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The Fantasticks

  • Authors: Music by Harvey Schmidt, Lyrics by Tom Jones
  • Directed By: Pam Brown
  • September 25-27, October 2-4, 9-11, 17-18
  • Rating: Family fare
The world's longest-running musical and the winner of the Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre, this love story combines the storylines from Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night's Dream, and The Romancers, to tell the story of two fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children will fall in love, because they know that children always do what their parents forbid. After the children do fall in love, they discover their father's plot and they each go off and experience the world. In the end, they return to each other and to their love. There are many memorable songs in the play including "Try to Remember" and "Love, You are Love". "THE FANTASTICKS" is one of the most often produced and most beloved plays in the American theatre.

Children of a Lesser God

  • By: Mark Medoff
  • Directed By: Jim Bush
  • November 6-8, 13-15
  • Rating: Drama: PG 13
Winner of the Tony Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award as best play of the season. A success both on Broadway and at the Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles, this deeply moving, beautifully written play details the romance and marriage of a sensitive but spirited deaf girl and the devoted (and hearing) young teacher whom she meets at a school for the deaf. "CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, in short and in sum, is the season's unexpected find, a play unlike any other and immensely likable in its self-assertion." -NY Times. "CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD is an extraordinary play -illuminating, consistently interesting and moving." -Variety. "In any season this play would be a major event, a play of great importance, absorbing and interesting, full of love, understanding and passion." -NY Post. "...an authentic work of art." -The New Yorker.

Bus Stop

  • By: William Inge
  • Directed By: Jay C. Brown
  • January 22-24, 29-31, Feb 5-7
  • Rating: Drama: PG 13
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She's been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she's ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, "Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I'm gonna end up in Montana..." As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.

The Complete History of America (Abridged)

  • Authors: Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor
  • Directed By: Kevin Ten Eyck
  • March 5-7, 12-14, 19-21
  • Rating: Comedy: PG 13
"During the manic, ninety-minute program...[they] mine dozens of landmark events and trends for comic gold...Not only do they know how to give American history an irreverent boost, they actually turn it into something accessible and alive." -Pamela Sommers, The Washington Post
"...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...." Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"..In a series of sketches that move at breakneck speed, the Reduced Shakespeare Company scampers through American history ...This HISTORY OF AMERICA should be a required course."
Terry Byrne, The Boston Herald

No Sex Please, We're British

  • By: Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott
  • Directed By: John A. Packard
  • April 30-May 2, May 7-9, 14-16
  • Rating: Comedy: PG 13
A young bride who lives above a bank with her husband who is the assistant manager, innocently sends a mail order off for some Scandinavian glassware. What comes is Scandinavian pornography. The plot revolves around what is to be done with the veritable floods of pornography, photographs, books, films and eventually girls that threaten to engulf this happy couple. The matter is considerably complicated by the man's mother, his boss, a visiting bank inspector, a police superintendent and a muddled friend who does everything wrong in his reluctant efforts to set everything right, all of which works up to a hilarious ending of closed or slamming doors. This farce ran in London over eight years and also delighted Broadway audiences.

 

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