Main Stage Season 2009-2010

Rodgers & Hammerstein's
Oklahoma
Oct 9 - 25, 2009
This is Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration and, in many ways, their most innovative! Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, a high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful backdrop against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love is seldom smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. But we're pulling for them every step of the way to succeed in making a new life together, and excited that they'll being doing it in "a brand new state" - the triumphant OKLAHOMA!
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Neil Simon's
Brighton Beach
Memoirs
Nov 20 - December 13, 2009
Set in the summer of 1937, this story draws on Simon’s own experiences growing up in a lower-middle-class family in Brighton Beach, New York. Fourteen year-old Eugene Jerome stands in for the author as the play’s narrator, a young boy dealing with his own burgeoning sexual awareness while dreaming of playing baseball for his beloved New York Yankees. Through Eugene's eyes, we see a family rich with characters, including a formidable mother, an overworked father, and an idealistic but impulsive older brother. Throw into the mix his widowed aunt and her two young daughters and you have a cast of characters that are at once eccentric, inspiring, familiar and amusing. The first of Simon’s three-part semi-autobiographical trilogy, Brighton Beach Memoirs combines Simon’s trademark humor with a bittersweet tale of perseverance in the face of adversity.
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Paul Kelly's
Swing!
Jan 22 - Feb 7, 2010
"Two thirds rhythm and one third soul." That's how Fats Waller defined the uniquely American form of popular music and dance known as "swing." Requiring only joyful enthusiasm and a ready partner, swing exploded out of pre-war Harlem's hotbed of youth culture and swept the world. It shattered ethnic and cultural barriers, generating specialty styles, such as jive, Lindy Hop, classic swing, west coast swing and hip-hop swing. This red-hot song-and-dance musical celebrates this remarkable diversity to the beat of the most exhilarating songs of the period. But as this enthralling show makes abundantly clear, swing was never a time or place... it has always been a state of mind. |

Agatha Christie's
The Mousetrap
March 5 - 21, 2010
An enthralling murder mystery by the legendary Agatha Christie, this long-running play centers around a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm. One of them is a murderer! The suspects include a newly married couple who run the house, a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better suited as a chef, a retired army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who has a knack for making life miserable for everyone around him. Into their midst comes a policeman traveling on skis. As soon as he arrives, the juror is killed. Two down ...and how many more to go?! To get to the rationale behind the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the backgrounds of everyone present, rattling a lot of skeletons in the process. Be prepared for another Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb tale of intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat
April 16 - May 2, 2010
The biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph is his father's favorite son and a boy blessed with prophetic dreams. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of adventures in which his spirit and humanity are continually challenged. Soon after he is purchased by Potiphar, he finds himself thrown in jail for the crime of thwarting Potiphar's wife's advances. When news of Joseph's gift of being able to interpret dreams reaches the Pharaoh (wryly and riotously depicted as Elvis), Joseph is well on his way to becoming second in command. Eventually his brothers, having suffered greatly, unknowingly find themselves groveling at the feet of the brother they betrayed but no longer recognize. After testing their integrity, Joseph reveals himself to his bewildered brothers, leading to a heartfelt reconciliation of the sons of Israel. Set to an engaging cornucopia of musical styles ranging from country-western and calypso to bubble-gum pop and rock 'n' roll, this Old Testament tale emerges in true Andrew Lloyd Webber fashion that is both timely and timeless. |
Special Halloween Offering
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The Woman in Black
October 30 & 31, 2009
A middle-aged lawyer rents a theatre and hires an actor help him re-enact - and thereby, hopefully, exorcise - a ghostly event which befell him many years previously with horrifyingly tragic results. The event occurred when he attended the funeral of an elderly recluse. There he caught sight of the woman in black, the mere mention of whom terrifies the locals, for she is a specter who haunts the neighborhood where her illegitimate child was accidentally killed. Anyone who sees her dies! The lawyer has invited some friends to watch as he and the actor recreate the events of that dark and stormy night. This is a spine-tingler that is sure to add a little fright to your Halloween night.
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Main stage productions run Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., select Sundays at 7:00 p.m., and select Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Single ticket prices are $25-29. Subscriptions range from $66 (Snowbird Special) to $240 (VIP Dinner & Dress). Complimentary valet parking is available to subscribers.
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