| 2007 Adult Mainstage Theatre |
| We kick off our season with this marvelously funny play from the master, British Farceur, Alan Ayckborne. Trevor and Susannah are a couple whose marriage is heading toward the rocks, and the play depicts an endless night in which they inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest. Badgering back and forth with themselves and their friends, in one long Saturday night, Trevor and Susannah ruffle beds, tempers, marriages and domestic order. Three beds, four couples, and an evening of wicked delight. Bedroom is a farce of hilariously epic proportions.
May 3,4,5,10,11,12 at 8 p.m.
May 6 at 2 p.m.
Director: Ron Ferrara |
| Bedroom Farce |
| Mitch is a busy sportswriter. Morrie is his former professor now afflicted with Lou Gehrig's Disease. When they re-connect for a series of weekly visits, Mitch chronicles Morrie's lasting gifts of love, courage, and life-affirming wisdom. Infused with a generous dose of humor, Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie is a Master's Class on a life well lived. A constant on The New York Times Bestseller List for more than four years, the novel sold over five million copies worldwide. This is an intimate and profound play that is sure to leave a lasting impression.
May 24,25,26,31, June 1,2 at 8 p.m.
May 27, 30 at 2 p.m.
Director: Chris Pastrick |
| Tuesdays With Morrie |
| From the writers of Godspell, Les Miserables, and Wicked comes a joyous and inspirational musical about parents, children, and faith... not to mention centuries of unresolved family business! Freely based on the story of Genesis, Children of Eden is a frank, heartfelt and often humorous examination of the age-old conflict between parents and children. Adam, Eve, Noah and the "Father" who created them deal with the headstrong, cataclysmic actions of their respective children. The show ultimately delivers a bittersweet but inspiring message: that "the hardest part of love... is letting go." A deeply humanistic and spiritual work, Children of Eden will touch and delight people of all ages. The melodic, energetic score is a mix of pop, folk, rock reggae, gospel, Broadway and powerful choral moments. Don't miss this musical and spiritual extravaganza!
June 14,15,16,21,22,23,28,29,30 at 8 p.m.
June 20, 24 at 2 p.m.
Director: Brad Dell
Choreographer:Laura Wurzell
Musical Director: Chris Long |
| Children of Eden |
| From the writers of Apple Hill Playhouse's 2000 season smash hit comedy, Dearly Departed, comes another hilarious homage to the folks living South of the Mason-Dixon line. The Futrelle sisters, Frankie, Honey Raye and Twink, are throwing a wedding. Frankie has almost made herself sick with elaborate preparations for her daughter Tina Jo's antebellum-inspired wedding, and the rumor mill in their small town of Fayro, Texas, is working overtime. No surprise there, the Futrelle sisters have never been strangers to gossip. After all, they did survive the scandalous breakup of their almost-famous gospel singing trio, The Sermonettes. When all hell breaks loose on the big day, the sisters ultimately pull together to find ways to keep the wedding guests in the pews, and as a last resort, and to the delight of the citizenry of Fayro, Texas, The Sermonettes reunite and sing again. This southern family romp will leave you rolling in the aisles!
July 12,13,14,19,20,21 at 8 p.m.
July 15, 18 at 2 p.m.
Director: Meghan O'Halloran |
| Dearly Beloved |
| "Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to Cabaret" - a true masterpiece of American Musical Theater that ushers the audience on a delicious, decadent journey to pre-World War II Berlin. Young American journalist Clifford Bradshaw lands at the notorious Kit Kat Club, home to social rebels and bohemians of Europe, where he falls madly in love with English entertainer Sally Bowles - but their affair is tested as her wild and reckless lifestyle overwhelms him. All the while, the Kit Kat Emcee taunts and satirizes the locals and visitors to the cabaret with dazzling musical numbers in a score that includes "Don't Tell Mama," "Maybe This Time," "Two Ladies," and the powerful "Cabaret."
August 2,3,4,9,10,11,16,17,18 at 8 p.m.
August 8, 12 at 2 p.m.
Director: Brad Dell
Choreographer:Laura Wurzell
Musical Director: Hazel Braun |
| Cabaret |
| Its December of 1939 in Atlanta. Gone With the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family: Boo is determined to have her dreamy unpopular daughter, Lala, attend Ballyhoo, believing its will be Lala's last chance to find a socially acceptable husband. The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way. Events take several unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are. This wonderfully crafted and charmingly textured play won the 1997 Tony award for Best Play.
August 30,31, September 1,6,7,8 at 8 p.m.
September 9 at 2 p.m.
Director: John Carosella |
| The Last Night of Ballyhoo |
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History has never been this much fun. Or as delightfully mutilated. THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA interprets the past as a breathlessly paced sequence of silly vaudeville sketches, word-association games, puns and crude parodies of movie and television genres. Nothing is sacred, and many of the facts have been skewed to suggest the paranoid ravings of a particularly loony tabloid. Come join some of your favorite Apple Hill funnymen as they ravage their way through the history of our great land!
September 20,21,22,27,28,29 at 8 p.m.
September 23 at 2 p.m.
Director: Nate Newell
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| The Complete History of America (Abridged) |
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One of the funniest plays ever written, THE NERD centers on the hilarious dilemma of a young architect who, on the night of this thirty-fourth birthday, is visited by a man who he's never met but who saved his life in Vietnam. The visitor turns out to be an incredibly inept and hopelessly stupid "nerd" who outstays his welcome with a vengeance.
"A spring tonic of side-bruising laughter..."
-Milwaukee Tribune
October 11,12,1318,19,20 at 8 p.m.
October 14 at 2 p.m.
Director: TBA |
The Nerd |
| Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize, Crimes of the Heart is an astonishingly beautiful and powerful play. Warmhearted, irreverent, zany and brilliantly imaginative, the play teems with humanity and humor as it examines the plight of three young Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Their troubles are grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, and in the end it is the story of how young characters escape the past to seize the future .
"From time to time a play comes along
that restores ones faith in our theatre..."
- NY Magazine
November 1,2,3,8,9,10 at 8 p.m.
November 4 at 2 p.m.
Director: Meighan Lloyd |
Crimes of the Heart |
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