Enter Love
September 11 – 27, 2015 – Christel DeHaan Main Stage
Director: Lynn Lupold
A musical about the ever-changing nature of romantic
relationships in the first decade of the 21st century. It is set in an
international airport, located in a large city somewhere in the mid-west. The
production consists of a series of encounters—with dialogue and music—that take
place between an assortment of couples and individuals at various
locations—arrival and departure concourses, waiting lounges, baggage check,
observation deck, and the central location, a bar—in the airport.
Special Co-Production – To be announced soon
October 3 – 31, 2015 – Christel DeHaan Main Stage
Director: Ben
Asaykwee
Miss Gulch Returns
October 23 – November 8, 2015 – Stage Two
Brent Marty revives his one-man/one-woman musical comedy
written and originally performed by Fred Barton. It is a loose parody of the
character of Almira Gulch from the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz as portrayed by
Margaret Hamilton. Blurring the line between fiction and reality, the show
builds on the premise that Almira Gulch was an actress—rather than a character
portrayed by an actress—who appeared in The Wizard of Oz (as herself). Songs
include Born On A Bike, Pour Me A Man, and I Can Be An Icon, Too.
A Christmas Story
November 27 – December 20, 2015 – Christel DeHaan Main
Stage
Director: Lori
Raffel
Humorist Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the
Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a
genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. All the elements from
the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental
exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys’ experiment with a
wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie’s
father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net stocking; Ralphie’s
fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a
theatrical holiday perennial.
8 Reindeer Monologues
November 27, December 20, 2015 – Stage Two
Director: Greg Howard
Eight reindeer dishing about the real Santa. All those
rumors you’ve heard about him and the elves? About Rudolph’s little secret?
About Vixen’s story that was leaked to the press? All true. Yes, the reindeer
finally speak up and – believe us – they do not hold back!
Skylight
January 22 — February 13 – Christel DeHaan Main Stage
Director: Gari Williams
Actor Bill Simmons stars in this play about Kyra is
surprised to see the son of her former lover at her apartment in a London slum.
He hopes she will reconcile with his distraught, now widowed, father. Tom, a
restless, self-made restaurant and hotel tycoon, arrives later that evening,
unaware of his son’s visit. Kyra, who was his invaluable business associate and
a close family friend until his wife discovered their affair, has since found a
vocation teaching underprivileged children. Is the gap between them
unbridgeable, or can they resurrect their relationship?
Killer Joe
February 19 –
March 5, 2016 – Stage Two
Director: Lori Raffel
The first play by the author of August: Osage County,
which premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf before going on to acclaimed
productions in London and New York. Hired by the dissolute Smith family to
murder the matriarch for insurance money, Killer Joe takes the daughter to bed
as a retainer against his final payoff which sets in motion a bloody aftermath
as the “hit man” meets his match
Passion
March 11 – 26, 2016 – Christel DeHaan Main Stage
Director: Tim
Spradlin
Set in 19th century Italy, this dramatic musical concerns
a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by the obsessive love of
Fosca, his Colonel’s homely, ailing cousin. The New York Times – Once in an
extraordinary while, you sit in a theater and your body shivers with the sense
and thrill of something so new, so unexpected, that it seems, for those
fugitive moments, more like life than art. Passion is just plain wonderful.
Porno Stars at Home
April 1 – 23, 2016 – Stage Two
Director: Bill Wilkison
All those people who live fantasy lives up there on the
not so silver porno screen what might they be like at home, away from the tacky
lighting and cheap interiors of their workaday world? What might they fantasize
about? What might they really, really want? One wants to be discovered as a
serious actress well, they all more or less want that ; one, a star of gay
porno, is actually heterosexual and wants to be recognized as such; another
wants a child. At Georgia Lloyd Bernhart’s birthday party which wish, if any,
will come true?
Batboy: The Musical
April 29 – May 28, 2016 – Christel DeHaan Main Stage
Director: Zack
Neiditch (co-produced with Zach Rosing)
Inspired by a series of tabloid headlines published in
1992 by The Weekly World News, a group of spelunking West Virginian teenagers
discover the creature and the sheriff brings him to the local veterinarian (Dr.
Parker’s) home, where he begins to assimilate to human life and become a part
of the Parker family while trying to keep his penchant for sucking human blood
under control. When Edgar tries to ingratiate himself with the townfolk of Hope
Falls, he is quickly rejected, and he and Dr. Parker’s daughter (who fall in
love) run away together. After a single night of joyous freedom, tragedy
strikes when Meredith finds them and reveals the dark secret of Bat Boy’s
origin.
Time Stands Still
June 17 – July 9, 2016
Director: Gari
Williams
The play focuses on Sarah and James, a photojournalist
and a foreign correspondent trying to find happiness in a world that seems to
have gone crazy. Theirs is a partnership based on telling the toughest stories,
and together, making a difference. But when their own story takes a sudden
turn, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional
life.
Rent
July 15 – August 13, 2016
Director: Scott Robinson
20th anniversary of RENT on Broadway! Set in the East Village of New York City,
rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner
of the TONY Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, rent has
become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that
resonates with audiences of all ages. Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme.
Image from here.
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