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Our Season
Our 62nd Season!
2007 - 2008
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The true stories of
six courageious women
and the war that changed them |
A Piece of My Heart
by Shirley Lauro
September 28 through October 27, 2007
This award winning drama tells the powerful, true Vietnam War drama of six women (four nurses, a Red Cross volunteer and an USO entertainer) and their struggle to make sense of the war that changed both them and the nation that shunned them. Based on true stories collected in a book of the same name, charged with contemporary resonances and told with strightforward authenticity, these are profound stories of triumph and reconciliation.
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42nd Street
Music and lyrics by Al Dubin and Harry Warren, book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble
Based on the film 42nd Street and the novel by Bradford Ropes
12th Annual Youth Musical
November 10, 17,18, 24, 25, 26, 2007
December 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 2007
Come and meet those dancing feet! Ingenue Peggy Swayer lands her first job in the chorus of a new Broadway show. When the star, Miss Dorothy Brock, has an accident, Peggy is given the chance of a lifetime. Inspired by Busby Berkeley's 1933 movie, the musical includes one great Warren-Dubin number after another, making it a feast of titanium-plated hits that include "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me," "Shuffle off to Buffalo," "We're in the Money," "Lullaby of Broadway," and of course, the show-stopping "42nd Street."
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So funny -
you'll forget to age |
Social Security
by Andrew Bergman
January 18 through February 16, 2008
Written by one of Hollywood's funniest screenwriters (The In-Laws, Blazing Saddles, Fletch), Social Security is a comedy about married art gallery owners Barbara and David Kahn, whose domestic tranquility is shattered by the arrival of Barbara's sister, brother-in-law, and eccentric septuagenarian mother, Sophie. When the Kahns introduce Sophie to their best client, a nonagenarian minimalist artist, comic sparks fly and Sophie's twilight years brighten in unexpected ways.
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Sometimes it's not the clothes that make the man |
The Full Monty
Book by Terrence McNally, music and lyrics by David Yazbek
March 14 through April 12, 2008
This musical adaptation of the comedic British film turns the "let's put on a show" genre on its ear, as a group of unemployed steelworkers prepares to present their own Chippendales-style show in workingclass Buffalo, New York. The journey of these men, from the breadlines to the unlikeliest of chorus lines, proves transforming in unexpected ways. Nominated for 10 Tony Awards, The Full Monty had the misfortune of premiering on Broadway the same year as The Producers, which overshadowed this superb piece of American musical comedy.
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A lyrical and powerful play
about the intimacy of love |
Intimate Apparel
by Lynn Nottage
May 2 through May 31, 2008
Esther, a thirty-five-year-old spinster African-American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, earns a living creating exquisite custom lingerie for women of the boudoir and the brothel alike. The intimate undergarments become a metaphor for the intimate relationships she develops with her clients. Painfully lonely, she dreams of a better life and finding a husband. She becomes a new woman when she falls in love with a handsome Barbadian laborer who woos her through a series of romantic letters, while her friendship with a shy Jewish fabric merchant grows in unexpected ways. This winner of five national awards for Best Play tells the story of one woman's passion to break free and be herself in a society where she cannot quite fit into the set patterns that are stitched for African-American women.
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Cabaret
Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fredd Ebb, book by Joe Masteroff
June 27 through August 2, 2008
OPEN AUDITIONS: Saturday, May 3 from 1 to 5 pm and Sunday, May 4 from 6 to 8 pm. No appointments are necessary. Please prepare 32 bars of a Broadway Uptempo or Ballad, preferably not from the show. Be prepared to dance. Character Descriptions:
- EMCEE - 20's-40's: The Master of Ceremonies, host of the Kit Kat Club. Likeable yet mysterious and menacing. Outstanding actor. All types encouraged to Audition. Vocal range: Low C - High G. Dance required.
- CLIFFORD BRADSHAW - 20's-30's: An American writer who is touring Europe. He is the basic protagonist from whose point of view the story is told. Vocal range: Low G - High E).
- SALLY BOWLES - 20's-30's: British cabaret singer, puts up a hard exterior to hide her fragility and insecurity. Strong actor and singer. Vocal range: Low G - High E, must belt or have strong mix. Dance required.
- FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER - 40's-50's: A world weary, moral, yet pragmatic German woman. She rents rooms in her apartment. Vocal range: Low E flat - C1.
- HERR SCHULTZ - 50's-60's: A Jewish fruit merchant, he is kind, gentle and enamored with Fraulein Schneider. Vocal range: Low G - High E.
- FRAULEIN KOST - 20's-30's: A sexually dubious woman who is not afraid to speak her mind or admit to her indiscretions. Tough, loveable and funny. Vocal range: Low A - E1.
- ERNST LUDWIG - 30's-50's: A German businessman. Charming and likeable. Everyone's best friend. He is later revealed to be a Nazi sympathizer.
- YOUNG GERMAN TENOR: Aryan looks with pure vocal quality. Lyric tenor or boy soprano. He sings "Tommorrow Belongs to Me."
- KIT KAT GIRLS & BOYS: Strong singers and dancers. All types encouraged to audition.
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