Directed by Melanie Day
Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the
century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes
to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter
Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry
and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play
was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger
Reese and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice,
with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding
pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades
and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher
playfully explores the depths of greed and
despair...and the bonds of friendship, duty and love.
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Directed by Brian Wood
Alternately hilarious and touching, Steel Magnolias
focuses on the camaraderie of six southern women
who talk, gab and harangue each other through the
best of times and cry, comfort and heal each other
through the worst. They are sisters who have
passed through trials and tribulations. They are
Steel Magnolias - flowery on the outside, but strong
as steel on the inside to survive any challenge or
hardship.
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Okalhoma
Directed by Marilyn Whipple
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration
remains, in many ways, their most innovative,
having set the standards and the rules of musical
theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western
Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the
high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and
cowboys provides the colorful background against
which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a
winsome farm girl, play out their love story. With
these two headstrong romantics holding the reins,
love’s journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road.
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Directed by Scott Nelson
A divorced slob invites a group of the boys over for
cards. One of the quests, who happens to be very
meticulous and tense, has just been separated from
his wife. The slob and the neat-freak decide to share
one apartment; but patterns of their own disastrous
marriages begin to reappear with hilarious results.
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Annie
Directed by Layne Willden
Annie is a spunky Depression-era orphan
determined to find her parents, who abandoned her
years ago on the doorstep of a New York City
Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss
Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure,
Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations,
befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver
Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and
a lovable mutt named Sandy.
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Directed by Diane Robbins
A Broadway hit, this masterfully constructed thriller
moves from one moment of suspense to another as
it builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping
final scene. A sinister con man, Roat, and two exconvicts,
Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their
match. The have traced the location of a mysterious
doll, which they are much interested in, to the
Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and
his blind wife, Susy. Sam had been persuaded by a
strange woman to transport the doll across the
Canadian border, not knowing that sewn inside
were several grams of heroin. When the woman is
murdered the situation becomes more urgent. The
con man and his ex-convicts convince Susy that the
policce have implicated Sam in the murder, and the
doll is the key to his innocence. She refuses to
reveal its location, and with the help of a young
neighbor, figures out she is the victim of a bizarre
charade. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
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Christman Carol
Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol gets the full
Broadway treatment by Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens
and Mike Ockrent. This spectacular musical
extravaganza ran for ten years at Madison Square
Garden. This A Christmas Carol retains it’s
emotional power and pure joy thanks to the
marvelously told story and beautiful score.
