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Sweeney Todd—Oct. 2-Nov. 1, 2009
Directed by Cathy McEachern Stephen Sondheim's 1979 stage musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Sweeney Todd is driven by revenge after being arrested on false charges and transported for life to Australia. Fifteen years later, the barber returns to London, completely transformed by his experiences, and seeks out Judge Turpin, who sentenced him, seduced his wife, and is raising his daughter. Mrs. Lovett, a widow, owns the spectacularly unsuccessful meat pie shop below Todd’s old home and has saved his last remaining possession, his old razor.
Twelve Angry Jurors—Nov. 13-Dec. 6, 2009 Directed by James (Scotty) Schultz "Twelve Angry Jurors" reveals, behind the scenes, a jury's deliberations as the 19-year-old son of an abusive old man is on trial for his murder. On the hottest day of the year, the 12 jurors begin their deliberations with 11 in favor of conviction. But one man, Juror 8, holds his ground, trying to convince the others of "reasonable doubt." Alliances are drawn, tempers flare and all reveal who they are and what they believe in while a man’s life hangs in the balance.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Jan. 8 –Feb. 7, 2010 Directed by Jan Sheldon Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Tim Rice. The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph is a boy blessed with prophetic dreams, and his father's favorite son. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of adventures in which his spirit and humanity are continually challenged.
The Odd Couple—March 5-28 Directed by William (Billy) McCoy The Odd Couple was a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing but slovenly. Felix Ungar, a neurotic, neat freak newswriter (photographer in the television series), is thrown out by his wife, and moves in with his friend Oscar Madison, a messy sportswriter.
Doubt, A Parable—April 8-18, 2010 Directed by Dan Martin In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students. The play is set in the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx during the fall of 1964. The school is subject to the authority of the parish, and thus the priests, of St. Nicholas.
Three Days of Rain—May 6-16, 2010 Directed by Kent Van den Berg Three Days of Rain is a play by Richard Greenberg. The play centers on Walker, his sister Nan, and their childhood friend Pip, who all meet in an unoccupied loft in lower Manhattan in 1995 to divide the legacy of their late fathers, who were partners in a renowned architecture firm. In an effort to bring some peace to their own lives, the three search for clues that might explain what had gone on between their fathers, and the women in their lives, decades before. The story then shifts to that earlier time, with the same three actors portraying members of the previous generation in the same loft, during the fateful 1960 "three days of rain."
Noises Off—June 11-July 4, 2010 Directed by Joe Ousley Noises Off is a 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave. According to the playwright, "It was funnier from behind than in front and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind." In his plot for Noises Off, Frayn plays on the concept of a play within a play, in this case a parodoxically dreadful sex comedy titled Nothing On—the type of play in which young girls run about in their underwear, old men drop their trousers, and many doors continually open and shut.
Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance July 30-Aug. 22, 2010 Directed by Nathan Jessee In The Pirates of Penzance, Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth—Sep. 10-26, 2010 Directed by Jan Sheldon Macbeth is a tragedy about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1606. Shakespeare's sources for the tragedy are the accounts of Kings Macbeth, Duff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. In the back-stage world of theater, some believe the play is cursed and will not mention its name aloud, referring to it instead as The Scottish play.
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