2011-2012
Annie
2004 National Tour Version
directed by: Shannon O'Connor
performed on: September 23, 24, 25 & September 30, October 1 & 2, 2011
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.
The Ripper Show
written by: Frank Hatherley & Jeremy Barlow
directed by: Sally Eilersen
performed on: October 22, 23 & October 29, 30, 2011
Set in 1889, The Ripper Show tells the story of the Sharpe Family Players. They are touring their famous Sharpe's Short Shakespeare. Their ludicrously brief Richard III flops, so young Charlie Sharpe embarks on a blood-and-guts musical version of the Ripper story, last year's horror news from London. A serial killer who sings! What can go wrong?
A Dickens' Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts
written by: Mark Landon Smith
directed by: Dan Smith
to be performed on: December 2, 3 & 4, 2011
From the author of Faith County and Faith County II comes the funniest Christmas Carol ever. The Styckes Upon Thump Repertory Company embarks on their fifteenth annual tour of the Dickens classic. When the company's diva feigns illness, certain the production will be canceled, this merry troupe of over the hill and upstart actors carry on without her. Roles are shuffled and the sweet understudy suddenly finds herself on stage knowing only one line of dialogue. She has written her part in and on almost everything, including the Christmas pudding! Midway through the doomed performance, the diva rushes in to reclaim her role. Total mayhem ensues as the company scrambles to keep the show going while everything goes hilariously wrong.
The Dining Room
written by: A.R. Gurney
directed by: Becki Woodhams
to be performed on: March 9, 10 & 11, 2012
The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembles daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of interrelated scenes and each vignette introduces a new set of people and events: a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother's infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn't recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home. The varied scenes flow together to create a wonderful theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and humanity.
Nunsense
written by: Dan Goggin
directed by: Sally Eilersen
to be performed on: June 1, 2, 3 & June 8, 9, 10, 2012
This hilarious international musical hit won the Outer Critics’ Award for the best Off-Broadway musical. Nunsense is a hilarious talent show staged by the five survivors at the Little Sisters of Hoboken nunnery, the rest of the sisters having succumbed to botulism after eating vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julie, Child of God. The remaining “Little Hobos” parade their talents at a variety show staged to raise funds so that the last four of the dearly departed can be buried. The score pulses with merriment, and an unabashed desire to make you laugh, with songs and spontaneous comic interludes paced at break-neck speed. Nunsense offers a cornucopia of hilarity for the whole family, proving conclusively that nun rhymes with fun.
