Jake’s Women

by Neil Simon:

Performance Dates: September 29, 30, October 1,6,7,8,9*,13,14,15  (*2pm matinee)

America's premier comic playwright makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships. Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. Jake's women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving Jake for another man, and a prospective third wife.

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Annie

Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strouse & Lyrics by Martin Charnin

Performance Dates: November 17,18,19,24,25,26,27*, December 1,2,3,4*,8,9,10 (*2pm matinee)

Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes centre stage in one of the world's best-loved musicals.  Annie is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Based upon Harper Lee’s novel; dramatized by Christopher Sergel

Performance Dates: Feb 2,3,4,9,10,11,12*,16,17,18 (*2pm matinee )

Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface. The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why.  A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young black man wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Since this is causing such an upset, Scout wants to know why he's doing it: "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." Atticus goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come: "We're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends."  Things do get bitter to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified, Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity.  Atticus fights his legal battle with integrity and conviction to a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!" This play is a meaningful work of art based on a story of timeless relevance that continues to move audiences 50 years after its first telling.

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Chess

Book by Richard Nelson. Lyrics by Tim Rice. Music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson.

Performance Dates: March 29,30,31, April 1*,5,6,7,12,13,14 (*please note that the 2pm matinee will be on the first weekend of performances to avoid Easter Sunday conflict )

The collaborators on Chess are giants of rock music and rock musicals and they have created a complex rock opera that played to full Broadway houses and standing ovations. Here the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries, competitive gamesmanship, super power politics and international intrigues. The pawns in this drama form a love triangle: the loutish American chess star, the earnest Russian champion and a Hungarian American female assistant who arrives at the international chess match in Bangkok with the American but falls for the Russian. From Bangkok to Budapest the players, lovers, politicians, and spies manipulate and are manipulated to the pulse of a monumental rock score that includes "One Night in Bangkok" and "Heaven Help My Heart."

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