Season 2009-10


Guys & Dolls
music and lyrics by Frank Loesser,
book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
September 17 – October 17
2pm matinees on Sundays, September 27 and October 4 and 11

Guys and Dolls revolves around Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York, who bets fellow gambler Sky Masterson that he can't make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. The next girl he sees happens to be Miss Sarah Brown, a pure-at-heart Salvation Army-type reformer, and the stage is set for an hilarious evening of complications. Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.



A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, adapted by Romulus Linney
November 19 – December 12
2pm matinees on Sundays, November 29 and December 6

An adaptation of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge's journey from an embittered, ungenerous creature into a giving, caring human being at the hands of three spirits, who, one Christmas Eve, show him what life means. This richly textured play brings the full spirit of the book, as well as those of Christmases Past, Present and Yet To Come, to life on the stage.



 

 


Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
January 28 – February 20
2pm matinees on Sundays, February 7 and 14

The classic tragic love story written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young “star-cross’d lovers” whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime. (Bring your special someone to our matinee at 2pm on Valentine’s Day.)

 


Doubt: A Parable
by John Patrick Shanley
March 25 – April 17
2pm matinees on Sundays, March 28 and April 11

In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students. “A gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest's behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty.”—Variety. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award.


Gypsy
book by Arthur Laurents,
music by Jule Styne,
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
May 20 – June 19
2pm matinees on Sundays, May 30 and June 6 and 13

Gypsy is the ultimate story about an aggressive stage mother. Join Rose, June and Louise in their trip across the United States during the 1920's, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. Songs include Let Me Entertain You, Some People, You'll Never Get Away from Me, If Momma Was Married, All I Need Is the Girl, Everything's Coming Up Roses, You Gotta Get A Gimmick and Together Wherever We Go. This is a gripping story of one of the most frightening aspects of show business.

 


Over The River And Through The Woods
by Joe DiPietro
July 22 – August 14
2pm Matinees on Sundays, August 1 and 8

Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream job. The job he's been waiting for—marketing executive—would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn't sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family's love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O'Hare as bait…we won't give the ending away here.

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