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2008-2009 Theatre Season

by Robert Harling
Guest Director - Heather Hammond

The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in the deep south. where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Although this comedy is filled with hilarious repartee, the second act of teh play moves toward tragedy. A sudden realization of mortality affects everyone, but also draws on the underlying strength - and love - that gives the play, and its characters, the special quality that makes them truly touching, funny, and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

 

by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Kessleman
Director - Jennifer Hunter

In this transcendently powerful new adaptation, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight poeple hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence - their fear, their hope, their laughter and grief. This is a new adaptation for a new generation.

 

adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, from the story by Henry James
Director - Jennifer Hunter

Based on the provocative tale of suspense and horror, this adaptation give the famous Henry James story yet another turn of its own. A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. But she is not their first governess. Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself after an entanglement with the sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself found dead soon after, under mysterious circumstances. Now the new governess has begun to see the specters of Quint and Jessel haunting the children, and she must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. But one frightening question tortures the would-be heroine: Are the ghosts real, or are they the product of her own fevered imagination? 

 

 
music and book by Stephen Flaherty
lyrics and book by Lynn Ahrens
co-conceived by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Eric Idle
based on the works of Dr. Suess
Director/Choreographer - Sherry Lee Allen
Music Director - Randall Burghart

 

"I can see that you've got quite a mind for your age! Why, one Think and you dragged me right onto the stage! Now, I'm here, there is no telling what may ensue, With a Cat such as me, and a Thinker like you!" So says the mischievous Cat in the Hat at the onset of this fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once On This Island, and Ragtime) have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and all of the Whos of Whoville! These classic, colorful tales are seamlessly brought together by Jojo, a young boy and "thinker of strange and wonderful thinks"! As each story unfolds you will marvel at how relevant and profound Seuss's subtle themes are; making this musical one that appeals to all ages. The score emerges as a Seussian gumbo of musical styles, ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B to funk! So let your toes tap, your fingers snap, and your imagination run wild, for "If you open your mind, Oh, the Thinks you will find, Lining up to get loose! Oh, the Thinks you can think! Oh, the Thinks you can think, When you think about Seuss!!"

 
(A Student Directed Production)
by Marsha Norman
Director - Jeanne Peake

 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this eloquent, enthralling and ultimately shattering play explores the final hour in the life of a young woman, Jessie, who has decided that life is no longer worth living. Her mother, Thelma, is wrenched out of the placidity of her life by her daughter's scheme. She must fight to save her child.

This production was, co-sponsored by the Healthy Kent 2010 Suicide Prevention Coalition - "Intervening in the tapestry of life - providing hope."

2007-2008 Theatre Season

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)

by Jess Borgeson, Adam Long & Daniel Singer
Guest Director - Jerry Morrison

 

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C.S. Lewis
Adaptation by Judith Fabisch
Director - Jennifer Hunter

  

Wait Until Dark

by Frederick Knott
Guest Director - Sherry Lee Allen

 

LITTLE WOMEN

Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Book by Allan Knee
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Director, Music Director & Conductor - Randall Burghart

 

2006-2007 Theatre Season

Schoolhouse Rock Live!

Book by George keating, Kyle Hall & Scott Ferguson
Music & lyrics by Bob Dorough, Dave frishberg, George Newall, Kathy Mandryl, Lynn Ahrens & Tom Yohe
Director - Jennifer Hunter
 

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

 Director - Pat Cook

Bright Ideas

by Eric Coble
Director - Jennifer Hunter
 

The Pirates of Penzance

Book & lyrics by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Music by Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

2005-2006 Theatre Season

Try To Remember: A Musical Revue

Music Director - Randall Burghart
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

Rumors

By Neil Simon
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

The Old Maid and the Thief

Composed by Gian Carlo Menotti
Conductor - Randall Burghart

 

Honk!

Music By George Stiles, Lyrics By Antony Drewe
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

2004-2005 Theatre Season

The Traveling Lady

By Horton Foote
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

The Woman in Black

Novel by Susan Hill, Play by Stephen Mallatratt
 Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

Jane Eyre

Novel by Charlotte Bonte, Music and Lyrics by Paul Gordon
Book by John Caird
Director - Jennifer Goodlander
 

2003-2004 Theatre Season 

God's Man in Texas

By David Rambo
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde
 Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

Scotland Road

By Jeffrey Hatcher
Director - Jennifer Hunter
 

The Boy Friend 

By Sandy Wilson
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

2002-2003 Theatre Season 

The Man Who Came to Dinner

by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

The Fantasticks

Books & lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

Meet Me In St. Louis

Music & lyrics by Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Director - Jennifer Hunter 

 

2001-2002 Theatre Season

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Director - Jennifer Hunter
 

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

By Alfred Uhry
 Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

The Real Inspector Hound

By Tom Stoppard
 Director - Jennifer Hunter

 

The Secret Garden

Novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Music by Lucy Simon
Book and Lyrics By Marsha Norman
Director - Randy Wyatt