2003 Adult Mainstage Season
The 2003 season was a busy one, running from May to December with comedies, the musical Evita and Clue, the Musical. Reviews of Isn't It Romantic and Red Herring are in the press archive.
Archive page. The dates, prices and booking details below are historical and are kept for the record. The Apple Hill barn theatre closed in 2020, and phone numbers and email addresses from the original page have been removed.
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Apple Hill Playhouse 2003 Season (subject to change) |
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Murder at the Howard Johnson's Full of laughs, mirth-provoking situations, and extravagant sight gags, a love triangle unfolds at a Howard Johnson Motor Inn between Mitchell, a commonplace dentist who sees himself as the dashing hero, Arlene, a middle-aged “Femme Fatale,” and Arlene’s husband, Paul, a blundering used car salesman. Alliances keep changing as well as the intended victim of the murder.
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Isn't It Romantic A Comedy by Wendy Wasserstein Two former classmates, Janie (a short, slightly plump would-be writer) and Harriet (a thin gorgeous WASP) struggle to escape from parental domination and to establish their own lives and identities. Janie becomes involved with a young Jewish doctor who calls her “Monkey,” while Harriet assails the world of big business and has an affair with her hard-driving (and married) boss. The story is told in a fast-moving series of inventive, alternately hilarious and touchingly revealing scenes
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| Evita A Musical, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice Argentina’s controversial First Lady is the subject of this dynamic musical masterpiece. This rock opera, told through a compelling score that fuses haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz influences, creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself. Musical highlights: Don’t Cry for Me Argentina, Buenos Aires, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, and High Flying Adored. Winner of 7 Tony Awards
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| Red Herring comedy by Michael Hollinger It’s 1952: America’s on the verge of the H-bomb, Dwight Eisenhower’s on the campaign trail, and I Love Lucy’s on Monday nights. Meanwhile, Senator Joe McCarthy’s daughter just got engaged to a Soviet spy, and Boston detective, Maggie Pelletier has to find out who dumped the dead guy in the Harbor—or else lose out on a honeymoon in Havana. An exceedingly funny, genuinely human comedy about six people in search of love in a mixed-up world.
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Perfect Wedding A comedy by Robin Hawdon Laughs abound and the audience is left aching with laughter in this splendid comedy. A man wakes up in the bridal suite on his wedding morning to find an extremely attractive, naked girl in bed beside him. In the depths of a stag-night hangover, he can’t even remember meeting her. Before he can get her out, his bride-to-be arrives to dress for the wedding and, in the ensuing panic, the girl is locked in the bathroom. The best man is persuaded to claim her, but he gets confused and introduces the chamber maid to the bride as his date. The crisis escalates to nuclear levels by the time the mother of the bride and the best man’s actual girlfriend arrive.
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book by Peter DiPietro, lyrics by Tom Chiodo, Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker, Vinnie Martucci | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The suspects sing, dance and joke their way into your heart... or into suspicion, as you guess which one of the 216 possible endings, different every performance, is the answer to: whodunit, in what room, with what weapon. Based on the popular board game, called CLUE in North America and CLUEDO in 71 other countries, this rousing, fun-filled musical brings the world's best-known mystery suspects to life on the stage, and invites the audience to play along to solve a mystery.
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Steel Magnolias
A Comedy/Drama A skillfully crafted, lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in the small-town South. In the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy’s beauty salon we meet her eager new assistant, Annelle, (who is not sure whether or not she is still married) the town’s rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, (“I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a bad mood for forty years) an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, (who has a raging sweet tooth) the local social leader, M’Lynn, and her daughter, Shelby, who is about to marry a “good ole boy.” Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward a dramatic turn of events. The women are drawn together at the sudden realization of their mortality and that they must rely on one other’s underlying strength and love.
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| Greetings!
A Comedy Andy has a sweet Catholic mother, a sour Catholic father and a severely retarded younger brother. During a Christmas visit to introduce his Jewish atheist fiancée to his family, his brother, Mickey, whose entire vocabulary thus far has been “oh boy: and “wow” suddenly says “Greetings!” and reveals a special secret that begins the healing process for Andy’s family. Stunning and touching, this play brings a joyful holiday lift for people who would like to believe in miracles
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