yellow, orange and red alerts.
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