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a musical
by Ted
Swindley
September 3-21, 2008
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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 |
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a
drama
by Peter Morgan
November 12- 30, 2008
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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 |
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a
musical
by Anthony King
and Scott Brown
January 14-
February 1, 2009
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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 |
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a drama
by Jeffrey Hatcher
and Mitch Albom
March 18-April 5, 2009
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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 |
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a comedy
by Mitch Albom
May 13-31, 2009
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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
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a musical
by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin
July 1 - 19, 2009
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THE
25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Six young people in the throws
of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape
childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything
and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. This
tuneful, offbeat and at times heartwarming show is riotously
funny and remarkably ingenious. A Broadway hit from the 2005-2008
seasons.
Funniest
thing on seven consonants.
Washington Post
It's
spelled W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L.
The Wall Street
Journal
The joy
of nerdiness.
Time |