We are so pleased to announce the 2009-2010 Season
Tickets will be available on Monday March 23.
MainStage Adult Season ticket - $60
MainStage Youth Season ticket - $25
Civic Youth Theatre Season Adult season Ticket - $32
Civic Youth Theatre season youth season ticket - $16
Civic Under the Stars adult ticket - $15
Civic Under the Stars youth ticket - $10
(Civic Under the Stars tickets are available to MainStage season ticket holder immediately, June 1 for general public)
To secure your current seats, you must renew before June 1
The season brochure will be available after April 3
To order prior to that, you can call the office 765-423-PLAY (7529)
On-line (after noon on March 23) here
2009-2010 SEASON
The King and I
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on Anna and the King by Margaret Landon
Original Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Directed by Robert Spaulding
July 10 – 18 at the Tippecanoe County Amphitheatre
East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West, and he seeks Anna's assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another, in a truly unique love story. The dazzling score, including Getting to Know You, Shall We Dance, I Whistle a Happy Tune, and many more make The King and I one of the all-time marvels of the musical stage.
Civic Theatre MainStage Season
The Mousetrap
By Agatha Christie
Directed by Mark Allen Carter
September 4 – 20
From the pen of Agatha Christie comes the story of a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present and rattles a lot of skeletons. The Mousetrap holds the world record as the longest initial run of a show, with more than 23,000 performances in London’s West End.
A Christmas Story
By Philip Grecian
Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.
Directed by John David Collier
December 4 - 20
Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in Indiana in the 1940s follows nine-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Goldblatt's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out."
All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace, Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost, the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin, Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking, Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Steven Koehler
January 29 – February 14
What happens to a dream deferred?
Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: to buy a liquor store and be his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. This play about sacrifice, trust and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration.
Winner of the NY Drama Critic's Award as Best Play of the Year
"A milestone in the American Theatre."-Ebony
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged]
By Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
Directed by Laurie Russell
March 12 – 28
All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard's plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged] lives up to all the hype. The greatest playwright, 37 full-length plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and many more, all chopped up (Macbeth) eaten (Titus) and regurgitated (more titles than you might think) and…well you get the idea.
Warning!
This show is a high-speed, roller-coaster ride of all of
Shakespeare's plays and is not recommended for people with
heart ailments, bladder problems, inner-ear disorders and/or
people inclined to motion sickness.
"Pithier than Python... irresistible" - The New York Times
"If you like Shakespeare, you'll like this show. If you hate
Shakespeare, you'll LOVE this show!" -The Today Show
Chicago
Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Based on the play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins
Directed by Kate Walker
May 7 - 23
In Roaring Twenties Chicago, chorus girl Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess", Velma Kelly vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream," fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp-edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse.
"'A pulse racing revival ... that flies us right into musical heaven." – New York Times
"Wildly entertaining ... [with a] dazzling score."-NewYork Daily News
"As dazzling a demonstration of the craft of musical theatre as you're ever going to see on a Broadway stage."-NewYork Post
Civic Youth Theatre Season
Our Town
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Larry Sommers
October 2 – 4
First produced in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover’s Corner is one of the most frequently produced plays today. Using a heightened theatricality to strip away the “artifice of theatre,” Thornton Wilder presents the lives and deaths of the inhabitants of a small New England town at the turn of the century.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Based on the Comic Strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz
Book, Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer
Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Directed by Laurie Russell and Melanie Buchanan
November 6 – 8
This warm musical based on Charles M. Schulz’s beloved Peanuts comic strip offers a “typical day in the life of Charlie Brown.” The well-known characters of the comic strip come to life singing toe-tapping songs, including, My Blanket and Me, Suppertime, My New Philosophy and Happiness.
Snow White
By J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Missy Freels
February 26 – 28
This humorous take on a classic tale includes a bumbling prince, a very involved mirror and not just one, but three attempts on Snow White’s life. Add a lot of dwarfs and a happily-ever-after ending and you have a great play for all ages.
Young Playwrights Project
April 16 – 18
Civic Theatre is proud to bring back the Young Writers Project. Chosen scripts written by the talented youth in our area will be given their world premiere in this ambitious project. A select committee will select the winning scripts from a fourteen county region. Each chosen writer will be given the opportunity to hone their script with a published playwright and see a fully realized production on the Civic stage.
Civic Theatre
313 North 5th Street
Lafayette, IN 47901
Phone: (765)423-PLAY (7529) Fax:
(765)742-7247
e-mail:
mailto:info@lafayettecivic.org
Last Revised March 22, 2009