2008 - 2009 Season

Laughter on the 23rd Floor
by Neil Simon

September 12 - October 5, 2008
Auditions: July 21 & 28, 2008

Advisory: Contains some Adult Language

A Broadway hit that captures the excitement behind the Golden Age of Television. Max Prince is the star of "The Max Prince Show," a weekly variety show on NBC in 1953. His writers are a group of brilliantly funny social misfits like Milt the insult artist; Ira the hypochondriac; and Val the Russian emigre who takes a Berlitz course to learn how to curse. His show is a success, but his bosses want him to "dumb it down" to appeal to a wider audience. Can Max stand the pressure from the executives and the insanity from his staff?

"One of [Simon's] funniest... Comedy. Comedy all the way."
- Newsweek

A Man for All Seasons
by Robert Bolt

November 14 - December 7, 2008
Auditions: September 15 & 16, 2008

The House of Tudor is in an uproar when Pope Clement VII refuses to give King Henry VIII an annulment from his marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he can marry Ann Boleyn. Henry rebels from the Church of Rome by requiring his subjects to sign an Act of Supremacy making him both spiritual and temporal leader of England. Sir Thomas More, his Lord Chancellor, cannot in conscience comply. Neither Thomas Cromwell, Cardinal Wolsey nor the King himself can get a commitment from him. More's resistance and silence are an act of treason that cost him a great deal.

Crimes of the Heart
by Beth Henley

January 16 - February 8, 2009
Auditions: January 17 & 18, 2008

Warm-hearted, irreverent, zany and brilliantly imaginative, this story teems with humanity and humor as it examines the plight of three young Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions. The Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family partriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Each has her own complicated troubles especially when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband in the stomach. Their troubles are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helplessly falling in love with her.

Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the
New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

Zombie Prom
Music by Dana P. Rowe
Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey
Based on a story
by John Dempsey and Hugh Murphy

March 20 - April 11, 2009
Auditions: January 19 & 20, 2009

This ghoulish rock and roll musical is set in the atomic 1950's at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a tyrannical principal. Pretty Senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns, glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal orders him to drop dead while a scandal reporter seizes on him as the freak du jour. History comes to the rescue while a tuneful selection of original songs in the style of the 50's hits keeps the action rocking across the stage.

"A blast... Slick fun for the whole nuclear family."
- N.Y. Daily News

Blithe Spirit
by Noel Coward

May 15 - June 7, 2009
Auditions: March 23 & 24, 2009

Novelist Charles Condomine invites an eccentric lady medium into his home in order to learn the language of the occult. Little does Charles or his lovely second wife, Ruth, dream that the seance staged by the medium will summon back Charles' first wife, now "passed over" for seven years. But the lady from beyond, still handsome, still mischievious, appears and torments Charles reminding him of their days and nights together. The first wife has a ghostly plot in mind: if she can get Charles into an automobile accident and make a ghost of him, life in the spirit world will have more appeal for her. Mistakes occur which bring a hilarious conclusion to this very unusual farce. Hiliariously funny, brilliant, clever and about as cockeyed as a play can be.

A smash hit on London and Broadway stages!

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