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2008-09 Season

           



a musical


by Ted Swindley

September 3-21, 2008

ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE

Country singer Patsy Cline's personal friendship with Houston housewife Louise Seger, an enthusiastic pen-pal, is the basis for this rousingly entertaining and endearingly sentimental musical which boasts 28 of Cline's best known songs. An Off-Broadway hit from the 1997 season and a perennial winner from coast to coast.

"Sweet dreams again."
      
– USA Today

"A song-filled valentine."
      
– Los Angeles Times


a drama

by Peter Morgan

November 12- 30, 2008

FROST/NIXON

This fast-paced play recounts one of the most monumental television interviews of all time in which a famous British talk-show host elicits the post-Watergate apology that the rest of the world was waiting to hear from the former U.S. President. A Tony Award winning Broadway hit from the 2007 season.

"Briskly entertaining"
      – New York Times

"Ripe entertainment... a stunning illumination of resolve, resentment, delusion (culminating in) a stinging, ringing crescendo."
      – Washington Post



a musical


by Anthony King and Scott Brown

January 14-
February 1, 2009

GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!

With an unending supply of enthusiasm, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform a backers' audition for their new project: a big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. An Off-Broadway hit from the 2007 season.

"A smashing success. Who knew that a musical about the life of the inventor of the printing press could have so many laughs?"
      – The New York Times

"Zany! One hell of a goofy evening!"
      – Variety



a drama


by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom

March 18-April 5, 2009

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

An ailing professor and one of his former students reunite with weekly visits that constitute a final class in the meaning of life in this touching and life-affirming drama. An Off-Broadway hit from the 2003 season based upon the four-year New York Times Bestseller List novel.

"Genuine and moving...it is bound to touch you deeply."
      
– Steadstyle Chicago

"(a) tasteful tutorial on being human."
      – Chicago Critic.com



a comedy


by Mitch Albom

May 13-31, 2009

DUCK HUNTER SHOOTS ANGEL

This is the uproarious story of two bumbling Alabama brothers who think they shot an angel and are chased by a cynical tabloid journalist and his reluctant photographer who don't believe any of it until feathers, wings and a tiara are discovered along the way. A regional theatre hit from the 2004 season.

“[the play] takes risks and entertains, making it a wholly worthy experiment."
       – The Ann Arbor News

“Laughs abound.”
      
– Lansing City Pulse

 



a musical


by Rick Lewis

July 1 - 19, 2009

THE TAFFETAS

Four singing sisters from Muncie, Indiana make their national television singing debut with some of the greatest hits of the 1950s, paying tribute to the sounds of such stars as the Maguire Sisters, The Fontaine Sisters and The Chordettes. An Off-Broadway hit from the 1988 season which is enjoying yet another national tour in 2008.

“…a fine confection.”
       – The Denver Post

“An undeniably entertaining evening.”
       – Washington Times

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