The Great American Trailer Park Musical

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Liz Smith, of the NY Post, describes this as: “A delicious new musical. The joint is jammed and jumping with raucous laughter. It’s like ‘The Honeymooners’ meets ‘The Best Little Whorehouse’ in
‘Urinetown.’” This delectable morsel of modern America explores the relationships between the tenants of the Armadillo Acres Trailer Park in Florida. You’ll meet Pippi, “the stripper on the run;” the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie; Jeannie’s tollbooth collector husband, Norbert; anger-management-challenged Duke; and Betty, Lin, and Pickles, the wise (and wisecracking) chorus. Musical numbers include gems such as “This Side of the Track,” “Flushed Down the Pipes,” and “Road Kill.”

Adaptation/Next

posted in: 2011-2012 Season, Past Shows | 0

Adaptation is a contest, played like Parcheesi, in which the contestant advances or is sent back through the seven ages of man. The play creates a picture of man from birth until death, with all its madness, with all its … Continued

The Crucible

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Winner of the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play, The Crucible is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place during 1692-1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory to McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. … Continued

The Book of Liz

posted in: 2012-2013 Season, Past Shows | 0

The cheese ball is the spherical center of this delightfully offkey, off-color hymn to clichés we all live by. This collaborative story considers, among other things, the American love for Americana, 12-step programs, and spiritualism, as well as alternative medicine, … Continued

See How They Run

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This WWII-era farce involves a cast of characters galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage: an American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the air force in England), a cockney maid who has … Continued

Prelude to a Kiss

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Prelude to a Kiss tells the story of a couple, Peter and Rita, who fall in love despite Rita’s pessimistic outlook on life. Shortly after their wedding, a supernatural event tests the strength of their love and commitment to each … Continued

Doubt

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Doubt, winner of a 2005 Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk Award and Tony Award, tells the tale of a nun in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who suspects a popular priest of inappropriate behavior with a student. Armed with nothing … Continued

Quake

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Quake premiered in the 2001 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. “Quake tells the story of Lucy, who traverses the continent in search of an elusive balance between independence and commitment, career and family, extraordinary achievement and ordinary … Continued